Ruobing Xian, Associate Professor of Classics

The Department of History, Fudan University

Room 1910, West Guanghua Tower

220 Handan Road, Shanghai

China 200433

ruobingxian@fudan.edu.cn

10/2008–10/2011 Humboldt Universität zu Berlin, BA (Historische Linguistik/Altgriechisch)

04/2012–10/2013 Universität Heidelberg, MA (Klassische Philologie)

11/2013–06/2015 Universität Heidelberg, PhD. (Klassische Philologie)

11/2015–08/2016 University of Oxford, Corpus Christi College, Visiting Member

I am happy to supervise under- and postgraduate students on archaic Greek poetry (esp. Homer), tragedy, historiography (esp. Herodotus), Hellenistic poetry (esp. Callimachus), Second Sophistic, ancient literary criticism, historical linguistics (esp. ancient Greek), history of nineteenth and twentieth century linguistics, and some topics in modern literary theory (esp. narratology).

Publications

1. ‘Zur Etymologie von gr. μόθος’, Glotta 93 (2017), 250–54.

2. ‘An Etymological Note on Homeric ὑπόδρα’, Greek, Roman, and Byzantine Studies 57 (2017), 261–67.

3. ‘Die Ithakalandschaft in Od. 13’, Mnemosyne 70 (2017), 537–61.

4. ‘Two Notes on Philostratus’ Imagines 2.28 (‘Looms’)’, Classical Quarterly67 (2017), 335–38.

5. ‘Der Chronotopos der Ziegeninsel (Hom. Od. 9.116–141)’, Mnemosyne 70 (2017), 899–919.

6. ‘Geschlossener Raum und narrative Spannung in der Odyssee’, Materiali e Discussioni 79 (2017), 9–29.

7. ‘A Note on ἀγοράν in Pindar N. 3.14’, Mnemosyne 71 (2018), 169–72.

8. ‘Habrocomes’ Lament in Xenophon of Ephesus’ Ephesiaca 5.1.12–13’, Greek, Roman, and Byzantine Studies 58 (2018), 55–66.

9. ‘Locus amoenus und sein Gegenstück in Od. 5’, Hermes 146 (2018), 132–48.

10. ‘Zur Beschreibung des Alkinoos-Palasts (Od. 7,84–132)’, Philologus 162 (2018), 189–207.

11. ‘Aristotle, Poetics 23, 1459a35–37’, Rheinisches Museum für Philologie 161 (2018), 287–94.

forthcoming

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

‘The Cyrus Anecdote in Herodotus 9.122’, Classical Quarterly

‘Septer and Spear in Euripides’ Iphigenia in Tauris’, Museum Helveticum

‘Blameless Aegisthus Revisited’, Mnemosyne

In Preparation

‘Dramatization of Emotions in Iliad 24’

‘The Parallel Stories in Sophocles’Philoctetes’

Past Courses

SS 2017 Elementary Ancient Greek (II)

AS 2017–18 Herodotus’ Histories; Xenophon’s Anabasis

SS 2018 The Odyssey; Euripides’ Iphigenia in Tauris

AS 2018–19 Thucydides’ History; Aristotle’s Poetics

SS 2019 The Iliad; Sophocles’ Philoctetes; Callimachus’ Hymns; Dionysius of Halicarnassus’ On Thucydides

Current Courses

AS 2019–2020 Elementary Ancient Greek (I); Longus’ Daphnis and Cloe

Supervised Dissertation

1. BA–Dissertation, Jieyu Zhang, ‘Jacob Wackernagels sprachwissenschaftliche Werke im Licht der Indogermanistik seiner Zeit’ (in German, German/Classics, Peking University, 2019)