Linked project · Leadership and crisis
LACRIMALit
Leadership and crisis management in ancient literature, explored through texts and structured historical knowledge.
Linked project · hosted by the institution named below.
The research question
How do leaders respond when an established order breaks down?
LACRIMALit studies crises in Greco-Roman literature. Its ontology of crisis provides an event-centred way to organise historical knowledge and connect events with their participants and contexts.
Aims & approach
- Examine urgent threats and responses.
- Investigate breakdowns of trust between leaders and followers.
- Analyse conspiracies, revolutions and betrayals.
Explore the outputs & resources
Project facts & funding
- Host
- Institute for Mediterranean Studies, FORTH
- Principal investigator
- Melina Tamiolaki
- Funding
- Hellenic Foundation for Research and Innovation
- Period
- 2022–2025
- Collaborating institution
- University of Crete
Image credits
Michiel Sweerts and workshop · Plague in an Ancient City · Public domain.
Images resized and converted to WebP. Historical illustrations provide context; they are not project results.