—Classical Thought and Language
—Medieval Thought and Language
—Classical Languages and the Vocabulary of Philosophy in the West
—The Lasting Legacy of the Classical Tradition
—The Classical Roots of Individuality and Subjectivity

Research groups currently working in the departments involved:

Research projects

Tradició indirecta de la Tragèdia grega (Èsquil i Sòfocles) [Indirect Tradition in Greek tragedy: Aeschylus and Sophocles] (BFF2003-06406); Department of Greek, 2003-2006.

Ser griego en el imperio romano / Ser grec a l’Imperi romà [To be Greek in the Roman Empire] (BFF2003-06348); Department of Greek, 2003-2006.

Archifiguras dramáticas femeninas y teatro occidental [The Woman as a Dramatic Archfigure and Western Theatre] (BFF2000-1436), University of Valencia, with the participation of the Department of Greek.

La recepció del teatre àtic en l'antiguitat: construcció d'una imatge i usos literaris [The Reception of the Attic Theatre in Antiquity: the Construction of an Image and Literary Uses] HUM2006-11719/FILO. Department of Greek, 2007-2009.

Los contextos del drama àtico: de la inserción en la polis a la teorización filosòfica [The Contexts of Attic Drama: from the Insertion in the polis to Philosophical Theorizing] FF2009-13747. Head researcher: Jaume Pòrtulas.

Estudis sobre literatura grega antiga i la seva recepció [Studies on Ancient Greek literature and its Reception], ELGAR, recognized and financed research group. Code: 2009 SGR 799.

Glossarium mediae latinitatis cataloniae (GMLC), recognized and financed research group. Code: 2009 SGR 705. Head researcher: Pere J. Quetglas Nicolau.

Filósofas del siglo XX: aportaciones al pensamiento filosófico y político [Twentieth-Century Women Philosophers: Contributions to Philosophical and Political Thought] FFI2009-08468. Head researcher: Rosa Rius Gatell.

Consolidated research groups

LITTERA. A laboratory for the research into and treatment of Roman and Ancient Epigraphic texts. Head researcher: Dr. Marc Mayer Olivé.

Graecia Capta. A study group working to examine the relationship between the Greek and Roman worlds. Group established in 2009. Code: 2009 SGR. Head researcher: Francesca Mestre.

Aula Carles Riba. A study group working to examine the impact of the Classical world on Catalan culture. Group established in 2009. Code: 2009 SGR 00814. Head researcher: Carles Miralles.

Hermeneutics and Platonism. Official code: URL9024. An emerging research group founded in1992 and recognized for the period 2009-2013. Coordinator: Josep Montserrat Moles.

Studies in the Literature of Ancient Greece and its Reception. Consolidated emerging research group. Code: 2009 SGR 799. Head researcher: Xavier Riu.

Lingorie (Group for Ancient Near Eastern Languages- Assyriology, and Semitic and Indoeuropean Studies). Recognized and financed research group. Code: 2009 SGR 1241. Head researcher: Joaquín Sanmartín Ascaso.

Collaborative agreements for research and doctoral theses

Departament of Greek

Erasmus collaborations with the following universities: Humboldt (Berlin), Franche-Comté (Besançon), Cagliari, Albert-Ludwig (Freiburg), Roma Tor Vergata, Trento, Charles de Gaulle - Lille III, Ioannina.

Doctoral thesis co-tutoring agreement with the University of Trento, as part of the international doctoral program with the universities Lille III, Freiburg and Cagliari.

Draft doctoral and research agreement with the following universities: Charles de Gaulle-Lille III, Federico II (Naples), Siena, Humboldt (Berlin), Alacant, Cologne, Lecce, Bordeaux, Cambridge, Oxford, and CNRS Villejuif.

International research agreement with the University of Cagliari and the Albert-Ludwig University of Freiburg.

With universities in France, Italy and Switzerland, the UB's Department of Greek is a member of PARSA (Pôle Alpin pour la Recherche sur les Sociétés Anciennes), which organizes an annual congress (hosted by Barcelona in 2004).

Centro di Ricerca Interdepartamentale Multimediale sul Teatro Antico (CRIMTA), at the Department of Antiquity Sciences (Dipartimento di Scienze dell’Antichità) at the University of Pavia.

The study seminar Filosofia i Gènere on women’s philosophical production, since November 1990 at the University of Barcelona, at the Department of History, Aesthetics and Cultural Philosophy (Faculty of Philosophy) and at the Department of Greek (Faculty of Philology).

The Inter-University Institute of Women's Studies and Gender Research (iiEDG) at the UB.

Agreement with the University of Chieti for the completion of research seminars and for second- and third-cycle student and teacher exchanges.

Agreement with Paris-Sorbonne University (Paris IV) for collaboration in research, the completion of seminars and second- and third-cycle student and teacher exchanges.

Doctoral theses

Sergi Grau Guijarro, La imatge del filòsof i de l'activitat filosòfica a Grècia Antiga. Anàlisi dels tòpics biogràfics presents a les Vides i doctrines dels filòsofs més il·lustres, de Diògenes Laerci, 2008. Thesis supervisor: Dr. Jaume Pòrtulas. PPU. SEEC National Prize and the Vives University Network Prize.

Xavier Martínez Villarroya, El cetro, la crátera y el niño, 2008. Thesis supervisor: Dr. Miguel Candel.

Nemrod Carrasco Nicola, Del Càrmides al Teéteto. Perspectivas de la doxa en Platón, 2006. Thesis supervisor: Dr. Antonio Alegre.

Francisco David Corrales Cordón, Persuasión y movimiento; estudio sobre la Retórica de Aristóteles desde sus fundamentos físicos, 2010. Thesis supervisor: Dr. Antonio Alegre.

Seminars and talks delivered within the framework of the master's degree

André Laks, Paris-Sorbonne University (Paris IV):

• Seminar: "Le papyrus de Derveni: une cosmogonie orphique?", 21 May 2007.
• Talk: "La libertad en Las Leyes de Platón", 22 May 2007.
• Course: "Vells papirs, textos nous", in collaboration with the Catalan Society for Classical Studies at the Institute of Catalan Studies, 21 February - 20 May 2008.

Carlos Lévy, Paris-Sorbonne University (Paris IV):

• Talk: "La philosophie de Philon d'Alexandrie", 26 March 2009.

Cathérine Darbo-Péschanski, French National Centre for Scientific Research, Paris:

• Seminar: "Les interprétations de l'historíe", 12-15 May 2009.

Jean Luis Labarrière, French National Centre for Scientific Research, Oxford:

• Talk: "Les animaux et l'éthique chez Aristote", 15 May 2009.

Stella Georgoudi, École Pratique d'Hautes Études, Paris:

• Seminar: "Considerations sur le sacrifice en Grèce", 20 May 2009.

Marcello Zanatta:

• Talk: "Gli scritti del primo Aristotele", 10 March 2010.

Daniela Fausti, University of Siena:

• Talk: "Il corpus ippocratico", 15 March 2010.
• Talk: "Ippocrate e la filosofia presocratica", 16 March 2010.
• Seminar: "Filodemo e la semiotica", 17 March 2010.