B. 25 September 1969 in Warsaw.
EDUCATION:
2012: post-doctoral degree (habilitacja), Faculty of History, University of Warsaw;
2000: doctoral degree summa cum laude (histoire et civilisations), Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales (Paris): “L’«'Auxesis d'Athènes». Hérodote, Thucydide et un aspect de l’idéologie athénienne du Ve siècle”;
1995: diplôme d’études approfondies (histoire et civilisations), Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales (Paris): “Ironie et histoire. Le discours de Soclès (Hérodote, V 92)”;
1993: MA, Institute of History, University of Warsaw: “Aitiologia jako zasada kompozycyjna w dziele Herodota z Halikarnasu”;
1988: completes secondary education at XI Liceum Ogólnokształcące im. Mikołaja Reja in Warsaw (classical studies-oriented class);
1988: winner of the National History Contest.
EMPLOYMENT HISTORY:
2012–: associate professor at the Department of Ancient History, IH UW;
2000-2012: assistant professor at the Department of Ancient History, IH UW;
1993-2000: assistant lecturer at the Department of Ancient History, IH UW;
since 2006: member of the editorial board of Palamedes. Journal of Ancient History [ERIH list, NAT category];
1995-2012: member of the editorial board of Mówią Wieki. Magazyn Historyczny.
RESEARCH, GRANTS, SCHOLARSHIPS:
2017–: principal investigator for the research grant of the Polish National Science Centre: “Greek aristocratic culture (8th-5th centuries B.C.): the life-styles and the systems of values”;
2013–2017: one of the coordinators (with Łukasz Niesiołowski-Spano’) of the research grant of the Polish National Programme for the Development of the Humanities: “The Aegean and the Levant at the turn of the Bronze and the Iron Ages”;
2013–2016: principal investigator for the research grant of the Polish National Science Centre: “Purposes and workings of the Athenian ostracism”;
2014: Fulbright visiting fellow (Fulbright Senior Research Award), Department of Classics, Princeton University;
2013: Visiting professor, Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, Paris;
2012: Erasmus visiting lecturer, Utrecht University;
2012: Foundation for Polish Science grant for a translation into English of Sympozjon. Początki greckiej biesiady arystokratycznej (Warsaw, 2011);
2007-2010: research grant from the State Research Committee: “A new edition of the fragmentary Greek historians: regional history, chronography, military history” [Brill’s New Jacoby project];
2006: Junior fellow, Harvard’s Center for Hellenic Studies, Washington, DC;
2004: Visiting assistant professor, Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, Paris;
2004: grant for oversearch library research from the Foundation for Polish Science, Athens;
2003: research grant from Fondation Hardt pour l’étude de l’antiquité classique, Vandoeuvres–Geneva;
2001: Post-doctoral fellowship from the Polish-American Kościuszko Foundation, visiting scholar, Columbia University, Department of Classics;
1995-2010: several short-term research scholarships at the Catholic University of Leuven, Belgium;
1996-1999: main holder of a State Research Committee grant: “Agonisma i Ktema. Historyk grecki i jego publiczność”.
HONOURS AND AWARDS:
2016: University of Warsaw Provost’s award (a temporary salary raise for scholarly and teaching excellence);
2015: Sir Steven Runciman Award nominee for the book The Rise of the Greek Aristocratic Banquet (Oxford University Press, 2014);
2015–present: elected member of the Committee for Classical Studies of the Polish Academy of Sciences (by general vote of Poland’s senior classical scholars with venia legendi);
2014: Fulbright Senior Research Award (Fulbright visiting fellow), Princeton University, Department of Classics;
2012: The Clio Book Prize for the book Symposion (Warsaw, 2011), University of Warsaw;
2006: junior fellow, Harvard’s Center for Hellenic Studies, Washington, DC;
2005: Silver Cross of Merit of the Republic of Poland for scientific and administrative accomplishments;
2004–present: co-opted member of the European Network for Study of Ancient Greek History;
2003: scholarship of the Onassis Foundation in Athens, declined for family reasons;
2001: post-doctoral fellow of the Polish-American Kosciuszko Foundation, Columbia University, Department of Classics;
1988: first prize winner of the Polish National Competition in History (Olimpiada Historyczna) for senior high schools.
MEMBERSHIP IN SCHOLARLY SOCIETIES:
since 2008: member of the Network for the Study of Archaic and Classical Greek Song;
since 2006: member of the American Philological Association;
since 2005: member of the steering committee of the European Network for the History of Ancient Greece;
since 2000: member of Association des Etudes Homériques (Grenoble, France).
SELECTED INVITED LECTURES:
2017: Eranos Vindobonensis-Vortrag, Universität Wien, Institut für Klassische Philologie, Mittel- und Neulatein;
2017: paper read at the DFG-Netzwerk “Konkurrenz und Institutionalisierung in der griechischen Archaik” (Workshop „Perspectives on Archaic Greece“), Institut für Geschichtswissenschaften der Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin;
2017: Ca’ Foscari University in Venice, Dipartimento di Studi Umanistici;
November, 2016: invited speaker at the workshop Herodotus in modern Europe, Netherlands Institute at Athens;
2016: paper read at the annual meeting of the European Network for the Study of Ancient Greek History (Current trends in the study of ancient Greek history: old problems, new questions), The Saxo Institute, Copenhagen University;
May, 2016: Balliol College, Oxford;
April, 2016: Institute of Classics, The Jagiellonian University, Cracow;
April, 2016: Institute of Cultural Anthropology, The Jagiellonian University, Cracow;
April, 2016: memorial lecture: Praelectiones Ressovienses memoriae Leslai Morawiecki dicatae, Institute of History, Rzeszów University;
March, 2016: invited speaker of the VIIIth Cracow Meetings in Classical Antiquity, The Jagiellonian University, Cracow;
March, 2016: invited speaker at the meeting of the Polish Philological Association, Poznań;
February, 2016: webinar at the Department of Classics, Dartmouth College;
January, 2016: lecture at the inaugural meeting of the Committee for Classical Studies, Polish Academy of Sciences;
October, 2015: invited speaker at the Tagung zum 70. Geburtstag von Hans-Joachim Gehrke (Historiographie und Vergangenheitsvorstellungen in der Antike), Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg;
April, 2015: Ca’ Foscari University in Venice, Dipartimento di Studi Umanistici;
December, 2014: Department of Classics, Radboud Universiteit, Nijmegen;
December, 2014: Faculty of Humanities, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam;
November, 2014: La Sapienza University, Rome, Dipartimento di Scienze dell’Antichità;
August, 2014: invited speaker of the 14th Congress of the Fédération internationale des associations d’études classiques (FIEC), Bordeaux;
April, 2014: Columbia University, Department of Classics;
April, 2014: Yale University, Department of Classics;
April, 2014: University of Cincinnati, Department of Classics;
April, 2014: Princeton University, Department of Classics;
January, 2014: keynote speaker of the international conference Feasting and Polis Institutions, Utrecht University;
December, 2013: University of Wrocław, Institute of Classical, Mediterranean and Oriental Studies;
February, 2012: Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Archeologisch Centrum;
April, 2009: Ca’ Foscari University in Venice, Dipartimento di Studi Umanistici;
November, 2008: University of Edinburgh, School of History, Classics and Archaeology;
October, 2006: Berliner Antike-Kolleg für Nachwuchswissenschaftler und Nachwuchswissenschaftlerinnen, Humboldt Universität, Berlin;
April, 2006: Harvard University, Department of Classics;
March, 2006: University of Colorado, Boulder, Department of Classics;
September, 2005: Department of Classics, Radboud Universiteit, Nijmegen;
June, 2004: Institute of History and Archaeology, University of Athens;
April, 2004: a series of invited lectures at the University of Lille II, France;
June, 2003: Institut für Didaktik der Geschichte, Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster;
February, 2002: Corpus Christi College, Oxford;
April, 2001: Brown University, Department of Classics;
April, 2001: Columbia University, Department of Classics.
ADMINISTRATIVE ACTIVITIES:
2013–: deputy director of the College of Intefaculty Studies in the Humanities and Social Sciences of the University of Warsaw;
2008-2013: Chair of the Library Commission, IH UW Advisory Board;
2008-2012: member of the IT system advisory committee of the Deputy Rector of the University of Warsaw;
2005-2008: member of the UW Senate and chair of the Senate Commission on IT Systems;
Academic secretary of the IH UW.
REFEREEING:
American Journal of Philology;
The Classical Journal;
Classical Quarterly;
Classical Receptions Journal;
Edizioni Ca’ Foscari (Venezia);
Eos. Commentarii Societatis Philologae Polonorum;
The Estonian Research Council (ETAg);
Food and History (Brussels – Paris);
Mediterranean Historical Review (Tel Aviv);
The National Science Centre (Poland);
Nederlandse Organisatie voor Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek (NWO), The Netherlands;
Oxford University Press (USA);
Palamedes. A Journal of Ancient History (University of Warsaw)
Yale University.
PROFESSIONAL SERVICE:
2015–present: Member of the scientific board, Quaestiones Oralitatis, University of Wrocław;
2010–present: Warden of the Classical Student Association of the University of Warsaw;
2006–present: Co-founder and member of the editorial board, Palamedes. Journal of Ancient History, University of Warsaw;
2006–present: Co-founder and co-organizer of the undergraduate, graduate, and faculty joint seminar of ancient history, University of Warsaw;
1995–2012: Member of the editorial board, Mówią Wieki. A Historical Magazine.
BOOKS:
- Author: A Prisoner’s Dilemma. Athenian Ostracism and its original Purposes (forthcoming, Spring 2018);
- Co-editor: Ł. Niesiołowski-Spano’ & M. Węcowski (eds), The Aegean and the Levant at the turn of the Bronze and the Iron Ages (forthcoming, 2018);
- Author: The Rise of the Greek Aristocratic Banquet, Oxford University Press, Oxford 2014;
Shortlisted for Sir Steven Runciman Award, 2015;
Reviews:
Eos 101 (2014), p. 111-115 (by K. Bartol);
Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2015.10.42 (by A. Rabinowitz);
Greece & Rome 62 (2015), p. 107 (by K. Vlassopoulos);
Mnemosyne 68 (2015), p. 872-875 (by Th. Figueira);
Sehepunkte. Rezensionsjournal für die Geschichtswissenschaften 15 (2015), Nr 9 (by F. Hobden);
American Journal of Archaeology Online 2016 (120.1) (by A. Steiner);
Tijdschrift voor Geschiedenis 129 (2016), 2, p. 304-305 (by F. van den Eijnde);
- Author: Symposion (9th to 7th century B.C.), Sub Lupa Press, Warszawa 2011, in Polish (2nd edn. Warszawa 2014);
Reviews:
Scientific American. Polish edition [Świat nauki] 12 [244] December 2011, p. 74 (by A. Krzemińska);
Palamedes. A Journal of Ancient History 6, 2011, p. 175-176 (by M. Daszuta);
Arkheologia (Kiev, Ukraine) 2012, 3, p. 126-129 (by A. S. Rusyayeva);
Histmag: http://histmag.org/Marek-Wecowski-Sympozjon-czyli-wspolne-picie-6459 (by S. B. Banasiak);
Przegląd Humanistyczny 2, 2013, p. 187-190 (by S. Sprawski);
- Co-author: B. Bravo, M. Wecowski. E. Wipszycka, A. Wolicki, A History of the Ancient Greeks, vol. II: The Classical period, Warsaw University Press, Warszawa 2009 [in Polish; chapter on the Athenian democracy: p. 345-530];
- Co-author: M. Wecowski, P. Wecowski, J. Czubaty, History. A Handbook [for high schools], PWN Press, Warszawa 2007 [in Polish, republished several times];
- Co-editor: T. Derda, J. Urbanik, M. Wecowski (eds), Euergesias charin. Studies Presented to Benedetto Bravo and Ewa Wipszycka by Their Disciples, R. Taubenschlag Foundation (sumptibus auctorum), Warszawa 2002;
- Author: Antiquity. Handbook of Ancient History [for middle schools], PWN Press, Warszawa 2002 [in Polish];
- Author: The Classical Antiquity. Texbook for high schools, WSiP Press, Warszawa 1999, 2nd ed. 2002 [in Polish];
- Co-translator and scientific editor: P. Vidal-Naquet, Le Chasseur noir. Formes de pensée et formes de société dans le monde grec, Prószyński & Co. Press, Warszawa 2003 [Polish translation];
- Scientific co-editor: M. Grmek, Diseases in the Ancient Greek World, Warszawa 2002 [Polish translation];
- Translator and scientific editor: H.-I. Marrou, Décadence romaine ou antiquité tardive? Volumen Press, Warszawa 1997 [Polish translation].
SELECTED ARTICLES:
- “The Middle-Geometric Attic koine and the rise of the aristocratic symposion”, [w:] S. Handberg & A. Gadolou (red.), Material Koinai in the Greek Early Iron Age and Archaic Period. Acts of an International Conference at the Danish Institute at Athens, 30 January – 1 February 2015 (Monographs of the Danish Institute at Athens, 22), Aarchus 2017, p. 315-322;
- “Wine and the early history of the Greek alphabet. Early Greek vase-inscriptions and the symposion”, [in:] Y. Tzifopoulos et al. (eds), Proceedings of the conference Panhellenes at Methone: graphê in Late Geometric and Protoarchaic Methone (De Gruyter, Trends in Classics, Suppl. vol. 44), p. 309-327;
- “The earliest Greek convivial inscriptions and the origins of the Greek alphabet”, Quaestiones Oralitatis 3 (2016), 25-51 [in Polish];
- “Herodotus in Thucydides: A Hypothesis”, [in:] J. Priestley & V. Zali (eds), Brill’s Companion to the Reception of Herodotus in Antiquity and Beyond, Leiden – Boston 2016 (Brill), p. 17-32;
- “Slaves or aristocrats? Naked boys in the archaic symposion”, Przegląd Humanistyczny 2 (2013), p. 37-43;
- “The Origins of the Symposion. An Archaeological Approach” [in Polish], [in:] R. Kulesza & al. (eds), Świat antyczny. Państwo i społeczeństwo, Warszawa 2013, p. 71-98;
- “In the Shadow of Pericles: Athens’ Samian Victory and the Organisation of the Pentekontaetia in Thucydides”, [in:] A. Tsakmakis & M. Tamiolaki (eds), Thucydides Between History and Literature, Berlin – New York 2013 (De Gruyter), (Trends in Classics, Suppl. 16), p. 154-166;
- “When did the Symposion Rise? Some archaeological considerations regarding the emergence of the Greek aristocratic banquet”, Archaiognosia 16.1-3 (2010-2012), p. 25-54;
- “Can Zeus be deceived? The Mekone Episode (Hesiod, Theogony 535-561) between Theodicy and Power-Politics”, Klio. Beiträge zur alten Geschichte 94.1 (2012), p. 45-54;
- “On the Historicity of the ‘Homeric World’: Some methodological considerations”, [in:] A. Mazarakis Ainian (ed.), The “Dark Ages” Revisited. Acts of an international symposium in memory of William D. E. Coulson. University of Thessaly, Volos, 14-17 June 2007, Volos 2011, vol. I, p. 73-81;
- “Symposion” [in Polish], [in:] W. Lengauer & L. Trzcionkowski (eds), Antropologia antyku greckiego. Zagadnienia i wybór tekstów, Warszawa 2011, p. 399-413;
- “Greece in the Making and the Polis”, Palamedes. A Journal of Ancient History 4 (2009), p. 167-176;
- “Can Zeus be deceived? The Mekone Episode (Hesiod, Theogony 535-561) between Theodicy and Power-Politics” [in Polish], [in:] A. Wolicki (ed.), TIMAI. Studia poświęcone profesorowi Włodzimierzowi Lengauerowi, Warszawa 2009, p. 158-167;
- “Friends or Foes? Herodotus in Thucydides’ Prologue”, [in:] J. Pigoń (ed.), The Children of Herodotus. Greek and Roman Historiography and Related Genres, Cambridge 2008, p. 34-57;
- “The Symposion, the polis, and aristocracy” [in Polish], [in:] J. Axer & J. Olko (eds), Dawne elity. Slowo i gest, Warszawa 2005 [2006], p. 11-20;
- “The Hedgehog and the Fox. Form and Meaning in the Prologue of Herodotus”, The Journal of Hellenic Studies 124 (2004), p. 143-164;
- “’The auxesis of Athens’. A Forgotten Aspect of the Athenian Ideology of the Fifth Century BC” [in Polish, with a summary in English], [in:] L. Morawiecki & P. Berdowski (eds), Ideology and propaganda in antiquity, Rzeszów 2004, p. 101-124;
- “Towards a definition of the symposion”, [in:] T. Derda, J. Urbanik, M. Wecowski (eds), Euergesias charin. Studies Presented to Benedetto Bravo and Ewa Wipszycka by Their Disciples, Warszawa 2002, p. 337-361;
- “Homer and the origins of the symposion”, [in:] F. Montanari (ed.), Omero tremila anni dopo. Atti del congresso di Genova 6-8 luglio 2000, Roma 2002, p. 625-637;
- “Ironie et histoire. Le discours de Soclès (Hérodote, V 92)”, Ancient Society 26 (1996), p. 205-258;
- “De Herodoti excursu Scythico eiusque compositione” [in Polish, with a summary in Latin], Meander 50 (1995), p. 305-319;
- “Arnaldo Momigliano and the classical foundations of modern historiography” [in Polish], Przegląd Historyczny 83 (1992), p. 727-742.
TEXT-EDITIONS:
- Edition, translation, and commentary: “Pseudo-Democritus, or Bolos of Mendes (BNJ 263 = FGrHist 263)”, [in:] Brill’s New Jacoby (citation: Wecowski, Marek. “Pseudo-Democritus, or Bolos of Mendes (263).” Brill's New Jacoby. Editor in Chief: Ian Worthington (University of Missouri). Brill, 2011. Brill Online. BNJ-contributors. <http://brillonline.nl/subscriber/entry?entry=bnj_a263>);
- Edition, translation, and commentary: “Anaximander the Younger of Miletus (FGrHist 9)”, [in:] Brill’s New Jacoby (citation: Wecowski, Marek. “Anaximander the Younger (9).” Brill's New Jacoby. Editor in Chief: Ian Worthington, (University of Missouri-Columbia). Brill, 2010. Brill Online. Jacoby Scholars. <http://www.brillonline.nl/subscriber/entry?entry=bnj_a9>);
- Edition, translation, and commentary: “Hippias of Elis (BNJ 6 = FGrHist 6)”, [in:] Brill’s New Jacoby (citation: Wecowski, Marek. “Hippias of Elis (6).” Brill's New Jacoby. Editor in Chief: Ian Worthington, (University of Missouri-Columbia). Brill, 2009. Brill Online. Jacoby Scholars. <http://www.brillonline.nl/subscriber/entry?entry=bnj_a6>).
REVIEWS, OBITUARIES:
- Book-review: F. Hobden, The symposion in ancient Greek society and thought (Cambridge 2013), [in:] Gnomon. Kritische Zeitschrift für die gesamte klassische Altertumswissenschaft 87 (2015): 6, p. 520-524;
- Book-review: M. Tamiolaki, Liberté et esclavage chez les historiens grecs classiques (Paris 2010), [in:] Histos 8 (2014): http://research.ncl.ac.uk/histos/documents/2014RR06WecowskionTamiolaki.pdf;
- Book-review: M. L. West, The Making of the ‘Iliad’. Disquisition and Analytical Commentary (Oxford 2011), [in:] Palamedes. A Journal of Ancient History 7 (2012), p. 203-207;
- Book-review: M. L. Catoni, Bere vino puro: immagini del simposio (Milano 2010), [in:] Bryn Mawr Classical Review, 65/11/2011: http://bmcr.brynmawr.edu/2011/2011-11-65.html;
- Book-review: M. Giangiulio (ed.), Erodoto e il »modello erodoteo«. Formazione e trasmissione delle tradizioni storiche in Grecia (Trento 2005), [in:] Incidenza dell’Antico. Dialoghi di storia greca 5 (2007), p. 241-245;
- Obituary: “Pierre Vidal-Naquet (1930-2006), un historien entre deux mondes”, [in:] Palamedes. A Journal of Ancient History 1 (2006), p. 11-14;
- Book-review: M. Reddé, L. Dubois, D. Briquel, H. Lavagne, F. Queyrel (eds), La naissance de la ville dans l’antiquité (Paris 2003), [in:] Bryn Mawr Classical Review, 18/01/2005: http://bmcr.brynmawr.edu/2005/2005-01-18.html;
- Book-review: C. J. Tuplin (ed.), Pontus and the Outside World. Studies in Black Sea History, Historiography and Archaeology (Leiden – Boston 2004), [in:] Archeologia 55 (2005), p. 136-138 [in Polish];
- Book-review: G. M. Bongard-Lievin (ed.), Скифский роман [Life and writings of M.I. Rostovtzeff] (Moscow 1997), [in:] Archeologia 50 (1999), p. 107-108 [in Polish]