{"id":10103,"date":"2023-08-14T15:55:14","date_gmt":"2023-08-14T19:55:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/classics\/?post_type=profile&#038;p=10103"},"modified":"2026-01-29T15:15:40","modified_gmt":"2026-01-29T20:15:40","slug":"xander-tyska","status":"publish","type":"profile","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/classics\/faculty-profiles\/xander-tyska\/","title":{"rendered":"Xander Tyska"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"\/classics\/files\/2023\/08\/C.V.-Tyska-August-2024.pdf\">Curriculum Vitae<\/a><\/p>\n<div data-ogsc=\"\">Alexander Tyska, who has always gone by his nickname, Xander, is a second-year Ph.D. student in Classical Studies at Boston University. He received his B.A. in the Liberal Arts from St. John\u2019s College, Annapolis in 2021, and his M.A. in Classics (specializing in Greek) from the University of Colorado, Boulder in 2023.<\/div>\n<div data-ogsc=\"\"><\/div>\n<div data-ogsc=\"\">His research has hitherto focused on Greek poetry, Herodotus, Lucretius and Vergil, ancient philosophy, the history of political thought, and the reception of ancient texts by modern thinkers, especially Friedrich Nietzsche.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":21762,"template":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/classics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/10103"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/classics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/classics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/profile"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/classics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/21762"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/classics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/10103\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10843,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/classics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/10103\/revisions\/10843"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/classics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10103"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}