!!Ineke Sluiter - Biography
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Ineke Sluiter (PhD 1990, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam) is Professor of Greek at Leiden University. Her research focuses on ancient ideas on language (grammar, rhetoric, ancient literary theory and ancient exegetical practices). Her other major research interest is ancient and modern public discourse on norms and values. She was the co-director of the  “Penn-Leiden Colloquia on Ancient Values” (with Ralph Rosen, 2000-2010); six volumes have appeared on this topic, most recently Aesthetic Value in Classical Antiquity, Leiden 2012. She is also well-known for the connections she makes between current societal issues and the study of the ancient world.
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For over ten years, Ineke Sluiter was responsible for the graduate education of Classics PhD students in the Netherlands, as the academic director of the national graduate school of Classical studies (OIKOS). She supervised 10 (published) dissertations with another 10 underway.
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Ineke Sluiter is a member of the Royal Dutch Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW) and of the Royal Holland  Society of Arts and Sciences (KHMW).
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In 2010 she won the Spinoza-prize, the highest academic distinction in the Netherlands.