冼若冰
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, Germany: Classics (Dr. phil. 2015)
• 04/2012–11/2013 University Heidelberg, Germany: Classics (MA)
• 10/2008–11/2011 Humboldt University Berlin, Germany: Indo-European linguistics, Classics (BA)
Professional Employment
• As of 12/2022 Professor of Classics, Fudan University, China
• 12/2018–11/2022 Associate Professor of Classics, Fudan University, China
• 12/2016–11/2018 Assistant Professor of Classics, Fudan University, China
Fellowship
• 2015–2016 Visiting member of Corpus Christi College, Oxford, United Kingdom
Monograph
• Raum und Erzählung in der Odyssee, Leiden: Brill 2021 (Mnemosyne Supplements 444)
Review: Christos Tsagalis, Classical Review 73.2 (2023)
Articles
Forthcoming
• ‘ἐπελήκεον(Od. 8,379) and ληκώμεθα (Aristoph. Thesm. 493)’, Rheinisches Museum für Philologie
• ‘Homeric ἴσκε(ν) (Od. 19.203; 22.31) and its Reception in Apollonius and Theocritus’, Hermes
• ‘Iliad 9.392 on a Ptolemaic Papyrus’, Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik
• ‘Narrative Design and Doublets: Democedes in Herodotus’s Histories’, Harvard Studies in Classical Philology
2023
• ‘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
( SS = Spring Semester, AS = Autumn Semester )
SS 2017 | Elementary Ancient Greek II |
AS 2017 | Herodotus’ Histories; Xenophon’s Anabasis |
SS 2018 | The Odyssey; Euripides’ Iphigenia in Tauris |
AS 2018 | Thucydides’ History; Aristotle’s Poetics |
SS 2019 | The Iliad; Sophocles’ Philoctetes; Callimachus’ Hymns; Dionysius of Halicarnassus’ On Thucydides |
AS 2019 | Elementary Ancient Greek I; Longus’ Daphnis and Chloe |
SS 2020 | Longus’ Daphnis and Chloe (continued) |
Elementary Ancient Greek II (Plato’s Republic X) | |
AS 2020 | Elementary Latin I; Herodotus’ Histories III; Hippocratic Corpus; Academic Writing; Colloquium (Ancient Greek Philology) |
SS 2021 | Elementary Latin II (Caesar’s Bellum Civile & Cicero’s Brutus); The Iliad IX; Aeschylus’ Suppliants; Colloquium (Ancient Greek Philology) |
AS 2021 | Thucydides’ History; Aristotle’s Rhetoric II; Colloquium (Ancient Greek Philology) |
SS 2022 | The Iliad XVIII; Euripides’ Hippolytus; Colloquium (Ancient Greek Philology) |
AS 2022 | Elementary Ancient Greek I; Greek Literature in the Era of the Atheno-Peloponnesian Wars (Aristophanes’ Acharnians & Lysistrata; Euripides’ Troades; Sophocles’ Philoctetes; Herodotus’ Histories; Thucydides’ History); Euripides’ Troades |
SS 2023 | Elementary Ancient Greek II (Xenophon’s Memorabilia I); Colloquium (Graeca, Aristotle’ Poetics); Euripides’ Troades (continued) |
AS 2023 | Gorgias’ Helenae Encomium & Herodotus’ Histories VII Greek Literature in the Era of the Atheno-Peloponnesian Wars (Euripides’ Hecuba & Cyclops; Aristophanes’ Clouds; Dithyramb) |