Christian Mileta

Christian Mileta (born November 5, 1954 in Ruhland ) is a German ancient historian .

Between 1975 and 1980 Mileta studied Byzantine Studies , History and Ancient History at the Humboldt University in Berlin , the most important academic teacher here was Heinz Kreissig . From 1980 to 1993 he was a research assistant at the Central Institute for Ancient History and Archeology of the Academy of Sciences of the GDR , after the fall of the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences in Berlin . 1983 Mileta spent several months as a visiting scholar at the Russian Academy of Sciences in Moscow . In 1985 he was responsible for the review section of the magazine Klio and stayed in this position until 1991. He received his doctorate in 1988 at the Berlin Academy with a dissertation on Pergamon after the Aristonikos uprising. Studies on the history and administration of the late Attalid Empire and the early province of Asia . After the Berlin Academy was restructured after the fall of the Wall , Mileta became a research assistant or lecturer at the Ancient History Seminar of the Friedrich Meinecke Institute of the Free University of Berlin . In 1996 he stayed for several months as Christian Habicht's assistant at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton , in 1999/2000 again for several months as a Junior Fellow at the Center for Hellenic Studies in Washington, DC In 2005 he moved from the Free University of Berlin to the Institute for Classical Studies at the university Halle-Wittenberg , where he worked as a research assistant for Andreas Mehl in the sub-project From the Hellenistic cult to the Roman imperial cult. The cultic veneration of Rome by the Greek cities of Asia Minor (195-29 BC) of the priority program 1080 of the German Research Foundation on the Roman Empire and Provincial Religion became. In 2006 he completed his habilitation in Halle with the work The King and His Land. Investigations into the rule of the Hellenistic monarchs over the royal territory of Asia Minor and its population . Subsequently, in 2007 Mileta became a private lecturer and research assistant in the sub-project The Significance of the New Pole Ice for the Hellenization of Inland Asia Minor of the DFG Priority Program 1209 The Hellenistic Polis as a Way of Life . In 2011 he was appointed adjunct professor in Halle.

Mileta is primarily concerned with the history of the Hellenistic period, the history of the Roman Republic , the relations between the Roman Empire and the Eastern Mediterranean , ancient economic and social history , ancient slavery and the ancient history of religion .

Fonts

• Editor with Joachim Herrmann , Hansulrich Labuske and Ursula Peters: Friedrich Engels, The origin of the family, private property, the family and the state. Critical Edition and Commentary (2 volumes), Berlin 1990 ( Marx-Engels Complete Edition I / 29)
• The king and his country. Studies on the rule of the Hellenistic monarchs over the royal territory of Asia Minor and its population , Academy, Berlin 2008, ISBN 978-3-05-004474-3 ( Klio . Supplement, New Series, Volume 14)
• Editor with Thomas Brüggemann, Burkhard Meißner , Angela Pabst and Oliver Schmitt: Studia hellenistica et historiographica. Festschrift for Andreas Mehl , Computus-Druck, Gutenberg 2010, ISBN 978-3-940598-09-7 .

Web links

• Literature by and about Christian Mileta in the catalog of the German National Library
• Staff website of the University of Halle