Jan R Stenger

Jan R. Stenger is Professor of Classics at the Julius-Maximilians-Universität Wu rzburg. From 2012 to 2019 he was Douglas MacDowell Professor of Greek at the University of Glasgow. He has also held fellowships at the Helsinki Collegium for Advanced Studies (2015-2016) and the Swedish Collegium for Advanced Study in Uppsala (2017-2018). His research focuses on Greek lyric poetry and the literature and culture of Late Antiquity. He is especially interested in the relationship between Christianity...See more

Jan R. Stenger is Professor of Classics at the Julius-Maximilians-Universität Wu rzburg. From 2012 to 2019 he was Douglas MacDowell Professor of Greek at the University of Glasgow. He has also held fellowships at the Helsinki Collegium for Advanced Studies (2015-2016) and the Swedish Collegium for Advanced Study in Uppsala (2017-2018). His research focuses on Greek lyric poetry and the literature and culture of Late Antiquity. He is especially interested in the relationship between Christianity and classical culture from the 4th to the 6th centuries. Stenger's publications include a monograph on education in Late Antiquity (Education in Late Antiquity: Challenges, Dynamism, and Reinterpretation, 300-550 ce, 2022) as well as books and articles on Libanius, John Chrysostom and the monasticism of Gaza. See less