About

Eleni Bozia is an Associate Professor of Classics and Digital Humanities at the University of Florida. She studies linguistic and cultural diversity in Imperial Greek and Latin literature and its intersection with modern globalism. She is the co-founder and Associate Director of the Digital Epigraphy and Archaeology Project, an international consortium dedicated to the 3D digitization and preservation of historical artifacts, promoting collaboration between the humanities and sciences. Bozia is a pioneer in applying AI to the humanities and is the Founder and Head of the Data-Driven Humanities Research Group. She also serves as Vice Chair of the Florida Digital Humanities Consortium and is the Commissioning Editor for Classics at the Literary Encyclopedia. Her academic background includes two doctoral degrees: a Ph.D. in Classical Studies from the University of Florida and a Dr. phil. in Digital Humanities from Universität Leipzig. Her work has been supported by notable institutions such as the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, and she has received several awards including the Young Researcher Scholarship from La Fondation Hardt and the Mary A. Sollman Scholarship from the American Academy in Rome. Bozia is an accomplished author, having published books on Roman culture and language politics, and is involved in editing volumes on multilingual literary practices. She is currently working on a forthcoming book exploring identity and otherness between the classical and modern worlds. Additionally, she has delivered talks on topics including identity, otherness, digital humanities, AI, and digital preservation of world heritage, and is a TEDx speaker and guest on related podcasts.

Research topics

• Computer Science
• Artificial Intelligence
• Literature
• Art
• History
• Combinatorics
• Library science
• Classics
• Mathematics

Selected publications

• Hippocentaurs and Litigating Consonants. Imperial Authors’ Arguments for Language Renewal

  Studies in Byzantine history and civilization · 2026-02-01

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  This paper studies the Imperial perspective on standard language and individual authors’ attempts to transcend it in favor of establishing their own language standards. Specifically, I look into Sextus Empiricus’ Against the Grammarians to set up a framework of analogy in Atticism and Hellenismós and the role of lexicographers and grammarians. Then I closely study Galen and Lucian, who make their case of correctness in terms of traditional propriety but not at the expense of contemporary lectical currency.

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• Imperial Authors' Re-experience of Greco-Roman Geography

  2026-04-25

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  This chapter examines Imperial Roman literature from the first- to third-century CE through the lens of theories of space and memory, arguing that literary works from this period reinvent geographical and conceptual spaces to construct a new system of cultural experiences. Drawing on the spatial theories of Henri Lefebvre, Setha Low, and David Harvey, alongside John Locke's ideas on memory experience, Said's concept of memory and space, and Pierre Nora's lieux de mémoire , the chapter explores how Imperial authors use literature to create spaces that exist at the intersection of Hellenic memory, Roman geography, and contemporary cultural dynamics. Focusing on Aelius Aristides, a Greek orator, and Pausanias, a Greek traveller and geographer, it demonstrates how their texts—the Encomium on Rome , the Panathenaic Oration , and the Description of Greece —redefine spatial experience by merging literary representation with cultural memory and experience. Through these authors, it reveals a process of ‘reexperienced cartography’, where the interplay between literature and geography generates a unique conceptual space that both reflects and reconstructs the socio-political landscape of the Roman Empire, and offers a new perspective on how literature and geography mutually shape and redefine each other in the context of Roman Imperial culture.

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• Introduction: Multilingualism—Bridging Ancient and Modern Worlds

  Journal of Literary Multilingualism · 2025-10-03

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• Artificial Intelligence for Classical Literary Texts

  2025-10-22

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  This chapter explores the intersection of Artificial Intelligence and classical studies through the work of the Data-Driven Humanities Research Group at the University of Florida. With a focus on Ancient Greek and Latin, the group employs machine learning for lemmatization, sentence modeling, and sentiment analysis across the surviving corpora. This chapter details the methodology, from data collection and formatting to the development of custom querying and preliminary results on sentiment attribution. Additionally, this work argues for a mutually enriching relationship between AI and the humanities, demonstrating how classical studies can inform the ethical development of AI, while AI enhances new modes of inquiry into ancient texts.

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• Preliminary Material

  2024-08-28

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• Lucian of Samosata’s Imaginative Divine and Human Landscapes

  Preternature Critical and Historical Studies on the Preternatural · 2024-01-04

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  ABSTRACT This article presents Lucian’s theocentric works through the lens of fictional narratology and sociopragmatics and argues that he builds imaginary worlds that feature delinquent gods, regretful and spiteful corpses that contemplate life, and lands inhabited by lamp-shaped beings to explore humanity’s exploration of life and religious beliefs. More specifically, The Parliament of the Gods, Zeus Catechized, Zeus Rants, On Sacrifices, Dialogues of the Gods, Menippus, Icaromenippus, and the True Story are closely studied to argue that Lucian conceptualizes the quest into life’s unknowns by engineering imaginary worlds, estranging the normal, and questioning ground truths about life. Ultimately, he actualizes literary fiction to explain theology and philosophical inquiries and their implications for everyday people.

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• To Know Thyself Through the Other: The Literary Convergences of Lucian and Justin

  Zeitschrift für Antikes Christentum / Journal of Ancient Christianity · 2024-05-30

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  Abstract The paper engages in a comparative analysis of two prominent figures from the 2d century CE—Lucian of Samosata and Justin the Martyr. Lucian, the epideictic orator and social commentator, reintroduces the Olympians while rethinking paganism and engaging with Justin and the Apologists. Conversely, Justin, embodying the Christian pepaideumenos , places the new religion at the literary forefront and questions the stereotype of Christian simplicity. The paper argues that, in the context of reformative, paideutic Imperial culture, Lucian and Justin challenge the literary and religious status quo and engage the readers in a reconsideration of Christianity through the lens of the Second Sophistic and vice versa.

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• Redefining the Standards in Attic, Koine, and Atticism

  2024-03-14

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  Scholarship surrounding the standard varieties of Ancient Greek (Attic, the Koine, and Atticistic Greek) focused from its beginnings until relatively recently on determining fixed uniformities or differences between them. This collection of essays advocates for understanding them as interconnected and continuously evolving and suggests viewing them as living organisms shaped by their speakers and texts. The authors propose approaches that integrate linguistics, sociolinguistics, and literary studies to explore how speakers navigate linguistic norms and social dynamics, leading to innovations and reshaping of standards. Each contribution challenges the dichotomy between standards and deviations, suggesting that studying linguistic diversity through socio-literary interconnectedness can enrich our understanding of language history and cultural wealth.

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• Introduction

  2024-08-28

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  deviations' from those standards in the form of 'innovations' , we examine how seemingly disparate ways of speaking and expressing oneself, when studied through the lens of socio-literary interconnectedness, may translate linguistic standardization and complexity into historico-linguistic and cultural continuity and language wealth.Within this framework, the contributors apply interdisciplinary perspectives to provide new insights into the complexity of Greek and language use overall.Weinreich, Labov, and Herzog (1968, pp.100-101), in their work on dialects, speak of "orderly heterogeneity" that modulates into "structured variation".The contributions of this volume trace the process through the homogeneous heterogeneity of the speakers themselves and investigate more of what is behind and beyond the labels Attic, Koine, and Atticist Greek, drawing a new picture of the interplay between them and the amalgamated socio-literary reality they bring about.Our intention is to transcend the traditional boundaries-chronological, stylistic, and dialectal-and provide 'snapshots' from the long and complex history of Greek on the way the three

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• Politics of Atticism: Prefiguring New Imperial Citizenship

  2024-08-28 · 1 citations

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Frequent coauthors

• Angelos Barmpoutis

  University of Florida

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• Robert S. Wagman

  5 shared

• Franziska Naether

  3 shared

• Chiara Monaco

  3 shared

• Robert Machado

  3 shared

• Monica Berti

  2 shared

• Josephine Hensel

  Leipzig University

  2 shared

• Miriam Amin

  Leipzig University

  2 shared

Labs

• Data-Driven Humanities Research GroupPI

Awards & honors

• Young Researcher Scholarship from La Fondation Hardt in Gene…
• Mary A. Sollman Scholarship from the American Academy in Rom…