Nikolaos Lazaridis
Current status: Assistant Professor at Sacramento State
University
Degrees obtained: 1) D.Phil. in Oriental Studies
(Egyptology) and Classics from Merton College, Oxford University
(October 2005)
2) M.Phil. in Oriental Studies (Egyptology) from Brasenose College,
Oxford University (June 2002)
3) BA in Egyptology from the American University in Cairo (AUC)
(June 2000)
Scholarships and awards received: 1) NWO (Nederlands
Foundation for Scientific Research) Post-doctoral Innovational
Research Incentives Scheme Veni (2007-2009)
2) Merton College Domus Graduate Scholarship (2002-2005)
3) Arts and Humanities Research Council Scholarship
(2002-2005)
4) Oxford University Oriental Institute Graduate Scholarship
(2001-2005)
5) Onassis Foundation Scholarship (2001-2002)
6) Ahmed Fakhry Egyptological Award (1999 and 2000)
7) Paul Corrdry Scholarship (1998-2000)
Major publications: 1) Wisdom in Loose Form: The
Language of Egyptian and Greek Proverbs in Collections from the
Hellenistic and Roman Periods, Mnemosyne, Supplements 287,
Leiden: Brill, 2007
2) “Ethics”, entry in the UCLA Encyclopedia of Egyptology
available at http://repositories.cdlib.org/nelc/uee/1021
(2008)
3) “It is Better to Be Silent than Speak in Vain: The Challenge of
Producing Proverbs in Demotic and Greek”, in Current Research
in Egyptology 2005: Proceedings of the Sixth Annual Symposium,
University of Cambridge 2005, R. Mairs and A. Stevenson
(eds.), Oxford: Oxbow Books (2007), pp. 66-73
4) “The Religion of Egyptian Proverbs”, in The Proceedings of
the Ninth International Congress of Egyptologists, J.-Cl.
Goyon and C. Cardin (eds.), OLA 150, Leuven: Peeters (2007), pp.
1091-1100
5) “Ματιές στην κοινωνία και τον πολιτισμό της Ελληνορωμαϊκής
Αιγύπτου: Ελληνοαιγυπτιακές σχέσεις συνύπαρξης και πολιτισμικής
συναλλαγής και η απεικόνισή τους στις γραπτές αιγυπτιακές πηγές”
(Glimpses at the society and culture of Greco-Roman Egypt:
Greco-Egyptian relations of co-existence and cultural interaction
as reflected in the written Egyptian sources), in Studies in
the Ancient Egyptian Culture and Foreign Relations, P.
Kousoulis (ed.), Egyptological Series 1, Rhodes: University of the
Aegean (2007), pp. 103-117
