Lieve Van Hoof is a Belgian classical scholar and Research

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at the

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. She specialises in work on the socio-political role of Greek and Latin literature in the

Roman Empire The Roman Empire ( la, Imperium Romanum ; grc-gre, Βασιλεία τῶν Ῥωμαίων, Basileía tôn Rhōmaíōn) was the post-Republican period of ancient Rome. As a polity, it included large territorial holdings around the Mediterr ...

. Van Hoof is currently engaged in examining Greek and Latin letters in order to understand

lobbying In politics, lobbying, persuasion or interest representation is the act of lawfully attempting to influence the actions, policies, or decisions of government officials, most often legislators or members of regulatory agency, regulatory agencie ...

late antiquity Late antiquity is the time of transition from classical antiquity to the Middle Ages, generally spanning the 3rd–7th century in Europe and adjacent areas bordering the Mediterranean Basin. The popularization of this periodization in English ha ...

. Van Hoof is known in particular for her work on

Plutarch Plutarch (; grc-gre, Πλούταρχος, ''Ploútarchos''; ; – after AD 119) was a Greek Middle Platonist philosopher, historian, biographer, essayist, and priest at the Temple of Apollo in Delphi. He is known primarily for his ''P ...

and

Libanius Libanius ( grc-gre, Λιβάνιος, Libanios; ) was a teacher of rhetoric of the Sophist school in the Eastern Roman Empire. His prolific writings make him one of the best documented teachers of higher education in the ancient world and a criti ...

Career

Van Hoof was awarded her PhD at

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in 2006 with a thesis on ''The Social Dynamics of Philosophy. Reading Plutarch's 'Popular-Philosophical' Writings''. The work was subsequently published in 2010 as ''Plutarch's Practical Ethics: the Social Dynamics of Philosophy''. The monograph was recognised as the first time a scholar had taken work by Plutarch, often dismissed as "popular philosophy", and seriously evaluated its effect on non-philosophical

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elites. Van Hoof spent the academic year 2011-12 as a Senior Humboldt Research Fellow at the

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working on the social role of literature in the fourth century CE, and 2012-13 as a Fellow in Residence at the

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Institute for Advanced Study working on

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epistolography Epistolography, or the art of writing letters, is a genre of Byzantine literature similar to rhetoric that was popular with the intellectual elite of the Byzantine age."Epistolography" in ''The Oxford Dictionary of Byzantium'', Oxford University P ...

. Van Hoof was President of the University of Ghent Postdoc community 2015–17, and in 2016 she won the Hermes Award for Public Engagement and Knowledge Transfer for "extraordinary spirit and effectiveness with which the proponents of this initiative push forward the improvement and visibility of the postdoc status. This combination of policy and professional service, and a grassroots platform has since developed into an international best practice." On 1 April 2017 Van Hoof was elected as co-chair-person of De Jonge Academie, a role she held for two years. In 2018 the academy celebrated their five-year anniversary, and Van Hoof hosted the King

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. Van Hoof's current research project (2019-2022), ''Lobbying in late antiquity. Letters, networks and decision processes (4th - 5th c. A.D.),'' takes a fresh approach to the institution structures and powers of late antiquity to focus on individuals and interest groups who sought to influence those in power. The project uses collections of letters, such as those of

Quintus Aurelius Symmachus Quintus Aurelius Symmachus signo Eusebius (, ; c. 345 – 402) was a Roman statesman, orator, and man of letters. He held the offices of governor of proconsular Africa in 373, urban prefect of Rome in 384 and 385, and consul in 391. Symmachus s ...

, to examine how official decisions could be influenced.

Selected publications

* Peter Van Nuffelen and Lieve Van Hoof, ''The Greek Fragmentary Chronicles After Eusebius : Edition, Translation, and Commentary'' (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2019) *Lieve Van Hoof and Peter Van Nuffelen, ''The Latin Fragmentary Historians of Late Antiquity (300 – 650 A.D.): Edition, Translation, and Commentary'' (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2019) *with Peter Van Nuffele
"The historiography of crisis: Jordanes, Cassiodorus and Justinian in mid-sixth-century Constantinople"
in ''Journal of Roman Studies'' 107 p. 275-300 (2017)
"Maximian of Ravenna, ''Chronica''"
in ''Sacris Erudiri: A Journal of Late Antique and Medieval Christianity'' 55 p. 259-276 (2016) * ''Libanius: a critical introduction'' (Cambridge University Press, 2014) * (ed.) with Peter Van Nuffelen ''Literature and Society in the Fourth Century AD: Performing 'paideia', Constructing the Present, Presenting the Self (''Mnemosyne supplements. Monographs on Greek and Latin language and literature, 373. Leiden; Boston: Brill, 2014) * "Performing paideia: literature as an instrument for social promotion in the fourth century A.D." in ''Classical Quarterly'' 63(1). p. 387-406 (2013)
"Why the EU is Failing in its Neighbourhood: The Case of Armenia"
''European Foreign Affairs Review,'' 17 Issue 2, pp. 285–302 (2012) * with Peter Van Nuffelen "Monarchy and mass communication: Antioch A.D. 362/3 revisited" in ''Journal of Roman Studies'' 101. p. 166-184 (2011) * ''Plutarch's Practical Ethics: The Social Dynamics of Philosophy'' (Oxford/New York: Oxford University Press, 2010) *

References

External links

Presentation on lobbying in the ancient world (in Dutch)
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