Office address: University of Sofia “St. Kl. Ohridski”, Faculty of Classical and Modern Philology, Department of Classics, Sofia 1504, Tzar Osvoboditel 15 Blvd., Bulgaria Office phone: +3592 930 83 32 Fax: +3592 846 5143 e-mail:
Education and academic qualifications
2004: Doctor Habil. Dissertation: “Phonology of the Greek Inscriptions in Bulgaria”
2000: Associate Professor of Ancient Greek at Sofia University, Department of Classics
1988: Ph.D. in Classics, University of Sofia. Dissertation: “The Dialect of the Megarian Pontic Colonies and the Reception of the Hellenistic Koine”
1985: Institute for Balkan Studies, Thessaloniki, Greece – Language course of Modern Greek (intermediate level)
1981: MA in Classics, BA in History at Sofia University “St. Kl. Ohridski”
Teaching experience
2000-2005: Associate Professor of Ancient Greek in the Department of Classics, University of Sofia
1983-2000: Assistant Professor of Ancient Greek in the Department of Classics, University of Sofia
1981-1983: Teacher of Ancient Greek at the National College of Ancient Languages and Cultures
Awards, scholarships, and memberships
2002 (February-May): Onassis Fellowship in Athens, Greece
2000 (May-July): NATO’ s grant for scientific research (Centre de l’Antiquité Grecque et Romaine, Athens). Subject of research: “Ethnic problems on the Balkans in Antiquity - models of political behaviour and strategies of solving conflicts (Greek Epigraphical evidence in Bulgaria)”
1996: Member of Classical Association of the Middle West and South (USA)
1987-1992: Member of the Association for Classical Studies, Sofia, Bulgaria
1992 (November): German Government’s research fellowship, University of Hamburg
1991 (August): Greek government’s fellowship for a language course in the Institute for Balkan Studies, Tessaloniki
1988: Research scholarship from the Greek government, Athens
Courses taught
Phonology and Morphology of Ancient Greek - lecture course, University of Sofia
Lexicology and Lexicography of Ancient Greek - lecture course, University of Sofia
Ancient Greek Literature - lecture course, University of Shumen
Sociolinguistic Approaches to Ancient Greek Dialects (graduate seminar), University of Sofia
Ancient Greek Historiography - Xenophon, Thucydides, Arrianus (graduate seminar), University of Sofia
Ancient Greek Philosophy - Plato (graduate seminar), University of Sofia
Ancient Greek Monody - Alcaeus, Sappho, Anacreon (graduate seminar), University of Sofia
Hellenistic Poetry - Callimachus, Apollonius Rhodus, Aratus, Lycophron, Theocritus (graduate seminar), University of Sofia
Greek Drama - Euripides (graduate seminar), University of Sofia
Ancient Greek for Beginners (undergraduate level), University of Sofia
Ancient Greek for Students of Modern Greek (graduate level), University of Sofia
Greek colonisation of the Black Sea (graduate seminar), New Bulgarian University
Conference presentations
Logical inconsequences in Antiphon’s speech “Against the stepmother”. International Conference “Science and culture”, Primorsko, June, 1983.
How to teach Ancient Greek? Conference on Didactic Strategies, University of Sofia, May, 1984
Quelques particularités des inscriptions dialectales de Sélymbrie. Third international symposium ‘Thracia Pontica’, Sozopol, October, 1984
Some aspects of Doric Koine. First National Conference’The Study of Antiquity in Bulgarian Science’, Sofia, April, 1986
Sociolinguistic approaches to Ancient Greek. International Conference of Sociolinguistic. Slanchev brjag, October, 1989
Was für einen Dialekt haben die dorischen Kolonisten auf der Balkanhalbinsel gesprochen. Sixth International Congress of Balkan Studies, Sofia, August-September, 1989
Die Sprache der Inschriften und die gesellschaftliche Struktur der megarischen Apoikien. International Symposium of GIREA “Polis et civitas”, Blagoevgrad, September 1989.
Some Instances of Ellipsis in Ancient Greek. First National Conference “Nikola Piccolo”, Veliko Tarnovo, October 1993.
Vox Graeca in Bulgaria. Second National Conference “Nikola Piccolo”,Veliko Tarnovo, October, 1995.
About the Crown – the Semantic History of a Greek Word. National Conference in Honour of Prof. B. Gerov, Sofia, May 1999.
Lexicography and Epigraphics – the Evidence of West Pontic Colonies on the Black Sea. XIth International Congress of Classical Studies, Kavala, August 1999.
The Classicist Prof. Alexander Nichev. Conference in Honour of Prof. Alexander Nichev, Sofia, December 1999.
Mystery Clubs in Bulgarian Lands (the Epigraphical Evidence). 7th International Congress of Thracologie. Sofia, September 2000.
Publications
Books:
Ancient Literature (A Reading Book), Sofia, 1985 (co-author)
Modern Greek for Beginners, Sofia, 1996 (editor)
From the Story to the Mythos, Hermes, 1997 (editor)
Dionysius Thrax. Ars Grammatica ( Translation from Ancient Greek). In : Contrastive Linguistics, 4, 1996 (editor).
A Lexical Study of Greek Inscriptions from Bulgaria (VI B.C - III A.D.) - in print.
Phonology of the Greek Inscriptions in Bulgaria. Steiner Verlag, Stuttgart, 2004.
Articles:
* Quelques particularités des inscriptions dialectales de Sélymbrie. Thracia Pontica III, Jambol, 1985.
Bemerkungen über die Sprache der Bittchrift von Scaptopara. In: Philologia, 17-18, 1987.
* Was für einen Dialekt haben die dorischen Kolonisten auf der Balkanhalbinsel gesprochen? In: Résumés des communications linguistiques du VIème congrès international de recherches Sud-Est européennes, Sofia, 1989.
* Sociolinguistic Approaches to Ancient Greek. Problems of sociolinguistics, vol.2, Sofia, 1990 (in Bulgarian)
* Die Sprache der Inschriften und die gesellschaftliche Struktur der megarischen Apoikien. Index 20, Napoli, 1992
Nochmals über den Vornamen Christo. Linguistique Balkanique. XXXVI, 2, 1993
*About the Origin of the Personal Name Christo. Balgarski ezik, XLIII-XLIV, 1, 1993/1994
Die Thrakischen Frauennamen – Nachträge, Berichtigungen. Orpheus, 5, 1994.
* Some Instances of Ellipsis in Ancient Greek. Annuaire de l’Université de Veliko Tarnovo, 1994
* Über die Aussprache des Altgriechischen in Bulgarien. Linguistique Balkanique, XXXVII, (1994-1995), 1-2
Provodo˜, nicht povqodo˜ (SGDI, 3069,11). Studia in honorem Georgii Mihailov, Sofia, 1995
Feminine Names in the Greek Inscriptions from Bulgaria. Linguistique Balkanique , XXXIX, 3-4, 1997-1998.
About the Horothesia of Dionysopolis (IGBulg, V, 5011), Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik, 20, 1998.
* About the Horothesia of Dionysopolis (IGBulg, V, 5011), Archaeologia, 3-4, 1998 (in Bulgarian).
IERA, IEREIA, ARCIEREIA (Epigraphical and Lexical Notes). Orpheus, 8, 1998 (Georgiev Memorial Volume).
Book reviews and encyclopaedia articles:
Boris Gerov. Inscriptiones Latinae in Bulgaria repertae. Serdicae. MCMLXXXIX. Orpheus, 2, 1992 (in French)
* Boris Gerov. Inscriptiones Latinae in Bulgaria repertae. Serdicae. MCMLXXXIX. Archaeologia, 4, 1992 (in Bulgarian)
L. Loukopoulou. Contribution à l’histoire de la Thrace Propontique. Athènes, 1989. Orpheus, 4, 1994
* L. Loukopoulou. Contribution à l’histoire de la Thrace Propontique. Athènes. 1989. Archaelogia, 1, 1995 (in Bulgarian).
35 articles in the Encyclopaedia of Ancient Literature, Sofia, Second edition, 1996
The Personal Names of the Latin Inscriptions in Bulgaria. By Milena Minkova. Studien zur klassischen Philologie. Hrsg. von M. von Albrecht. Bd. 118. Peter Lang. 2000. Pp. X + 345. Archeologija 1-2, 2001, p.135-136 (in Bulgarian)
* The Personal Names of the Latin Inscriptions in Bulgaria. By Milena Minkova. Studien zur klassischen Philologie. Hrsg. von M. von Albrecht. Bd. 118. Peter Lang. 2000. Pp. X + 345. Journal for Roman Studies.
* Indicates publication which has appeared in translation or is a version of a previous published one
Command of Foreign Languages
Fluent: English, Russian, Modern Greek; spoken and written: German, French; reading knowledge: Latin, Ancient Greek.
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