College of Humanities People
Anthony Kaldellis, Professor and Director of Graduate Studies
Department of Greek and Latin: http://greekandlatin.osu.edu/
Office Information
414E University Hall, 230 North Oval Mall, Columbus, OH, 43210
Email: kaldellis.1@osu.edu
Phone: 614-292-1083
414E University Hall, 230 North Oval Mall, Columbus, OH, 43210
Email: kaldellis.1@osu.edu
Phone: 614-292-1083
Education:
Ph.D. University of Michigan, Department of History (2001)
General Background:
Books:
The Christian Parthenon: Classicism and Pilgrimage in Byzantine Athens (Cambridge University Press, 2009).
Hellenism in Byzantium: The Transformations of Greek Identity and the Reception of the Classical Tradition (Cambridge University Press, 2007).
Mothers and Sons, Fathers and Daughters: The Byzantine Family of Michael Psellos (Notre Dame University Press, 2006).
Procopius of Caesarea: Tyranny, History, and Philosophy at the End of Antiquity (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2004).
Lesbos and the Eastern Mediterranean in the Roman and early Byzantine Period (100BC -- 600AD): A Study of Social, Political, and Religious Structures [in Greek] (Herodotos, 2002).
The Argument of Psellos' Chronographia (Brill, 1999).
Genesios: On the Reigns of the Emperors, introduction, translation, and commentary (Australian Association for Byzantine Studies, 1998).
Recent Articles:
‘Niketas Choniates: Paradox, Reversal, and the Meaning of History,’ in A. Simpson and S. Efthymiades, eds., Niketas Choniates: A Historian and a Writer, Geneva: Pomme d’Or, 2009, 75-99, forthcoming.
‘Classical Scholarship in Twelfth-Century Byzantium,’ in C. Barber and D. Jenkins, eds., Medieval Greek Commentary on the Nicomachean Ethics, Leiden and Boston: E. J. Bril, 2009, 1-43.
'Historicism in Byzantine Thought and Literature,' Dumbarton Oaks Papers 61 (2007) 1-24.
‘The Literature of Plague and the Anxieties of Piety in Sixth-Century Byzantium,’ in F. Mormando and T. Worcester, eds., Piety and Plague: From Byzantium to the Baroque (Truman State University Press, 2007) 1-22.
‘A Byzantine Argument for the Equivalence of All Religions: Michael Attaleiates on Ancient and Modern Romans,’ International Journal of the Classical Tradition 14 (2007) 1-20.
‘Christodoros on the Statues of the Zeuxippos Baths: A New Reading of the Ekphrasis,’ Greek, Roman, and Byzantine Studies 47 (2007) 361-383.
'Thoughts on the Future of Psellos-Studies, with Attention to his Mother's Encomium,' in C. Barber and D. Jenkins, eds., Reading Michael Psellos (Brill, 2005) 229-245.
'The Works and Days of Hesychios the Illoustrios of Miletos,' Greek, Roman, and Byzantine Studies 45 (2005) 381-403.
'Republican Theory and Political Dissidence in Ioannes Lydos,' Byzantine and Modern Greek Studies 29 (2005) 1-16.
'The Religion of Ioannes Lydos,' Phoenix 57 (2003) 300-316.
Byzantine Studies
Byzantine Studies
Classics
Greek Historiography
Plato
