Curriculum Vitae

Christina Kokkinia, Associate Researcher

Address
National Hellenic Research Foundation (N.H.R.F.)
Institute for Greek and Roman Antiquity (K.E.R.A.)
48 Vassileos Constantinou Ave., Athens 11635, Greece
Tel.+ 30 210-7273696
Fax + 30 210-7234145
email: kokkinia

C. Kokkinia was born in Athens in 1969. She studied History and Archaeology at the Universities of Athens and Tübingen, received a degree in History and Archaeology from the University of Athens in 1991 and a Ph.D from the Department of Ancient History of the University of Tübingen in 1997. She has worked as a research assistant at the Department of Ancient History, University of Tübingen (1992-1996), as a research associate at the Department of Ancient History, University of Zurich (1996-2000), and as a Hochschulassistentin (Assistant Professor) at the Department of Ancient History, University of Heidelberg (2000-2004). Since October 2004 she is a researcher at K.E.R.A.

Research interests
Epigraphy of the Roman East, cultural and social history of the Roman empire, 'Second Sophistic', urban development and political institutions in the post-classical poleis, interactions between local, provincial and imperial government in the Roman Empire.

Major ongoing projects

• Epigraphy, history and archaeology of the Lycian city of Boubon.
• Roman provincial governors in the epigraphy and literature of the high Roman empire (1st-3rd cent. CE).

Publications

Monographs
- Die Opramoas-Inschrift von Rhodiapolis, Euergetismus und soziale Elite in Lykien, Bonn 2000.

Edition of collective volumes

-Boubon. The Inscriptions and Archaeological Remains. A Survey 2004-2006.

Selected articles of the last five years

-Ruling, inducing, arguing. How to govern (and survive) a Greek city, in: L. De Ligt et al. (eds.), Roman Rule and Civic Life: Local and Regional Perspectives. Proceedings of the Fourth Workshop of the International Network "Impact of Empire (Roman Empire, c. 200 B. C. - A. D. 476)", Leiden, June 25 - 28, 2003, Amsterdam 2004, pp. 39-58.
-The governor's boot and the city's politicians. Greek communities and Rome's representatives under the Empire, in: A. Kolb (ed.), Herrschaftsstrukturen und Herrschaftspraxis im römischen Kaiserreich. Konzeption, Prinzipien und Startegien der römischen Herrschaftsorganisation und Administration, Berlin 2006, pp. 181-189.
-Junge Honoratioren in Lykien und eine neue Ehreninschrift aus Bubon, in: Ch. Schuler (ed.), Griechische Epigraphik in Lykien. Eine Zwischenbilanz. Akten des internationalen Kolloquiums München, 24.-26. Februar 2005, Munich 2007, pp. 165-174.
-A rhetorical riddle: the subject of Dio Chrysostom's first Tarsian oration, Harvard Studies in Classical Philology 103 (2007), pp. 407-420.
-Grain for Cibyra. Veranius Philagros and the 'great conspiracy', in: R. Alston and O. van Nijf (eds.), Feeding the Ancient Greek City, Leuven 2008, pp. 143-158.
-The role of individuals in inscribing Roman state documents: Governors' letters and edicts, in: Selbstdarstellung und Kommunikation. Die Veröffentlichung staatlicher Urkunden auf Stein und Bronze in der römischen Welt. Internationales Kolloquium an der Kommission für Alte Geschichte und Epigraphik in München (1. bis 3. Juli 2006), Munich 2009, pp. 191-206.