Greek Epigram from the Hellenistic to the Early Byzantine Era
Edited by Maria Kanellou, Ivana Petrovic, and Chris Carey
Author Information
Maria Kanellou, Research Fellow, Academy of Athens,Ivana Petrovic, Hugh H. Obear Professor of Classics, University of Virginia,Chris Carey, Emeritus Professor of Greek, UCL
Maria Kanellou was born in Athens and studied at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens and at UCL. She is currently Research Fellow at the Academy of Athens and has previously worked at UCL, KCL, the University of Kent, and OUC. She has co-organized various international conferences focusing on Greek epigram and Theocritus and is currently working on the publication of the proceedings; her doctoral thesis, which offers a diachronic and motif-based analysis of erotic epigram, is also under contract for publication by OUP.
Ivana Petrovic was born in Belgrade and studied at Belgrade University, Ruprecht-Karls Universitat Heidelberg, and Justus-Liebig Universitat Giessen. She has taught at Heidelberg, Giessen, and, most recently, at Durham University, and is now Hugh H. Obear Professor of Classics at the University of Virginia. Her research interests embrace ancient Greek literature, religion, and cultural history, and also South-Slavic traditional oral poetry, with a particular focus on the interaction between the texts and their historical, religious, and social contexts.
Chris Carey was born in Liverpool and educated at Jesus College, Cambridge. He has worked at Cambridge, the University of Minnesota, Carleton College, St Andrews, Royal Holloway, and UCL, and has also taught in the Netherlands, Hungary, Greece, and Serbia. He has published on Greek lyric poetry, epic, drama, oratory, and law and is currently working on a commentary on Book 7 of Herodotus' History. He was elected Fellow of the British Academy in 2012.
Contributors:
Silvia Barbantani is Associate Professor of Classical Philology and Papyrology at the Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore in Milan, Italy.
Simone Beta is Associate Professor of Classical Philology at the University of Siena, Italy.
Peter Bing is Professor of Classics at the University of Toronto, Canada.
Charles S. Campbell is Visiting Assistant Professor in the Department of Classics at Miami University in Ohio, USA.
Chris Carey is Emeritus Professor of Greek at University College London, UK.
Joseph Day is Professor of Classics Emeritus at Wabash College, USA.
Kristoffel Demoen is Professor of Literary Studies at Ghent University, Belgium.
Marco Fantuzzi is Professor of Classics at the University of Roehampton, UK.
Lucia Floridi is Research Fellow in the Department of Literary, Philological, and Linguistic Studies at the University of Milan, Italy.
Federica Giommoni is high school teacher in Arezzo, Italy and an independent researcher.
Kathryn Gutzwiller is Professor of Classics at the University of Cincinnati, USA.
Annette Harder is Emerita Professor of Ancient Greek Language and Literature at the University of Groningen, the Netherlands.
Regina Hoschele is Associate Professor of Classics at the University of Toronto, Canada.
Richard Hunter is Regius Professor of Greek at the University of Cambridge and Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge, UK.
Maria Kanellou is Research Fellow at the Academy of Athens, Greece.
Doris Meyer is Research Fellow on the joint research unit of the French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS) and the University of Strasbourg, France (UMR 7044: 'Archaeology and Ancient History: Mediterranean- Europe' (Archimède)).
Andrej Petrovic is Professor of Classics at the University of Virginia, USA.
Ivana Petrovic is Hugh H. Obear Professor of Classics at the University of Virginia, USA.
Joseph M. Romero is Professor of Classics, Philosophy, and Religion at the University of Mary Washington, USA.
Steven D. Smith is Professor of Comparative Literature, Languages, and Linguistics at Hofstra University, USA.
Michael A. Tueller is Professor of Classics at Arizona State University, USA.
