Notes on Contributors
Rutger J. Allan
is university lecturer in Ancient Greek at the Free University Amsterdam. He has published on a variety of topics in Ancient Greek linguistics, discourse analysis, and narratology. He is the author of The Middle Voice in Ancient Greek. A Study in Polysemy (2003), and co-editor of the volumes The Language of Literature (2007) and The Greek Future and its History (2017).
Michel Buijs
teaches Greek and Latin at Utrecht University, as well as through his own company, Classix. His research interests include discourse linguistics and description of the Ancient Greek and Latin languages. His recent publications include ‘et ratio et res. Characterization of Roman Conduct through Speech Representation in the Battle of Cannae’, in Textual Strategies in Ancient War Narrative. Thermopylae, Cannae and Beyond (Leiden 2019), and, as co-author, a Dutch course book for Ancient Greek language acquisition at universities.
Lidewij van Gils
is assistant professor of Latin at the University of Amsterdam. In her research she focuses on rhetorical and linguistic aspects of late republican and early imperial prose. She is editor-in-chief of the Dutch classical journal Lampas and chair of the national programme of educational research of the Greek and Latin languages and cultures. She recently co-edited volumes on Latin linguistics (Lemmata Linguistica Latina. Volume 2: Clause and Discourse, 2019) and ancient narrative (Textual Strategies in Ancient War Narrative, 2019).
Rebecca Henzel
holds a PhD from the Free University of Berlin. She recently published her research on honorary statues in Sicily in a monograph entitled Honores inauditi. Ehrenstatuen in öffentlichen Räumen Siziliens vom Hellenismus bis in die Späte Kaiserzeit (Leiden 2022). From 2019 until 2022 she worked as a postdoctoral researcher at Leiden University as part of the VICI-project Innovating Objects. The Impact of Global Connections and the Formation of the Roman Empire (c. 200–30 BC).
Luuk Huitink
is senior lecturer in Ancient Greek at the University of Amsterdam. His research focuses on linguistic, narratological and cognitive approaches to Greek literature, in particular historiography and the rhetorical tradition. He is one of the authors of The Cambridge Grammar of Classical Greek (Cambridge 2019) and of a commentary on Xenophon’s Anabasis III (Cambridge 2019) as well as one of the editors of Experience, Narrative, and Criticism in Ancient Greece. Under the Spell of Stories (Oxford 2020). Together with Jan Willem van Henten he has contributed various chapters on narratological aspects of Flavius Josephus to the Brill series Studies in Ancient Greek Narrative.
Irene J.F. de Jong
is emeritus professor of Ancient Greek at the University of Amsterdam. She has published on Homer, Herodotus, Greek lyric and tragedy, and ancient narrative in general. Recent publications include Narratology and Classics. A Practical Guide (Oxford 2014), and (with M. de Bakker) Speech in Ancient Greek Literature (Leiden 2022). She is currently writing a narratological commentary on Herodotus’ Histories.
Pieter ter Keurs
is professor of Museums, Collections and Society at Leiden University. He was a curator at the National Museum of Ethnology and head of Collections and Research at the National Museum of Antiquities in Leiden. Ter Keurs did anthropological fieldwork in Papua New Guinea and Indonesia. He published extensively on museum issues, material culture and colonial collecting. He is the author of Condensed Reality (Leiden 2006) and the editor of Discovery of the Past (Amsterdam 2005), Colonial Collections Revisited (Leiden 2007) and Rijksmuseum van Oudheden. Een geschiedenis van 200 jaar (Zwolle 2018).
Eric M. Moormann
is emeritus professor of Classical Archaeology (Radboud Universiteit). He has extensively published on ancient wall decorations (Divine Interiors. Mural Paintings in Greek and Roman Sanctuaries, Amsterdam 2011, and with P.G.P. Meyboom, Le decorazioni dipinte e marmoree della Domus Aurea di Nerone a Roma I–II, Leuven 2013) as well as the topography and reception history of Pompeii and Herculaneum (Pompeii’s Ashes. The Reception of the Cities Buried by Vesuvius in Literature, Music, and Drama, Boston-Berlin 2015). He was one of the main organizers of the exhibition ‘God on Earth: Emperor Domitian’ held in the National Museum of Antiquities in Leiden in 2021–2022.
Christoph Pieper
is university lecturer of Latin at Leiden University. His research focuses on Roman eloquence, esp. Cicero and his reception in Antiquity and beyond, and on 15th-century humanistic poetry. Recent publications include an edited volume (with Bram van der Velden) Reading Cicero’s Final Years. Receptions of the Post-Caesarian Works up to the Sixteenth Century (Leiden 2020) and an edited volume (with Dennis Pausch) The Scholia on Cicero’s Speeches (Leiden 2023).
Janric Z. van Rookhuijzen
is postdoctoral researcher at Radboud University (Nijmegen). Recent publications include Herodotus and the Topography of Xerxes’ Invasion. Place and Memory in Greece and Anatolia (Boston-Berlin 2018). His current research focuses on the topography of the Acropolis of Athens, which has led to the publication of several articles.
Rolf Strootman
is associate professor of Ancient History at the University of Utrecht. He studies empire, court culture, and religion in the globalizing Persian and Hellenistic periods. His publications include the monographs Courts and Elites in the Hellenistic Empires (Edinburgh 2014) and The Birdcage of the Muses (Leuven 2017), and the edited volume Empires of the Sea (Leiden 2019). He is currently writing a book on war and identity in European history, and preparing two book-length studies of culture and empire in the Seleucid world.
Suzan van de Velde
is PhD candidate at Leiden University. Her research project is entitled Moving Statues. The Introduction and Impact of Greek Statues in Ancient Rome and is part of the Gravity Grant programme Anchoring Innovation. Recent publications include ‘Les inventaires et le rôle de la statuaire grecque dans la Rome antique’, Perspective: actualité en histoire de l’art (2022-1).
Miguel John Versluys
is professor of Classical and Mediterranean Archaeology at Leiden University and one of the PI’s of the Gravity Grant programme Anchoring Innovation. His research focuses on the cultural dynamics that characterise the global ancient world. Recent publications include Visual Style and Constructing Identity in the Hellenistic World. Nemrud Dağ and Commagene under Antiochos I (Cambridge 2017) and the edited volume Canonisation as Innovation. Anchoring Cultural Formation in the First Millennium BCE (Leiden 2022).
Caroline Vout
is professor of Classics at the University of Cambridge, and holds the Byvanck Chair of Classical Archaeology and Art at Leiden University. She is a cultural historian and art historian with a particular interest in the Roman imperial period and its reception. Recent monographs include Classical Art. A Life History From Antiquity to the Present (Princeton 2018) and Exposed. The Greek and Roman Body (London 2022), winner of the London Hellenic Prize.