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冼若冰/Professor of Classics

职务/职称：Professor of Classics (Ancient Greek Philology)

办公地点：West Guanghua Tower 1918, Handan Road 220, Fudan University

电话：65643277

Email：ruobingxian@fudan.edu.cn

研究方向：Ancient Greek Philology

Basic Information

Ruobing Xian Professor of Classics

Handan Road 220, Fudan University

West Guanghua Tower 1918

Shanghai 200433

ruobingxian@fudan.edu.cn

Ruobing Xian is dedicated to the teaching and research of ancient Greek language and literature. His teaching ranges from introductory language courses to specialized research seminars, as well as general education core courses designed for a broad audience. His research centres on early Greek hexameter poetry and its ancient reception. Ancient Greek historiography constitutes another major area of his research, which he increasingly approaches from a global comparative perspective. Although his work focuses primarily on the Archaic and Classical periods, it also extends to Hellenistic poetry, imperial Greek literature, and the classicizing Christian poetry of Late Antiquity, especially that of Gregory of Nazianzus. He is happy to supervise PhD students working in his areas of research. Prospective applicants are welcome to contact him to discuss potential supervision.

Selected publications. His first book Raum und Erzählung in der Odyssee, a revised version of his doctoral dissertation, examines how representations of space in the Odyssey shape epic narrative. He has also written on the ways in which endings are constructed to illuminate a work’s central concerns across different genres, including the Iliad, Sophocles’ Philoctetes, and Herodotus’ Histories. On a more technical level, he has contributed to the study of ghost verbal forms in Homer and beyond (e.g. πέρθαι, δέχαται, ἴσκε(ν), ἄαται), as well as to the reconstruction of fragmentarily transmitted texts preserved on papyri (e.g. Hesiod fr. 75.13–25 MW).

Education

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

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

• 10/2008–11/2011 Humboldt University, Historical 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

• 10/2025–01/2026 Gastprofessor, Institut für Klassische Altertumskunde, Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel

• 11/2015–07/2016 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

In Preparation:

• Early Greek Hexameter Poetry and its Ancient Reception (Trends in Classics Supplementary Volumes, accepted) [Kleine Schriften]

Articles

Forthcoming

• ‘Κλέος ἄφθιτον in Apollinaris of Laodicea’s Metaphrasis Psalmorum and Gregory of Nazianzus’ Schweigegedichte’, in Alexis Balmont (ed.) Recovering the Past: Critical Edition and Translation of Ancient Texts

• ‘Ἄελπτον in Hes. fr. 204.95 MW Revisited’, Hermes

2026

• ‘陈康论“有价值的翻译”—《柏拉图〈巴曼尼得斯篇〉》译注序名言新诠’，《现代中国人文学刊》1, 257–269.

• ‘Wordplay and Oriental Names in O.Berol. 12605’, Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik 237, 36–38.

2025

• ‘Eurykleia als Stillamme des Odysseus und die “Lebenspartnerschaft” von Sklaven in der Odyssee’, Gymnasium 132, 393–414.

• ‘Looking at Io on the meadow. A note on Aesch. Supp. 539f.’, Eikasmós 36, 79–84.

• ‘比較學術史視野下的中國古典學’，《中國古典學》7, 3–16.

• ‘Hesiod, Catalogue of Women fr. 1.6–13 MW Revisited’, Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik 233, 1–7.

• ‘The Homeric Quotation in Plato, Republic V 468e1–2’, Philologus 169, 137–139.

• ‘A New Interpretation of Hesiod, Catalogue of Women fr. 75.13–25 MW’, Archiv für Papyrusforschung und verwandte Gebiete 71, 1–9.

• ‘Narrative Design and Doublets: Democedes in Herodotus’s Histories’, Harvard Studies in Classical Philology 114, 35–58.