Ruobing Xian Professor of Classics

Handan Road 220, Fudan University

West Guanghua Tower 2009

Shanghai 200433

ruobingxian@fudan.edu.cn

• 12/2013–06/2015 University Heidelberg, Classics (Dr. phil.)

• 04/2012–11/2013 University Heidelberg, Classics (MA)

• 10/2008–11/2011 Humboldt University, Historical Linguistics/Classics (BA)

• As of 12/2022 Professor of Classics, Fudan University

• 12/2018–11/2022 Associate Professor of Classics, Fudan University

• 12/2016–11/2018 Assistant Professor of Classics, Fudan University

• 11.2015–07.2016 Visiting Member of Corpus Christi College, Oxford

• Early Greek Hexameter Poetry and its Ancient Reception

• Ancient Greek Historiography (in a global perspective)

• Classics & Cognitive Science

• A Commentary on Iliad 12

• Closure in Ancient Greek Literature

• Ancient Greek Language & Literature

• Interdisciplinary Seminar

Monograph

• Raum und Erzählung in der Odyssee, Leiden: Brill 2021 (Mnemosyne Supplements 444)

Review: Christos Tsagalis, Classical Review 73.2 (2023), 410–412

In Preparation:

• Early Greek Hexameter Poetry and its Ancient Reception (Trends in Classics Supplementary Volumes, accepted) [Kleine Schriften]

Articles

Forthcoming

• ‘Ἄελπτον in Hes. fr. 204.95 MW Revisited’, Hermes

2025

• ‘Looking at Io on the meadow. A note on Aesch. Supp. 539f.’, Eikasmós 36, 79–84.

• ‘陈康论“有价值的翻译”—《柏拉图〈巴曼尼得斯篇〉》译注序名言新诠’，《现代中国人文学刊》1, 249–261.

• ‘比較學術史視野下的中國古典學’，《中國古典學》7, 3–16.

• ‘Hesiod, Catalogue of Women fr. 1.6–13 MW Revisited’, Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik 233, 1–7.

• ‘The Homeric Quotation in Plato, Republic V 468e1–2’, Philologus 169, 137–139.

• ‘A New Interpretation of Hesiod, Catalogue of Women fr. 75.13–25 MW’, Archiv für Papyrusforschung und verwandte Gebiete 71, 1–9.

2024

• ‘Narrative Design and Doublets: Democedes in Herodotus’s Histories’, Harvard Studies in Classical Philology 114, 35–58.

• ‘ἐπελήκεον (Od. 8,379) and ληκώμεθα (Aristoph. Thesm. 493)’, Rheinisches Museum für Philologie 167, 274–280.

• ‘Two Notes on Stesichorus, Geryoneis fr. 15 D–F’, Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik 231, 19–22.

• ‘Hesiod, Catalogue of Women fr. 70.1–7 MW’, Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik 229, 14–16.

• ‘Homeric ἴσκε(ν) (Od. 19.203; 22.31) and its Reception in Apollonius and Theocritus’, Hermes 152, 57–67.

2023

• ‘Iliad 9.392 on a Ptolemaic Papyrus’, Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik 227, 1–2.

• ‘Two Notes on the Pseudo-Hesiodic Aspis (ἆτον, 59; ἄαται, 101)’, Classical Philology 118, 104–108.

• ‘Athena’s Mention of Orestes in Hom. Od. 1.298–302’, Greece & Rome 70, 100–110.

• ‘The End of Sophocles’ Philoctetes and the Significance of ΓΝΩΜΗ’, Hermes 151, 23–39.

2022

• ‘Homeric ΠΕΡΘΕΤΟ (Il. 12.15), ΠΕΡΘΟΜΕΝΗ (Il. 2.374 = 4.291 = 13.816), and ΠΕΡΘΑΙ (Il. 16.708)’, Glotta 98, 313–320.

• ‘Homeric δέχαται (Il. 12.147) Reconsidered’, Greek, Roman, and Byzantine Studies 62, 255–262.

2021

• ‘Blameless Aegisthus Revisited’, Mnemosyne 74, 181–199.

• ‘A Note on Aratus’ Phaenomena 100–107’, Athenaeum 109, 597–601.

2020

• ‘The Cyrus Anecdote in Herodotus 9.122’, Classical Quarterly 70, 16–26.

• ‘Scepter and Spear in Euripides’ Iphigenia in Tauris’, Museum Helveticum 77, 188–193.

• ‘The Dramatization of Emotions in Iliad 24.552–658’, Philologus 164, 181–196.

2019

• ‘ΚΛΕΟΣ ΑΦΘΙΤΟΝ in Sappho fr. 44.4 V’, Hermes 147, 392–405.

2018

• ‘A Note on ἀγοράν in Pindar N. 3.14’, Mnemosyne 71, 169–172.

• ‘Habrocomes’ Lament in Xenophon of Ephesus’ Ephesiaca 5.1.12–13’, Greek, Roman, and Byzantine Studies 58, 55–66.

• ‘Locus amoenus und sein Gegenstück in Od. 5’, Hermes 146, 132–148.

• ‘Zur Beschreibung des Alkinoos-Palasts (Od. 7,84–132)’, Philologus 162, 189–207.

• ‘Aristotle, Poetics 23, 1459a35–37’, Rheinisches Museum für Philologie 161, 287–294.

2017

• ‘Zur Etymologie von gr. μόθος’, Glotta 93, 250–254.

• ‘An Etymological Note on Homeric ὑπόδρα’, Greek, Roman, and Byzantine Studies 57, 261–267.

• ‘Die Ithakalandschaft in Od. 13’, Mnemosyne 70, 537–561.

• ‘Two Notes on Philostratus’ Imagines 2.28 (‘Looms’)’, Classical Quarterly 67, 335–338.

• ‘Der Chronotopos der Ziegeninsel (Hom. Od. 9.116–141)’, Mnemosyne 70, 899–919.

• ‘Geschlossener Raum und narrative Spannung in der Odyssee’, Materiali e Discussioni 79, 9–29.

Review

• ‘Review of Manuela Wunderl, Das Symposion bei Herodot, Narr 2023’, Histos 19 (2025), XVIII–XXII.

• ‘Recent Homeric Research: A Postscript’, Museum Sinicum 西方古典学辑刊5 (2023), 167–175.

• ‘Recent Homeric Research’, Museum Sinicum 西方古典学辑刊1 (2018), 217–230.

• ‘评陈怀宇：《在西方发现陈寅恪：中国近代人文学的东方学与西学背景》’, 中国学术14 (2018), 301–306.

Teaching

Spring Semester 2025

• Homer, Odyssey 1; Euripides’ Bacchae

• Greek-Roman Historiography

• Interdisciplinary Seminar (Ancient Civilization)

Autumn Semester 2024

• Plato Republic I; Herodotus Histories I

• Seminar (Ancient Greek Philology): Hesiod, Catalogue of Women

Outreach （高中生项目&讲座）

• 步青计划（2024暑期）Homer Iliad 12

• 步青计划（2023暑期）Aristophanes Clouds

Interviews

• ‘在中国大学研究西方古典学｜冼若冰教授访谈’，分析哲学的日常 2024

• ‘博睿作者对谈—古典学’（with 程炜），Brill博睿学术 2022

• ‘访谈｜复旦大学冼若冰老师访谈录’，北大古典语文学 2019

• ‘冼若冰：古典语文学之旅’，文汇学人 2019

Varia (公共写作 & 跨学科讲座)

• 学者荐刊：古典学有哪些专业期刊？，复旦大学图书馆 2024

• Homer for Sinologists？西方汉学界的口述/书写之争及其他，FDU史翼社 2023

• 全球化古典学：比较学术史视野中的王国维与胡适，北京大学中文系 2023

• ‘迈向一种描述意识’（Ekphrasis），OCAT研究中心 2017