Ruobing Xian received his first degree in Historical Linguistics and Greek Philology at the Humboldt University, Berlin. He then moved to Heidelberg where he pursued his postgraduate studies in Greek Philology, supervised by Jonas Grethlein and Jenny Strauss Clay. Before joining Fudan University he was visiting fellow of Corpus Christi College (Oxford). His research interests include archaic poetry (esp. Homer), ancient Historiography (esp. Herodotus), and the Second Sophistic.

Office hours: Dr. Xian’s office hours this semester are Thursday at 4 (West Guanghua Tower, the Main Building, 0801); if those times are not suitable for you, please e-mail him (ruobingxian@fudan.edu.cn)

Publications:

forthcoming

‘ΚΛΕΟΣ ΑΦΘΙΤΟΝ in Sappho fr. 44.4 V’, Hermes

‘Aristotle, Poetics 23, 1459a35–37’, Rheinisches Museum für Philologie

‘Zur Beschreibung des Alkinoos-Palasts (Od. 7.84–132)’, Philologus

2018

‘Locus amoenus und sein Gegenstück in Od. 5’, Hermes 146: 132–48 (A&HCI)

‘Habrocomes’ Lament in Xenophon of Ephesus’ Ephesiaca 5.1.12–13’, Greek, Roman, and Byzantine Studies 58: 55–66 (A&HCI)

‘A Note on ἀγοράνin Pindar N. 3.14’, Mnemosyne 71: 169–72 (A&HCI)

2017

‘Geschlossener Raum und narrative Spannung in der Odyssee’, Materiali e Discussioni 79: 9–29 (A&HCI)

‘Der Chronotopos der Ziegeninsel (Hom. Od. 9.116–141)’, Mnemosyne 70: 899–919 (A&HCI)

‘Two Notes on Philostratus’Imagines 2.28 (‘Looms’)’, Classical Quarterly67: 335–38 (A&HCI)

‘Die Ithakalandschaft in Od. 13’, Mnemosyne 70: 537–61 (A&HCI)

‘An Etymological Note on Homeric ὑπόδρα’, Greek, Roman, and Byzantine Studies 57: 261–67 (A&HCI)

‘Zur Etymologie von gr. μόθος’, Glotta 93: 250–54 (A&HCI)

Courses:

2018/19 WS Intermediate Ancient Greek I (Thucydides /Aristotle’ Poetics)

2018 SS Intermediate Ancient Greek II (Odyssey / Euripides’ Iphigenia in Tauris)

2017/18 WS Intermediate Ancient Greek I (Herodotus / Xenophon’ Anabasis)