Sarischouli Panagiota
Panagiota Sarischouli studied Classics, Byzantine and Modern Greek at Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. Thanks to scholarships awarded by the International Graduate College of Hamburg as well as by the German Academic Exchange Service, she pursued postgraduate studies at the Freie Universität Berlin where she wrote her thesis on Berlin papyri (Dr. Phil. 1994). From 1995 to 1998, she held a research post at Berlin’s Egyptian Museum and Papyrus Collection funded by the Gerda Henkel Foundation; since 1999, she has been working as an external research fellow at Berlin’s Papyrus Collection editing numerous papyrus texts.
In 1999 she was appointed lecturer, and in 2015 Professor of Ancient Greek Literature & Papyrology at Democritus University of Thrace. In April 2019, she joined the Department of Classics at Aristotle University of Thessaloniki as a Professor of Ancient Greek Literature & Papyrology.
She is a member of the international research project “Transmission of Magical Knowledge in Antiquity: The Papyrus Magical Handbook”, which aims at the re-edition and re-translation of more than 40 ancient magical handbooks from Graeco-Roman Egypt.
Her main fields of interest include Greek papyrology, imperial literature (esp. Plutarch and Lucian), Second Sophistic, Ancient Greek scholarship, religion, mythology, astrology, and magic in Greco-Roman Egypt as well as the social, cultural, administrative, legal, and economic history of post-pharaonic Egypt.
Panagiota Sarischouli has published a commentary on Plutarch’s De Iside et Osiride, two volumes of documentary papyri from Ptolemaic, Roman and Byzantine Egypt, and a number of articles on literary and subliterary papyrus texts. At present, she is preparing a volume on Plutarch’s narrative of the Osiris legend enriched with the information provided by the Greek and Demotic magical papyri.
Professor of Ancient Greek Literature and Papyrology
RESEARCH AREAS
• Greek literary and documentary papyrology
• Greek imperial literature (esp. Plutarch, Lucian)
• Second Sophistic
• Ancient Greek scholarship
• Religion, mythology, astrology and magic in Greco-Roman Egypt
• Social, cultural, administrative, legal, and economic history of post-pharaonic Egypt
EDUCATIONAL BACKGROUND
1995–1998 Postdoctoral fellowship, Papyrus Collection of the Egyptian Museum in Berlin
1990–1994 Dr. Phil. in Classics, Faculty of Ancient
Studies, Freie Universität Berlin. Inaugural dissertation, entitled “Griechische
Papyri des Ägyptischen Museums S.M.P.K. in Berlin (3. – 8. Jh. n. Chr.)”
Supervisors: Prof. Dr.
Dieter Harlfinger (University of Hamburg), Prof. Dr. Bernd Seidensticker (Freie
Universität Berlin), and Dr. William Matt Brashear (†), Keeper of the Papyrus
Collection (West) of the Egyptian Museum in Berlin
1985–1989 BA in Greek Philology (Classics, Byzantine and Modern Greek Studies), Faculty of Letters, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
CAREER HISTORY
2019– Professor in Ancient Greek Literature and Papyrology, Department of Classics, School of Letters, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
2015–2018 Professor in Ancient Greek Literature and Papyrology, Department of Greek Philology, School of Classics and Humanities, Democritus University of Thrace
2010–2015 Associate Professor in Ancient Greek Literature and Papyrology, Department of Greek Philology, School of Classics and Humanities, Democritus University of Thrace
2005–2010 Assistant Professor in Ancient Greek Literature, Department of Greek Philology, School of Classics and Humanities, Democritus University of Thrace
1999–2005 Lecturer in Ancient Greek Literature, Department of Greek Philology, School of Classics and Humanities, Democritus University of Thrace
1999– External Research Fellow at the Papyrus Collection of the Egyptian Museum in Berlin
1995–1999 Research Fellow at the Papyrus Collection of the Egyptian Museum in Berlin
June 1992 Papyrologist in Residence at the Papyrus Collection of the Austrian National Library in Vienna (Papyrussammlung der Österreichischen Nationalbibliothek)
HONORS
1995–1998 Scholarship of the Gerda Henkel Foundation, Papyrussammlung des Ägyptischen Museums Berlin-Charlottenburg
1991–1994 Scholarship of the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD), Freie Universität Berlin
1991 Scholarship of the International Graduate College “Griechische und Byzantinische Textüberlieferung, Wissenschaftsgeschichte, Humanismusforschung und Neulatein”, Universität Hamburg
1989 Scholarship of the Erasmus Student Exchange Program, Freie Universität Berlin
AFFILIATIONS
1995– International Association of Papyrologists (Association Internationale de Papyrologues – Fondation Égyptologique Reine Élisabeth)
1994– German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) Alumni Association
ACADEMIC APPOINTMENTS (Selection)
2016–2020 Member (https://voices.uchicago.edu/magicalpapyri/participants/) of the international research project Transmission of Magical Knowledge in Antiquity: The Papyrus Magical Handbook (https://neubauercollegium.uchicago.edu/faculty/magical_knowledge/), which aims at the re-edition and re-translation of more than 40 ancient magical handbooks from Graeco-Roman Egypt.
2016–2018 External Evaluator on behalf of the Italian National Agency for the Evaluation of Research Quality (Valutazione della Qualità della Ricerca [VQR] 2011-2014). Groups of Experts for Area 10: Ancient History, Philology, Literature and Art History (GEV 10).
2015– External Evaluator on behalf of the Research Center for the Humanities (RCH), Athens Greece (http://www.rchumanities.gr/en/)
2014– External Evaluator on behalf of Kallipos, e-books Greek academic publishing (http://www.kallipos.gr)
2012– External Evaluator on behalf of the Italian National Agency for the Evaluation of Universities and Research Institutes (Valutazione della Qualità della Ricerca [VQR] 2004-2010 & Futuro in Ricerca 2013)
2012– External Evaluator on behalf of the Greek State Scholarships Foundation (Ι.Κ.Υ.) for the awarding of scholarships for postgraduate studies
2006–2011 External Evaluator and Advisory Board Member on behalf of the Greek State Scholarships Foundation for a Ph.D. thesis research project in the field of Greek Papyrology (University College London, UK)
ACADEMIC LECTURES
2018 Re-dating P.
Leiden I 384 (PGM/PDM XII): Can We Place the Sister-Manuscripts P.Leiden I 384
and P.London-Leiden (PDM/PGM XIV) in Their True Chronological Order?
The University of Chicago. Neubauer
Collegium for Culture and Society, 18.–19.05.2018.
2016 Key episodes of the Osirian myth in Plutarch’s De
Iside et Osiride and in Greek and Demotic Magical Papyri: How do the sources
complement each other(?)
XXVIΙI. International Congress of Papyrology, Universitat
Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, 1.–6.–08.2016.
2015 Erotic Magical Practices in Greco-Roman Antiquity (Ερωτικές μαγικές τελετές στην ελληνορρωμαϊκή
αρχαιότητα)
University of the Aegean,
Greece, Faculty of Humanities, Department of Mediterranean Studies,
Postgraduate Studies Program, 22.5.2015.
2015 Plutarch’s De Iside et
Osiride in the Light of Greek and Demotic Magical Papyri (Η πραγματεία Περὶ Ἴσιδος καὶ Ὀσίριδος του Πλουτάρχου υπό το φως των ελληνικών και δημοτικών μαγικών παπύρων)
University of the Aegean,
Greece, Faculty of Humanities, Department of Mediterranean Studies,
Postgraduate Studies Program, 22.5.2015
2015 The Perception of Hope in a
Selection of Greek, Demotic, and Bilingual Magical Papyri
International Conference: The Emotion of Hope in Ancient Literature,
History and Art, Department of Classics, University of Crete, 11.–13.12.2015
2013 BKT IX 158 Revisited:
An Extract from Judicial Proceedings rather than a Prose Fragment
XXVII. International
Congress of Papyrology, University of Warsaw, Poland, Faculty of History
(Department of Papyrology, Institute of Archaeology) and Faculty of Law and
Administration (Chair of Roman Law and the Law of Antiquity, Institute of
History of Law), 29.7. – 3.8.2013
2011 Acta Alexandrinorum. A Missing Part of History
Comes to Light with the Help of Papyri (Πράξεις
τῶν Ἀλεξανδρινῶν. Ένα χαμένο κομμάτι της ιστορίας έρχεται στο
φως με τη βοήθεια των παπύρων)
Greek Papyrological Society in collaboration with the National and
Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece, Faculty of Philology, Department of
Classics, 29.11.2011
2010 Ein Bruchstück der Acta
Alexandrinorum
XXVI. International
Congress of Papyrology, University of Geneva (Université de Genève, UNIGE),
Switzerland, Département des sciences de l'antiquité, 16. – 21.8.2010
2009 Fragments of History:
The Case of the Acta Alexandrinorum
International Conference: Raising the Fragment to the Status of a
Whole? Original Composition and the Processes of Selection and Canonization,
Department of Greek Philology, Democritus University of Thrace, Greece, in
collaboration with The Reception of Greek Literature: Traditions of
the Fragment – Research Project of the University of Oxford, U.K., 3. –
7.9.2009
2007 Fragment of a Report of
Proceedings (?)
XXV. International Congress
of Papyrology, University of Ann Arbor, MI, U.S.A., Department of Classics,
29.7. – 4.8.2007
2004 Fragment of an
Anonymous Astrological Treatise: Another Apotelesmaticon
XXIV. International
Congress of Papyrology, University of Helsinki, Finland, Department of
Classical Philology, 1. – 7.8.2004
2000 Christian Papyri. An
Introduction
VII. Seminario
Internazionale di Papirologia, Museo del Papiro – Istituto Internazionale del Papiro,
Siracusa, Sicily, Italy, 31.8. – 4.9.2000
1998 Ptolemaic Papyri from
the Cartonnage Coffins in the Egyptian Museum Berlin–Charlottenburg
XXII. Congresso
Internazionale di Papirologia, Istituto papirologico G. Vitelli, Florence,
Italy, 23. – 29.8.1998
1995 Ἄνθρωπος in Papyri of
the Byzantine Period (late 3rd – mid 7th c.)
XXI. Internationaler
Papyrologen – Kongress, Berlin, Germany, 13. – 19.8.1995
1994 Byzantine Literary
Papyri Housed in the Egyptian Museum Berlin (Βυζαντινοί λογοτεχνικοί πάπυροι του Αιγυπτιακού Μουσείου του Βερολίνου)
Στ´ Επιστημονική Συνάντηση, Μνήμη Αντωνίου
Σιγάλα. Προβλήματα Παλαιογραφίας,
Μεσαιωνικής και Νέας Ελληνικής Φιλολογίας και Ιστορίας, Aristotle University of
Thessaloniki, Greece, School of Philosophy, Faculty of Letters, Department of
Medieval and Modern Greek Studies, 12. – 15.5.1994
1993 Berliner Griechische
Papyri
Symposion des Hamburger
Graduiertenkollegs, Griechische und byzantinische Textüberlieferung –
Wissenschaftsgeschichte – Humanismusforschung und Neulatein, University of
Hamburg, Germany, 2.2.1993
1992 P. Berol. 21319: A
Papyrus with Musical Notation
XX. International Congress
of Papyrology, University of Copenhagen, Denmark, 23. – 29.8.1992
1991 Einführung in Aufgaben
und Probleme der Papyrologie
Symposion des Hamburger Graduiertenkollegs,
Griechische und byzantinische Textüberlieferung – Wissenschaftsgeschichte –
Humanismusforschung und Neulatein, University of Hamburg, Germany, 31.5.1991
LIST OF PUBLICATIONS
BOOKS
2020 The Osiris legend in Plutarch’s De Iside et Osiride. An Interpretive Approach Complemented by Greco-Egyptian Magical Papyri and other Sources, Leiden: Brill (forthcoming)
2011 Ploutarchou peri Isidos kai Osiridos. O mythos (Πλουτάρχου Περί Ίσιδος και Οσίριδος. Ο μύθος), Thessaloniki: University Studio Press (repr. 2014)
2000 Spätptolemäische Urkunden aus dem Herakleopolites (Berliner Griechische Urkunden XVIII.1), Berlin: Staatliche Museen zu Berlin – Preußischer Kulturbesitz 2000
1995 P.Berl.Sarisch. = Berliner Griechische Papyri: Christliche literarische Texte und Urkunden aus dem 3. bis 8. Jh. n. Chr. (Serta Graeca. Beiträge zur Erforschung griechischer Texte 3), Wiesbaden: Dr. Ludwig Reichert Verlag 1995
1994 Griechische Papyri des Ägyptischen Museums S.M.P.K. in Berlin (3. – 8. Jh. n. Chr.), Inaugural Dissertation F. U. Berlin
ARTICLES
2020 Unveiling Hope in Greco-Egyptian Healing Papyri, in N.H. Korsvoll (ed.) Healing, Belief and Placebo: Medical and Religious Plurality in Late Antiquity (= Symbolae Osloenses Special Issue 94, Oslo 2020) (forthcoming)
2020 Fragments of History: The case of the Acta Alexandrinorum, in G. Ioannidou / M. Konstantinidou / D. Obbink (ed.), Traditions of the Fragments (Sozomena. Studies in the Recovery of Ancient Texts), Berlin – New York: De Gruyter (forthcoming)
2020 P. Leiden I 384 verso: Production and Use of a Bilingual Magical Formulary (GEMF 13 = PGM/PDM XII), in C.A. Faraone and S. Torallas Tovar (ed.), The Greek and Demotic Magical Handbooks: Libraries, Books and Recipes, Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press 2020 (forthcoming)
2020 PGM XII.1-495: Re-edition of the Greek text, translation and commentary, in C.A. Faraone and S. Torallas Tovar (ed.), Transmission of Magical Knowledge in Antiquity: The Papyrus Magical Handbooks in Context, Writings from the Greco-Roman World Supplement series (SBL 2020) (forthcoming)
2019 Key episodes of the Osirian myth in Plutarch’s De Iside et Osiride and in Greek and Demotic Magical Papyri: How do the sources complement each other (?), in Proceedings of the 28th International Congress of Papyrology, Barcelona, Αugust 1-6, 2016, Barcelona: Universitat Pompeu Fabra 2019, 285–299
2016 BKT IX 158 Revisited: An Extract from Judicial Proceedings rather than a Prose Fragment, in Proceedings of the 27th International Congress of Papyrology, Warsaw 29.07.–3.08.2013 (= The Journal of Juristic Papyrology Supplements, vol. 28), Warsaw 2016, 911–929
2012 Commentary on Iliad V, in F. Reiter (ed.), Literarische Texte der Berliner Papyrussammlung zur Wiedereröffnung des Neuen Museums (= Berliner Klassiker Texte X), Berlin: De Gruyter 2012, 77-104
2011 BKT IX 64: Ein Bruchstück der Acta Alexandrinorum, APF 57.1 (2011) 23-34
2010 Fragment of a Report of Proceedings (?), in: Proceedings of the Twenty-Fifth International Congress of Papyrology, Ann Arbor, Michigan 2007 (= American Studies in Papyrology, Special Edition), Ann Arbor 2010, 685-694
2009 Acta Alexandrinorum, APF 55.2 (2009) 454-461 (= Festschrift für Günter Poethke zum 70. Geburtstag)
2009 Ο θεός Ήλιος επί της Nymphaea lotus ή Ν. cerulea στο Περὶ Ἴσιδος καὶ Ὀσίριδος του Πλουτάρχου (The God Sun sitting on the Nymphaea lotus or Ν. cerulea in Plutarch’s De Iside et Osiride), Hellenika 59.2 (2009) 219-232
2007 Οι Ελληνικές σπουδές στα ακαδημαϊκά ιδρύματα και τα εκπαιδευτικά συστήματα των γερμανόφωνων χωρών: παρελθόν – παρόν – μέλλον (Hellenic Studies in Academic Institutions and Educational Systems in German–speaking Countries), in: I. N. Kazazis and S. Velkova (edd.), Οι Ελληνικές Σπουδές στην Ευρώπη. Ιστορική Ανασκόπηση από την Αναγέννηση ώς το τέλος του 20ού Αιώνα (Hellenic Studies in Europe. A Historical Survey from the Renaissance till the End of the 20th Century), Thessaloniki: Greek Language Centre 2007, pp. 149-170, and 424-425
2006 Fragment of an Anonymous Astrological Treatise: Another Apotelesmaticon, APF 52.2 (2006) 181–196
2005 Η σύγχρονη διάσταση του λουκιάνειου κυνισμού (Contemporary Dimensions of Lucian’s Cynicism), in: Ροδοπη. Επετηρίδα Τμήματος Ελληνικής Φιλολογίας, Δημοκρίτειο Πανεπιστήμιο Θράκης, vol. Ι, (Rodopi, First Anniversary Issue of the Department of Greek Philology, Democritus University of Trace), Komotene 2005, 147–160
2004 Ehevertrag aus dem augusteischen Alexandrien, in: Gedenkschrift Ulrike Horak <P.Horak> (= Papyrologica Florentina 34), Florenz: Gonelli 2004, 227–230
2003 Εικαστικές και άλλες τέχνες στον πάπυρο (Bildende und andere Kunst auf Papyrus), Θεμέλιος Τιμητικός Τόμος Γεωργίου Ν. Δημητροκάλλη (Commemorative Volume in Honor of George N. Demetrokalis), Komotene 2003, 69–75 (with a German summary)
2001 Ptolemaic Papyri from the Cartonnage Coffins in the Egyptian Museum Berlin-Charlottenburg, Atti del XXII Congresso Internazionale di Papirologia, Firenze 1998 Istituto papirologico «G. Vitelli», vol. II, Florence 2001, 1177–1186
2000 Fragmente hellenistischer Dichtung, APF 46.1 (2000) 3–5
2000 Spätptolemäische Urkunden: συγχώρησις–Vertrag und Eide, in: H. Melaerts (ed.), Papyri in honorem Johannis Bingen octogenarii (P.Bingen) (= Studia varia Bruxellensia ad orbem Graeco–Latinum pertinentia V), Leuven: Peeters Publishers 2000, 213–228
2000 Η λειτουργική εξέλιξη του ασυνδέτου σχήματος από την αρχαϊκή ποίηση ώς τους ρητορικούς λόγους (The Functional Evolution of Asyndeton from the Archaic Poetry till the Attic Oratory), Hellenika 50 (2000) 7–34
1997 Koptisches SATOR–Amulett, Biblos. Beiträge zu Buch, Bibliothek und Schrift 46.2 (1997) 243–246
1997 Wiener Papyri aus byzantinischer und arabischer Zeit, Tyche. Beiträge zur Alten Geschichte, Papyrologie und Epigraphik 12 (1997) 179–188
1997 Byzantinische Papyri aus der Wiener Papyrussammlung, Papyri. Bolletino del Museo del Papiro 2 (1997) 35–48
1997 Ἄνθρωπος in Papyri of the Byzantine Period (late 3rd – mid 7th c.), Akten des XXI. Internationalen Papyrologenkongresses, vol. II (= APF Beiheft 3), Stuttgart – Leipzig: B. G. Teubner Verlag 1997, 889–901
1995 Ilias-Fragmente aus Ägypten, Hellenika 45.1 (1995) 7–15
BOOK REVIEW
2002 KALTSAS, D., Dokumentarische Papyri des 2. Jh. v. Chr. aus dem Herakleopolites (= P.Heid. VIII), Heidelberg 2001, Bibliotheca Orientalis LIX N° 5-6 (2002) 539–541
BOOKS IN PROGRESS
• Spätptolemäische Urkunden aus dem Herakleopolites (anticipated as part of the BERLINER GRIECHISCHE URKUNDEN series)
• Alexandrinische Synchoreseis (anticipated as part of the BERLINER GRIECHISCHE URKUNDEN series)