Marko Marinčič
Contact

+386 1 2411 414
marko.marincic@ff.uni-lj.si

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Department of Classics

Prof. Dr. Marko Marinčič

CV

– Born October 15, 1968

Academic Education

– 1993 BA, 1996 MA, University of Ljubljana

– 1999 PhD in Latin Literature (Hellenistic Epyllion in Rome, supervisor Kajetan Gantar)

Employment 

(Department of Classics, University of Ljubljana)

– 1993/94 Librarian

– 1994-1999 Tutor in classics

– 1999-2004 Assistant Professor

– 2004-2009 Associate Professor

– 2009- Professor of Latin and Greek literature

Visiting scholar

– 1996-1999, per intervalla, visiting doctoral student, University of Vienna, Institute of Classical Philology (research grants from the Austrian Ministry of Science and Institute for Eastern and Southeastern Europe)

– 2008 Plumer Visiting Fellow, St Anne’s College, University of Oxford

– 2019 University of Washington, Department of Classics

– Erasmus exchange scholar: Athens (2013, 2015), Milano (2015) 

List of invited lectures and conference papers: see Bibliography

Research project leadership (Slovenian Research Agency)

– Tradition of Allegory in Epic (2001–2004)

– Semantics of Myth in Latin and Romance Literatures (2009–2012)

– Empire and Transformation of Genre in Roman Literature (2020-)

Conference organisation

Reading Authors’ Lives. Ljubljana: Department of Classics, June 19–20, 2009.

The Odyssey in the Latin West. Ljubljana: Department of Classics, Gallery of Modern Art, European Commission: DG Translation, November 14–15, 2014. 

Editorships

– 2008- co-editor of Keria: Studia Latina et Graeca 

– member of editorial/advisory boards of Incontri di filologia classica (Unversity of Triest); Sources, Literatures, Arts & Landscapes of Europe (Ca' Foscari, Venice); past activities: Centopagine (Triest); Vergilius (Vergilian Society, USA)

Administrative roles and committees 

– 2003–2007, 2013–2017 Head of Department 

– 2004- president of the Matura exam committee for Latin

Awards 

– 1996 Sovre Award (Association of Slovene Literary Translators), for translation
of Virgil

– 2000 “Zlata ptica” award (Liberal Academy), for translations of Catullus, Euripides and Racine 

– 2009, Dominik Smole Award (Borštnik Theatre Festival, Maribor, 2009), for the
translation of Aeschylus’ Oresteia

 

Compulsory Courses

Elective Courses







Events

22. 05. 2025
Department of Asian Studies

Guest lecture: »Disenfranchising the overseas electorate – Taiwan going against global trends?«

24. 04. 2025
Department of Asian Studies, Faculty of Arts

Guest lecture: »Between Progress and Pressure: Human Rights in Taiwan«

22. 04. 2025
Department of Ethnology and Cultural Anthropology, Faculty of Arts

A participatory research-action to prepare for disasters and health emergencies in Europe’s cities

19. 02. - 16. 04. 2025
Administrative Office, Faculty of Arts

Online sessions of studies at the University of Ljubljana

30. 01. - 31. 01. 2025
Faculty of Arts

The second doctoral conference of the Humanities and Social Sciences study programme: New perspectives in Humanities and Social sciences