Raffaella Cribiore
Rafaella Cribiore is professor of Classics at New York University. She specialises in papyrology, ancient education, ancient Greek rhetoric and the Second Sophistic.Education
Cribiore received her PhD from the Department of Classics at Columbia University in 1993. Her doctoral thesis was entitled Writing, Teachers and Students in Graeco-Roman Egypt. She received her BA from Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore in 1972.Career
Cribiore was Curator of Papyri, Rare Book and Manuscripts Library at Columbia University. She has been Professor at New York University since 2008. Cribiore has written extensively on ancient literacy and education, ancient Egypt and papyrology, and late antique rhetoric. Cribiore's work, Gymnastics of the Mind: Greek Education in Hellenistic and Roman Egypt won the Charles Goodwin Award in 2004.Selected publications
- Writing, Teachers, and Students in Graeco-Roman Egypt
- Gymnastics of the Mind: Greek Education in Hellenistic and Roman Egypt
- Women’s Letters from Ancient Egypt 300 BC-AD 800
- The School of Libanius in Late Antique Antioch
- Martina’s Town
- Libanius the Sophist: Rhetoric, Reality and Religion in the Fourth Century
- An Oasis City
- Between City and School: Selected Orations of Libanius
