Notes on Contributors
Katerina Carvounis is Assistant Professor of Ancient Greek Literature at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece. Her main research interests include early hexameter poetry and the later epic tradition, and she has published widely in these areas. Her most recent works include A Commentary on Quintus of Smyrna, Posthomerica 14 (Oxford University Press: 2019) and (with Sophia Papaioannou and Giampiero Scafoglio) an edited volume entitled Latin Literature and Later Greek Epic: Further Explorations (de Gruyter: 2022).
Christos Fakas is Assistant Professor in Greek Literature at the Classics Department of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece. He read Classics at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, and obtained his PhD from the University of Hamburg, where he taught as wissenschaftliche Assistent (2001–2008). His research interests include Greek Drama, Hellenistic Poetry, and the Ancient Novel. He has written Der hellenistische Hesiod. Arats Phainomena und die Tradition der antiken Lehrepik, Wiesbaden 2001, as well as articles and contributions to edited volumes primarily on Greek Literature of the Hellenistic and the Imperial periods. He is currently working on a book-length study concerning the Ancient Greek Novel.
P.J. Finglass is Henry Overton Wills Professor of Greek at the University of Bristol, UK. Having recently completed terms as Director of the AHRC-funded South, West and Wales Doctoral Training Partnership and as Head of the Department of Classics and Ancient History, he now holds a Leverhulme Major Research Fellowship whose goal is a new edition with commentary of Sappho and Alcaeus. He has published a monograph Sophocles (2019) in the series Greece & Rome New Surveys in the Classics, as well as editions of Sophocles’ Oedipus the King (2018), Ajax (2011), and Electra (2007), of Stesichorus (2014), and of Pindar’s Pythian Eleven (2007) in the series Cambridge Classical Texts and Commentaries; has co-edited (with Adrian Kelly) Stesichorus in Context (2015) and (with Lyndsay Coo) Female Characters in Fragmentary Greek Tragedy (2020); and edits the journal Classical Quarterly, all with Cambridge University Press.
Andreas Gavrielatos is Lecturer in Classics and Ancient History at the University of Reading, UK, and he has previously taught at the University of Edinburgh and the Open University of Cyprus. His research revolves around Roman thought and literature and in particular Persius, and he is currently preparing a commentary on his satires alongside a series of articles. He has also published on Roman onomastics and cultural and linguistic contacts in the Roman world. He is the editor of volumes on Roman identities, pedagogy theory, and the multiculturalism of the Roman world.
William Hutton is Professor of Classical Studies at William & Mary in Williamsburg, Virginia, USA. He is a specialist in Greek literature of the Roman imperial period, particularly of literature dealing with space and mobility. He is the author of Describing Greece: Landscape and Literature in the Periegesis of Pausanias (Cambridge University Press: 2005), and is one of the founders and managing editors of the Suda On Line.
Nikoletta Kanavou studied Classics at the Universities of Athens and Oxford (DPhil 2005) and is currently Associate Professor at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece. She previously held a fellowship of the German Research Foundation (DFG) at the University of Heidelberg. She has taught ancient Greek language and literature at the Universities of Oxford, Cyprus, Crete, Heidelberg, and at the Cypriot and Hellenic Open Universities. Her research interests include the Greek novel, archaic poetry, literary papyri, inscriptions and onomastics. Her latest monograph is entitled Philostratus’ Life of Apollonios of Tyana and its Literary Context (München [C.H. Beck]: 2018).
Grammatiki Karla is Associate Professor of Ancient Greek Literature at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece. She is the author of Überlieferung, Sprache und Edition einer frühbyzantinischen Fassung des Äsopromans (Wiesbaden 2001), and editor of Fiction on the Fringe. Novelistic Writing in the Post-Classical Age (Leiden/Boston 2009). Her research interests include ancient Greek popular literature and rhetorical texts of Late Antiquity. She is completing the edition of the MORN-Recension of the Life of Aesop (Writings from the Greco-Roman World, SBL) and she is also preparing the edition of version G of the Life of Aesop with C. Jouanno (Belles Lettres).
Adrian Kelly is Tutorial Fellow in Ancient Greek at Balliol College, Oxford, and Associate Professor and Clarendon Lecturer in the Faculty of Classics, University of Oxford, UK. Recent projects include co-editing (with P.J. Finglass) The Cambridge Companion to Sappho (Cambridge University Press: 2021) and (with Christopher Metcalf) Gods and Mortals in Early Greece and the Ancient Near East (Cambridge University Press: 2021). He is completing a commentary on Homer, Iliad XXIII for the Cambridge Greek and Latin Classics and co-editing (with Henry Spelman) Text and Intertexts in Archaic and Classical Greece (Cambridge University Press: forthcoming).
Stephanos Matthaios is Associate Professor of Ancient Greek Philology at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece. His research interests include ancient linguistics, scholia and commentaries, ancient and Byzantine lexicography, Homeric scholarship in Antiquity, the history of Greek language as well as the scientific literature in the Hellenistic period. He is the author of the book Untersuchungen zur Grammatik Aristarchs: Texte und Interpretation zur Wortartenlehre (Göttingen 1999) and co-author and co-editor (together with F. Montanari and A. Rengakos) of Brill’s Companion to Ancient Greek Scholarship (2 vols., Leiden/Boston: 2015). An edition of the philological-grammatical fragments of Eratosthenes is under publication; he is also preparing the edition of the still unpublished letters
Fritz Mitthof is Professor of Roman History and Latin Epigraphy at the University of Vienna, Austria (1996 Promotion, University of Heidelberg; 2004 Habilitation, University of Vienna). In 2017 he became a Corresponding Member at the Austrian Academy of Sciences. His main focus of research includes the history of the Roman Empire (1st–7th c. AD), with special attention to inscriptions and papyri; the history of the Lower Danube and the Balkan region from pre-Roman times to Late Antiquity; and the history of Roman and Late Antique Egypt. His current project is an edition of the papyrus collection of Grigol Zereteli at the Georgian National Centre of Manuscripts in Tbilisi, and a major imminent publication includes the Sunday Legislation of Constantine the Great.
Athina Papachrysostomou is Associate Professor of Ancient Greek Literature at the Department of Philology, University of Patras, Greece. She is a collaborator of the “KomFrag” international project and an alumna of the Onassis Foundation and the Fulbright Foundation (Visiting Scholar at Harvard and Boston Universities). She has published widely on Greek Drama, Athenian Democracy and Textual Criticism; apart from several articles and volume contributions, she has published six monographs (the latest being Ephippus: Introduction, Translation, Commentary, Göttingen 2021) and has co-edited two collected volumes (the latest being Myth and History: Close Encounters, with M. Christopoulos and A.P. Antonopoulos).
Amphilochios Papathomas is Professor of Ancient Greek Literature and Papyrology and Chair of the Faculty of Philology of the National und Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece (2016–2022). He holds a BA in Classics from the University of Athens and a PhD in Classics and Papyrology from the Ruprecht–Karls University of Heidelberg, Germany. He has held an Alexander von Humboldt Fellowship for advanced scholars at the University of Heidelberg as well as a Lise Meitner Fellowship at the University of Vienna, Austria. He is the author and co-author of twenty-seven books and two hundred scientific articles and book reviews written in German, English, Modern Greek, Italian and French. His main research interests include Papyrology, Ancient Greek Historiography, Attic Drama, Attic Oratory, Palaeography, and Greek Literature of Late Antiquity.
Michael Paschalis is Professor Emeritus of Classics, University of Crete, Greece. He has published over one hundred and seventy articles and book reviews and written or (co-)edited fourteen books on Hellenistic, Roman and Imperial literature, the poetry of Late Antiquity, the reception of the Classics (in Italian, English, and French literature), and Modern Greek literature. He is the author of Virgil’s Aeneid: Semantic Relations and Proper Names (Oxford University Press: 1997), the editor of three volumes of Rethymnon Classical Studies (2002–2007) and co-editor of seven volumes of Ancient Narrative Supplements (2002–2019). His most recent books deal with intertextual issues in the poetry of Andreas Kalvos (20162) and in the novels of Nikos Kazantzakis (2015). His monograph on Cretan Renaissance literature and the local Academies is in press, and he is preparing a second book on Andreas Kalvos.
Antonis K. Petrides is Associate Professor of Classics at the Open University of Cyprus, where he has been teaching since 2007. He has also held visiting research fellowships at the universities of Cambridge, Princeton, and Harvard. His main research interests lie in the field of Ancient Greek and Roman Drama and their reception in Modern Greek literature and culture. His full publication record is accessible online at
Silvia Susana Reyes obtained a Bachelor’s degree in Social Communication and qualified as a literary, technical and scientific translator. She works as a part-time lecturer of “Ancient Greek II” at the National University of Rosario (Argentina). She is pursuing a Master’s degree in Theoretical Linguistics and Language Acquisition and doing her dissertation on the automatic morphological processing of the ancient Greek participle. She has published on ancient Greek literature and computational linguistics. Her interests include ancient and modern Greek language and literature, languages, linguistics and computational linguistics.
Marcela Alejandra Ristorto is Associate Professor of “European Literature I” (Greco-Roman and Medieval Literature) and researcher at the National University of Rosario (UNR, IECH, Argentina). She is the director of the Centre for Hellenic Studies and Classical Tradition (UNR). Her work focuses on Greek hymnody. She currently leads the research project “Polis religion and beyond polis religion: from the Homeric Hymns to the PGM” (UNR) and is a member of the research project “Contexts of performance in Ancient Greece” (University of Buenos Aires). She has published book chapters and articles in specialised journals in the country and abroad.
Emilia Savva is a doctoral student at the University of Oxford (University College), UK. She obtained her BA (Classics) and MPhil (Classics with specialisation in Latin Literature) from the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, both summa cum laude. Her thesis, supervised by Stephen Heyworth, looks at magic and philosophy in Ovid’s Metamorphoses and Fasti, focusing on theosophies and mystery cults. Her DPhil studies are funded by the Onassis Foundation and the A.G. Leventis Foundation. She has also published on religion in Propertius, 4.7 (Vita Latina 195–196, 2017). She is a SYLFF fellow and a junior member of the Augustan Poetry Network.
Diana Spencer is Professor of Classics and the Dean of Liberal Arts and Natural Sciences at the University of Birmingham, UK. Her most recent monograph is Language and Authority in De Lingua Latina: Varro’s Guide to Being Roman (2019). Her earlier book is Roman Landscape: Culture and Identity. Greece & Rome New Surveys in the Classics 39 (2011). Other recent publications include contributions to The Companion to the City of Rome (2018) and Varro Varius: The Polymath of the Roman World (2015).
Vassilios P. Vertoudakis is Associate Professor of Ancient Greek Philology in the Faculty of Philology of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece. He studied Classics at the Universities of Athens, Heidelberg and Thessaloniki (PhD 1996). His research interests focus on Greek epigram, erotic literature, tragedy, epistolography, as well as the reception of Classical Antiquity in modern times. Select recent publications (in Greek): Aristaenetus, Erotikai epistolai (2018); Friedrich Nietzsche on Philology (2019); King and Pharmakos: Sophocles’ Tragedy Oedipus Tyrannos (with A. Papathomas, 2020); Hyperion in the Ruins of Athens: The Idea of Greece and Friedrich Hölderlin (2021).
Andreas Voskos is Emeritus Professor of Ancient Greek Literature at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece. His research interests focus around Homer and archaic poetry, textual criticism, comparative literature, and especially ancient Cypriot literature. His main works include