{"id":56490,"date":"2013-12-13T10:53:36","date_gmt":"2013-12-13T15:53:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bu.edu\/experts\/?post_type=profile&#038;p=56490"},"modified":"2019-11-01T15:24:36","modified_gmt":"2019-11-01T19:24:36","slug":"zsuzsanna-varhelyi","status":"publish","type":"profile","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/prsocial\/profile\/zsuzsanna-varhelyi\/","title":{"rendered":"Zsuzsanna Varhelyi"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Professor Varhelyi was born in Budapest, Hungary during the Communist era, an experience that has led her to a keen interest in how such circumstances may shape our\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/people.bu.edu\/varhelyi\/immediacy.htm\">lives<\/a>. Having trained at ELTE (Budapest) and at the University of Heidelberg (Germany), she came to the United States to pursue a PhD in History at Columbia University in New York. Her scholarship focuses on the rich and complex evidence surviving from the late Republic and early Imperial Rome, a period that saw ideas emerge that are still with us today: questions about how one should live one\u2019s life, among others by the Stoics, and the role of religion in it, both by \u201cpagans\u201d and by post-Second-Temple Jews and Christians (\u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/books.google.com\/books?id=McAL-6Vd6NsC&amp;dq=Varhelyi+Ancient+Mediterranean+Sacrifice&amp;source=gbs_navlinks_s\">Ancient Mediterranean Sacrifice<\/a>\u201d). These issues have shaped her work on the Roman elite in a period of political oppression, and guide her current research on individuality and selfhood in the Roman empire. She has also published on human sacrifice and post-traumatic stress among Roman soldiers, gender and domesticity, and ancient literacy, among others. Her teaching incorporates research on both the undergraduate and graduate level: her courses examine Roman history, Greek and Roman religions, Public virtues and private vices in the Roman Empire, and read Latin prose on all levels.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11144,"template":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/prsocial\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/56490"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/prsocial\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/prsocial\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/profile"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/prsocial\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11144"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/prsocial\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/56490\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":70835,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/prsocial\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/56490\/revisions\/70835"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/prsocial\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=56490"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}