dr. E.M. (Emilie) van Opstall

Emilie van Opstall qualified as a classical philologist in Amsterdam (MA, University of Amsterdam, 1993). She then worked for a Latin-Dutch Dictionary (1993-1995). During her job as a teacher of Greek, Latin and Ancient Culture in secondary school (1995-2005), she made several literary translations (Chariton and Apuleius) and obtained a DEA in Byzantinology in Paris (Sorbonne Paris IV, 2001) and a PhD in Byzantinology in Amsterdam (University of Amsterdam, 2006). Her doctoral thesis dealt with the poetry (edition, commentary and translation) of the hexameters and elegiacs of the 10th century poet John Geometres. Since 2004 she is working as a Lecturer in Ancient Greek at the VU University in Amsterdam.

Work in progress and research interests

Research interests include literature from the Imperial to the Medieval period. She is working on a literary commentary on Flavius Philostratus' Vita Apollonii, with VU university colleagues Jaap-Jan Flinterman (historical commentary) and Gerard Boter (edition). She is developing an interdisciplinary project on the Experience of Sacred Space (diachronical: from Ancient to Mediaeval times); in the meantime she is writing a history of Greek Literature (in Dutch), with UvA colleague Piet Gerbrandy.

Teaching 2010-211

• Nonnus of Panopolis, Dionysiaca (MA)
• Greek Language 1a Chariton, Callirhoe (BA)
• ACVA  A, and -B and -C: Academic Skills (BA)
• Homer (BA)
• Biblical, Greek and Roman Stories and their Representation in Art (BA)
• Elementary Greek 1c (BA)

Memberships

• OIKOS (Dutch association for research in the Classics, http://www.hum.leiden.edu/oikos/)
• CFHB (Corpus Fontium Historiae Byzantinae, editioral board; http://www.oeaw.ac.at/byzanz/cfhb_main.htm)
• Hellenistenclub Amsterdam

Some publications

• 'De Anthologia Palatina, een kleurrijke epigrammencollectie', Mededelingen en Verhandelingen van het Vooraziatisch-Egyptisch genootschap Ex Oriente Lux (to be published in 2010).
• with K. Demoen (Gent), 'Praying for a Safe Journey. Gregory of Nazianzus' poems reused by John Geometres', in B. Coulie en A. Schmidt (eds.), Studia Nazianzenica II, Corpus Christianorum/Corpus Nazianzenum (to be published in 2010).
• 'Scènes uit een koningshuis. Over Euripides' Phoenissae', Lampas 43.1 (2010) 20-39.
• 'Poésie, rhétorique et mémoire littéraire chez Jean Géomètre', in  P. Odorico & M. Hinterberger, Doux Remède: Poésie et Poétique à Byzance (Paris 2009), 229-44.
• Jean Géomètre, poèmes en hexamètres et en distiques élégiaques. Edition, commentaire, traduction (Leiden 2008).
• 'Verses on paper, verses inscribed? A case study, with epigrams of John Geometres', in W. Hörandner & A. Rhoby (eds.), Die Kulturhistorische Bedeutung Byzantinischer Epigramme (Wenen 2008), 55-80.
• 'Onder de Plataan', Lampas 40.4 (2007) 314-22.
• 'Jean et l'Anthologie; vers une édition de la poésie de Jean Géomètre', Medioevo Greco 3 (2003) 195-211.
• Apuleius. Amor en Psyche (Athenaeum - Polak & Van Gennep 2000). (translation).
• Chariton. Chaireas en Kallirhoë: een liefde (Athenaeum - Polak & Van Gennep 1998). (translation).
• (co-editor) Latin-Dutch dictionary H. Pinkster (ed.), Vertaalwoordenboek Latijn-Nederlands (Amsterdam 1998).