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Peter van Minnen - CV Associate Professor of Classics and Ancient History. PhD, Leuven University, 1997 peter.vanminnen@uc.eduphone: 513-556-1941 fax: 513-556-4366 room: 311C Blegen Research Areas: |
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Biography: Peter van Minnen is a papyrologist and ancient historian specializing in Greek documentary texts from Hellenistic and Roman Egypt. He also covers Greek literary and Coptic papyri and Greek and Latin inscriptions, and is primarily interested in the society, economy and culture of the Roman Empire, including Early Christianity and Late Antiquity. He has published in most of these areas, and his publications now number about 100, including monographs and two web sites, one on the papyrus collection at Duke University (http://scriptorium.lib.duke.edu/papyrus/), another on documentary papyri from early Roman Alexandria (http://classics.uc.edu/~vanminnen/). His seminars at Cincinnati include: documentary papyri from Alexandria, Egypt,inscriptions from Keos, Greece, and Roman North Africa. He also organized the Papyrological Summer Institute at Cincinnati in 2005. Earlier he taught seminars on documentary and literary papyri at Leiden and Duke and on the social and economic history of the Roman East at Leuven. He is currently directing two dissertations on Late Antique Mérida, Spain, and on the De somniis of Philo of Alexandria. Earlier he directed a dissertation at Groningen on religion on Late Antique Philae, Egypt, and at Cincinnati on the empress-poet Eudocia. He regularly sets special exams in a variety of topics relating to Graeco-Roman Egypt and in Greek and Latin patristics. He is currently working on two monographs: one focuses on the Egyptian city of Hermopolis in the Roman period, and the other on the economy of Roman Egypt. As a sequel to the monograph on Roman Hermopolis, he plans to edit the archive of a family of athletes from that town. He has also worked on the local context of early Christianity in Egypt, and intends to publish a collection of essays on various sites from Alexandria to Philae. In addition, he is editing a corpus of Greek documentary papyri from various collections, notably Ann Arbor and Vienna. His discovery of a royal ordinance of Cleopatra in favor of a Roman general has received much attention in the media, including ABC News. He edits the Bulletin of the American Society of Papyrologists (2006-2011), a refereed journal. He is spending the academic year 2008-09 as Whitehead Professor at the American School of Classical Studies at Athens. |
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