Marco Vitale

from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Marco Vitale (* 1975 ) is a Swiss ancient historian .

Life

He completed his studies in Zurich (1997 / 1998–2005) on June 3, 2005 with a licentiatus philosophiae . From March 2006 to April 2010 he was doctoral fellow of URPP interdisciplinary newcomer program Asia and Europe of the University of Zurich and subsequently the SNF at the Research Center Asia Minor of the University of Muenster in Elmar Schwertheim . In Ancient History he received his doctorate summa cum laude with Beat Näf , Christian Marek and Elmar Schwertheim on March 1, 2010 . From 2010 to 2015 he was a visiting researcher at the Ioannou Center for Classical and Byzantine Studies, Faculty of Classics at the University of Oxford . As a research fellow from the Fritz Thyssen Foundation for Science Promotion , he worked from May 2010 to April 2011 on the book project Koinon Syrias: Priests, Gymnasiacs and Metropolis of Eparchies in Imperial Syria at the Asia Minor Research Center of the University of Münster and the Faculty of Classics. From April 2011 to December 2012 he was a research fellow of the Young Talent Promotion Commission of the University of Zurich and the Stiefel-Zangger Foundation at the Faculty of Classics. From December 2012 to January 2017 he was a research fellow from the Gerda Henkel Foundation and then from the SNSF with the research fellowship Advanced Postdoc Mobility and return phase . Since his habilitation on March 18, 2016, he has been teaching as a private lecturer and lecturer at the Universities of Basel, Zurich and Freiburg.

His main research interests are the auxiliary sciences of epigraphy and numismatics , the administrative geography of antiquity (e.g. official / administrative structures of the Greek Poleis and Roman provinces), the phenomenon of the Greek city leagues and the Hellenistic and Roman rulers' cults. The geographic focus of his research and teaching is Asia Minor and the Black Sea region, the Levant, North Africa, Hispania, Sicily and Britain.

Fonts (selection)

  • Eparchy and Koinon in Asia Minor from the outgoing republic to the 3rd century AD (= Asia Minor Studies. Volume 67). Habelt, Bonn 2012, ISBN 978-3-7749-3739-0 (also dissertation, Zurich 2010).
  • Koinon Syrias. Priests, grammar schoolchildren and metropolis of the eparchies in imperial Syria (= Klio . New series. Supplement 20). Akademie-Verlag, Berlin 2013, ISBN 3-05-006436-6 .
  • as editor with Anne Kolb : Imperial cult in the provinces of the Roman Empire. Organization, communication and representation . De Gruyter, Berlin 2016, ISBN 3-11-041671-9 .
  • The empire in words and pictures. Roman forms of representation of dominated areas in inscription monuments, coinage and literature (= Historia individual writings. Volume 246). Franz Steiner, Stuttgart 2017, ISBN 978-3-515-11554-4 (also habilitation thesis, Zurich 2016).

Web links

personal data
SURNAME Vitale, Marco
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss ancient historian
DATE OF BIRTH 1975