Professor Marek Węcowski
Biography
2014: Fulbright visiting fellow, Department of Classics, Princeton University;
2012: habilitation fellow, Department of History, UW;
2006: junior fellow, Center for Hellenic Studies, Harvard University;
2001: post-doctoral visiting scholar, Department of Classics, Columbia University;
2000: doctorate “summa cum laude”, Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales (EHESS, Paris);
1997-2000: doctoral studies (co-tutelle with UW) at EHESS (in parallel with Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes: section IV [philological sciences] and V [sciences of religion]);
1995: diplôme d’études approfondies, EHESS;
1993: master’s degree, Historical Institute of the University of Warsaw.
Research interests:
Greek culture and society of the archaic and classical periods, Greek historiography, Athenian democracy.
Most important publications
Most important scholarly articles
“The Hedgehog and the Fox. Form and Meaning in the Prologue of Herodotus”, The Journal of Hellenic Studies 124 (2004), pp. 143-164.
“In the Shadow of Pericles: Athens’ Samian Victory and the Organisation of the Pentekontaetia in Thucydides”, [w:] A. Tsakmakis & M. Tamiolaki (red.), Thucydides Between History and Literature. Berlin – New York 2013: de Gruyter (Trends in Classics, Suppl. 17), pp. 154-166.
„The so-called “buleutic ostracism” and the ekphyllophoria. Vaticanus Graecus 1144, and other late Byzantine nonsensical reports on the Athenian ostracism”, Scripta Classica Israelica 37 (2018), pp. 7–23.
„An Intentionale Gegenwart? Odysseus’ “False Tales” and the Intellectual Context of the Odyssey”, [w:] A. Möller (red.), Historiographie und Vergangenheitsvorsellungen in der Antike. Beiträge zur Tagung aus Anlass des 70. Geburtstages von Hans-Joachim Gehrke. Stuttgart 2019: Franz Steiner Verlag, pp. 17–34.
