Eleni Bozia, Ph.D.
Lecturer
Department of Classics
137 Dauer Hall
University of Florida
POBox 117435
Gainesville, FL 32611
Tel: (352) 392-2075
Fax: (352) 846-0297
E-Mail: bozia [@] ufl.edu
Research
Current Research
- My current research interests lie in the examination of the 2nd century C.E. reality as it appears in the writings of Lucian of Samosata, a native Syrian who wrote in Greek and was a Roman citizen. Lucian wrote a large volume of works that cannot be filed under one specific genre, including satires, admonitory treatises, and philosophical dialogues. He flourished as a rhetorician and even held an official position in the Roman Empire. In my monograph 'Lucian and his Roman Voices' (Routledge, 2014, forthcoming) I examine cultural exchanges, political propaganda, foreign identity politics, and religious conflicts in the Late Roman Empire from the perspective of Lucian, Juvenal, Aulus Gellius, and the first Christian Apologists.
- I am also the Associate Director of the Digital Epigraphy and Archaeology Project www.digitalepigraphy.org The DEA is an interdisciplinary project initiated by researchers from the Digital Worlds Institute and the Department of Classics at the University of Florida. The goal of this project is to develop new open-access scientific tools for the Humanities, and apply concepts from digital and interactive media and Computer Science to Archaeology and Classics.
