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 8341 Fax: +3592 846 51 43 Email:
Education
2005: presently a 3rd-year Ph.D. candidate at Sofia University “St. Kliment Ohridski”, Faculty of Classical and Modern Philology, Department of Classics. Theme of Ph.D. thesis: “Language and style of the epigrammatic works of Agathias Scholasticus and Paul the Silentiary”.
1997-2001: student of Classics at Sofia University; graduation with honours as bachelor
1992-1997: National Lyceum for Ancient Languages and Cultures, graduation with honours
Professional experience
2005: presently teaching Ancient Greek at Sofia University, Faculty of Classical and Modern Philology, Department of Classics; also working as a translator from English and Classical languages
2001-2003: working in the team of the digital Romulus Bulgaricus project
2001-2002: teacher of Ancient Greek at the National Lyceum for Ancient Languages and Cultures
1998-2001: working as a translator from English
Awards
25-31 July 2004: participation in the 1st International Seminar “Humanitaria” in Lovetch, Bulgaria
13-23 July 2000: participation in the Student session of Euroclassica’s Academia Homerica in Chios, Greece; Certificate of attendance and an honorary diploma from the town of Inousses
May 1997: an honorary award from the International Ciceronian Translation Competition “Arpinas” in Italy
Translations
Bulgarian translation of On Generation and Corruption by Aristotle from Ancient Greek (work in progress)
Power and Persuasion in Late Antiquity by Peter Brown, Sofia: LIK publishing house, 2004
Symbolic Images by Ernst Gombrich (Agata-A publishing house, presently in print)
co-editor of the Bulgarian translation of Body and Society by Peter Brown. Sofia: Agata-A publishing house, 2003
co-editor of the Bulgarian translation of Basics of New Testament Greek by Ray Summers. Sofia: Nov chovek publishing house, 1999.
Aesthetic Theory by Theodor Adorno. Sofia: Agata-A publishing house, 2002 (consultation)
Publications
Dietmagen: Following the Traces of a Greek Word-form. In: V. Gerdjikova/ E. Marinova (Eds.). Cultura animi. Studies in Honour of Prof. Anna Nikolova, Sofia, 2004.
(Co-author with J. Sirakova) Romulus Bulgaricus: The Classical Digital Database Project In Bulgarian Webspace. In: Review of the National Center for Digitization of Serbia and Montenegro, no. 4/ 2004. Online version here.
Ancient cookbooks. In: Bacchus magazine, no. 41/ 2002
Classical philology – here and now? In: Literary Gazette, no.10/14-20.03. 2001
On the concept of marriage and the definition of the Roman jurist Modestin. In: Contemporary Law Journal, Vol. 3, 2000
Languages
Advanced knowledge of Ancient Greek, Latin and Old Church Slavonic; fluent English, working French (written and spoken) and Modern Greek; elementary German, Spanish, Russian and Italian (mainly written).
Fields of scholarly interest
Methods of modern linguistics applied to classical texts; poetics and functional grammar of Ancient Greek; digitization of cultural heritage; interdisciplinary approaches in religious studies, cultural studies and legal history with regard to classical legacy.
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