Dr. Jacobo Myerston

Biography

Jacobo Myerston earned his Ph.D. in the Program in Ancient Mediterranean World from the University of Chicago after obtaining Master's degrees in Comparative Religion and Classics from the University of Tübingen, Germany. His research primarily focuses on the systemic nature of the ancient Mediterranean world and its adjacent regions, with a specific emphasis on early Greece and its relationship with the Near East. He is the author of the book 'Language and Cosmos: Greece and Mesopotamia', which explores the proto-linguistic traditions that circulated between Greece and Mesopotamia during the establishment of Greek philosophy. His work traces transcultural dialogues and highlights the influence of Mesopotamian semantics on the hermeneutics of early Greek thinkers. Myerston has also investigated similar issues of cultural interdependency in the ancient world through various articles. In a distinct line of research, he examines the appropriation of classical texts by Latin American writers in the 20th and 21st centuries, analyzing how Central and South American novelists, theorists, and poets engage with ancient classics to explore the cultural and historical relationships between Latin America and the Western world. His findings on this project have been published in academic journals, with a book titled 'Greeks in Latin America' currently in preparation. Additionally, he has developed an interest in computational methods for studying ancient documents, particularly in exploring the problem of cultural diffusion in the ancient world, with preliminary findings available on the Diogenet project website.

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