Nikolaos Lazaridis                                                                Contact details:

                                                               Assistant Professor of Ancient History                                                  Department of History, Tahoe Hall 3091

                                                            (D.Phil in Egyptology and Classics, Oxford)                                             6000 J street, California State University

                                                                                                                                                                           Sacramento, CA 95819-6059, USA

                                                                                                                                                                           email: lazaridi@saclink.csus.edu

                                                                                                                                                                           office number: 916-278-6234

Courses offered:

Hist 110: Cultural History of the Ancient Near East                          Hist 111: History and Culture of Ancient Greece

Hist 112: History and Culture of Ancient Rome                                Hist 197B: Senior seminar on 'The influence of ancient cultures on the modern world'

Hist 280B: Graduate seminar on 'History writing in the Ancient Mediterranean' or 'The narrative of Ancient Egyptian history' 

Fieldwork:

Epigraphist in the team of North Kharga Oasis Survey (NKOS)

Major Publications:

1) Wisdom in Loose Form: The Language of Egyptian and Greek Proverbs in Collections from the Hellenistic and Roman Periods, Mnemosyne, Supplements 287, Leiden: Brill (2007)

2)   Proceedings of the X^th International Congress of Egyptologists, co-edited with P. Kousoulis, Leuven: Peeters (in press)

3) Storytelling and narrative writing in ancient Egypt and Greece (in preparation)

4) “Notes on the forms and uses of didactic language in ancient Egyptian and Greek narrative works”, Journal of the Society for the Study of Egyptian Antiquities 36 (2009), pp. 67-87

5) “Ethics”, entry in the UCLA Encyclopedia of Egyptology  available at http://repositories.cdlib.org/nelc/uee/1021 (2008)

6)  Review of R. Drew Griffith, Mummy wheat: Egyptian influence on the Homeric view of the afterlife and the Eleusinian mysteries (Lanham: University Press Of America 2008), Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2009.04.25

7) Review of J. Dieleman, Priests, Tongues, and Rites: the London-Leiden Magical Manuscripts and Translation in Egyptian Ritual (100-300 CE) (Leiden: Brill, 2005), Sehepunkte, 5 (2005).12

Research interests:

a) Cultural interactions in the Ancient Mediterranean

b) The production of literature in Ancient Egypt and Ancient Greece

c) Narrative writing in the Ancient Mediterranean

d) Religion and personal piety in the Greco-Roman world