Agency through Contemporary Readings of Ancient Greek Drama: Milestones from Ancient Greek Tragedy to Modern Greek Poetry

Funding Body: Research Committee of the University of Patras
Scientific Coordinator: Athena Papachrysostomou, Tenured Assistant Professor

Doctoral Candidate: Georgios–Dimitrios Charitatos

The aim of the research project is to study the concept of human agency through a comparative and cross-genre approach covering three literary periods.

At the first stage, the notion of free will will be explored through examples from ancient Greek tragedy, and a synchronic analysis of these examples will be attempted. Secondly, the diachronic adaptation of these examples will be traced through the study of representative works of French interwar and postwar theatre.

The third and final axis of the project focuses on postwar Modern Greek poetry, a period during which numerous mythical intertexts reappear and are creatively employed.

Funding Body: Research Committee of the University of Patras
Scientific Coordinator: Dr Andreas Antonopoulos

Advisory Committee: Angeliki Syrkou (Department of Philology, University of Patras), Ioannis Chatzilygeroudis (Department of Computer Engineering & Informatics, University of Patras), James Diggle (Cambridge), Eric Csapo (Warwick), Antonis Petrides (Open University of Cyprus), George W.M. Harrison (Carleton-Ottawa), & Ralf Krumeich (Bonn).

The present research project aims at the creation of an English-language Digital Database dedicated to the life and works (tragedies and satyr plays) of the minor tragic poets of the 6th and 5th centuries BC.

These poets include both the pioneers of ancient Greek drama and the contemporaries and competitors of Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides — the only three tragic playwrights whose complete works have survived.

Website:

https://fragtrag.upatras.gr

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Encoding and Transformations of Scientific Knowledge in Greek and Latin Encyclopedic Works of the Imperial Period (1st–3rd Century AD): Scientific Discourse, Reading Communities, and Empire

Funding Body: Research Committee of the University of Patras
Scientific Coordinator: Aikaterini Oikonomopoulou, Assistant Professor

Doctoral Candidate: Dimitrios Papadopoulos

Doctoral Dissertation Title: The Zoology of Pliny the Elder and Claudius Aelianus: The Transmission and Organization of Zoological Knowledge in the Historia Naturalis and De Natura Animalium.

The aim of the research project was the innovative assessment of Greek and Latin encyclopedic works written during the first three centuries of the Roman Empire (1st–3rd century AD) as crucial vehicles and transmitters of scientific knowledge and tradition in the ancient world.

More specifically, the project focused on the contribution of such works to the transmission of biological and zoological knowledge, examining for the first time in a systematic and comparative way the textual techniques of compilation, citation, organization, and communication of scientific knowledge that they employ.

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Funding Body: Research Committee of the University of Patras

Scientific Coordinator: Menelaos Christopoulos, Professor

Postdoctoral Researcher: Dr Andreas Antonopoulos

Within the framework of this project, the postdoctoral researcher prepared a critical edition of the text for the second half of Sophocles’ satyr play Ichneutae (lines 221–458), along with an analytical commentary on lines 221–280 of the work.

At the same time, in collaboration with the Scientific Coordinator, he organized a three-day international conference on satyr drama entitled Greek Satyr Play: Reconstructing a Dramatic Genre from Its Remnants (Department of Philology, University of Patras, 1–3 July 2016).

Plutarch’s Erotikos and the Role of the Erotic Tradition of Philosophical and Rhetorical Discourses in the Formation of New Erotic Models during the Imperial Period (1st–2nd Century AD)

Funding Body: Research Committee of the University of Patras
Scientific Coordinator: Aristoula Georgiadou, Associate Professor

The project examined the role of Plutarch’s Erotikos in the formation of “new,” according to Michel Foucault, erotic models during the Imperial period. Plutarch’s treatise was studied within the framework of the philosophical and rhetorical tradition of Imperial-period discourses (e.g. the marriage discourses of Musonius Rufus, the Orations of Maximus of Tyre, the Erotes of [Lucian], the erotic discourse of Cornelius Fronto, etc.), as well as in relation to the progymnasmatic exercises of the period (Libanius, Nicolaus, Theon), erotic epigrams, and the ancient novel (especially Achilles Tatius’ Leucippe and Clitophon).

Institution: Department of Philology and Ohio University, USA

Scientific Coordinator: Menelaos Christopoulos, Professor

Research and educational collaboration between the Department of Philology and Ohio University in the United States. The programme includes:

A) A series of teleconferences during the academic year, involving faculty members and students from both departments, focusing on research topics related to Classical Philology and its reception.

B) A five-week summer school hosted at the facilities of the Department of Philology, featuring parallel instruction in Ancient and Modern Greek by professors from both departments (University of Patras and Ohio University), combined with weekly excursions to local and regional monuments of ancient and modern Greek culture.

The summer school also offers international students the opportunity to receive linguistic support during and outside class hours from undergraduate and postgraduate students of the Department of Philology.

Website:

http://ohioupgreek.upatras.gr