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Ivo Volt has worked at the University of Tartu since 1997, at first as an Adjunct Assistant, in 1999-2001 as a Project Manager and since 2002 as a Research Fellow. Since 1 March 2008 he is a half-time Research Fellow at the Department of Classical Philology and a half-time extraordinary Senior Research Fellow at the Research Centre of Tartu University Library.

He graduated from the University of Tartu in classical philology in 1997, received his M.A. degree in classical philology in 2000 and Ph.D. in 2007, both from the University of Tartu. His doctoral thesis is titled Character description and invective: Peripatetics between ethics, comedy and rhetoric (access to e-book version).

Ivo Volt is in charge of the Classics Library and the home page of the Department of Classical Philology. He is the managing editor of the on-line journal of the humanities Studia Humaniora Tartuensia and one of the editors of the series Acta Societatis Morgensternianae. He was also the general editor of the 2nd edition of Latin-Estonian Dictionary (2002).

CONTACT: Ülikooli 17, 51014 Tartu, Room 413, Tel. +372 737 6252 (office), +372 5271764 (cell), E-mail Ivo.Volt[at]ut.ee

RESEARCH INTERESTS: ideologies, mentalities and social identities in antiquity (esp. negative social types in ancient Greek literature); Peripatetic school and tradition (esp. Theophrastos and his Characters); Greek comedy; Greek oratory and rhetoric (esp. the rhetoric of abuse); Latin epigram (esp. Martial) and satire; Greek and Latin epistolography; papyrology; classical tradition; history of classical studies; digital classics.

PUBLICATIONS:

The following list only includes publications in languages other than Estonian, and Estonian publications which contain a summary in some other language.

Books

Volt, Ivo (2007) Character description and invective: Peripatetics between ethics, comedy and rhetoric. (Dissertationes studiorum Graecorum et Latinorum Universitatis Tartuensis; 4.) Tartu: Tartu University Press. 308 p. ISBN 978-9949-11-793-2. [Also available in e-book version (PDF).]

Books edited

Volt, Ivo (ed.) (2003) Kakssada aastat klassikalist filoloogiat Eestis = Duo saecula philologiae classicae in Estonia. (Acta Societatis Morgensternianae; 1.) Tartu: Tartu Ülikooli Kirjastus. 177 p. ISBN 9985-56-826-5. [In Estonian, with summaries in English or German.]

Volt, Ivo; Päll, Janika (eds.) (2005) Byzantino-Nordica 2004: papers presented at the international symposium of Byzantine studies, held on 7-11 May 2004 in Tartu, Estonia. (Acta Societatis Morgensternianae; 2.) Tartu: Tartu University Press. 198 p. ISBN 9949-11-266-4. [ faili ikoon

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Articles

Volt, Ivo (2003) "Aspects of ancient Greek moral vocabulary: illiberality and servility in moral philosophy and popular morality." In: Trames 7.2, 67-82 (PDF).

Volt, Ivo (2003) "Pärtel Haliste (1890-1944): esimene eestlasest klassikalise filoloogia õppejõud." In: Volt, Ivo (ed.) Kakssada aastat klassikalist filoloogiat Eestis = Duo saecula philologiae classicae in Estonia. (Acta Societatis Morgensternianae; 1.) Tartu: Tartu Ülikooli Kirjastus, 77-98. [In Estonian, with a summary in English: "Pärtel Haliste (1890-1944): first Estonian professor of classics."]

Volt, Ivo (2009) "The comic in the Characters of Theophrastos: what's so funny?" In: Rūmniece, Ilze; Lāms, Ojārs; Aleksejeva, Brigita (eds.) Antiquitas viva 3: studia classica. Rīga: LU Akadēmiskais apgāds, 60-72. [With a summary in Latvian: "Komiskais Teofrasta "Raksturos": vai tieām smieklīgs?"]

Volt, Ivo (2010) "Not valuing others: social cohesion in the Characters of Theophrastus." In: Sluiter, Ineke; Rosen, Ralph M. (eds.) Valuing Others in Classical Antiquity. Leiden; Boston: Brill (forthcoming).

Volt, Ivo (2010) "Social identities and ethnic friction in Greek papyrus letters from Egypt." In: Kämmerer, T. R.; Funke, P.; Kõiv, M.; Lill, A. (eds.) Ideologies and Society. Comparative Studies in the Ancient East-Mediterranean Cultures (forthcoming).

Reviews

Volt, Ivo (2006) "Fortenbaugh, William W.; White, Stephen A. (eds.) (2006), Aristo of Ceos: text, translation, and discussion. New Brunswick and London: Transaction Publishers. (Rutgers University Studies in Classical Humanities; 13.)" In: Göttinger Forum für Altertumswissenschaft 9, 1083-1095 (PDF).

Volt, Ivo (2006) "Rosenmeyer, Patricia A. (2006) Ancient Greek literary letters: selections in translation. London; New York: Routledge." In: Studia Humaniora Tartuensia 7.R.4 (HTML).

Volt, Ivo (2006) "Artés Hernández, José Antonio (2005) Pseudo-Demetrio: Tipos de cartas. Pseudo-Libanio: Clases de cartas. Amsterdam: Hakkert." In: Studia Humaniora Tartuensia 7.R.5 (HTML).

Volt, Ivo (2007) "Fusi, Alessandro (ed.) (2006) M. Valerii Martialis Epigrammaton liber tertius. (Spudasmata; 108.) Hildesheim etc.: Olms." In: Studia Humaniora Tartuensia 8.R.1 (HTML).

In preparation

"An annotated bibliography of the Characters of Theophrastos" (for Lustrum)

"Zur Professur von Wilhelm Süss (1882-1969) an der Universität Tartu (Dorpat)"

"Zur philologischen Tätigkeit von Karl Morgenstern (1770-1852)"

Review of Paul Millett, Theophrastus and his world, Cambridge 2007 (for Aestimatio)

MORE INFORMATION AND LIST OF PUBLICATIONS: see ETIS (Estonian Research Portal)

COURSES TAUGHT:

1998: Cicero, Pro Archia poeta; Roman epigram and satire
1999: Theophrastus, Characters
2000: Roman epigram and satire; Greek and Roman antiquities (partially)
2001: Cicero, Pro Archia poeta; Plutarch, Life of Cicero
2002: Roman epigram and satire; Ancient epistolography (Greek fictional and papyrus letters); Introduction to classical philology (partially); Latin for Romance philologists; Greek and Roman antiquities (partially)
2003: Cicero, Pro Archia poeta; Roman epigram and satire; Genres in ancient literature (partially); Elementary Ancient Greek for classical philologists (practice)
2004: Ancient epistolography (Cicero); Elementary Ancient Greek for classical philologists (practice); Greek and Roman antiquities (partially)
2005: Cicero, Pro Archia poeta; Plutarch, Life of Cicero
2006: Ancient epistolography (Greek fictional and papyrus letters); Greek and Roman antiquities (partially)
2007: Roman epigram and satire (together with a translation seminar); The heritage of classical antiquity in the European cultural tradition (partially)
2008: Ancient epistolography (Greek papyrus letters); Plutarch, Life of Cicero; The heritage of classical antiquity in the European cultural tradition (partially); History of classical scholarship (partially); Greek and Roman antiquities (partially)
2009: Roman epigram and satire; Cicero, Pro Archia poeta; Introduction to classical philology (partially); The heritage of classical antiquity in the European cultural tradition (partially); Graduation thesis seminar and examination (partially)