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Biography

Andrej Petrovic is a Professor of Classics and editor of the Greece and Rome journal. He is the author of Kommentar zu den Simonideischen Versinschriften (Brill, 2007), the co-author of Inner Purity and Pollution in Greek Religion: vol. I, Early Greek Religion, (Oxford 2016, with Ivana Petrovic), co-editor of Archaic and Classical Greek Epigram (Cambridge, 2010, pb 2016), and of The Materiality of Texts (Brill, 2018), as well as author of numerous articles on Greek epigraphy, religion, magic, cultural and literary history. He is currently working on the second volume of Inner Purity and Pollution, on Hellenistic verse-inscriptions, Greek sacred regulations, and cults and representations of bound divinities.

Research Interests

Greek epigraphy, Greek religion, and Greek culture and literature (esp. epigram, elegy, and Greek inscriptional poetry).

Following publication of Inner Purity and Pollution in Greek Religion. Volume I. Early Greek Religion (2016), together with Ivana Petrovic Andrej is working on volume II which explores concepts of inner purity and pollution in various intercultural dialogues and interactions within wider Mediterranean context (esp. Egyptian, Jewish, and Christian) of the Hellenistic and Imperial period. He is particularly interested in normative aspects of Greek religion and in the so-called "sacred laws", predominantly inscriptional texts which detail rules of various Greek rituals, from sacrifices to festivals, and in the cults and narratives concerning bound or otherwise impeded divinities.

He has a long standing interest in Greek inscriptional poetry, a booming field which has over the past few years brought forth some truly spectacular new texts that have redefined many of our earlier assumptions about Greek literature more generally.

I also have a long standing interest in Greek inscriptional poetry, a booming field which has over the past few years brought forth some truly spectacular new texts that have redefined many of our earlier assumptions about Greek literature more generally.