I have received my doctorate in the department of Classics in Istanbul University in which he is also teaching as an Assistant Professor since 2013. As a faculty member at Istanbul University, I teach Archaic Greek Poetry, Early Greek Thought, and Classical Greek Thought. My main research fields focus on the notions of truth in the Archaic Greek Poetry from the eight to fifth century BCE and also in the Platonic tradition including neo-Platonists. In this academic year, he will focus on synthesis of apophatic and kataphatic theological approaches in early Christian thought as visiting scholar in Harvard Divinity School.

我为什么加入 Couchsurfing

One of my friends frequently tell me I do not only have curls outside of my skull, but also inside of it : ) I have been always a thinker and writer even before I was not illiterate five years old little boy. I jot down everything in my little notebook. But this attitude does not display my introvert character, contrary this is my extrovert part. That is why, I would like to meet new people from different cultures.

兴趣

Reading for my own research (it is both my job and entertainment in some sense), cooking, practicing guitar, singing, reading loudly (mostly reciting poems), biking, tasting good wine, working out, having inspiring conversations, pondering on who I am....

• humanities
• writing
• poetry
• singing
• folklore
• dining
• cooking
• wine
• working out
• reading
• guitar
• cycling
• divinity
• teaching
• languages

音乐、电影和书籍

Music

Jazz, and every kind of music based on improvisation, I fell in love Bird's (Charlie Parker) music when I was 13 years old. I have been listening Jazz music after that amazing experience. But I would love to discovery everything musical, music is the only truth in the universe!

Movies

I love to explore the history of cinema. Directors: Tarkovsky is on the top, Paradjanov, Bergman, Buñuel, Fellini, Antonini, Visconti, Wajda, Kurosawa, Ozon, Godard, Wong Kar-wai, Makhmalbaf...

Books
Its hard list all of them. Ancient Greek Literature was always one of my best: Homer and Plato are on the top, Demosthenes, Lysias, Sappho (ah such a beauty), Plutarch, Lucian...
and Latin Literature: Virgil and Cicero are on the top, Ovid, Terence, Horace...
Modern novel and poetry: Dostoevsky, Tolstoy, Balzac, Flaubert, Musil, Proust, Rilke, Hafiz, Rumi...

我做过的一件不可思议的事情

Honestly most amazing thing in any life must be falling in love. I met a women in Istanbul and fell in love with her. But she was living in Bremen/Germany, I wrote her letters and poems without seeing her for four years. It was the most amazing thing in my life.

教，学，和分享

I teach Ancient Greek and Latin, and like to have conversation on etymologies on Greek and Latin terms and their derivatives in Western languages. I have recently started to learn Syriac language.

我可以与沙发主分享些什么

Above all my world in antiquity (I really feel at home in Classical Athens), I like cooking and sharing my food with my friends, it is great to share my skills and energy with new people, and learn a lot from every single being.

我游览过的国家

Austria, Canada, France, Georgia, Germany, Greece, Israel, Mexico, Spain, Switzerland, United States

我居住过的国家

Germany, Switzerland, Turkey, United States