Meritförteckning

OVERVIEW

My main field of research is Greek and Latin Epigraphy, specializing in the Roman and Byzantine periods, editing, translating, commenting and building up comprehensive collections (corpora) of inscriptions. I have worked and published material from Greece (Attica, Corinth, North-Western Greece), now working on projects all over Greece, furthermore on Cyprus and in Former Yugoslavian Republic of Macedonia.

My second field of research is Humanist Greek and Neo-Latin literature of the 16^th and 17^th century, editing and commenting on texts composed in Greek and Latin by Finnish, Swedish, and Polish humanists and poets. Cooperation with a Finnish colleague (Dr. Tua Korhonen, University of Helsinki) and an Esthonian colleague (Dr. Janika Päll, University of Tartto); my own on-going project regards unpublished manuscripts consisting of two Greek metric orations kept at the University Library of Uppsala, Sweden.

Finished or on-going projects:
1) "The Late Roman and Early Byzantine inscriptions of Athens and Attica", begun in 1986, dissertation (University of Helsinki 1997), finished in 2008 with the final augmented publication in the series Inscriptiones Graecae (Berlin Brandenburg Academy of Sciences).

2) The main project: Principal Investigator in "Verse Inscriptions of Roman Greece"; since 2003, including doctoral training, supervising three doctorands at the University of Helsinki (ca. 1500 inscriptions to be edited, translated into English, and commented upon), with Finnish Institute at Athens funding most of the field work, two doctorands funded by the Center of Excellence directed by Prof. J. Frösén during 2006-2007, myself funded during 2008, to be finished in 2011.
3) "Petra – The Mountain of Aaron" (during 2001-2008, directed by Prof. J. Frösén and Dr. Z. Fiema, University of Helsinki/Academy of Finland): responsible, together with J. Frösen and Z. Fiema, for the inscriptions in Greek, published in 2008.
4) "Thesprotia Expedition" ( during 2005-2006, Finnish Institute at Athens, directed by Prof. B. Forsén): responsible for Greek and Latin inscriptions, published in 2009.
5) "Last Statues of Antiquity", since 2009 (Oxford University/British Academy, directed by Professors B. Ward Perkins and R.R.R. Smith): responsible for the statue bases of Greece, to be published in late 2011.
6) "The Expansion of Christianity" (Topoi Excellence Cluster/Humboldt University, Berlin, directed by Professors C. Breytenbach and C. Markschies) since 2008: responsible for Corinthian inscriptions, later on for the rest of Greece, to be published in 2011/ 2013.
7) "Late Antique Inscriptions of Cyprus and Former Yugoslavian Republic of Macedonia" (together with Dr. G. Deligiannakis, Open University of Cyprus) since 2010: responsible for the interpretation and dating of the Greek and Latin inscriptions, to be finished and published in EpiDoc format in internet in late 2011.

8) "Two Greek Metric Orations from Sweden", to be finished in 2012.

ACTIVITIES

2005

Paper read:
"Stone Poetry of Roman Greece" (Finnish Institute at Athens, Scandinavian Course in Greek Epigraphy), in January 2005.

Research work and other international activities:
1) Field work in Greece  for Attic verse inscriptions finished in Athens, Pireus and Eleusis (with three doctorands), one week in May 2005;
2) Field work in Greece for the Roman inscriptions of Thesprotia, one week in May 2005;
3) Archive work in Germany, at Inscriptiones Graecae (Berlin) for Late Antique inscriptions of Attica and Corinth, three weeks in October 2005;
4) Referee for an article submitted for the US periodical Hesperia (The American School of Classical Studies at Athens), November 2005;
5) Opponent in Sweden, in the doctoral examination of F. Skenteri (University of Lund) on the occasional poetry of Herodes Atticus, December 2005.

Public presentations:

1) Radio program "Who Is Who in Ancient Literature: Hercules", for the National Broadcasting Company of Finland, February 2005;

2) Radio program "Who Is Who in Ancient Literature: Theseus", for the National Broadcasting Company of Finland, May 2005;

ACTIVITIES
2006

Paper read:
"Greece Lost. Finnish Travellers´Accounts of Past Greece" (Finnish Institute at Athens), May 23, 2006.

Research work and other international activities:
1) Library and field work in Greece, on Roman inscriptions of Thesprotia finished in Athens and Ioannina, one week in January 2006;
2) Archive work in Germany, at Inscriptiones Graecae (Berlin) for Late Antique inscriptions of Attica and Corinth, three weeks in February 2006;
3) Opponent in France, in the doctoral examination of L. Foschia (University of Sorbonne), on the destruction of pagan temples in Late Antique Mainland Greece, March 31, 2006;
4) Field work in Greece, in Peloponnesus for Verse inscriptions of Roman Greece, three weeks in May 2006 (with two doctorands);
5) An additional library and field trip to Greece, to Athens, Tripolis and Corinth for Verse inscriptions of Roman Greece, one week in December 2006.

Public presentations:

1) Radio program "Who Is Who in Ancient Literature: Callirhoe", for the National Broadcasting Company of Finland, May 2006;
2) Radio program "Where Do Words Come From?", for the National Broadcasting Company of Finland, August 2006;

3) Radio program "Where Do Words Come From?", for the National Broadcasting Company of Finland, December 2006.

ACTIVITIES
2007

Poster held:
"Stone Poetry of Roman Greece" at the 13th International Congress of Greek and Latin Epigraphy (Oxford),  September 4, 2007.

Research work and other international activities:
1) Archive work in Germany, for Attic verse inscriptions finished in Inscriptiones Graecae (Berlin, with two doctorands), one week in January 2007;
2) Field work in Greece, in Macedonia, Thrace, Thessaly, Ionian islands, Phocis, Locris, and Boeotia for Verse Inscriptions of Roman Greece (with two doctorands and one student), three weeks in June-July 2007;
3) Combined archive & museum work in France, in Paris (the Louvre, National Library, Collège de France) and in England, in London (the British Museum) for Verse Inscriptions of Roman Greece, one week in August 2007;
4) Field work in Greece, on Crete for Verse Inscriptions of Roman Greece, two weeks (the latter of which with a student), October 2007.

The dissertation of a doctoral student supervised by me (M. Niku), was approved at the University of Oulu, on foreigners in Hellenistic Athens, March 2007.

Public presentations:
1) Radio program "The Movie ´300´", for the National Broadcasting Company of Finland, May 2007;
2) Radio program "Greek Sepulchral Epigrams", for the National Broadcasting Company of Finland, September 2007;
3) Radio program "Where Do Words Come From?", for the National Broadcasting Company of Finland, December 2007.

ACTIVITIES
2008

Papers read:
1) "Early Byzantine Epigrams of Athens", Seminar in Honor of Cyril Mango´s 80th Birthday, Gennadios Library (Athens), May 7, 2008;

2) "Primers of Ancient Greek Used in Finland – Authentic or Modified Texts?", international seminar on Hellenic Education in Scandinavia and the Baltic countries, Stockholm, May 19, 2008;
3) "What is A Christian Inscription?", International seminar in the Excellence Cluster Topoi, Humboldt University, Berlin, June 26, 2008;
4) "De textu carminum in honorem nuptiarum Iohannis et Catharinae principis Iagellonicae edendo" at the international Seminarium Neo-Latinum (Gdansk, Poland), October 16, 2008.

Research work and other international activities:
1) Archive work in Germany, for Verse Inscriptions of Roman Greece in Inscriptiones Graecae (Berlin), three weeks in January, two weeks in April, three weeks in August-September, one week in December 2008 (altogether 9 weeks);
2) Library and additional field work in Greece, in Athens and on Crete for Verse Inscriptions of Roman Greece, two weeks in March 2008;
3) Field work in Greece, on Lesbos, Khios, Ikaria, Kos, Rhodos for Verse Inscriptions of Roman Greece, two weeks in September 2008.

Public presentation:
1) Radio program "Where Do Words Come From?", for the National Broadcasting Company of Finland, December 2008.

ACTIVITIES
2009

Papers read:
1) "The Greek Scripts of the Edict of Diocletian", International Symposium in honor of the 90th birthday of Joyce Reynolds (British School at Athens), January 30,  2009;
2) "On the Late Attic Inscriptiones Graecae corpus of inscriptions" (in Finnish), The Classical Association of Finland, November 27, 2009;
3) "Late Antique Statue Base Inscriptions of Greece", International seminar on "Last Statues of Antiquity" (Oxford University), December 5, 2009.

Research work and other international activities:
1) Planning of an international Humanist Greek Conference in Estonia, Tartto, June 1, 2009;
2) Field work in Greece for Verse Inscriptions of Roman Greece on Samos, Lepsia, Patmos, Rhodes, Telos, Astypalaia, Aigina) and in the archives of the French School at Athens, three weeks in June-July 2009;
3) Referee, assessing an Academy research project application from Estonia, on Neo-Latin Literature, October 2009.

Public presentations:
1) An introductory course to Ancient Greek and "Greek Myths" in a cultural happening called "Athenis Finlandiae", Jyväskylä, August 2009;
2) Radio program series, in two parts, "Movies on the Ancient World", for the National Broadcasting Company of Finland, August-September 2009.

ACTIVITIES
2010

Papers read:
1) "Supports for Verse Inscriptions of Roman Greece", in an international Epigram Colloquium (University of Lyon, France), June 3, 2010
2 "Oi Romaikes kai Ysteroromaikes emmetres epigrafes tes Ellados", Open University of Cyprus (Nicosia), International Visiting Lecture Series "Telegoneia", October 12, 2010
3) "Christliches in den späten Inschriften von Korinth", at the Humboldt University (Berlin), October 27, 2010.


Research work and other international activities:
1) Field work in Greece for Verse Inscriptions of Roman Greece on Naksos, Thera, Mykonos, Delos, Andros, Pholegandros, Melos, and in Thebes, three weeks in May 2010;
2) Archive work in France, on Thessalian verse inscriptions (MoM, University of Lyon), one week in June 2010;
3) Field work in Greece on the Last Statues of Antiquity in Thebes, Corinth, Sparta, Tegea, Argos, Troizen, Delphi, Megara, Aigosthena, two weeks in July 2010.

Public presentation:
An introductory course to Ancient Greek and "Introducing Ancient Greek Culture" in a cultural happening called "Athenis Finlandiae", Jyväskylä, August 2010.