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Research projects Ancient History
Research group Hellenism
Hellenism is the Greek culture of the hellenistic and Roman period (350 BC - AD 300). Special attention is given to Graeco-Roman Egypt. Greek, Latin and demotic (Egyptian language of this period) are indispensable for research of this period, with an important contribution in papyrology.
- The Prosopographia Ptolemaica lists all inhabitants of Ptolomaic Egypt in a relational database:
http://prosptol.arts.kuleuven.be - Historical topography of the Fayum during the Graeco-Roman period collects information about villages in the Fayum oasis from 300 BC to AD 700:
http://fayum.arts.kuleuven.be - Papyrus archives in Graeco-Roman Egypt identifies and comments more than 300 papyrus archives:
http://www.trismegistos.org/arch.php - The Leuven home page of papyrus collections offers an index of papyrus collections all over the world:
http://www.trismegistos.org/coll.php - The Leuven Database of Ancient Books lists the metadata for all Greek, Latin and Coptic books preserved upto AD 800:
http://ldab.arts.kuleuven.be/ - Seals in and on the Papyri of Greco-Roman Egypt gives an index of all seals used and named on/in papyri:
http://www.trismegistos.org/seals/ - A website about the Olympic Games in Antiquity (in English, Dutch, Chinese), in co-operation with Peking University, offers an introduction to the Greek games, as a background to the great games in Beijing in 2008:
http://ancientolympics.arts.kuleuven.be
Research group Ancient Historiography
The research of this group is based on historical methodology, the publication and comment of ancient historians. It focuses on the continuation of F. Jacoby, Die Fragmente der griechischen Historiker. In 2002 the research topic was extended with "Politeiai, Nomoi and Nomima: study of the ancient Greek historical tradition regarding Hellenic and barbarian political and socio-cultural forms of society".
Within the fragmentary tradition of Greek historiography, works on constitutions and laws of the hellenic polis-world come together with the traditions of barbarian people. The main focus is the corpus of 158 'Aristotelic' Politeiai.
The research project "The Diadochoi under Alexander IV (317-310 B.C.). A study of Diodorus' Bibliotheca Historica, Book XIX" aims to provide a thorough and systematic study of Diodorus' book XIX (both historiographical and historical), the most important source for the period.