Casper de Jonge
Professor of Greek Language and Literature at the Leiden University Centre for the Arts in Society
Casper de Jonge is a Professor of Greek Language and Literature at the Leiden University Centre for the Arts in Society. His research concentrates on Greek Literature in the Roman World, Ancient Migrant Literature, Ancient Literary Criticism, Classical Rhetoric, the Sublime, and the Reception of Antiquity in Classical Music. Casper de Jonge received Veni and Vidi grants from the Netherlands Organization of Scientific Research (NWO). He is coordinator of the Minor Rhetoric, coordinator of the OIKOS Research Group Ancient Rhetoric and Aesthetics, member of the editorial board of Mnemosyne and the Mnemosyne Supplements, chair of the LUCAS Advisory Board, and program director of Classics and Ancient Civilizations (MA, Research MA). In the media he has commented on Greek culture in Rome (the Herculaneum papyri) and the rhetorical performance of 21st century politicians.