Deutsch Intern
  • Extracts from magical texts in antiquity (Greek, Hieratic, Demotic, Akkadian): British Library P 122; British Museum P Chester Beatty 7 and P Leiden/London, British Museum BM 34065
DFG Centre for Advanced Studies MagEIA

José Marcos Macedo

Research Interests

  • Greek religious language 
  • Greek historical grammar
  • Greek linguistics
  • Indo-European poetics and phraseology
  • Indo-European legal language

Curriculum Vitae

1988–1992 Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) in Law, University of São Paulo
1994–1997

Master of Arts (M.A.) in German Literature, University of São Paulo   

2004–2007 Ph.D. in Classics, University of São Paulo
2008-  

Professor of Ancient Greek Language and Literature (tenured position) University of São Paulo (Brazil) – Department of Classics

 

Scholarships and awards 

06/2004–03/2007 FAPESP (Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de São Paulo)
Grant #2004/00591-0
“The proffered word: the Homeric Hymns and the Greek hymnic
tradition”
09/2005–08/2006 CAPES (Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível
Superior)
Period of study abroad at the University of Oxford (UK) under the supervision of Prof. Ewen Bowie
04/2011–03/2012 FAPESP (grant #2010/20401-1)
“Near-Eastern Influence and Indo-European Heritage in Greek Prayer”
09/2012–06/2013 FAPESP (grant #2012/02674-6)
“Theonyms, epicleses and divine epithets in Ancient Greece:
phraseology and Indo-European heritage”
•    Post Doc Research (University of Cologne, Germany)
•    Host: Prof. José Luis García Ramón
01/2015–12/2016 FAPESP (grant #2014/18996-8)
“Noun as divine epithet in Greek and Indo-European religious
language”
05/2016–04/2017 FAPESP (grant #2015/50237-2)
“Divine epithets in Pausanias and in the Orphic Hymns: A Survey”
•    International cooperation with the Ohio State University (USA)
•    Principal investigator abroad: Prof. Sarah Iles Johnston
11/2017–12/2017 Albert’s Research Reunion Grant – Universität zu Köln
“Indo-European Legal Language”
•    Principal investigator abroad: Dr. Daniel Kölligan 
06/2023–05/2025 FAPESP (grant #2023/01489-5) 
“Divine epithets in the Greek Magical Papyri: a study of the lexicon” 

Publications

A. Books

  • Πολυώνυμοι – A Lexicon of the Divine Epithets in the Orphic Hymns. Würzburg University Press, 2021 (in collaboration with Daniel Kölligan and Pedro Barbieri). https://opus.bibliothek.uni-wuerzburg.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/22061
  • Rig Veda – Hinos a Aurora: Tradução, Introdução, Notas e Comentários. Mnema, 2023 (in collaboration with Thiago Venturott and Caio Geraldes).
  •  A palavra ofertada – Um estudo retórico dos hinos gregos e indianos. Editora Unicamp, 2010.
  • A teoria do romance. Um ensaio histórico-filosófico sobre as formas da grande épica. Duas Cidades/Editora 34, 2000.

B. Articles

  • "βούλει/-εσθε, θέλεις/-ετε plus subjunctive in Classical Greek: subordination or coordination?”, in: Proceedings of the 10th International Colloquium on Ancient Greek Linguistics, Madrid 2022, in collaboration with Alex Mazzanti Jr. (forthcoming).
  • “O ‘optativo jussivo’ e outras formas de injunção no dialeto grego da Élida”. Codex 11 (2023): e1112302 (in collaboration with Johnny Dotta).
  • “Um estudo de caso sobre o uso do artigo em inscrições dialetais gregas”, Classica – Revista Brasileira de Estudos Clássicos 36 (2023), 1-19 (in collaboration with Luís Alberto Goulart Firmino).
  • “Place names as divine epithets in Pausanias”, in: Bonnet, Corinne, Thomas Galoppin, Elodie Guillon, Max Luaces, Asuman Lätzer-Lasar, Sylvain Lebreton, Fabio Porzia, Jörg Rüpke, Emiliano Rubens Urciuoli (eds.). Naming and Mapping the Gods in the Ancient Mediterranean. Spaces, Mobilities, Imaginaries. De Gruyter, 2022, pp. 187-209.
  • “‘Nobody else’: word order in Greek funerary inscriptions from Asia Minor and in Lycian”, Glotta 97 (2021), 158-177.
  • “Trilíngue de Letoon. Tradução das versões lícia e grega, com breves comentários linguísticos”, Translatio 21 (2021), 21-35.
  • “Future conditionals in Lycian”, Indogermanische Forschungen 126 (2021), 229-260.
  • “Messenger of the gods in Greek and Vedic”, Journal of Indo-European Studies 48 (2020), 77-85.
  • “A mãe do Sol: nota a Estesícoro fr. 8a Finglass (PMGF S17 =185)”, PhaoS: Revista de Estudos Clássicos 20 (2020), 1-6.
  • “O espelho de príncipes de Dario (DNb): tradução do persa antigo com breves comentários linguísticos”, Translatio 19 (2020), 41-56.
  • “Cretan μωλεῖν ‘contend, bring an action to court’”, Mnemosyne 73 (2019), 179-197 (in collaboration with Daniel Kölligan)
  • “Mycenaean wo-ra-we-sa”, Kadmos – Zeitschrift für vor- und frühgriechische Epigraphik 57 (2018), 45-54.
  • “Zeus as (Rider of) Thunderbolt: A Brief Remark on Some of His Epithets”, Harvard Studies in Classical Philology 109 (2018), 1-30.
  • “‘Wherever you are’: Near Eastern influence and Indo-European Heritage in Greek and Hittite Prayer”, Numen – International Review for the History of Religions 65/1 (2017-2018), 62-87.
  • “A Stylistic Remark on the Disjunctive Clause in Sophocles’ Trachiniae 100-101”, Hermes – Zeitschrift für Klassische Philologie 145 (2017), 491-498.
  • “Noun apposition in Greek religious language: a linguistic account”, in: Logozzo, Felicia and Paolo Poccetti (eds.). Ancient Greek Linguistics – New Approaches, Insights, Perspectives. Berlin/Boston: Walter de Gruyter, 2017, pp. 565-579.
  • “Hermes a-re-ja (PY Tn 316): a new interpretation”, Kadmos – Zeitschrift für vor- und frühgriechische Epigraphik 55 (2016), 67-82.
  • “Two divine epithets in Stesichorus: Poseidon ἱπποκέλευθος and Aphrodite ἠπιόδωρος”, Classical Philology 111 (2016), 1-18.
  • “The month name Ὁμολώιος, Zeus Ὁμολώιος, Demeter Ὁμολωία, Athena Ὁμολωίς”, Glotta 92 (2016), 145-151.
  • “Entry-marking ἀλλὰ γάρ in Greek tragedy and comedy”, Organon 31 (2016), 107-129.
  • “The month name Ἀγαγύλιος, Artemis Ἀγαγυλαια and Homeric Phraseology”, Classical Quarterly 65 (2015), 1-6.
  • “Δασπλῆτις Ἐρινύς”), Glotta 91 (2015), 128-150 (in collaboration with Daniel Kölligan).
  • “In Between Poetry and Ritual: The Hymn to Dionysus in Sophocles’ Antigone (1115-54)”, Classical Quarterly 61.2 (2011), 402-411.
  • “Breve nota sobre a etimologia de Dioniso”, Synthesis 19 (2012), 29-41.
  • “Vocativos e contexto discursivo na República de Platão”, PhaoS – Revista de Estudos Clássicos 10 (2010 [2012]), 59-83.
  • “φιληδής e outros compostos sigmáticos em -ηδης (μελιηδής, θυμηδής, αὐθάδης)”, PhaoS – Revista de Estudos Clássicos 8 (2008 [2010]), 65-73.
  • “Forma e retórica no Hino a Zeus do Agamêmnon de Ésquilo”, PhaoS – Revista de Estudos Clássicos 5 (2005), 31-48.

C. Reviews

  • Michèle Biraud, Camille Denizot, Richard Faure, L’exclamation en Grec ancien. Kratylos 69 (2024), 99-104.
  • Evert van Emde Boas, Albert Rijksbaron, Luuk Huitink, Mathieu de Bakker, The Cambridge Grammar of Classical Greek. Kratylos 67 (2022), 80-87.
  • Stéphanie Bakker, Gerry Wakker (eds.). Discourse Cohesion in Ancient Greek. Bryn Mawr Classical Review (2010).
  • Emilia Ruiz Yamuza, Tres verbos que significan deber en griego antiguo. Bryn Mawr Classical Review (2009).
  • Luiz Alberto Machado Cabral, O Hino Homérico a Apolo (introdução, tradução, comentários e notas). Letras Clássicas 5 (2005), 299-305.