Ivo Volt

Ivo Volt is Lecturer in Classical Studies at the University of Tartu. His main research interests include: character portrayal in Ancient Greek literature; Peripatetic School (especially Theophrastus) and its reception; history of classical studies and reception of antiquity (especially in Estonia); papyrology; ancient epistolography; digital humanities; open access models in humanities and social sciences.
He has teaching experience on both undergraduate and graduate levels, including both general courses on Ancient Greek and Roman literature, Greek and Roman Antiquities, Classical Mythology, and the Classical Heritage, as well as specialized courses on various Greek and Roman authors and genres (Aristophanes, Plutarch; Cicero, Roman epigram and satire, epistolography). In addition to his current position at the Department of Classical Studies, he is also, since 2012, the editor-in-chief of the University of Tartu Press.

Select publications:

• Volt, Ivo (2011). Identity and ethnic friction in Greek papyrus letters from Egypt. In: Kämmerer, Thomas Richard (ed.). Identities and Societies in the Ancient East-Mediterranean Regions: Comparative Approaches. Henning Graf Reventlow Memorial Volume (333−340). Münster: Ugarit Verlag. (Alter Orient und Altes Testament; 390/1).
• Volt, I. (2010). Not valuing others: social cohesion in the Characters of Theophrastus. In: Rosen, Ralph M.; Sluiter, Ineke (eds.). Valuing Others in Classical Antiquity (303−322). Leiden; Boston: BRILL Academic Publishers. (Mnemosyne Supplements; 323).
• Volt, I. (2007). Character description and invective: Peripatetics between ethics, comedy and rhetoric. Tartu: Tartu University Press.
• Volt, Ivo (2003). Aspects of ancient Greek moral vocabulary: illiberality and servility in moral philosophy and popular morality. Trames: Journal of the Humanities and Social Sciences, 7 (2), 67−82.

More publications and information in the Estonian Research Information System.

Research clusters:

• Classical Tradition, History of the University of Tartu, Studies on Antiquity and History of Translation in Early European Cultural Tradition

Contact: ivo.volt@ut.ee

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