Prof. Dr. Geoffrey Greatrex

Profile

Academic positionFull Professor
Research fieldsGreek and Latin Philology,Other Areas of History
KeywordsByzantine empire, Church history, Patristics, Roman empire, Syriac literature

Current contact address

CountryCanada
CityOttawa
InstitutionUniversity of Ottawa
InstituteDepartment of Classics and Religious Studies
Homepagehttp://aix1.uottawa.ca/~greatrex/

Host during sponsorship

Prof. Dr. Albrecht BergerInstitut für Byzantinistik, Byzantinische Kunstgeschichte und Neogräzistik, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München (LMU), München
Prof. Dr. Claudia SodeInstitut für Altertumskunde, Universität zu Köln, Köln
Start of initial sponsorship01/01/2006

Programme(s)

2005Humboldt Research Fellowship Programme

Publications (partial selection)

2022Geoffrey Greatrex: Procopius of Caesarea. The Persian Wars. A Historical Commentary. Cambridge University Press, 2022
2011Geoffrey Greatrex Rob Phenix Cornelia Horn: The Chronicle of Pseudo-Zachariah Rhetor. Church and War in Late Antiquity. Liverpool University Press, 2011
2009Geoffrey Greatrex: Le pseudo-Zacharie de Mytilène et l'historiographie syriaque au VIe s.. In: Muriel Debié, L'historiographie syriaque. Geuthner, 2009. 33-55
2009Geoffrey Greatrex Jitse Dijkstra: Patriarchs and Politics in Constantinople in the reign of Anastasius (with a Reedition of O. Mon. Epiph. 59). In: Millennium, 2009, 223-264
2007Geoffrey Greatrex: Dukes of the Eastern Frontier. In: J. Drinkwater, B. Salway, Wolf Liebeschuetz Reflected. Institute of Classical Studies, 2007. 87-98
2007Geoffrey Greatrex: Moines, militaires et défense de la frontière orientale au VIe s.. In: A.S. Lewin, P. Pellegrini, The Late Roman Army in the Near East from Diocletian to the Arab Conquest. British Archaeological Reports, 2007. 285-297
2007Geoffrey Greatrex: Roman frontiers and foreign policy in the East. In: R. Alston, S.N.C. Lieu, Aspects of the Roman East. Brepols, 2007. 103-173
2007Geoffrey Greatrex: The early years of Justin I in the sources. In: Electrum, 2007, 99-113
2006Geoffrey Greatrex: Khusro II and the Christians of the Roman Empire. In: F. Young, M. Edwards, P. Parvis, Studia Patristica, vol.41. Peeters, 2006. 47-52
2006Geoffrey Greatrex: Pseudo-Zachariah of Mytilene: the context and nature of his work. In: Journal of the Canadian Society for Syriac Studies, 2006, 39-52
2005Geoffrey Greatrex, Hugh Elton, Richard Burgess: Urbicius' Epitedeuma: An edition, translation and commentary. In: Byzantinische Zeitschrift, 2005, 35-74