#  Amit Shilo 

 

 



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Amit Shilo has a Ph.D. in Classics from NYU (2012), where he worked as a Language Lecturer (2012-13). His research engages the mixtures of politics and theology in ancient Greek tragedy and Plato, the Hebrew Bible, and the modern world. His dissertation, entitled The Tablet Writing Mind of Hades: Poetics of the Afterlife in the Oresteia, analyzes the variety of afterlife conceptions in Aeschylus's trilogy and their ethical and political implications. It argues that the Oresteia provides one of the earliest examples in Western thought of afterlife judgment as an ethical counterpoint to nationalistic collective violence. At Harvard, he is revising his dissertation for publication and developing a contrast with the Jewish tradition, especially modern Zionism and its literary critiques. His article on the afterlife in Greek tragedy and Plato will appear in ThéoRèmes in the fall and he has presented papers at the American Philological Association. To further Classics through technology, he manages the Libanius Translation Project and the Ancient Greek Social Media Project. He is also a National Humanities Program Scholar for the Ancient Greeks/Modern Lives program, and received the Phillip Lockhart Fellowship at the American School of Classical Studies in Athens (2007-08).

 

 

 





 

 

- ## Discipline
    
     [Classics](/disciplines/classics)
- ## Fellowship
    
     [Postdoctoral](/fellowship/postdoctoral)
- ## Fellowship Year
    
     [2013 - 2014](/fellowship-year/2013-2014)
- ## Role
    
     [Fellows](/role/fellow)