Participant Info
- First Name
- Johanna
- Last Name
- Hanink
- Country
- United States
- State
- RI Rhode Island
- johanna_hanink@brown.edu
- Affiliation
- Brown University
- Website URL
- https://www.johannahanink.com
- Keywords
- Athens, Greece, ancient Greece, classical antiquity, archaeodiplomacy, Modern Greek Studies
- Availability
- 1
- Additional Contact Information
- PhD
- PhD
Personal Info
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- About Me
Johanna Hanink took her PhD in Classics from the University of Cambridge (Queens’ College). Her work in Classics focuses on classical Athens, particularly on the cultural life of the city’s fourth century BCE. She is especially interested in the construction and reception (in both antiquity and more modern times) of the idea of the ancient ‘Greek miracle’. Some of her work touches on the points of contact between modern politics and ideas about ancient Greece, and antiquity more generally.
She is a translator of Modern as well as Ancient Greek.
- Recent Publications
Books:
Andreas Karkavitsas: The Archeologist and Selected Sea Stories (Penguin Classics forthcoming December 2021)
How to Think about War: An Ancient Guide to Foreign Policy (Princeton 2019; a small volume of newly-translated speeches from Thucydides, with introductions and notes)
The Classical Debt: Greek Antiquity in an Era of Austerity (Harvard 2017)
Lycurgan Athens and the Making of Classical Tragedy (Cambridge 2014)
Some public-facing articles:
Even the Ancient Greeks Thought Their Best Days Were History, Aeon
Why Don’t More Women Write ‘Big Books’? Chronicle of Higher Education
A New Path for Classics, Chronicle of Higher Education
(With Yung In Chae) Socrates Wants You to Tidy Up, Too, New York Times
On Not Knowing (Modern) Greek, Eidolon
- Media Coverage
- Social Media
- @johannahan
- Country Focus
- Greece
- Expertise by Geography
- Mediterranean, United States
- Expertise by Chronology
- Ancient
- Expertise by Topic
- Higher Ed, Literary History
