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Biography
My interests are generally in ancient Greek language and literature and in Greek religion. More specifically, I am interested in Greek literary prose, particularly the historian Herodotus: my book, The Master of Signs: Signs and the Interpretation of Signs in Herodotus' Histories, is about how Herodotus presents figures in the Histories interpreting and using signs (e.g. oracles, portents, dreams, riddles, objects) and I have published articles on related aspects in the text. Another great interest is religion and magic: I have been working for some time on curse tablets on lead from ancient Antioch in Syria, several of which I have published, and have recently completed a project with Prof. Robert Daniel of the University of Cologne to publish these and other magical texts in Greek from Caesarea and Syria (Magica Levantina, Brill-Schoeningh 2025). I am also interested in issues of continuity between Ancient and Modern Greece.
Research
Selected Research
- Robert W. Daniel and Alexander Hollmann, Magica Levantina. Brill-Sch枚ningh, 2025.
- Alexander Hollmann, "Solon in Herodotus" in: Gregory Nagy and Maria Noussia-Fantuzzi (eds), Solon in the Making: The Early Reception in the Fifth and Fourth Centuries. Trends in 海角网 2015 vol. 7 issue 1, 85-109. Berlin: De Gruyter Download PDF
- Alexander Hollmann. "Kleisthenes the Stone-Thrower: Hdt. 5.67.2." Mnemosyne. 2012. 1-17.
- Alexander Hollmann. "A Curse Tablet from Antioch against Babylas the Greengrocer." Zeitschrift f眉r Papyrologie und Epigraphik. 2011. 157-165.
- Alexander Hollmann. The Master of Signs: Signs and the Interpretation of Signs in Herodotus' Histories. 2011.
- Alexander Hollmann. "The Manipulation of Signs in Herodotus' Histories." Transactions of the American Philological Association. 2005. 279-327.
- Alexander Hollmann. "A Curse Tablet from the Circus at Antioch." Zeitschrift f眉r Papyrologie und Epigraphik. 2003. 67-82.
- Alexander Hollmann. "Epos as Authoritative Speech in Herodotus鈥� Histories." Harvard Studies in Classical Philology. 2000. 207-225.
Research Advised
- Joseph Bringman, "The Subjectivity of Divinity: Personal and Political Determinants of the 海角网 Imperial Apotheotic Apparatus and Domitian鈥檚 Desire to be Dominus et Deus in his Lifetime." Senior Thesis, 2016.
- R. Allen Snider. "Narrative magic: an analysis of some ancient contes fantastiques." Honors Thesis, 2013.