SOPHIA ANEZIRI
Sophia Aneziri graduated in the Department of History and Archeology at the University of Athens (1989). From 1990 to 1997 she studied in a postgraduate level at the University of Heidelberg with scholarships of the Greek State and of the state of Baden-Wurttemberg. In 1997 she held her PhD on Ancient Greek History and Epigraphy from the University of Heidelberg. She has taught Ancient Greek History in the Ionion University, the University of Crete and this of Thessaly (1998-2001) and was tutor in the Open University of Greece (2001-2021). She worked (2002-2003) at the National Research Center for the publication of Index du Bulletin épigraphique (S. Aneziri, N. Giannakopoulos, P. Paschidis, Index du Bulletin épigraphique 1987-2001. Mελετήματα 43, Aθήνα 2005). Since 2004 she teaches Ancient Greek History and Epigraphy at the Department of History and Archaeology in the University of Athens. She was visiting fellow at the All Souls College in Oxford (2011) and at the Kommission für Alte Geschichte und Epigraphik in Munich (2017).
Main research interests
Greek Epigraphy, Ancient Greek History of the Hellenistic and Roman period,
ancient Greek society/economy/religion, ancient Greek epigraphy, history of the ancient Greek law.
Director of the project and the website "Nautilos. Selection of ancient Greek inscriptions and papyri" funded by the Hellenic Foundation for Research and Innovation (ELIDEK) in the framework of the Action "Science and Society".
Teaching activity
Introductory courses in History of the Hellenistic and Roman Imperial period and in the Ancient Greek Epigraphy. Under- and postgraduate seminars on social, financial and religious phenomena based primarily on inscriptions (e.g. mobility and networks, evergetism, festivals and contests, associations).
Tutor in the BA Program in the Archaeology, History, and Literature of Ancient Greece (https://baag.uoa.gr/).
Books
1. S. Aneziri, Die Vereine der Dionysischen Techniten im Kontext der hellenistischen Gesellschaft. Untersuchungen zur Geschichte, Organisation und Wirkung der hellenistischen Technitenvereine. Historia Einzelschriften 163 (Stuttgart 2003).
2. Εορτές και αγώνες στην Αρχαία Αθήνα. Επιλογή επιγραφικών μαρτυριών. Κατάλογος έκθεσης του Επιγραφικού Μουσείου, ed. S. Aneziri (Athens 2014).
3. Ανθολόγιο. Επιλογή επιγραφών και παπύρων της ελληνιστικής και ρωμαϊκής περιόδου. Κείμενα, μετάφραση, σχολιασμός, ed. S. Anezri (2nd ed, Athens 2018).
4. S. Aneziri, Perpetual endowments sub modo («foundations») in the Classical and Hellenistic World. Heidelberger Althistorische Beiträge und Epigraphische Studien (Stuttgart 2023) in print.
Selected recent articles (since 2014)
- “Stiftungen für sportliche und musische Agone”, in Sport und Recht in der Antike. Beiträge zum 2. Wiener Kolloquium zur Antiken Rechtsgeschichte, Wien, 27.-28.10.2011, eds. K. Harter-Uibopuu – Th. Kruse (Wien 2014) 147-165.
- “Greek Strategies of Adaptation to the Roman World: The Case of the Contests”, Mnemosyne 67 (2014) 423-442.
- “Associations and endowments in the Hellenistic and Roman period: a multifaceted relation” in ἸουλίανΒελισσαροπούλου-Καράκωσταἐπαινέσαι: Laws of Greek and Roman Antiquity. Acts of International Conference, eds. Α. Dimopoulou – A. Helmis - D. Karampelas. Athens 2020: 15-33.
- “Aspects of Female Euergetism in the Ancient Greek World: Endowments Offered by Women”, in Dossier: Des femmes qui comptent, METIS N.S. 18, 2020: 103-122.
- “Artists of Dionysus: The first professional associations in the Ancient Greek world”, στο Professionalism in Ancient Greece and Rome, eds. E. Harris – D. Lewis – E. Stewart. Cambridge 2020: 293-312.
- “Civic and Religious Euergetism in the Hellenistic Peloponnese: The Epigraphic Evidence" in Luxury and Wealth in Sparta and the Peloponnese, eds. St. Hodkinson - Chr. Gallou. Classical Press of Wales 2021: 243-256.
Most publications are posted at https://uoa.academia.edu/SophiaAneziri