Ruobing Xian, Professor of Classics

 The Department of History, Fudan University

Room 2009, West Guanghua Tower
 220 Handan Road, Shanghai
 China 200433
ruobingxian@fudan.edu.cn

Office time (per email)

Education

•  12/2013–06/2015  University Heidelberg, Classics (Dr. phil.)

•  04/2012–11/2013  University Heidelberg, Classics (MA)

•  10/2008–11/2011  Humboldt University, Indo-European linguistics/Classics (BA)

Professional Employment

•  As of 12/2022    Professor of Classics, Fudan University

•  12/2018–11/2022  Associate Professor of Classics, Fudan University

•  12/2016–11/2018  Assistant Professor of Classics, Fudan University

Fellowship

•  2015–2016      Visiting member of Corpus Christi College, Oxford

Publications

Monograph

•  Raum und Erzählung in der Odyssee, Leiden: Brill 2021 (Mnemosyne Supplements 444)

Review: Christos Tsagalis, Classical Review 73.2 (2023), 410–412

Articles

Forthcoming

•  ‘Hesiod, Catalogue of Women fr. 70.1–7 MW’, Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik

•  ‘ἐπελήκεον (Od. 8,379) and ληκώμεθα (Aristoph. Thesm. 493)’, Rheinisches Museum für Philologie

•  ‘Narrative Design and Doublets: Democedes in Herodotus’s Histories’, Harvard Studies in Classical Philology

2024

•  ‘Homeric ἴσκε(ν) (Od. 19.203; 22.31) and its Reception in Apollonius and Theocritus’, Hermes 152, 57–67.

2023

•  ‘Iliad 9.392 on a Ptolemaic Papyrus’, Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik

227, 1–2.

•  ‘Two Notes on the Pseudo-Hesiodic Aspis (ἆτον, 59;ἄαται, 101)’, Classical Philology 118, 104–108.

•  ‘Athena’s Mention of Orestes in Hom. Od. 1.298–302’, Greece & Rome 70, 100–110.

•  ‘The End of Sophocles’ Philoctetes and the Significance of ΓΝΩΜΗ’, Hermes 151, 23–39.

2022

•  ‘Homeric ΠΕΡΘΕΤΟ (Il. 12.15), ΠΕΡΘΟΜΕΝΗ (Il. 2.374 = 4.291 = 13.816), and ΠΕΡΘΑΙ (Il. 16.708)’, Glotta 98, 313–320.

•  ‘Homeric δέχαται(Il. 12.147) Reconsidered’, Greek, Roman, and Byzantine Studies 62, 255–262.

2021

•  ‘Blameless Aegisthus Revisited’, Mnemosyne 74, 181–199.

•  ‘A Note on Aratus’ Phaenomena 100–107’, Athenaeum 109, 597–601.

2020

•  ‘The Cyrus Anecdote in Herodotus 9.122’, Classical Quarterly 70, 16–26.

•  ‘Scepter and Spear in Euripides’ Iphigenia in Tauris’, Museum Helveticum 77, 188–193.

•  ‘The Dramatization of Emotions in Iliad 24.552–658’, Philologus 164, 181–196.

2019

•  ‘ΚΛΕΟΣ ΑΦΘΙΤΟΝ in Sappho fr. 44.4 V’, Hermes 147, 392–405.

2018

•  ‘A Note on ἀγοράν in Pindar N. 3.14’, Mnemosyne 71, 169–172.

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

•  ‘Locus amoenus und sein Gegenstück in Od. 5’, Hermes 146, 132–148.

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

•  ‘Aristotle, Poetics 23, 1459a35–37’, Rheinisches Museum für Philologie 161, 287–294.

2017

•  ‘Zur Etymologie von gr. μόθος’, Glotta 93, 250–254.

•  ‘An Etymological Note on Homeric ὑπόδρα’, Greek, Roman, and Byzantine Studies 57, 261–267.

•  ‘Die Ithakalandschaft in Od. 13’, Mnemosyne 70, 537–561.

•  ‘Two Notes on Philostratus’ Imagines 2.28 (‘Looms’)’, Classical Quarterly 67, 335–338.

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

•  ‘Geschlossener Raum und narrative Spannung in der Odyssee’, Materiali e Discussioni 79, 9–29.

Review

•  ‘Recent Homeric Research: A Postscript’, Museum Sinicum 5 (2023), 167–175.

•  ‘Recent Homeric Research’, Museum Sinicum 1 (2018), 217–230.

Teaching (2024 Spring Semester)

Iliad XII;

Aeschylus Prometheus Bound;

Graeca (Colloquium for Ancient Greek Philology)