Victor Cojocaru
Keywords : Greek History Epigraphy and Archaeology (ancient cities – Tyras and Olbia onomastics the language of the Greek inscriptions proxenia the external relations of the Greek cities relations between Greeks and Barbarians acculturation)
Country : Romania
Organization : Romanian Academy
Department :
Biography :
a) Education, degrees and diplomas
►1986, graduate of the secondary school in Zăicani (Republic of Moldova).
►1986-1997, undergraduate study of ancient history, classical archaeology and classical languages at the State University Chişinău (Republic of Moldova) and “Alexandru Ioan Cuza” University Iaşi (Romania).
►1993, degree (Bachelor) in history (ancient history and epigraphy), with the dissertation Investigation of the Person Names from the Greek Cities of the Western Black Sea Coast in the Period of the Principality. Supervisor: Professor Octavian Bounegru.
►1997, degree (Bachelor) in philology (Greek and Latin languages), with the dissertation The Ancient Literary and Epigraphic Evidence of the Northern Black Sea Area. An Ethnogeographic Investigation. Supervisor: Professor Mihaela Paraschiv.
►2001, PhD in history at the “Al. I. Cuza” University Iaşi, with the thesis The Population of the North and Northwest Pontic Area during the 6th -1stCenturies BC on the Basis of Epigraphic Evidence. Supervisor: Professor Silviu Sanie.
►2011, PhD in philology at the “Al. I. Cuza” University Iaşi, with the thesis The Language of the Greek Inscriptions from the Cities of the Northern Black Sea Coast of the 6th Century BC to the 3rd Century AD. Supervisor: Professor Traian Diaconescu.
b) Professional experience, former employers
→ 1993, researcher at the Institute of Archaeology Iaşi of the Romanian Academy (actually Research Scientist II).
→ 1996-2002, researcher (half-post) at the Romanian Institute of Thracian Studies of the Ministry of Education and Research.
→ 2002-2004, researcher (half-post) at the “Vasile Pârvan” Institute of Archaeology (Bucharest) of the Romanian Academy.
My research interests include: Greek History, Epigraphy, and Archaeology (ancient cities – Tyras and Olbia, onomastics, the language of the Greek inscriptions, proxenia, the external relations of the Greek cities, relations between Greeks and Barbarians, acculturation).
c) Language skills
Mother tongue Romanian; fluent German, and Russian; high level English, French; reading level Ancient Greek, Bulgarian, Italian, Latin, Polish, Spanish, and Ukrainian.
d) List of publications
I. Books
2004: Populaţia zonei nordice şi nord-vestice a Pontului Euxin în secolele VI-I a. Chr. pe baza izvoarelor epigrafice (The Population of the North and Northwest Regions of the Euxeinos Pontos in the 6th-1st centuries BC on the Basis of the Epigraphic Evidence). Iaşi: Ed. Universităţii „Al. I. Cuza”, 500 p. + 18 pl.
2014: Bibliographia classica orae septentrionalis Ponti Euxini. I. Epigraphica, numismatica, onomastica & prosopographica. Cluj-Napoca: Publishing House Mega, 560 p. + 1 CD-ROM (Pontica et Mediterranea II).
II. Translations
2004: Inscripţii referitoare la războaiele dacice (Inscriptions on the Dacian Wars). Transl. from Latin and Ancient Greek. In: W. Froehner: Columna lui Traian. Illustrations by J. Duvaux, transl. M. Popescu. Bucharest: Saeculum, 132-150.
2006: Alexander Rubel: Cetatea înspăimântată. Religie şi politică la Atena în timpul războiului peloponesiac. Iaşi: Ed. Universităţii „Al. I. Cuza” (Original: Alexander Rubel: Stadt in Angst. Religion und Politik in Athen während des Peloponnesischen Krieges. Darmstadt: Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft 2000).
III. Edits (selected [from a total of 11])
2004: Aspects of Spiritual Life in South East Europe from Prehistory to the Middle Ages. Iaşi: Ed. Trinitas (with V. Spinei).
2005: Ethnic Contacts and Cultural Exchanges North and West of the Black Sea from the Greek Colonization to the Ottoman Conquest. Iaşi: Ed. Trinitas.
2009: North and West Black Sea Area during Antiquity and the Middle Ages. Simferopol: Tavriya (with S. Bocharov).
2014: Die Außenbeziehungen pontischer und kleinasiatischer Städte in hellenistischer und römischer Zeit (with Christof Schuler), Stuttgart: Franz Steiner, 312 p.
2014: Interconnectivity in the Mediterranean and Pontic World during the Hellenistic and Roman Periods (with A. Coşkun and M. Dana), Cluj-Napoca: Mega, 708 p. (Pontica et Mediterranea III).
IV. Articles (selected [from a total of 77])
1995: Some Epigraphic Considerations on Thracian Names in the Cities on the Western Shore of Pontus Euxinus in the Period of the Principality. Thraco-Dacica 16/1-2 (Bucharest), 291-294.
1996: Onomastikón. Aspects démographiques dans les villes ouest-pontiques de la province Moesia Inferior. Arheologia Moldovei 19 (Bucharest), 135-148.
1997: Porteurs de noms thraces mentionnes dans les inscriptions des villes grecques du Nord de la mer Noir. In: P. Roman [et al.] (ed.): The Thracian World at the Crossroads of Civilizations. Vol. I. (Bucharest), 31-58.
2001: Zwei Pharzoios-Goldstateren aus einer ukrainischen Privatsammlung. Thraco-Dacica 20 (Bucharest), 383-386.
2001: Some Considerations about the Date of the Foedus between Rome and Callatis (in Russ.). Archaeologia 2001/1 (Kiev), 113-117.
2001: Achilleus in Tyras. Tyche 15 (Vienna), 55-62.
2002: Epigraphische Notizen. In: V. Cojocaru; T. L. Samojlova (eds.): Tyras-Cetatea Albă/Belhorod-Dnistros’kyj, I: Săpături 1996-1999. Bucharest: Redacţia Publicaţiilor pentru Străinătate, 207-215.
2002: Neue Münzen von Tyras aus einer ukrainischen Privatsammlung. In: V. Cojocaru; T. L. Samojlova (eds.): Tyras-Cetatea Albă/Belhorod-Dnistros’kyj, I: Săpături 1996-1999 (Bucharest), 217-221.
2002: Neues über den Achilleuskult im nordwestlichen Schwarzmeerraum. In: V. Cojocaru; T. L. Samojlova (eds.): Tyras-Cetatea Albă/Belhorod-Dnistros’kyj, I: Săpături 1996-1999 (Bucharest), 199-205.
2003: Oraşul antic Tyras în lumina cercetărilor arheologice (Die antike Stadt Tyras im Lichte der archäologischen Forschungen). Adsum 1 (Iaşi), 26-45.
2003: New Data on the Cults and the Buildings of Cult in Ancient Tyras (in Russ.). In: P.P. Toločko (ed.): Northern Black Sea Littoral in the Period of Antiquity. Book of scientific papers. Dedicated to the 70th anniversary of S. D. Kryzhitskij (Kiev), 109-113 (with T. L. Samojlova).
2004: Les noms théophores au nord et au nord-ouest de la mer Noire dans les inscriptions des VIe-Ier siècles av. J.-C. In: V. Cojocaru, V. Spinei (eds.): Aspects of Spiritual Life in South-East Europe from Prehistory to Middle Ages (Iaşi), 105-134.
2004: Geografia istorică a ţinuturilor de la nordul şi nord-vestul Mării Negre în secolele VI-I a. Chr. (Die historische Geographie des nördlichen und nord-westlichen Schwarzmeerraums vom 6. bis 1. Jh. v. Chr.). In: T. Arnautu [et al.] (eds.): Studia in honorem Gheorghe Postică (Chişinău), 105-114.
2005: Die Beziehungen zwischen Griechen und „Barbaren“ im Norden und Nordwesten des Pontos Euxeinos zwischen dem 7. und dem 1. Jh. v. Chr. Zur Geschichte ihrer Erforschung. In: V. Cojocaru (ed.): Ethnic Contacts and Cultural Exchanges North and West of the Black Sea from the Greek Colonization to the Ottoman Conquest (Iaşi), 155-166.
2006: Catalogue des anthroponymes nord et nord-ouest pontiques aux VIe-Ier siècles av. J.- C. chez les anciens auteurs grecs et latins. In: L. Mihăilescu-Bîrliba, O. Bounegru (eds.): Studia historiae et religionis daco-romanae. In honorem Silvii Sanie (Bucharest), 35-59.
2007: « L’histoire par les noms » dans les villes grecques de Scythie et Scythie Mineure aux VIe-Ier siècles av. J.-C. In: Dimitrios V. Grammenos, Elias K. Petropoulos (eds.): Ancient Greek Colonies in the Black Sea 2 (BAR International Series 1675). Vol. I (Oxford), 383-434.
2008: s.v. Rumänien. In: Heinz Heinen [et al.] (Hg.): Handwörterbuch der antiken Sklaverei (CD-ROM-Lieferung I-II). Stuttgart: Franz Steiner.
2008: Din estul elenistic în vestul roman. Observaţii pe marginea unui volum de studii recent apărut (‘Vom hellenistischen Osten zum römischen Westen’. Bemerkungen zu einem jüngst erschienenen Sammelband). Arheologia Moldovei 30 (Bucharest), 307-321.
2009: Zum Verhältnis zwischen Steppenbevölkerung und griechischen Städten: Das ‘skythische Protektorat’ als offene Frage. Tyche 23 (Vienna), 1-20.
2009: Eine Bibliographie der antiken Stadt Tyras. Arheologia Moldovei 31 (Bucharest), 217-240.
2009: Zur Proxenie in den griechischen Städten des pontischen Raums. Pontica 42 (Constanţa), 349-374.
2009: ‘Fremde’ in griechischen Städten Skythiens und Kleinskythiens auf Grundlage der epigraphischen Quellen bis zum 3. Jh. n.Chr. Forschungsstand und Perspektive. In: A. Coşkun [et al.] (ed.): Identität und Zugehörigkeit im Osten der griechisch-römischen Welt. Aspekte ihrer Repräsentation in Städten, Provinzen und Reichen (Frankfurt am Main), 143-172.
2009: Die Proxenie als „Fremdenpolitik“ in griechischen Gemeinwesen des pontischen Raums und in Kos: Eine vergleichende Untersuchung (in Russ.). In: S. Bocharov, V. Cojocaru (eds.): North and West Black Sea Area during Antiquity and the Middle Ages (Simferopol), 186-216 (with A. Liţu).
2010: Von Byzantion nach Olbia: Zur Proxenie und zu den Außenbeziehungen auf der Grundlage einer Ehreninschrift. Arheologia Moldovei 32 (Bucharest), 41-56.
2010: Inscripţia greacă de la Dragomirna (Altgriechische Inschrift aus Dragomirna). Pontica 43 (Constanţa), 323-345.
2011: Von Pfeilspitzen zu „skythischen“ Münzen: Zur griechisch-skythischen Beziehungen im Spiegel des Geldumlaufs am Rande der Steppe. In: L. Präger (Hg.): Nomadismus in der „Alten Welt“: Formen der Repräsentation in Vergangenheit und Gegenwart, Münster/Berlin/Wien/Zürich/London 2011, 26-49.
2011: «Vozvraščenie» Ėpikrata / ‘The Return’ of Epicrates. Acta Linguistica Petropolitana 7/1 (St. Petersburg), 297-318.
2012: Noch einmal zur Herkunft des Ehrenbeschlusses für Epikrates, Sohn des Nikobulos (Syll.3 707 = ISM I 65). In: I. Lazarenko [et al.] (eds.): Miscellanea in Honour of Alexander Minchev, Acta Musei Varnaensis VIII-2 (Varna), 267-291.
2013: Art. Caucasus mountain, Chalcedon, Kos, Kyzikos, Proxenia. In: R. Bagnall [et al.] (eds.): Wiley-Blackwell's Encyclopedia of Ancient History (Oxford), 1383, 1426-1428, 3813-3814, 3848-3849, 5606-5608.
2013: De la relaţiile externe ale oraşelor pontice la relaţiile externe ale apoikiilor nord-ponice (From the External Relations of the Pontic Cities to the External Relations of the North-Pontic apoikiai). Pontica 45 (Constanţa), 65-76.
2013: Antonia Tryphaina. Pontica 45 (Constanţa), 119-134.
2013: Relaţiile interpontice ale oraşelor greceşti de la nordul Mării Negre şi contactele acestora cu barbarii din hinterland pe baza izvoarelor epigrafice (The inter-Pontic relations of the Greek cities of the Northern Black Sea area and their contacts with the hinterland Barbarians according to the Epigraphic Sources), In: F. Panait-Bîrzescu, I. Bîrzescu, F. Matei-Popescu, A. Robu (eds.), Poleis în Marea Neagră: relații interpontice și producții locale (Poleis in the Black Sea Area: Inter-Pontic Relations and Local Productions), Bucharest, 87-142.
2014: Die Außenbeziehungen der griechischen Städte der nördlichen Schwarzmeerküste in hellenistischer und römischer Zeit auf Grundlage der epigraphischen Quellen. In: V. Cojocaru, Ch. Schuler (eds.): Die Außenbeziehungen pontischer und kleinasiatischer Städte in hellenistischer und römischer Zeit, Historia Einzelschriften, Stuttgart, 45-86.
2014: Ladung zu Opfer und Bankett als Auszeichnung der Fremde im pontischen Raum und der Pontikoi in der Fremde. In: L. Ruscu (ed.), Banquets of Gods, Banquets of Men. Conviviality in the Ancient World. Proceedings of the International Colloquium, Cluj, 23-24 November 2012, = Studia Universitatis “Babeş-Bolyai”, Historia 59.1 (Cluj-Napoca 2014), 334-344.
2014: Once more about Antonia Tryphaina, Journal of Ancient History and Archaeology 1.2, 3-8 (On line acces – URL: http://www.jaha.org.ro/index.php/JAHA/article/view/54/27).
2014: Die Beziehungen der nordpontischen Griechen zu den außerpontischen Regionen und Dynastien, einschließlich der römischen Hegemonialmacht: Historiographische Übersicht. In: Victor Cojocaru – Altay Coşkun – Mădălina Dana (eds.), Interconnectivity in the Mediterranean and Pontic World during the Hellenistic and Roman Periods, Cluj-Napoca, 73-96.
2014: Evoluţia formularului decretelor de proxenie în spaţiul pontic (Die Entwicklung der Formeln der Proxeniedekrete im pontischen Raum). Pontica 47 (Constanţa 2015), 403–416.
2015: Instituţia proxeniei în spaţiul pontic. Istoricul cercetării (Proxenia in the Black Sea Area. A Survey on the History of Its Research). Arheologia Moldovei 38 (Iaşi), 7–24.
2015: Réflexions sur quelques traits particuliers du corps civique dans les cités nord-pontiques. In: P. Pavúk – V. Klonza – A. Harding (eds.): Contacts, migrations and climate change, in honour of Prof. Dr. Jan Bouzek, Prague 2016 (with Marta Oller Guzmán) [Paper in press].