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Silke Knippschild

Senior Lecturer in Ancient History

Phone:  +44 (0)117 928 9016

Email: clzsk@bristol.ac.uk

Research

Dr Knippschild's main research interests lie in the field of intercultural relations and cross-cultural influences between Ancient Western Asia, Greece, and Rome. Her work is interdisciplinary in nature, drawing on written, art historical, and archaeological sources. She is currently working on the destruction of art and theft of political and religious identifiers in the first millennium BC. She is also working on the reception of ancient art and is co-organizing the conference series "Imagines - Antiquity in the Visual and Performing Arts". Imagines I was held at the Universidad de la Rioja in 2007, Imagines II (Seduction and Power) at Bristol in 2010, and Imagines III (Magic and the Supernatural) at Mainz 2012, imagines-project.org.

Teaching

Dr Knippschild teaches Greek history with particular interests in early Greece, intercultural relations with Western Asia, and non-literary sources.

Selected publications

• "Drum bietet zum Bunde die Hände": Rechtssymbolische Akte in zwischenstaatlichen Beziehungen im orientalischen und griechisch-römischen Altertum, Potsdamer Altertumswissenschaftliche Beiträge 5 (Stuttgart 2002)
• Imagines: La Antigüedad en Las Artes Escénicas y Visuales (Logroño 2008), with M. J. Castillo, M. García, C. Herreros
• Ceremoniales, Ritos y Representación del Poder, Collecció Humanitats 15 (Castelló de la Plana 2004), with Victor Minguez and Heinz-Dieter Heimann
• "El Prestigio del Pasado: La Representación de la Antigüedad como Signo del Poder en la Inglaterra del Siglo XVII", in M. J. Castillo, S. Knippschild, M. García, C. Herreros (eds.), Imagines: La Antigüedad en Las Artes Escénicas y Visuales (Logroño 2008) 283-302
• "Literature in the Hellenistic Near East", chapter in Blackwell Companion to Hellenistic Literature, eds. J. Clauss and M. Cuypers, in press (Oxford, Malden 2008)
• "Wandernde Götter und ihre Bewirtung", with Vera Sauer, in: E. Olshausen, H. Sonnabend (eds.), "Troianer sind wir gewesen" - Migrationen in der antiken Welt, Geographica Historica 21 (2006) 329-335
• "Die Zähmung der Penelope: Monteverdis Il Ritorno d'Ulisse in Patria und Homer im Venedig des 17. Jahrhunderts", Antike und Abendland 51 (2005), 150-167
• "Abajo el Tirano: Destrucción de Símbolos Imperiales como Representación del Cambio de Poder", Collecció Humanitats 15 (Castelló de la Plana 2004), p. 57-88, 318-321, 334-337
• "Im Namen des Königs: Identifikationsmarken zur Autorisierung königlicher Befehle im Perserreich", Klio 86 (2004), 293-304
• "Fundamentalismus im Spanien der Omayaden: Die Märtyrer von Córdoba - Überlegungen zum Zusammenleben von Christen und Muslimen im Al-Andalus des 9. Jahrhunderts", Collecció Humanitats 11 (Castelló de la Plana 2003) p. 169-196, 237f., 252f