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Dr. Ayelet Peer

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ayelet.peer@biu.ac.il
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Dr. Peer is a teaching fellow at the dept. of Classical Studies. Her research focuses on Greek and Roman civil wars as well as classical reception, mainly in Japanese popular media (manga and anime).

Eduation

2000 -2003: B.A. Classics, Ancient Greek Language and Literature, Latin Language and Literature, (Summa cum Laude), Tel Aviv University

2005 - 2009: Ph.D. Classical Studies, School of Hisotry, Tel-Aviv Univeristy (direct course)

Research

Greek and Roman civil wars, Julius Caesar, Latin literature, ancient historiography, classical reception

Courses

The anicnet world in the movies

Intro to classical reception

Gods and comics

Political thought in Greece and Rome

Metamorphoses

Dreams, prophecies and magic in the ancient world

Political violence in Greece and Rome

Ancient games

Intro to Roman literature

Ancient heroes

 

Publications

Publications

Books

Peer, A. 2015. Julius Caesar's Bellum Civile and the Composition of a New Reality. Routledge (former Ashgate)

Articles in Peer-Reviewed Journals

  • Peer, A. 2008. “Cicero's Last Caesarian Speech: The Pro Rege Deiotaro as a Final warning before the Ides of March,” in C. Deroux (ed.). Studies in Latin Literature and Roman History, Vol. XIV, Collection Latomus:189-208.
  • Peer, A. 2017. "Hear No Evil? The Manipulation of Sounds and Rumours in Julius Caesar's Commentaries." Thersites: Journal for Transcultural Presences and Diachronic Identities from Antiquity to Date, 43-76.
  • Peer, A. 2018. “Thermae Romae Manga: Plunging into the Unique Bond between Ancient Rome and Modern Japan.” New Voices in Classical Reception Studies 12: 57-67.
  • Peer, A. and Greenberg, R. 2020. “The Japanese Trojan War: Tezuka Osamu’s envisioning of the Greek epos.’ Greece & Rome 67: 151-176. 
  • Peer, A. 2020. “Julius Caesar and the Romans stasis.” Hermathena 199: 71-91.

 

Chapters in Peer-Reviewed Edited Volumes

  • Peer, A. 2019. “Dio, Cicero and the Complexity of Civil War”. In Cassius Dio: the Impact of Violence, War, and Civil War, edited by Carsten Hjort Lange and Andrew Scott. Brill, 19-240.
  • Peer, A. 2020. “The Labours of Hercules-Sama”. In The Modern Hercules: Images of the Hero from the Nineteenth to the Early Twenty-First Century, volume IV, edited by Alastair Blanshard and Emma Stafford. Brill, 527-544.
  • Peer, A. and Højlund Roesgaard, M. “The Emperor, the Sun and the Olympus: Mythology in the Modern Japanese Education System”. In Mythology in Education, edited by Lisa Maurice (part of OMC, ERC-funded project). Forthcoming in 2021
  • Peer, A. “Growing Up Manga” for edited volume Our Mythical Hope in Children’s and Young Adults’ Culture, part of OMC, ERC-funded project.
  • Peer, A. “Julius Caesar Superstar” for edited volume Our Mythical History in Children’s and Young Adults’ Culture, part of OMC, ERC-funded project.
  • Peer, A. “Adam the Alien, Eve the Robot: The Reinterpretation of Adam, Eve, Prometheus and Pandora in Japanese Manga and Anime”. In: Gender, Creation Myths and their Reception in Western Civilization. Prometheus, Pandora, Adam and Eve. Edited by Lisa Maurice and Tovi Bibring. Bloomsbury, Forthcoming in 2022.

 

Last Updated Date : 06/03/2024