Subject

Classical Languages and Literature

Research Interests

My research mainly focuses on the interaction between linguistic and literary approaches to Greek (prose) literature. Advances in general linguistics, central to which has been the realisation that language can be studied as a means of communicating beliefs, knowledge and intentions, rather than from a purely formal syntactic or semantic angle, have meant that many linguists today share a set of basic assumptions with literary scholars interested in rhetoric, narratology and cognition, opening up rich possibilities for cross-fertilization.

I am currently working on a study on the representation of speech and thought in classical Greek prose (historiography, the orators, Plato). I am also involved (with prof. J. W. van Henten) in a project concerning the application of narratological concepts to Flavius Josephus. Together with E. van Emde Boas and prof. A. Rijksbaron I will be writing the Cambridge Grammar of Classical Greek. My future research time will further be taken up by an investigation into expressions of epistemic modality and ‘knowledge claims’in emerging prose genres in the fifth and fourth centuries BCE.

Teaching Interests

Homer, Text & Context and other Mods options; Greek language for all levels; selected Greek Greats options.

Department Information

Classics Department

Contact Information

Email: Luuk Huitink

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