Academic Qualifications

• March 2008: PhD in Classics, Georg-August University of Göttingen, Germany
• November 2001: Degree in Greek Philology (Specialisation in Classical Philology), Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece

Academic Positions

• since October 2009: Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Religious Studies Department, University of Erfurt, Germany
• September 2007 - August 2009: Wissenschaftlicher Assistent in Greek Philology, Classics Department of Basel University, Switzerland
• April 2006 - July 2007: Lecturer in Modern Greek at the Department of Classics, University of Göttingen, Germany 

Research Fields

• Archaic Epic Poetry, Hellenistic Literature, Greek Religion

Postdoctoral Research

• “Divine Matchmaking: Narrativising Hermes as a God of Erotic Initiation in Archaic and Classical Greek Literature”
• Project description: What does Hermes have to do with erotics? A series of interrelated mythical narratives ranging from Homer and Hesiod down to Euripides provides the necessary impetus for acknowledging Hermes’ intrinsic association with the semantic field of Aphrodite and eros. The project sets out to explore the way in which literary configurations of Hermes as a divine matchmaker and a god of erotic initiation intertwine with ritual and cult in the archaic and classical period, while it seeks to fertilise formalist analysis of literature within the study of Greek religion.

Books

    Monograph:

• Kleine Leute und große Helden in Homers Odyssee und Kallimachos’ Hekale, Beiträge zur Altertumskunde 274, De Gruyter: Berlin/New York 2010

    Collaboration:

• Supplementum Supplementi Hellenistici, edidit H. Lloyd-Jones, indices confecit M. Skempis, Texte und Kommentare: Band 26, De Gruyter: Berlin/New York 2005

    Edited volume:

• (with I. Ziogas) Geography, Topography, Landscape: Configurations of Space in Greek and Roman Epic (in progress)

Articles

•  ‘Erysichthon der Jäger: SSH 970, 22 und Kall. H. 6, 81-2,’ Mnemosyne  61, 2008, 365-385
• ‘Ery-chthonios: Etymological Wordplay in Callimachus Hec. fr. 70.9 H.,’ Hermes 136, 2008, 143-52
• ‘Athene und ihre Lieblinge: Kall. Hek. Fr. 40 H. und Odyssee 7,’ Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik 167, 2008, 9-16
• ‘Gebadete Kinder: Kallimachos Hek. Fr. 48, 5-6 H.,’ Rheinisches Museum 152, 2009, 1-14
• (with I. Ziogas) ‘Arete’s Words: Etymology, Ehoie-Poetry and Gendered Narrative in the Odyssey,’ in J. Grethlein & A. Rengakos (eds) Narratology and Interpretation. The Content of Narrative Form in Ancient Literature, De Gruyter: Berlin/New York 2009, 213-240
• ‘Theseus in the Making. Social Psychology and the Poetics of Fatherlessness in Callimachus,’ Trends in Classics 2, 2010, 115-49
• ‘Caieta’s Undying Fame: Aen. 7.1-7,’ Museum Helveticum 67, 2010, 114-26

Lexicon entries

• ‘Apollonios Rhodios’, ‘Archestratos’, ‘Asklepiades’, ‘Euphorion’, ‘Hermesianax’, ‘Herodas’, ‘Kallimachos’, ‘Leonidas’, ‘Lykophron’, ‘Matron’, ‘Parthenios’, ‘Philitas’, ‘Poseidipp’, ‘Theokrit’ for the Handwörterbuch antiker Sklaverei, edited by the Akademie der Wissenschaften und Literatur in Mainz, Forschungen zur antiken Sklaverei (submitted)

Reviews

• D. Jaillard, Configurations d’Hermès. Une «théogonie hermaïque», Liège 2007, Museum Helveticum 65, 2008, 256
• I. Petrovic, Von den Toren des Hades zu den Hallen des Olymp. Artemiskult bei Theokrit und Kallimachos, Leiden/Boston 2007, Museum Helveticum 65, 2008, 225
• R. Pretagostini, Ricerche sulla poesia alessandrina II. Forme allusive e contenuti nuovi, Roma 2007, Museum Helveticum 66, 2009, 237-9
• A. Suter, Lament: Studies in the Ancient Mediterranean and Beyond, Oxford/New York 2008, Museum Helveticum 66, 2009, 245
• C. Tsagalis, The Oral Palimpsest. Exploring Intertextuality in the Homeric Epics, Cambridge MA/London 2008, Museum Helveticum 67, 2010, 238-9
• A. S. Hollis, Callimachus: Hecale, Second edition, Oxford 2009, Classical World (submitted)