Prof. Dr. Christine Abbt
Humanities, Social and behavioural sciences
Humanities, Languages
Classics, Hellenic studies
various aspects of Greek poetry and Greek late prose;
area of interest includes Greek lyric poetry, especially elegy and iambus, ancient literary theory and criticism as well as Greek prose of the Roman Empire (esp. epistolography novel and miscellanist literature)
the Richards Prize, Corpus Christi College, Oxford;
the Griffith Fund, Jesus College, University of Oxford;
academic Grant for Professors awarded by the Foundation for Polish Science (2002-2005);
Scientific Awards of the Minister of Science and Higher Education (2006, 2010).
ancient Greek, English, French, German, Latin, Polish, Russian
1. Greek Elegy and Iambus. Studies in Ancient Literary Sources, Poznań 1993;
2. Where Was Iambic Poetry Performed? Some Evidence from the Fourth Century BC, The Classical Quarterly 42, 1992, pp. 65-71;
3. The Importance of Appropriateness. Rethinking the Definition of Nomos, Philologus 142, 1998, pp. 300-307;
4. Between Loyalty and Treachery. P.Oxy. 2327 fr. 1 + 2(a) col I: Simonides 21 West2 – Some Reconsiderations, Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik 126, 1999, pp. 26-28;
5. Ion of Chios and the King (Ion, 27, 1-3 W. = 2, 1-3 G.-P.), Mnemosyne 53, 2000, pp. 185-192;
6. What Did He Do? Clearchus on Philoxenus (ap. Ath. I 5f-6a = Clearch. Fr. 57 Wehrli), The Classical Quarterly 54 (2004), pp. 292-296;
7. The Voice of Tradition. Representations of Homeric Singers in Athenaeus I 14a-d, The Classical Quarterly 57 (2007), pp. 231-243;
8. The Structure of Lysias' Speech in Pseudo-Plutarch, On music, Hermes 141 (2013), pp. 401-416;
9. Pindar ISHNOPHONOS (Schol. in Pi. O. 8.66), Cambridge Classical Journal 63 (2017), pp. 1-10;
10. Structuring the Genre: the Fifth- and Fourth-Century Authors on Elegy and Elegiac Poets, in: The Reception of Greek Lyric Poetry in the Ancient World: Transmission, Canoznization and Paratext, eds. B. Currie, I. Rutherford, Leiden 2020, pp. 129-147.
Greek Lyric Poetry: Elegy and Iambus – commented edition of the texts;
the first ever Polish translation of Athenaeus’ monumental work The Learned Banqueteers (co-authored);
The Fragments of Greek Comedy ( supported by the Loeb Classical Library Foundation, Harvard University.
– Polish Philological Society (1998-2013 Vice-President and member of the Main Board of the Society);
- member the Scientific Committee on Ancient Culture of the Polish Academy of Sciences (2012-2020 the President of the Committee);
- member of the Polish Academy of Arts and Sciences (2012-2016: corresponding member, since 2016: active member);
- member of the editorial board of the periodical Symbolae Philologorum Posnaniensium;
- member of the Wissenschaftlicher Beirat of the German classical journal Philologus;
- member of the Network for the Studies of Archaic and Classical Greek Song at Radbout University Nijmegen;
- since 2016 member of the Council of the National Science Centre;
- since 2020 member of the Academic Board of the Polish Archaeological Institute at Athens (PAIA).
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