Category: Tobias Heiss
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From July 13 to 17, our team members Domenico Graziano, Tobias Heiss, and O. Lorena Purcaro participated in the ERASMOS Summer School on Classical Bilingualism at KU Leuven. The five‑day program explored code-switching, translation, and other manifestations of Latin–Greek bilingualism with leading international scholars. Next to a guided city tour with the organizer Raf Van…
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On the 8-10 July, the conference New Ancient Greek Literature: Contexts, Audiences, Legacies took place at the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven. Organised by the Hellas Belgicaproject, the conference brought together perspectives on the long history of New Ancient Greek as a dynamic cultural phenomenon from scholars working across Europe, the UK and United States. The Innsbruck…
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At the end of June, three of our members had the opportunity to present results of their ongoing research at the latest “Antike Kulturen des Mittelmeerraumes (AKMe)” conference in Salzburg. As a biannual event with changing hosts between the universities of Graz, Innsbruck and Salzburg, it offers PhD candidates an interdisciplinary platform to address methodological…
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In the Early Modern period, the need for spoken Latin in academic circles spawned books with Latin dialogues as schoolboy exercises known as colloquia. To a much smaller extent, but with some popularity, Ancient Greek colloquia promoted the ideal of speaking in Greek elegantly. As a contribution to a conference on didactics, Tobias Heiss drew…
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During the turmoil of the Thirty Years’ War, Greek Orthodox officials sought closer ties with important Protestant institutions in Germany and beyond. At the 45th Metageitnia, an annual conference that brings together classical philologists from Austria, Germany, Switzerland and France, Tobias Heiss presented findings from his doctoral research. He linked an oration delivered in Ancient…
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During the 45th Metageitnia which took place in Innsbruck from 16-17 January 2026, some of our younger team members gave talks about their research. Delila Jordan: Allegoria und imitatio in Servius’ Eklogenkommentar: Tobias Heiss: Metrophanes Kritopoulos’ griechische Rede zum Weihnachtsfest 1625 an der Universität Altdorf: Maximilian Pierl: Lehrgedicht, gelehrte Dichtung, gedichtete Lehre? Zur Definition und…