Staff

Dr Andrej Petrovic

Senior Lecturer in the Department of Classics and Ancient History

Member of the Centre for the Study of the Ancient Mediterranean and the Near East

Fellow of the Wolfson Research Institute for Health and Wellbeing

Contact Dr Andrej Petrovic (email at andrej.petrovic@durham.ac.uk)

Biography

I am a historian and a classicist, interested in ancient Greek social and cultural history. My areas of research specialisation include study of Greek religion and epigraphy and I have an ever increasing interest in anthropology, esp. of religion, and history of medicine. I studied Classics at Belgrade University, where I got a diploma, and then, in September 1999, I moved from Serbia to Heidelberg, Germany, to work on verse-inscriptions for my Ph.D. In 2004 I received a Ph.D. in Ancient History from Heidelberg University, and three years later my first monograph "Kommentar zu den simonideischen Versinschriften" was published by Brill Academic Publishers (Leiden/Boston 2007).

Study of verse-inscriptions remains one of the research areas I specialise in, and in 2010 the volume titled "Archaic and Classical Greek Epigram" I co-edited with Manuel Baumbach and Ivana Petrovic was published by Cambridge University Press (Cambridge et al. 2010). One large-scale and long term research project I am developing at the moment, together with an international team of scholars, is the edition of a sequal to P.A. Hansen's momentous Carmina epigraphica Graeca vols. I-II, which will contain verse inscriptions from the Hellenistic period (to be published by De Gruyter).

My interest in Greek religion was first sparked by study of inscriptions dealing with Greek religious life, which I did as a member of a research team investigating Greek sacred regulations ("leges sacrae") under the aegis of the Collaborative Research Center „Ritual Dynamics" (SFB 619) at Heidelberg University. Through study of these texts, I became particularly interested in role of rituals, norms, and agents in Greek religion and magic, and these issues, together with the relationship between health and religion, remain central in my current research and teaching. The major output I am working on at the moment in this field, is a book manuscript titled "Greek Metrical Sacred Regulations", which Ivana Petrovic and I have been developing since we were residential fellows at the Harvard Center for Hellenic Studies. Some of my publications are accessible here http://durham.academia.edu/AndrejPetrovic

I am a Serbian citizen, born and grew up in Croatia and schooled there (Osijek), in Serbia (Belgrade) and in Germany (Heidelberg). Before I joined Durham Department of Classics and Ancient History in 2006, I taught at Ludwig-Maximilians Universität in Munich (2003-2004) as a "wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter" and Ruprecht-Karls Universität Heidelberg (2004-2006) as a "wissenschaftlicher Assistent". I was also a Fellow of Sasakawa Peace Foundation (Tokyo), a Fellow of the Harvard Center for Hellenic Studies (Washington DC), and am a Fellow of the Wolfson Research Institute at Durham. My research projects have been so far supported by grants of Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft, Harvard University's CHS (one year residential fellowship) and the Loeb classical library foundation. In my free time, I enjoy walks with my dog (Mr Miyagi).

I will be happy to talk to prospective graduate students about MA and Ph.D. supervision on the topics compatible with my research interests (see below).

Research Interests

Cultural history
Greek epigraphy
Greek religion

Publications

Books: authored

Petrovic, Andrej (2007). Kommentar zu den simonideischen Versinschriften. Leiden: Brill.

Books: edited

Baumbach, Manuel, Petrovic, Ivana & Petrovic, Andrej (2010). Archaic and Classical Greek Epigram. Cambridge Cambridge University Press.

Edited works: contributions

Petrovic, Andrej & Petrovic, Ivana (2013). Laws, sacred (Greece). In The Encyclopedia of Ancient History. Bagnall, R., Brodersen, K., Champion, C.B. Erskine, A. & Huebner, S.R. Blackwell Publishing. 3966–3967.

Essays in edited volumes

Petrovic, Andrej (2012). Tieropferrituale in den griechischen Zauberpapyri aus ästhetischer Sicht. In Ästhetik des Opfers. Zeichen/Handlungen in Ritual und Spiel. Alexander Honold, Valentina Luppi & Anton Bierl München: Wilhelm Fink Verlag. 35-62.
Baumbach, Manuel, Petrovic, Andrej & Petrovic, Ivana (2010). Archaic and Classical Greek Epigram: an introduction. In Archaic and Classical Greek Epigram. Baumbach, Manuel, Petrovic, Andrej & Petrovic, Ivana Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 1-20.
Petrovic, Andrej (2010). True Lies of Athenian Public Epigrams. In Archaic and Classical Greek Epigram. Baumbach, Manuel, Petrovic, Ivana & Petrovic, Andrej Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 202-215.
Petrovic, Andrej (2009). Epigrammatic Contests, Poeti Vaganti, and Local History. In Wandering Poets in Ancient Greek Culture: Travel, Locality and Pan-Hellenism. Hunter, Richard & Rutherford, Ian Cambridge University Press. 195-216.
Petrovic, Andrej (2007). Inscribed Epigram in Pre-Hellenistic Literary Sources. In The Brill Companion to Hellenistic Epigram. Bing, Peter & Bruss, Steffen Jon Leiden et al.: Brill Academic Publishers. 49-68.
Petrovic, Ivana & Petrovic, Andrej (2006). Look Who is Talking Now!: Speaker and Communication in Metrical Sacred Regulations. In Ritual and Communication in the Graeco-Roman World. Stavrianopoulou, Eftychia Liège: Centre International d’Etude de la Religion Grecque Antique. Kernos Supplément 16: 151-179.
Petrovic, Andrej (2004). Akoe e autopsia. Zu den Quellen Herodots für die Thermopylai-Epigramme (Hdt. 7,228). In Studia humanitatis ac litterarum trifolio Heidelbergensi dedicata. Festschrift für E. Christmann, W. Edelmeier, und R. Kettemann. Hornung, A., Jäkel, Ch. & Schubert, W. Frankfurt: Peter Lang. 255-273.

Journal papers: academic

Petrovic, Andrej (2012). An Epigram and a Treasury (Sim. FGE XXXIIIb). Classical Quarterly XXX-XXX.
Petrovic, Andrej (2010). Sepulchral Epigram for Philadelphos (a Fallen Soldier?). Mnemosyne 63.4: 616-624.
Petrovic, Andrej, Skountakis, Manolis & DeStaebler, Peter (2010). Two New Honorific Epigrams for Pollion, a Governor from Aphrodisias. ZPE 172: 38-42.
Petrovic, Andrej (2005). 'Kunstvolle Stimme der Steine sprich!' Zur Intermedialität der griechischen epideiktischen Epigramme. Antike und Abendland 51: 30-42.
Petrovic, Andrej (2005). Under Full Sail: Trimalchio's Way into Eternity. Acta Antiqua 45: 85-90.
Petrovic, Andrej (2003). Die Sprache des Waechters in der Antigone des Sophokles am Beispiel seines ersten Auftritts (Vv. 223ff.). Museum Helveticum 60: 193-209.
Petrovic, Ivana & Petrovic, Andrej (2003). Stop and Smell the Statues. Callimachus' Epigram 51. Pf. Reconsidered (Four Times). Materiali e discussioni per l'analisi dei testi classici 51(2): 179-208.
Petrovic, Andrej (2002). Der simonideische makros logos und die sophokleische Antigone. Zur Identifizierung einer alten dramatischen Gestaltungsweise. Phaos Revista de Estudos Classicos 2(2002): 121-131.

Articles: review

Petrovic, Andrej (Published). Gordon L. Fain, Ancient Greek Epigrams: Major Poets in Verse Translation, University of California Press, Berkeley et al. 2010. Journal of Hellenic Studies
Petrovic, Andrej (2009). M. Jung, Marathon und Plataiai. Zwei Perserschlachten als ‘lieux de mémoire’ im Antiken Griechenland. (Hypomnemata 164).Göttingen 2006.& A. Albertz, Exemplarisches Heldentum. Die Rezeptionsgeschichte der Schlacht an den Thermopylen von der Antike bis zur Gegenwart. Munich 2006. Journal of Hellenic Studies 129: 197-199.
Petrovic, Andrej (2006). K. Hoeghammar (ed.): The Hellenistic polis of Kos: state, economy and culture proceedings of an international seminar organized by the Department of Archaeology and Ancient History, Uppsala University, 11-13 May, 2000. Uppsala 2004. Journal of Hellenic Studies 126: 177-178.