University of Heidelberg

Contact information

Heidelberg University
Institut of Papyrology
Marstallstr. 6 (R. 209)
69117 Heidelberg
Germany

Email:

stavrianopoulou@asia-europe.uni-heidelberg.de

Phone:

+49 (0) 6221 54 4361

Projects

• B15 The Elusive Greekness

Curriculum vitae

Since July 2009: Leader of the Project B15 "The Elusive Greekness" at the Cluster of Excellence “Asia and Europe in a Global Context – Shifting Asymmetries in Cultural Flows”
2008: Interim Professor, Institute of Ancient History, University of Bochum
2007: Promotion to the degree of “adjunct Professor”
2003 - 2009: Research Associate at the Collaborative Research Center 619 „Ritual Dynamics“; Project B2 „Ritual and Communication in the Greek Urban Communities“
2003: Habilitation, Heidelberg University
2000/01: Research grant, Ministry of Education and Research of Baden-Württemberg
2000-1994: Assistant Professor at the Institute for Ancient History,  Heidelberg University
1989 - 1993: Postdoctoral research fellow, German Research Council
1987: PhD, Heidelberg University, in Ancient History
1984: MA, University of Athens, in History and Archaeology

Selected publications

Monographs

• 2006 ‘Gruppenbild mit Dame’: Untersuchungen zur rechtlichen und sozialen Stellung der Frau auf den Kykladen im Hellenismus und in der römischen Kaiserzeit, Stuttgart (HABES 42).1989
• Untersuchungen zur Struktur des Reiches von Pylos. Die Stellung der Ortschaften im Lichte der Linear B-Texte, Partille (Studies in Mediterranean Archaeology and Literature 77).

Edited books

• 2008 (with A. Michaels & C. Ambos), Transformations in Sacrificial Practices. From Antiquity to Modern Times. Proceedings of an International Colloquium, Heidelberg, 12-14, July 2006, Berlin/Münster (Performances: Intercultural Studies on Ritual, Play and Theatre 15).
• 2006 Ritual and Communication in the Graeco-Roman World, Liège (Kernos Suppl. 16).
• 1991 (with H. van Effenterre, Th. Kalpaxis & A.B. Petropoulou), Eleutherna II.1: Die Inschriften, Rethymnon.

E-publications

• 2005 (with O. Krüger & M. Nijhawan), „Ritual“ und „Agency“: Legitimation und Reflexivität ritueller Handlungsmacht, Forum Ritualdynamik, Heidelberg 2005. (http://www.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/archiv/5785)

Articles

• (in print) "Zwischen ‘Tradition’ und 'Innovation': Die Verschriftlichung von rituellen Praktiken", in: Rituale - identitätsstiftende Handlungskomplexe, Akten der Tagung des Zentrums für Archäologie und Altertumswissenschaften, Wien (02-03.11.09), 16p.
• (in print) “Gynaikonomos”, in: R. Bagnall et al. (Hrsg.), Encyclopedia of Ancient History.
• 2012 "tou dikaiou tychein oder die Macht der Bitte", in: Chr. Kuhn (ed.), Politische Kommunikation und Öffentliche Meinung in der Antiken Welt, Stuttgart, pp.123-149.
• 2011 “„Promises of Continuity“: The Role of Tradition in the Forming of Rituals in Ancient Greece“, in: A. Chaniotis (ed.), Rituals in the ancient Mediterranean: Changes and Agents, Stuttgart, pp. 85-103.
• 2009a “Die Bewirtung des Volkes: Öffentliche Speisungen in der römischen Kaiserzeit”. In: O. Hekster et al. (eds.), Ritual Dynamics and Religious Change in the Roman Empire. Proceedings of the Eighth Workshop of the International Network Impact of Empire (Heidelberg, July 5-7, 2007), Leiden, pp. 159-184 (Impact of the Roman Empire 9).
• 2009b “Norms of Behaviour towards Priests: Some Insights from the leges sacrae”. In: P. Brulé (ed.), La norme en matière religieuse dans la Grèce antique. Actes du XIIe colloque international du CIERGA (Rennes, septembre 2007), Liège, pp. 213-229 (Kernos Suppl. 21).
• 2008 “Dynamic Sacrifices? Some Introductory Remarks”. In: E. Stavrianopoulou et al. (eds.), Transformations in Sacrificial Practices: From Antiquity to Modern Times. Proceedings of an International Colloquium, Heidelberg, 12-14, July 2006, Berlin/Münster, pp. 1-16.
• 2007a (with J. Maran) “Potnios Aner: Some Thoughts on Mycenaean Kingly Ideology”. In: E. Alram-Stern – G. Nightingale (eds), KEIMELION. Elitenbildung und elitärer Konsum von der mykenischen Palastzeit bis zur homerischen Epoche, Wien, pp. 285-298.
• 2007b “Ensuring Ritual Competence. A Negotiable Matter: Religious Specialist”. In: U. Hüsken (ed.), When Rituals go Wrong: Mistakes, Failure, and the Dynamics of Ritual, Leiden, pp. 183-196 (Numen Book Series 115).
• 2006a “Normative Interventions in Greek Rituals: Strategies for Justification and Legitimation”. In: E. Stavrianopoulou (ed.), Ritual and Communication in the Graeco-Roman World, Liège, pp. 131-149 (Kernos Suppl. 16).
• 2006b “Introduction”. In: E. Stavrianopoulou (Hrsg.), Ritual and Communication in the Graeco-Roman World, Liège, pp. 7-22 (Kernos Suppl. 16).

Further Information

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