Irena Radová
{{Short description|Czech philologist}}
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Irena Radová (born 3 September 1975) is a Czech classical philologist. She is dean of the Faculty of Arts at Masaryk University.{{Cite web |last=Požár |first=Ondřej |date=2022-01-10 |title=Děkankou Filozofické fakulty MU se stane Irena Radová |url=https://www.em.muni.cz/udalosti/14662-dekankou-filozoficke-fakulty-byla-zvolena-irena-radova |access-date=2025-03-25 |website=em.muni.cz |language=cs}}
Career
Radová studied Latin, German and Greek at Masaryk University, Brno, where she received her doctorate in 2003, with a thesis Zpracování mýtu o Argonautech v díle Apollónia Rhodského a Valeria Flakka.{{Cite web |title=doc. Mgr. Irena Radová, Ph.D. – Basic information |url=https://www.muni.cz/en/people/9402-irena-radova |access-date=2025-03-25 |publisher=Masaryk University}} Since 2004, Radová has worked in the Department of Classical Studies in the Faculty of Arts at Masaryk University.{{Cite book |last=Fasora |first=Lukáš |title=Sto tváří, sto příběhů: Vybrané osobnosti v dějinách Filozofické fakulty Masarykovy univerzity |last2=Čermin |first2=Jan |last3=Čerminová |first3=Jana |last4=Hanuš |first4=Jiří |last5=Máliková |first5=Michaela |date=2020 |publisher=Masaryk University Press |isbn=978-80-210-9605-9 |series=MUNI ARTS 100 }} In 2010, she was awarded a habilitation for Genologická typologie starořeckých scholií, published in 2011 as Altgriechische Scholien. Ein typologischer Versuch.{{Cite book |last=Radová |first=Irena |url=https://www.muni.cz/en/research/publications/952627 |title=Altgriechische Scholien. Ein typologischer Versuch |last2=Deutsche Übersetzung Zdena |first2=Janásková |last3=Radová |first3=Irena |date=2011 |publisher=Koniasch Latin Press |isbn=978-80-86791-58-6}} From 2022 to 2026 Radová is dean of the Faculty of Arts.{{Cite web |last=Požár |first=Ondřej |date=2022-03-15 |title=Irena Radová: Budu vyžadovat kvalitu bez kompromisů |url=https://www.em.muni.cz/udalosti/14922-irena-radova-budu-vyzadovat-kvalitu-bez-kompromisu |access-date=2025-03-25 |website=em.muni.cz |language=cs}}
In 2015, Radová published the first translation of the Argonautica of Valerius Flaccus into Czech.{{Cite web |title=Argonautica — Valerius Flaccus (informace o knize) |url=https://www.baset.cz/tituly/anticka-knihovna/argonautica |access-date=2025-03-25 |website=baset.cz |language=cs}}
Publications
- 2015. Valerius Flaccus. Argonautica. 1. vyd. Prague: Arista, Baset. (Antická knihovna; sv. 84)
- 2011. Altgriechische Scholien. Ein typologischer Versuch. Prague: Koniasch Latin Press. {{ISBN|978-80-86791-58-6}}.
- 2004. Dobrodružství Argonautů: Řecko versus Řím. Prague: Koniasch Latin Press. {{ISBN|80-86791-15-7}}