Dr. Amin Benaissa

Biography

Professor Amin Benaissa is a Tutorial Fellow at Christ Church, University of Oxford. He holds a Bachelor of Arts from Yale and both an MSt and DPhil from the University of Oxford. His research specializes in papyrology, focusing on the study of ancient Greek papyri and the oldest manuscripts that survive from Graeco-Roman antiquity. His work emphasizes the origins of these documents from Egypt during the Ptolemaic and Roman rule, dating from approximately 300 BCE to 640 CE. He is particularly invested in the edition and interpretation of unpublished texts within collections, especially those housed at Oxford, such as the Oxyrhynchus papyri. His interests cover Hellenistic and Imperial Greek poetry, as well as documents relating to ancient education and scholarship, social institutions, and the cultural context of Roman and Late Antique Oxyrhynchus.

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