Prof. Andrea Rotstein
Department's chair
Students’ consultant
Research Interests: Greek Iambic poetry; musical competitions in Ancient Greece; ancient literary history; Vergil’s style
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Prof. Hannah Cotton
Research Interests: Tacitus; Papyrology from the Judean Desert; Epigraphy from Judaea-Palaestina from Alexander the Great to Muhammad.
Prof. Joseph Geiger
The main areas of progress in my studies have been the history of Greek and Roman historiography, and especially biography, the cultural history of the Eastern part of the Roman Empire and particularly Palestine, and the Augustan era.
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Prof. Deborah Gera
Room 7717. Reception time: Semester A: Sun., 15:30-16:30; Semester B: Sun. 09:30-10:3015:30
Research Interests: The gods in Homer; Classical Greek prose: Herodotus and Xenophon; Book of Judith; Women in Ancient Greece
Prof. Dwora Gilula
Prof. Gilula, through her many translation projects and important research, contributes both to the scholarly discourse within the academic Classical community and to the promotion of Classical culture and the exposure of Greek and Latin masterpieces to wide audiences in Israel.
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Dr. Ilana Klutstein
Research interests: The classical heritage in the Renaissance, Neoplatonism in the Renaissance, Medieval Exemplum literature and its similarities with the Hebrew Midrash, publications of Latin manuscripts containing exempla.
Dr. Orly Lewis
Areas of Research: Science and Medicine in Greece and Rome; Body and soul in Greece and Rome; Scientific and technical language in antiquity; Exploration of fragments.
Prof. Raanana Meridor
Prof. Ra’anana Meridor has been seminal in promoting of the study of the Greek language and of Classical culture in Israel.
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She has published widely on Greek texts, and her book, “Greek for Beginners”, is a cornerstone for students of every discipline who wish to become acquainted with the wealth and beauty of the Greek language.
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Sara Parnassa
Department Secretary
Room 4570. Office hours: Sundays: 11:30-14:30
Mondays-Thursdays: 10:00-13:00. In other times, one needs to schedule a meeting in advance.
Dr. Yakir Paz
Room 1113, Rabin building
Research Interests: Homeric scholia, Hellenistic Judaism; Ancient Magic; Roman and Rabbinic Law, Rabbinic biblical commentaries; Theological Polemics in Antiquity; Midrash; Jews and Christians in the Sasanian Empire; Syriac Literature.
Prof. Yoav Rinon
Research Interests: Homer; Epic poetry; The concept of tragic; Aristotle's Poetics; Tragedy and Comedy in a comparative perspective
Prof. Hannah Rosén
Prof. Hannah Rosen is an authority on Latin Linguistics, whose innovative and integrative publications have shaped the course of contemporary philological and linguistic Latinist research.
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Her expertise in Celtology and translation technique render her work important in the wider Linguistics community.
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Prof. Donna Shalev
Room 7720. Reception: Sun. and Wed. 12:00-12:30 room 2607, and by appointment in room 7720.
Research Interests: Syntax of the Greek and Latin languages; Ancient dialogue form (language, structure, ancient theory and culture)
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; transmission of formal structures and motifs in literary and technical sources; Translation technique and translations and reception of Plato; Aristotle and Galen; Speech act theory; Discourse analysis; Speech representation.
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Mrs. Ida Stein
Subject specialist librarian
In charge of acquisition for the library, and happy to assist in any matter regarding the library and the tools available for teachers and students of Classical Studies.
Dr. Amiel Vardi
Research Interests: Latin poetry, Intellectual life in Rome, The interplay between literature, philosophy, values, and social and political ideology