People affiliated with Ohio State Greek and Latin

Carolina López-Ruiz, Assistant Professor

Personal Statement
"When one uses categories like Oriental and Western as both the starting and the end points of analysis, research, public policy (...), the result is usually to polarize the distinction -the Oriental becomes more Oriental, the Westerner more Western- and limit the human encounter between different cultures, traditions, and societies." (E. Said Orientalism, p. 45-46).

Books:
When the Gods Were Born: Greek Cosmogonies and the Near East (in production, Harvard University Press).
Editor, with M. Dietler, Colonial Encounters in Ancient Iberia: Phoenician, Greek, and Indigenous Relations (The University of Chicago Press, 2009).

Recent Articles:
“Mopsos and cultural exchange between Greeks and locals in Cilicia,” in U. Dill and Ch. Walde, eds. Antike Mythen. Medien, Transformationen, Konstruktionen (Fritz Graf Festschrift). Berlin-NY: Walter de Gruyter, 2009, 382-96.
“Tarshish and Tartessos Revisited: Textual Problems and Historical Implications,” in M. Dietler and C. López-Ruiz (eds.) Colonial Encounters in Ancient Iberia: Phoenician, Greek, and Indigenous Relations. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2009, 255-80
"Some Oriental Elements in Hesiod and the Orphic Cosmogonies," Journal of Ancient Near Eastern Religions 6 (2006): 71-104.
With F. Karahashi, "Love Rejected: Some Notes on the Mesopotamian Epic of Gilgamesh and the Greek Myth of Hippolytus" Journal of Cuneiform Studies 58 (2006): 1-11.
With S. Celestino, "New Light on the Warrior Stelae from Tartessos (Spain)," Antiquity 80 (2006): 89-101.
With C. A. Faraone and B. Garnand, "Micah’s Mother (Judges 17:1-4) and a Curse from Carthage (KAI 89): Evidence for the Semitic Origin of Greek and Latin Curses against Thieves?" Journal of Near Eastern Studies 64/3: 161-186, July 2005.