MICHAEL PASCHALIS EMERITUS PROFESSOR OF CLASSICS
UNIVERSITY OF CRETE – DEPT. OF PHILOLOGY – GR 741 00 RETHYMNON
phone: +30 2831 029451 fax: +30 2831 023843 email: michael.paschalis@gmail.com
Professional Education
PhD in Classics, 1980, The Ohio State University, Columbus
Dissertation title: “Livy’s Praefatio and Sallust”.
Laurea in Lettere Classiche, 1974, Università di Bologna, Italy
Tesi di Laurea: “Il carme 51 di Catullo: Problemi di testo e di interpretazione».
MA in Philology, 1972, University of Athens, Greece.
Academic Positions held
2015- Emeritus Professor of Classics, University of Crete
1989-31 August 2015: Associate Professor & Professor of Classics, Department of Philology, University of Crete.
1981-1989: Lecturer &Assistant Professor of Classics, Department of Philology, University of Ioannina, Greece.
1977-1979: Teaching Associate, Department of Classics, The Ohio State University.
Research and Publication Areas
Hellenistic, Late Republican, Augustan and Early Imperial literature; poetry of Late Antiquity; Senecan drama; Ancient novel; Reception of the Classics in Modern Greek, Italian, French and English literature; Modern Greek literature.
Special Interests in Modern Greek Literature
Cretan Renaissance Literature; Modern Greek and Italian literature; Kalvos, Solomos, Korais; Cavafy, Kazantzakis, Seferis.
Forthcoming Books
Οι Ακαδημίες της Κρήτης και η Κρητική Λογοτεχνία της Ακμής: Μια συνάντηση που δεν έγινε ποτέ [The Cretan Academies and Cretan Renaissance Literature: A Meeting that did not Take Place]
Publications
Books and Edited Volumes
Νίκος Καζαντζάκης: Από τον Όμηρο στον Σαίξπηρ: Μελέτες για τα κρητικά μυθιστορήματα [Nikos Kazantzakis: From Homer to Shakespeare. Studies on his Cretan Νovels], Heraklion 2015. Reviews: Athens Review of Books 74 (2016);
(ed.) with Stelios Panayotakis and Gareth Schmeling, Holy Men and Charlatans in the Ancient Novel, Ancient Narrative Supplementum 19, Groningen 2015.
Ξαναδιαβάζοντας τον Κάλβο: Ο Ανδρέας Κάλβος, η Ιταλία και η αρχαιότητα, [Re-reading Kalvos: Andreas Kalvos, Italy, and Classical Antiquity], Heraklion 2013.
(ed.) with Stelios Panayotakis, The Construction of the Real and the Ideal in the Ancient Novel, Ancient Narrative Supplementum 17, Groningen 2013.
(ed.) with Stelios Panayotakis and Gareth Schmeling, Readers and Writers in the Ancient Novel, Ancient Narrative Supplementum 12,Groningen 2009.
(ed.) Roman and Greek Imperial Epic. Rethymnon Classical Studies, vol. 2, Heraklion 2005.
(ed) with Stefanos Kaklamanis, The Reception of Antiquity in the Byzantine and Modern Greek Novel, Athens 2005.
(ed.) Horace and Greek Lyric Poetry, Rethymnon Classical Studies, vol. 1, Rethymnon 2002.
Virgil’s Aeneid: Semantic Relations and Proper Names, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1997.
Articles
2018
Δίδυμες πατρίδες στην κυπριακή συλλογή του Σεφέρη [Twin Homelnds in George Seferis’ Cypriot Collection], στο Περάσματα, μεταβάσεις, διελεύσεις: όψεις μια λογοτεχνίας εν κινήσει, Πρακτικά ΙΕ΄ Διεθνούς Επιστημονικής Συνάντησης, 1-4 Μαρτίου 2017, Μνήμη Δ. Ν. Μαρωνίτη, Θεσσαλονίκη 2018, 107-115.
Η Αινειάδα βρήκε τον μεταφραστή της, ΤΑ ΝΕΑ, 8-9-2018.
uestras spes uritis: Hope and Empire in Virgil’s Aeneid, in Hope in Ancient Literature, History, and Art, Ancient Emotions I, edited by George Kazantzidis and Dimos Spatharas, Trends in Classics – Supplementary Volume 63, Berlin / Boston 2018, 171-182.
Γνώση και μόχθος ή χάρισμα; Μεταφράσεων Πάθη 10, ΤΑ ΝΕΑ, 14-7- 2018.
Μεταφράζοντας την Ιλιάδα κατά το δοκούν, TA NEA, 26-4-2018.
The Cadmus Narrative in Nonnus’ Dionysiaca, in Nonnus of Panopolis in Context II: Poetry, Religion, and Society, Proceedings of the International Conference on Nonnus of Panopolis (26-29 September 2013, University of Vienna, Austria, edited by Herbert Bannert and Nicole Kröll, Leiden / Boston 2018, 21-32.
2017
George Seferis and Euripides’ Bacchae, in Debating with the Eumenides: Aspects of the Reception of Greek Tragedy in Modern Greece, edited by Vayos Liapis, Maria Pavlou and Antonis K. Petrides, Cambridge Scholars Publishing 2017, 26-38.
Comparative Challenges: Homer and Theocritus into Latin, Virgil into Greek, in Investigating the Translation Process in Humanistic Latin Translations of Greek Texts, Proceedings of an International Conference, Democritus University of Thrace, Komotini, 28–29 April 2017, edited by Ioannis Deligiannis, Corfu 2017, Mediterranean Chronicle 7 (2017) 227-234.
The Evolution of Authorial Self-Consciousness in Cretan Renaissance Literature, in Culture and Society in Crete: From Kornaros to Kazantzakis, edited by Liana Giannakopoulou and E. Kostas Skordyles, Newcastle upon Tyne 2017, 67-73.
Αndreas Kalvos, l’Italia e l’antichità greco-romana, in Kalvos e Solomòs. Studi e ricerche, a cura di Christos Bintoudis, Roma 2017, 63-73.
Μια ιλιαδική μετάφραση του Ανδρέα Κάλβου αποκαλύπτει τα μυστικά της, στο Πρακτικά του Ι΄Διεθνούς Πανιονίου Συνεδρίου (Κέρκυρα 30 Απριλίου – 4 Μαΐου 2014), Κέρκυρα 2017, 113-132.
Ο αποκλεισμός της ελληνόγλωσσης λογοτεχνίας από τις Ακαδημίες της Κρήτης και ο σιωπηλός διάλογος των δημιουργών, στο Χαρτογραφώντας τη δημώδη λογοτεχνία (12ος – 17ος αι.), Πρακτικά του 7ου Διεθνούς Συνεδρίου Neograeca Medii Aevi, επιμέλεια Στέφανος Κακλαμάνης, Αλέξης Καλοκαιρινός, Εταιρία Κρητικών Ιστορικών Μελετών, Ηράκλειο 2017, 276-291.
Μιχαήλ Πασχάλης, «Ο λατινικός και ο πρωτότυπος Όμηρος στο έπος Africa του Φραγκίσκου Πετράρχη», στο Μεθοδολογικά ζητήματα στις Κλασικές Σπουδές: παλαιά προβλήματα και νέες προκλήσεις, επιμέλεια Μελίνα Ταμιωλάκη, Ηράκλειο 2017, 345-59.
Μυθοπλασία και ιστορία στον Ερωτόκριτο, στο Πρακτικά διεθνούς συνεδρίου αφιερωμένου στην Κομνηνή Δ. Πηδώνια (Τομέας Μ.Ν.Ε.Σ., Τμήμα Φιλολογίας, Α.Π.Θ., 28-29 Μαΐου 2015), επιμέλεια Τάσος Α. Καπλάνης, Τασούλα M. Μαρκομιχελάκη, Σωτηρία Σταυρακοπούλου, Θεσσαλονίκη 2017, 191-204.
Ιδιόχειρες διορθώσεις και σχόλια του Στ. Αλεξίου στο ποίημα Μάλτας Πολιορκία του Αντωνίου Αχέλη, Παλίμψηστον 34 (2017) 93-104.
«Μεταφρασθὲν ἐκ τῆς Ἀγγλικῆς». Μια άλλη άποψη για τη μετάφραση των Ψαλμών του Δαβίδ από τον Ανδρέα Κάλβο, Νέα Ευθύνη, τχ. 36-37, Ιανουάριος-Ιούνιος 2017, 64-73.
Ο νέος Κάλβος. Ο δραματουργός συναντά τον ποιητή των Ωδών [The New Kalvos: The Italian Dramatist Meets the Greek Lyric Poet], The Athens Review of Books, τχ. 80, Ιανουάριος 2017, 35-38
«Hunc deorum templis». Μια έκδοση του Καβάφη στη βάσανο της φιλολογικής κριτικής [An Edition of Cavafy’s Poems Under Scrutiny], Ποιητική, τχ. 18, Φθινόπωρο-Χειμώνας 2016.
2016
Εκδοτικά ζητήματα στον Καβάφη [Editorial Issues in Cavafy’s Poems], Η Εκδοτική των Κειμένων της Νεοελληνικής Γραμματείας, Ημερίδα αφιερωμένη στη μνήμη της Ε. Παχίνη-Τσαντσάνογλου και του Γ. Π. Σαββίδη, Θεσσαλονίκη, 27.4.2015, Θεσσαλονίκη 2016, 99-108.
Ιταλικότητα και ελληνικότητα στη γλώσσα του Κάλβου [Italianness and Greekness in the Language of Kalvos], in Ελληνικότητα και ετερότητα: πολιτισμικές διαμεσολαβήσεις και ‘εθνικός χαρακτήρας’ στον 19ο αιώνα, τ. Α΄, Πρακτικά Συμποσίου, επιμ. Άννα Ταμπάκη – Ουρανία Πολυκανδριώτη, Αθήνα 2016, 71-84.
Μυθοπλασία και ιστορία στην ποίηση του Ιωάννη Κασσιμάτη (περ. 1527-1571) [Myth-making and History in the Poetry of Ioannis Kassimatis (c. 1527-1571)], in « … ὡς ἀθύρματα παῖδας»: Eine Festschrift für Hans Eideneier, Ulrich Moennig (Hg.), Edition Romiosini, Freie Universität Berlin 2016, 217-226.
Η νέα έκδοση των έργων του Νίκου Καζαντζάκη [The new Greek edition of Nikos Kazantzakis’ works], Athens Review of Books 76 (2016) 12-14.
From Pastoral to Panegyric in Calpurnius Siculus, in Wordplay and Powerplay in Latin Poetry, edited by Ph. Mitsis and I. Ziogas, Berlin / Boston 2016, 299-311.
Από τον Τίτο Πομπώνιο Αττικό στον Ανδρέα Κάλβο. Οι μεταμορφώσεις του Αμαλθείου [From Titus Pomponius Atticus to Andreas Kalvos: The Transformations of Amaltheion], Νέα Ευθύνη 33 (2016) 204-208.
Η Ρώμη και η Πολιτεία του Θεού [Roman and Judaeo-Christian Historical Consciousness in St. Augustine’s City of God], Athens Review of Books 75 (2016) 51-54.
«Το μειδίασμα του θεού των ερώτων» ή πώς ο Κάλβος μεταμόρφωσε τον Κιθαιρώνα σε Κύθηρα [The Smile of the God of Loves or how Kalvos Transformed Cithaeron into Cythera], Athens Review of Books 71 (2016) 44-47.
2015
Τα «σμάραγδα» της Ζακύνθου και τα μάτια της Βεατρίκης [The “emeralds” of Zakynthos and Beatrice’s eyes], Νέα Ευθύνη 31 (2015) 590-596.
Υπάρχουν λατινικές πηγές και επιδράσεις στον Ερωτόκριτο; [Latin Sources and Influence on Erotokritos?] In Stephanos Kaklamanis (ed.), Issues of Poetics and Reception in Erotokritos, Sitia 2015, 167-183.
Alexandre Dumas’ Queen Margot and the Actaeon Myth, Gaia 18 (2015), Πολυφόρβῃ Γαίῃ, Mélanges de littérature et linguistique offerts à Françoise Létoublon, 589-608.
Η δικαιοσύνη στον Ηρακλή του Ευριπίδη [Justice in Euripides’ Heracles], in Stavros Zoumboulakis (ed.), Justice and Law, Athens 2015, 74-93, 107-127.
The Evolution of Authorial Consciousness in Cretan Renaissance Literature, Cretica Chronica 35 (2015) 53-62
Apollonius of Tyana as Proteus: theios anēr or Master of Deceit? in Holy Men and Charlatans in the Ancient Novel, Edited by Stelios Panayotakis, Gareth Schmeling, and Michael Paschalis, Groningen 2015, 133-150.
«Το στήθος του έγινεν άδης»: μια κατάδυση στην ερμηνεία του καλβικού στήθους [“his chest turned into Hades”: Towards an Interpretation of the meaning of στήθος in the Odes of Andreas Kalvos], Nea Euthyne 29 (2015) 294-303.
Κ. Π. Καβάφης, Η ποιητική του μεταιχμίου [C. P. Cavafy, The Poetics of Liminality], Poetics 15 (2015) 63-84.
Η μυθοπλασία του Παπατρέχα και ο εκλαϊκευτικός υπομνηματισμός της Ιλιάδας [The Fictional Plot of Papatrechas and Korais’ Popularizing Commentary on the Iliad], in Λόγος και χρόνος στη Νεοελληνική Γραμματεία, Πρακτικά Συνεδρίου προς τιμήν του Αλέξη Πολίτη, Heraklion 2015, 239-346.
Book review: Ανδρέας Κάλβος. Αλληλογραφία, Ανδρέας Κάλβος. Τόμος Α’ (1813-1818) & Τόμος Β΄ (1819-1869 & Αχρονολόγητες επιστολές), Εισαγωγή – Επιμέλεια – Σχολιασμός Δημήτρης Αρβανιτάκης, με τη συνεργασία του Λεύκιου Ζαφειρίου, 2 τόμοι, Αθήνα, Μουσείο Μπενάκη, 2014, in Athens Review of Books 59 (2015) 60-62.
Η Βρεττανική Μούσα του Κάλβου και η Μήδεια του Ευριπίδη: γύρω από μια ερμηνευτική παρανόηση [The “Britannic Muse” by Andreas Kalvos and Euripides’ Medea], Nea Euthyne 28 (2015) 204-209.
Ο Κάλβος ως μεταφραστής της Ιλιάδας [Andreas Kalvos as Translator of the Iliad], Nea Euthyne 27 (2015) 11-25.
2014
Η κατασκευή της ποιητικής ταυτότητας των Ιόνιων νησιών [The Construction of the Literary Identity of the Ionian Islands], in Πρακτικά ΙΘ΄ Συμποσίου Πολιτισμικές εκφράσεις της επτανησιακής ταυτότητας 17ος-20ος αιώνας (Αφιέρωμα στα 150 χρόνια από την Ένωση, 1864-2004), Γιορτές Λόγου και Τέχνης, Λευκάδα, 8-9 Αυγούστου 2014, Athens 2015.
«Σιωπές αγαπημένες της σελήνης»: Ζητήματα διακειμενικότητας στον «Τελευταίο σταθμό» του Γιώργου Σεφέρη [“Friendly silences of the moon”: Issues of Intertextuality in George Seferis’ ‘The Last Stop’], Kondyloforos 13 (2014) 111-131.
Roman Paradises: At the Service of the Empire, Maia 66 (3/2014) 457-477.
Συγχώρηση στη Ρώμη της κλασικής εποχής; Ούτε μετά θάνατον [Forgiveness in Classical Rome? Not even after Death], in Stavros Zouboulakis (ed.), H συγχώρηση, Athens 2014, 55-106.
Καλλιμαχικά και αντι-καλλιμαχικά στοιχεία στο τέταρτο βιβλίο των Γεωργικών του Βιργιλίου [Callimachean and Anti-Callimachean Poetics in Virgil, Georgics 4], in Rideamus igitur: το χιούμορ στη λατινική γραμματεία, Πρακτικά του Θ΄ Πανελληνίου Συµποσίου Λατινικών Σπουδών, Athens 2014, 85-90.
Ανδρέας Κάλβος, Εις τα παραθαλάσσια κλειτά [Andreas Kalvos, “Eis ta parathalassia kleita”], Nea Euthyne 25 (2014) 579-584.
Οι Βάτραχοι του Αριστοφάνη και η Ποιητική του Αριστοτέλη [Aristophanes’ Frogs and Aristotle’s Poetics], in Melina Tamiolaki (ed.), Κωμικός στέφανος: Νέες τάσεις στην έρευνα της αρχαίας ελληνικής κωμωδίας, Rethymnon 2014, 61-71.
Ovidian Metamorphosis and Nonnian poikilon eidos, in K. Spanoudakis (ed.), Nonnus of Panopolis in Context, Berlin / Boston 2014, 97-122.
Όμηρος, Γκαίτε και Βάγκνερ στο διήγημα «Αι συνέπειαι της παλαιάς ιστορίας» του Γ. Μ. Βιζυηνού [Homer, Goethe and Wagner in the short story “The Consequences of the Old Story” by G. M. Vizyenos], in Νεοελληνική λογοτεχνία και κριτική από τον Διαφωτισμό έως σήμερα, Πρακτικά ΙΓ΄ Διεθνούς Επιστημονικής Συνάντησης, Μνήμη Παν. Μουλλά, Athens 2014, 422-433.
Ο Ελύτης, ο Κάλβος και ο Πίνδαρος» [Elytis, Kalvos, and Pindar], Πρακτικά του Επιστημονικού Συμποσίου «Επιρροές του Ελύτη» (Ηράκλειο, 11-13 Νοεμβρίου 2011), Heraklion 2014, 93-124.
2013
Το βλέμμα του Οδυσσέα και η Ρώμη [Odysseus’ gaze and Rome], in Πολυπολιτισμικότητα στη Ρώμη: Κοινωνική και πνευματική ζωή, Πρακτικά Η΄ Πανελλήνιου Συμποσίου Λατινικών Σπουδών, Athens 2013, 37-41.
Γεωγραφία και ποιητική μυθοπλασία στην Περιγραφή της Κρήτης του Francesco Barozzi [Geography and Poetic Myth-making in Francesco Barozzi’s Decription of the Island of Crete], Cretica Chronica 33 (2013) 83-93.
Hippolyte Tautain, Origine littéraire et identité sémantique d’un personnage de Madame Bovary, Anabases 18 (2013) 85-108.
Οι ιταλικές θρησκευτικές και ποιητικές αφετηρίες του «Ύμνου εις την Ελευθερίαν»: Μια νέα ερμηνευτική προσέγγιση [The Italian Religious and Poetic Background of Solomos’ “Hymn to Liberty”: A New Interpretation], Πόρφυρας 147-148 (2013) 7-22.
The Basic Plot of Callirhoe: History, Myth, and Aristotelian Poetics, in The Construction of the Real and the Ideal in the Ancient Novel, Michael Paschalis & Stelios Panayotakis (eds.), Groningen 2013, 161-177.
Ο Κάλβος ως εκδότης, κριτικός και ποιητής: Oι σημειώσεις στην «Ωδή εις Ιονίους» και η έκδοση των Χαρίτων του Φώσκολου [Kalvos as an Editor, Critic, and Poet: The Notes to the “Ode to the Ionians” and the Edition of Foscolo’s The Graces], Σύγκρισις / Comparaison 23 (2013) 43-65.
Ο Βίος του Χριστού : Μια “πρωτότυπη” παπαδιαμαντική μετάφραση [The Life of Christ: An ‘Original’ Translation by Alexandros Papadiamandis], in Πρακτικά Γ’ διεθνούς συνεδρίου για τον Αλέξανδρο Παπαδιαμάντη (Αθήνα 7-8 Οκτωβρίου 2011), Athens 2013, vol. 2, 347-359.
2012
Ο γραμματολογικός χαρακτήρας του Ερωτόκριτου [The Genre of Erotokritos], in Πρακτικά του διεθνούς συνεδρίου Neograeca Medii Aevi VI (Ιωάννινα 29 Σεπτεμβρίου – 2 Οκτωβρίου 2005), I. K. Mavromatis and N. Ayiotis (eds.), Heraklion 2012, 451-472.
Τι γυρεύουν οι μέλισσες του Κάλβου “εἰς τὸν πολὺν καρπὸν λυαῖον”; [What are Kalvos’ bees doing “εἰς τὸν πολὺν καρπὸν λυαῖον”;], Porfyras 144 (2012) 135-143.
Από τον ομηρικό Ελπήνορα στον Ungaretti: Η καταγωγή και οι μεταμορφώσεις του Παλίνουρου [From the Homeric Elpenor to Ungaretti: The Pedigree and the Transformations of Palinurus], Palimpseston 28 (2012) 83-109.
Ο Κάλβος ομηριστής; [Was Kalvos a Homerist?], in Τριαντάφυλλα και Γιασεμιά, τιμητικός τόμος για την Ελένη Πολίτου-Μαρμαρινού, Ζ.Ι. Σιαϕλέκης και Ερασμία-Λουίζα Σταυροπούλου (eds.), Athens 2012, 402-418.
Ο λατινικός «βίος» (vita) του Γεωργίου Βιζυηνού : Λογοτεχνικά πρότυπα και ιδεολογία [The Latin vita of G. M. Vizyenos: Literary Models and Ideology], in Πρακτικά συνεδρίου Το Εύρος του έργου του Γεωργίου Βιζυηνού: παλαιότερες αναγνώσεις και νέες προσεγγίσεις (Διημερίδα, 30-31 Μαϊου 2009, Πανεπιστημιούπολη, Κομοτηνή), Athens 2012, 215-227.
Γύρω από τις πηγές έμπνευσης του Κάλβου [Concerning Kalvos’ Sources of Inspiration], Nea Hestia 1852 (2012) 240-262.
2011
Κάλβος και Γκίλφορντ: Το θέμα, τα πρότυπα και το λανθάνον ποιητικό πρόγραμμα της Ωδής “Ελπίς πατρίδος” [Kalvos and Guilford: The Subject, the Models and the Poetic Project of the Ode ‘Hope for the Homeland’], Hellenica 61 (2011) 75-92.
Ο Ανδρέας Κάλβος και η παρερμηνεία του Ευσεβίου (ερωτήματα για τη φιλολογική λογιοσύνη του Κάλβου) [Andreas Kalvos and the Misinterpretation of Eusebius], Nea Hestia 1844 (2011) 830-853.
Οι εκδοχές της Κρήτης στον Καζαντζάκη [Versions of Crete in Kazantzakis], in Νίκος Καζαντζάκης: Παραμορφώσεις, παραλείψεις, μυθοποιήσεις, Athens 2011, 221-232.
Τα ιταλικά διακειμενικά συμφραζόμενα των χορικών της Ερωφίλης [The Italian Intertexts of Erophili’s Choral Songs], in Πεπραγμένα του Ι΄ Διεθνούς Κρητολογικού Συνεδρίου (Χανιά, 1-8 Οκτωβρίου 2006), Chania 2011, vol. Β3, 343-361.
H ιδεολογία των Ιντερμεδίων της Ερωφίλης και η συνάφειά τους με την τραγωδία του Χορτάτση [The Ideology of Erophili’s Interludes and their relation to Chortatsis’ Tragedy], Cretica Chronica 31 (2011) 163-182.
Did Torquato Tasso Classify the Aethiopica as Epic Poetry? in Fictional Τraces: Receptions of the Αncient Νovel, Marília Futre Pinheiro & S. J. Harrison (eds.), Groningen 2011, vol. 1, 151- 182.
The Hellenistic Epic and the New Heroism [in Greek], Thallo (2011) 57-68.
Petronius and Virgil: Contextual and Intertextual Readings, in Echoing Narratives: Studies of Intertextuality in Greek and Roman fiction, Konstantin Doulamis (ed.), Groningen 2011, 73-98.
2010
Cavafy’s Iliadic Poems, in P. Roilos (ed.), Imagination and Logos: Essays on C. P. Cavafy, Cambridge, Mass. 2010, 153-172.
The History and Ideological Background of Korais’ Iliad Project, in Paschalis M. Kitromilides (ed.), Adamantios Korais and the European Enlightenment, Oxford 2010, 109-124.
“I Removed the Mist that Clouded your Eyes”: Supernatural Vision from Homer to Sikelianos, Syngkrisis / Comparaison 21 (2010) 72-85.
Hippolyte Tautain: The Literary Origin and Semantic Identity of a Character in Flubert’s Madame Bovary [in Greek], Nea Hestia 1839 (2010) 787-820.
Kalvos’ “Fragment of an Untitled Poem”: Editing and Language Issues (Italicisms) (in lieu of a Reply to Dimitris Dimiroulis) [in Greek], Nea Hestia 1835 (2010) 49-61.
The Topography of Alexis Zorbas: Ideology and Intertexts [in Greek], in Nikos Kazantzakis: Fifty Years Later, Proceedings of an International Conference, Heraklion / Rethymnon, 18-21 May 2007, edited by S.N. Philippides, Rethymnon 2010, 171-193.
The Relation of Kazantzakis’ Kapetan Michalis to Homer’s Iliad and Shakespeare’s Othello, Journal of Modern Greek Studies 28 (2010) 143-172.
The Iliad and the Refraction of History in George Seferis [in Greek], Nea Hestia 1831 (2010) 488-511.
Cassandra and the Passionate Lucidity of furor in Seneca’s Agamemnon, in Stavros Tsitsirides (ed), Parachoregema: Studies in Honor of Professor Gregory M. Sifakis, Heraklion 2010, 209-228.
2009
The Learnedness of ‘Popular’ Alexandre Dumas, père: Rereading Queen Margot, Nea Hestia 1824 (2009),65-84.
Concerning Orpheus in Dionysios Solomos, in A. Kastrinaki, D. Polychronakis & A. Politis (eds.), Polyphony: Philological Studies in honor of S. N. Philippides, Heraklion 2009, 29-47.
Ηρακλής επιφαινόμενος: The Implications and Ironies of a Senecan ‘Epiphany’, in E. Karamalengou & E. Makrygianni (eds), Αντιφίλησις: Studies on Classical, Byzantine and Modern Greek Literature and Culture In Honour of John-Theophanes A. Papademetriou, Stuttgart 2009, 524-530.
Εκσυγχρονισμός και παλαιοημερολογιτισμός, Νέα Εστία τχ. 1827, 2009, 901-907.
Myth and History in Prevelakis or the Spider Web, Nea Hestia 1828 (2009) 978-1004.
The Afterlife of Emperor Claudius in Seneca’s Apocolocyntosis, Numen 56 (2009) 198-216.
Seneca’s Apocolocyntosis and Petronius’ Satyricon, in Michael Paschalis, Stelios Panayotakis & Gareth Schmeling (eds.), Readers and Writers in the Ancient Novel, Ancient Narrative Supplementum 12, Groningen 2009, 102-114.
Roidis, Beaudelaire, and Hallucinogens, in Ε. Politou-Marmarinou & S. Denissi (eds.), The Short Story in Modern Greek and Foreign Literatures, Athens 2009, 371-388.
2008
The Abduction of Helen: A Reappraisal, in K. Karvounis & R. Hunter (eds.), Signs of Life? Studies in Later Greek Hexameter Poetry, Ramus (37, 1-2) 2008, 136-150.
Tityrus and Galatea (Virgil, Eclogue 1): An Expected Relationship, Dictynna 5 (2008) 153-169.
From Giraldi’s Orbecche to Erofili: In Search of Chortatsis’ Learned Interlocutors [in Greek], in Culture and Civilization in Crete: Byzantium-Venetocracy, Studies in Honor of Theocharis Detorakis, edited by Ioannis Vassis, Stefanos Kaklamanis, and Marina Loukaki, Heraklion 2008.
The Italicisms of Kalvos’ Odes [in Greek], Nea Hestia 1809 (2008) 465-484.
2007
The Gestation of Alexis Zorbas and its Four Midwives: Homer, Plato, Dante, and Shakespeare [in Greek], Nea Hestia 1806 (2007) 1114-1191.
The Anonymous Olympic Odes, Chelintus Epiroticus and Andreas Kalvos [in Greek], NEA HESTIA 1800 (2007) 958-963.
Virgil and Thomas Hardy, Rethymnon Classical Studies, vol. 3, Rethymnon 2007, 119-153.
2006
Nikos Kazantzakis and Prevelakis’ Inner Conflict: Criticism and fiction [in Greek], Themata Logotechnias 33 (2006) 152-173.
Alexandros Rangavis’ Bucolica: The Reemergence of a Genre and the Adventures of Modern Greek Dactylic Hexameter [in Greek], Kondyloforos 5 (2006) 67-102.
Charidimos in Kornaros’ Erotokritos: A New Interpretation [in Greek], in Stefanos Kaklamanis (ed.), Issues of Poetics in Erotokritos, Heraklion 2006, 131-148.
Homer and Walter Scott in The Lord of Morea, The Heroine of the Greek Revolution and Loukis Laras, Syngkrisis / Comparaison 17 (2006) 5-128.
2005
The Modern Greek Novel and the Classical Tradition from Soutsos’ Leandros to Politis’ Lemonodasos [in Greek], Proceedings of the International Conference The Reception of Antiquity in the Byzantine and Modern Greek Novel, Rethymnon 9-10 November 2001, Athens 2005.
2004
Middles in Catullus 64: The Pivotal vestis, in S. Kyriakidis & F. De Martino (eds.),Middles in Latin Poetry, Bari 2004.
Eroto-kritos: Semantic Explorations in Kornaros’ Poem [in Greek], Proceedings of the 9th International Conference of Cretan Studies (Elounda 1-6 October 2001), vol. Β1, Heraklion 2004, 125-131.
Narrative and Metaphors of Light in Korais’ O Papatrechas and Vilaras’ O Logiotatos Taxidiotis [in Greek], Ariadne 10 (2004) 147-167.
Seferis and Prevelakis: An Unknown Typescript of Seferis’ Translation of Eliot’s The Waste Land in the Prevelakis Library [in Greek], Nea Hestia 1763 (2004) 117-131.
2003
Names, Semantics, and Narrative in Ovid’s Polydorus and Polyxena Episodes and their intertexts (Euripides’ Hecuba and Virgil’s Aeneid), Studi Italiani di Filologia Classica 1 (2003) 142-159.
La costruzione di Zante in Foscolo and Kalvos, Syngrisis / Comparaison 14 (2003) 62-74.
Etymology and enargeia: Re-reading Moschus’ Europa (vis-a-vis Hor. C. 3.27) in C. Nifadopoulos (ed), Etymologia: Studies in Ancient Etymology, Münster 2003, 153-163.
Poetry and History in George Seferis: From Aristotle’s Poetics to the Events of the Battle of Crete [in Greek], Thallo 14 (2003).
George Seferis’ Translation and Readings of Pervigilium Veneris 86-93: From T. S. Eliot to Sir Cecil Clementi and Walter Pater (in Greek), Proceedings of the 7th Panhellenic Symposium of Latin Studies, ΕΕΦΣΠΘ (Department of Philology) 10 (2002-2003), Thessaloniki 2003, 436-454.
2002
Solomos’ Jerusalem and Virgil’s Troy [in Greek], Proceedings of the symposium The Uses of Antiquity by the Modern Greeks (14-15 April 2000), Athens 2002, 169-195.
2001
Seferis and Apuleius: The Translation of the Metamorphoses and the Six Nights on the Acropolis [in Greek], Dodone 30 (2001) 81-106.
Semina ignis: The Interplay of Science and Myth in the Song of Silenus, American Journal of Philology 122 (2001) 201-222.
Scenic and Dramatic Space in Euripides’ Helen [in Greek], Thallo 12 (2001) 97-107.
2000
The Voyage: Intertextual Readings in Boccaccio’s Teseida and its Greek Translation, Classical Epic and Dante, Enthymisis, Mélanges for N. Panagiotakis, Heraklion 2000, 563-582.
Generic Affiliations in Roman and Greek Cynegetica, Kterismata, Mélanges for J. Kambitsis, Heraklion 2000, 201-232.
1999
Theoi and Theodotos: Thematic Collections and Generation of Meaning in Cavafy’s Poetry, Journal of Modern Greek Studies 17 (1999) 403-412.
1997
Virgil’s Arethusa (Ecl. 10.1-10) and the Bucolic Tradition, in J.-T. Papademetriou (ed.), Acta of the First Panhellenic and International Conference on Ancient Greek Literature (23-26 May 1994), Athens 1997, 713-26
1996
Prophecy and Power in Classical Latin Pastoral Poetry [in Greek], in Ιεροί Λόγοι: Προφητείες και μαντείες στην ιουδαϊκή, την ελληνική και τη ρωμαϊκή αρχαιότητα, D. I. Kyrtatas (ed.), Athens 1996, 135-151.
1995
Glykeron stoma: Erotic Homer in the Lament for Bion, Materiali e Discussioni 34 (1995) 179-185.
Virgil’s Sixth Eclogue and the Lament for Bion, American Journal of Philology 116 (1995) 617-21.
Spatial Structures in the Portrayal of Horace’s and Maecenas’ Status in the Odes, Hellenica 45 (1995) 267-275.
Names and Death in Horace’s Odes, Classical World 88 (1995) 181-190.
1994
Intonsi montes, Cynthius and Aracyntus: Apollo and the Poetics of Mountain Landscape in Virgil’s Eclogues, RODONIA, In Honor of M.I. Manousakas, vol. 2, Rethymnon 1994, 437-449.
The Bull and the Horse: Animal Theme and Imagery in Seneca’s Phaedra, American Journal of Philology 115 (1994) 105-128.
Anaphe, Delos and the Melantian Rocks (Ap. Rhod. Arg. 1694-1730 and Orph. Arg.1353-1359), Mnemosyne 47 (1994) 224-225.
1993
Dream and Poetics: Ennius’ Dream as an Attempt to Remodel Ancient Epic Proem [in Greek], in Όψεις ενυπνίου: H χρήση των ονείρων στην ελληνική και ρωμαϊκή αρχαιότητα, D. I. Kyrtatas (ed.), Heraklion 1993, 125-153.
Two Implicit Myths in Virgil’s Sixth Eclogue, Vergilius 39 (1993) 25-30.
Paruis or patriis?. A Note on Seneca’s Phaedra 899, Classical Philology 88 (1993) 52-54.
Minoan Thalassocrasy: the Senecan Version, Ariadne 6 (1993) 141-146.
1992
Philesitherus and Aristomenes, Liverpool Classical Monthly 17 (1992) 125.
1991
Battus and βάτος: Word-play in Theocritus’ Idyll 4, Rheinisches Museum 134 (1991) 205.
1990
Aliquot …uidens mirabor aristas? On the Interpretation of Virg. Ecl. 1. 69, Liverpool Classical Monthly 15 (1990) 57-8.
1987
Virgil’s Actium-Nicopolis, Proceedings of the 1st International Symposium on Nicopolis, Preveza 1987, 57-68.
1986
The Unifying Theme of Daedalus’ Sculptures on the Temple of Apollo Cumanus (Aen. 6, 20-33), Vergilius 32 (1986) 33-41.
Virgil and the Delphic Oracle, Philologus 130 (1986) 44-68.
“Aut ego fallor aut ego laedor” (Ovid Metamorphoses 1,607–608). A witty tautology? Eranos 84 (1986) 62–63.
Atlas and the mission of Mercury (Aeneid 4,238-258), Papers of the Liverpool Latin Seminar 5 (1986) 109-129.
1984
Notes on the First Proem of the Georgics in Relation to the Proems of Lucretius, Hellenica 35 (1984) 143-146.
The Affair between Venus and Anchises and the Birth of Aeneas in the Aeneid, Dodone 13 (1984) 25-40.
Η απομυθοποίηση της virtus στις Μεταμορφώσεις του Οβιδίου (χιούμορ, έρωτας και πολιτική) [Demythicizing virtus in Ovid’s Metamorphoses], Dodone 13 (1984).
Παρωδία του Ομήρου στον Οβίδιο (Μετ. 1,178-180) [Parody of Homer in Ovid], in Λογοτεχνία και πολιτική στα χρόνια του Αυγούστου, Ιoannina 1984, 51-65.
1982
Two Horatian Reminiscences in the Proem of Lucan, Mnemosyne 35 (1982) 342-346.
1981
Evolat, Dodone 10 (1981) 23-36.
Conference Papers and Lectures (since 2000)
2018
Ο Κάλβος και το Μεσολόγγι. Η ποίηση υπό πολιορκίαν και η φιλολογία σε κρίση, The Greek World in Periods of Crisis and Recovery, 1204-2018, 6th European Congress of Modern Greek Studies, Lund Univesity, 4-7 Οκτωβρίου 2018.
Ο Πρεβελάκης ως ‘μετενσάρκωση’ του Καζαντζάκη, Ο Νίκος Καζαντζάκης και η επίδραση του έργου του σε άλλους συγγραφείς, σύγχρονους και μεταγενέστερούς του, στην Ελλάδα και την αλλοδαπή, Ορθόδοξος Ακαδημία Κρήτης, Κολυμπάρι Χανίων, 28-30 Σεπτεμβρίου 2018.
In the footsteps of Cypris, Cyprus: a Place and Topos in Ancient Literature, A conference organized by the Faculty of Philology and the Laboratory of Cypriot Studies School of Philosophy of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Athens, House of Cyprus, 21 – 22 September 2018.
Οι μεταφράσεις του Γ. Κοτζιούλα από τη λατινική ποίηση της κλασικής περιόδου, Ο Γιώργος Κοτζιούλας και το συγγραφικό του έργο, Πνευματικό Κέντρο Χανίων, 16 Ιουλίου 2018.Didactic Lucretius and Callimachus’ Hymn to Zeus, Symposium Cumanum 2018, rerum cognoscere causas: Learning in the Late Republic and the Augustan Age, 26–30 June, 2018.
The Discourse of Religious and Moral Decline in Horace, Odes 3.6: Beyond the Augustan Context, Speaking Religion: Religious Discourse and Public Speaking in Classical Athens and Beyond, University of Cyprus, 19 June 2018.
The Lure of Paganism: Nonnus’ Paraphrase of the Gospel of John and and Hesiod’s Theogony, Università di Roma La Sapienza, Dipartimento di Scienze dell’Antichità Dottorato in Filologia e Storia del Mondo Antico, 4 June 2018.
From Sallust to Livy to Florus: No Epitomator in Sight, Unabridged. Epitome From Fragmentation to Re-composition (and Back Again), Academia Belgica, Roma, 5-6 June 2018.
Η Κόλαση και ο Παράδεισος στο έργο του Διονυσίου Σολωμού, Εκδηλώσεις Λόγου, Φάκελος «Νεοελληνική Λογοτεχνία», Κέντρο Πολιτισμού Ίδρυμα Σταύρος Νιάρχος, 25-5-2018.
- M. Calbos a quelque chose de la verve et de la manière italienne, ΙΑ΄ Διεθνές Πανιόνιο Συνέδριο, Κεφαλονιά, 21 Μαΐου – 25 Μαΐου 2018.
The Lure of Paganism: Nonnus’ Paraphrase of the Gospel of John and and Hesiod’s Theogony, Nonnus of Panopolis in Context IV: Poetry at the crossroads, Ghent, 19-21 April 2018.
2017
The profanity of Jesus’ storm-calming miracle (Juvencus 2.25-42), Modulations and transpositions: The contexts and boundaries of ‘minor’ and ‘major’ genres in late antique Christian poetry II, The Heidelberg Workshop, 15 to 16 December 2017.
The Rhetorical Strategy of Cicero’s On Divination, The Rhetoric of (Dis)unity: Community and Division in Greco-Roman Prose and Poetry, International Conference, 23-24 November 2017, University of Athens.
Οι σχέσεις του ρωμαϊκού έπους με το ελληνικό έπος της ύστερης αρχαιότητας:
πέρα από τη φιλολογική διαμάχη, Σεμινάριο Κέντρου Ερεύνης της Ελληνικής και Λατινικής Γραμματείας, 2 Νοεμβρίου 2017.
Fanciful and Serious Wordplay in Plutarch, L’Humour verbal en Grèce ancienne : blagues, jeux de mots et calembours, Louvain-la-Neuve (19-20 Octobre 2017.
The Chain of Imitations in Petrach’s Africa, Literary Windows: Imitative Series and Clusters in Literature (Classical to Early Modern), All Souls College, University of Oxford, 25-26 September 2017.
Apollo in Augustan and post-Augustan Epic: Versions, Inversions, and Controversies, ISPCS Conference 2017, University of Haifa, June 14–15, 2017.
At the Crossroads of Intertextuality: Plutarch’s Life of Antony between Cavafy and Shakespeare, The Dynamics of Intertextuality in Plutarch, XIth International Congress of the International Plutarch Society, 10–13 May 2017, Fribourg (Switzerland)
Comparative Challenges: Homer and Theocritus into Latin, Virgil into Greek, Investigating the Translation Process in Humanistic Latin Translations of Greek Texts, Department of Greek Philology, Democritus University of Thrace, 28–29 April 2017.
Plutarch’s Manipulation of the proskynesis Affair (Life of Alexander, chs. 50-54), Ritual and Politics, Individual and Community in Plutarch’s Works, An international Colloquium, Rethhymnon 27 – 30 April, 2017.
The Semantics of Ovid’s Exilic Geography, Primer Congreso Internacional de Geografía Histórica y Mítica en la Antigüedad: Geografía y Mito en la Antigüedad clásica, Valencia, 3-7 de abril de 2017.
Andreas Kalvos, Ugo Foscolo e la nascita della fase più moderna della letteratura neogreca,
Colloque international, Ugo Niccolò Foscolo entre Italie et Grèce, jeudi 9 mars, Nice, Université Nice Sophia Antipolis, Maison des Sciences de l’Homme et de la Société.
Δίδυμες πατρίδες στην κυπριακή συλλογή του Σεφέρη [Twin Homelands in George Seferis’ Logbook 3], ΙΕ΄ Διεθνής Επιστημονική Συνάντηση Τομέα ΜΝΕΣ, Τμήμα Φιλολογίας, ΑΠΘ, Περάσματα, μεταβάσεις, διελεύσεις: όψεις μιας λογοτεχνίας εν κινήσει, Μνήμη Δ.Ν. Μαρωνίτη (1929-2016), Θεσσαλονίκη, 1-4 Μαρτίου 2017.
2016
Ιδιόχειρες διορθώσεις και σχόλια του Στυλιανού Αλεξίου στο ποίημα Μάλτας πολιορκία του Αντωνίου Αχέλη [Hand Corrections and Marginal Glosses by Stylianos Alexiou on Pernot’s Edition of Achelis’ poem The Siege of Malta], Μνήμη Στυλιανού Αλεξίου και Μάρθας Αποσκίτη, Ηράκλειο 14 Νοεμβρίου 2016.
On the Greekness of Shakespeare’s Greek Proper Names, International Congress, Cervantes & Shakespeare: 400 Years of Dialogue with the Arts, Faculty of Arts and Humanities of the University of Lisbon, 9-10/11/2016 (Cervantes Week) & 16-17/11/2016 (Shakespeare Week).
Ο πολυφωνικός Καζαντζάκης και το ολοκαύτωμα του Αρκαδίου [Polyphonic Kazantzakis and the Arkadi Holocaust], Επιστημονική Ημερίδα, Αρκάδι: Λογοτεχνία, Παιδαγωγική, Ιστορία, Ρέθυμνο, 2 Νοεμβρίου 2016.
Η στροφή του Καζαντζάκη από την ποίηση στο μυθιστόρημα ή πώς η ποίηση δημιούργησε τον μυθιστοριογράφο Καζαντζάκη [Kazantzakis’ Shift from Poetry to Novel or how Poetry Made a Novelist of Nikos Kazantzakis], Ο ποιητής Νίκος Καζαντζάκης, Βαρβάροι ( Μυρτιά ) Ηρακλείου, 21-23 Οκτωβρίου 2016.
Funerals, burials, and tombs in Chariton’s Callirhoe and elsewhere, Material Culture and the Ancient Novel, 8th Rethymnon International Conference on the Ancient Novel, 14-15 October 2016.
“And like this insubstantial pageant faded”: The Fragility of Intertextual Mediterranean Dreams, The Mediterranean and its Hinterlands. Le Pays en Profondeur, 28-30 September 2016, Université Toulouse II – Jean Jaurès.
Οι δρόμοι της Ιταλίας και της Κρήτης στην ελληνόγλωσση και την ιταλόγλωσση ποίηση της κρητικής λογοτεχνίας της ακμής [Italian and Cretan Routes of Greek and Italian Poetry in Cretan Renaissance Literature], 12ο Διεθνές Κρητολογικό Συνέδριο, Ηράκλειο, 21-25 Σεπτεμβρίου 2016.
Νίκος Καζαντζάκης: Η γένεση ενός μυθιστοριογράφου [Nikos Kazantzakis: The Birth of a Novelist], 2nd Summer University on Greek Language, Greek Culture, and Mass Media, Kolymbari, 16-22 August 2016.
Walter Scott’s Kenilworth and Apuleius’ tale of Cupid and Psyche, The Reception of Apuleius’ Cupid and Psyche from 1600 to Today: An International Conference, 13-15 July 2016.
The Platonic Background of Lawrence Durrell’s The Dark Labyrinth, Threading the Labyrinth: World War II in the Greek World, On Miracle Ground XIX: A Conference of the International Lawrence Durrell Society, Rethymnon, Crete 26–30 June 2016.
«Το κομμένο χέρι του Ιωάννη Δαμασκηνού»: μετά τριάκοντα έτη [«La main coupée de Jean Damascène»: 30 Years Later), Paper delivered at the Conference in Honor of Prof. Theocharis Detorakis, Heraklion, 27 May 2016.
Η ευτυχής συνάντηση της ρωμαϊκής με την ιουδαιοχριστιανική ιστορική συνείδηση στην Πολιτεία του Θεού του Αυγουστίνου [The Happy Encounter of the Roman with the Judeo-Christian Consciousness in Augustine’s City of God], Lecture delivered on the occasion of the award to Michael Paschalis of the title of Professor Emeritus, University of Crete, Rethymnon, March 22, 2016.
2015
Classical Reception and Kaleidoscopic Identities, Methodological Perspectives in Classical Studies: Old Problems and New Challenges, an International Conference organized by the Department of Philology, University of Crete, Rethymnon, 24-25 October 2015.
Classical Reception and Kaleidoscopic Identities, Identities: Language and Literature, an
International Conference on the occasion of the 20th anniversary of the Department of Greek of D.U.Th. Komotini, October 9-11, 2015.
Issues of Poetics in Antonios Achelis’ The Siege of Malta, The 16th Century in Venetian Crete, an International Conference held in Chania, Rethymnon, Heralion and Sitia, 4-11 September 2015.
Are there Latin Sources in Erotokritos? Issues of Poetics in Kornaros’ Erotokritos, a Conference organized by the Department of Philology, University of Crete and the Municipality of Sitia, Sitia, Greece, 1-2 August 2015.
Myth-making and History in Erotokritos, Research Propositions and Perspectives regarding Kornaros’ Erotokritos, an International Conference in honor of Komnini Pidonia organized by the Division of Medieval and Modern Greek Studies of the Department of Philology of the University of Thessaloniki, 28-29 May 2015.
Direct and Refracted Reception of Ancient in Modern Greek Poetry, The Presence of Antiquity in Modern Greek Literature, A Conference organized by the Hellenic Humanistic Society, Athens, 26 May 2015.
Italianness and Greekness in Kalvos’ language, in Greekness and Otherness in 19th Century Greece, a Symposium organized by the National Research Foundation, Athens, 14-17 May 2015.
Editorial Issues in Cavafy, Editing Modern Greek Literature Texts, A one-day colloquium in memory of E. Pachini-Tsantsanoglou and G. P. Savvidis, Thessaloniki, 27 April 2015.
2014
George Seferis and Euripides’ Bacchae. The Reception of Ancient Greek Tragic Myth in Modern Greek Poetry and Theatre of the 20th century, an International Conference organized by the “Eumenides Project” (hosted by the Open University of Cyprus), Nicosia, 21-22 December 2014.
Justice in Euripides’ Heracles, A Conference on Justice organized by Artos Zoís, Athens, 28-29 November 2014.
Ovid’s Metamorphoses: Metamorphosis as an Archetype and Complete System, Department of Philology, University of Crete, Rethymnon, 12 November 2014.
- P. Kavafy, The Poetics of Liminality, Continuities, Discontinuities, Ruptures in the Greek World (1204-2014): Economy, Society, History, Literature, 5th European Congress of Modern Greek Studies of the European Society of Modern Greek Studies, Thessaloniki, 2-5 October 2014.
Roman ‘Paradises’: At the Service of the Empire”, Università di Roma La Sapienza, 3 June 2014.
Una nuova interpretazione dell’Inno alla Libertà di Dionísios Solomós, Università di Palermo, 29 May 2014.
Kalvos, l’Italia e l’antichità greco-romana, L’isola di Zante: ponte tra Grecia e Italia
La poesia di Andreas Kalvos, Dipartimento di Studi Europei, Americani e Interculturali
Dottorato di Ricerca in Scienze del Testo, Curriculum di Studi interculturali
Cattedra di Neogreco, Università di Roma La Sapienza, 26 May 2014.
A Translation by Kalvos Discloses its Secrets, 10th International Panionian Conference, Corfu, 30 April to 4 May 2014.
“Friendly silences of the moon”: Issues of Intertextuality in George Seferis’ ‘The Last Stop’, A Conference in Memory of X. A. Kokolis organized by the Division of Medieval and Modern Greek Studies, Department of Philology, University of Thessaloniki, 27 – 30 April 2014.
- P. Kavafy, The Poetics of Liminality, «Figures loved and idealised …». Illustrating poems by C.P.Cavafy, Museum of Cycladic Art, Athens, 22 January 2014.
2013
- P. Kavafy, The Poetics of Liminality, The Cavafy Cycle, Historical Museum of Crete, Heraklion, 7 December 2013.
- P. Kavafy, The Poetics of Liminality, C. P. Cavafy: Poetry and Poetics, A Conference organized by the Department of Philology, University of Crete, Rethymnon 4 November 2013.
Nikos Kazantzakis and the Events of 1896-1898: The Cretan State among Ancient and Modern States, Heraklion and Crete in the Last Period of Ottoman Dominion until the Union with Greece, A Conference organized by the Vikelaia Library, Heraklion, 23-26 October 2013.
The Cadmus Narrative in Nonnus’ Dionysiaca, Nonnus of Panopolis in Context II:
Poetry, Religion, and Society, An International Conference organized by the Institute for Classical Philology, Medieval and Neo-Latin Studies, University of Vienna, 26-28 September 2013.
Masters and Slaves in [Lucian’s] Onos and Apuleius’ Metamorphoses, Slaves and Masters in the Ancient Novel, 7th Rethymnon International Conference on the Ancient Novel organized by the Department of Philology University of Crete, Rethymnon, 27-28 May 2013.
The Modern Greek Rebirth of the Islands of Odysseus, A Lecture delivered at the Liceo Classico G. Galilei, Pisa, 25 May 2013.
Ovidio e Nonno, A Lecture delivered at the Università di Firenze, Dipartimento di Lettere e Filosofia, 24 May 2013.
Le origini religiose e poetiche italiane dell’Inno alla Libertà: un nuovo approccio interpretativo, A Lecture delivered at the Università di Catania, 20 May 2013.
The Fictional Plot of Papatrechas and Korais’ Popularizing Commentary on the Iliad, Discourse and Time in Modern Greek Literature(18th-19th Century), A Conference in Honor of Alexis Politis, Rethymnon, 12-14 April 2013.
Epic and Love: from Apollonius’ Argonautica to Tasso’s Gerusalemme liberata, Έρως ad aeternitatem: Adventures of the Love Discourse, A series of Lectures organized by Polyedro (January 2013 – February 2014), Patras, 16 March 2013.
2012
Tracing the Oedipus Myth in Georgios Vizyenos with Aristotle’s Poetics as a Guide, University of Crete, Department of Philology, Rethymnon, 7 November 2012.
The Exclusion of Cretan Literature from the Cretan Academies and the Intertextual Dialogue of Poets, Neograeca Medii Aevi VII, Heraklion, 1-4 November 2012.
Ancient Greek Translations of Virgil in Modern Greece, Virgil Translation Workshop, Vancouver, BC, 21-22 September 2012, Funded by SSHRCC (Social Sciences & Humanities Research Council of Canada) and by the UBC Faculty of Arts Humanities & Social Sciences Fund.
2011
Elytis, Kalvos, and Pindar, A Symposium on Elytis’ Influences organized by the Historical Museum of Crete, Heraklion, 11-13 November 2011.
Homer, Goethe and Wagner in the Short Story ‘The Consequences of the Old Story’ by G. M. Vizyenos, A Conference in Memory of P. Moullas organized by the Division of Medieval and Modern Greek Studies, Department of Philology, University of Thessaloniki, 3-6 November 2011.
The Cretan Literature and the Cretan Academies, 11th International Cretological Congress, Rethymnon, 21-27 October 2011.
The Life of Christ: An ‘Original’ Translation by Alexandros Papdiamandis, Papadiamandis Translator and Translated, 3rd International Conference on Alexandros Papadiamandis, Athens, 7-8 October 2011.
The Modern Greek Rebirth of the Islands of Odysseus, III Congreso Internacional de Estudios Clásicos en México, Instituto de Investigaciones Filológicas, Centro de Estudios Clásicos, Universidad Nacional de Mexico, Mexico City, 29 August-2 September 2011.
Etymology and Word-play in Plutarch, Irony and Humour as Imperial Greek Literary Strategies: The Playful Plutarch, An International Conference, Oxford, 12-13 July 2011.
The Philostratean Sophist as Proteus: Holy Man and Master of Deceit?, Holy Men/Women and Charlatans in the Ancient Novel, 6th Rethymnon International Conference on the Ancient Novel, 30-31 May 2011.
The Tragic Muse, returning, wept her woes: A Fresh Look at Giangiorgio Trissino’s Sophonisba”, The Ancient Greek Theater and its Reception, 4th Panhellenic Theatrological Congress, Patras, 26-29 May 2011.
Ovid and Nonnus: Metamorphosis and poikilon eidos, Nonnus of Panopolis in Context
Poetry and Cultural Milieu in Late Antiquity, Rethymnon, 13 – 15 May, 2011.
The Agon of Euripides and Aeschylus in Aristophanes’ Frogs in relation to Aristotle’s Poetics, New Trends in Ancient Greek Comedy, a Conference organized by the Department of Philology, Rethymnon, 26 February 2011.
2010
Versions of Imaginary Geography: The Geography of Exile from Ovid to Seferis, Department of Philology, University of Crete, Rethymnon, 24 November 2010.
Italianismi in Kalvos e Solomos, a Lecture delivered at the Università Ca’ Foscari, Dipartimento di Scienze dell’Antichità e del Vicino Oriente, Venice, 22 September 2010.
The Audience of the Interludes of Erophile, Identities in the Greek World (from 1204 to the present day), 4th Conference of the European Society of Modern Greek Studies, Granada, 9-12 September 2010.
Italian Intertexts and Italicisms in Solomos’ Hymn to Liberty, 9th International Panionian Conference, Paxoi, 26-30 May 2010.
2009
Myth and History in the Novels of Pandelis Prevelakis, A celebration of the 100th Anniversary of the Birth of Pandelis Prevelakis (1909-2009), Rethymnon, 11-12 September 2009.
Chariton and Petronius: Reflections on the Ideal and the Real, 5th Rethymnon International Conference on the Ancient Novel, Rethymnon, 25-26 May 2009.
2008
Virgil and Petronius, CUNY, PhD Program in Classics, 5 December 2008.
Thomas Hardy and Virgil, CUNY, PhD Programs in Classics, English and Comparative Literature, 4 December 2008
Imperial cult in Augustan Athens, CUNY, PhD Program in Classics, 2 December 2008.
Intertextuality in Kazantzakis’ Kapetán Michalis (Freedom or Death): Homer’s Iliad and Shakespeare’s Othello, Harvard University, Department of the Classics, Modern Greek Studies Program, 19 November 2008.
The Latin Intertexts (Virgil, Ovid) of Alexandre Dumas’ Queen Margot, Princeton University, Department of Classics, 5 November 2008.
Iliadic Themes in Cavafy, Kazantzakis, and Seferis, Princeton University, Program in Hellenic studies, 17 October 2008.
Torquato Tasso and Heliodorus: A Re-examination of Theoretical Issues, ICAN IV, Lisbon, 21-26 July 2008.
The Hellenistic Epigram and Ekphrastic Challenges, The Greek and Roman Ekphrasis, An International Conference organized by the Department of Philology, University of Crete, Rethymnon, 19-20 May 2008.
The Imperial Cult in Augustan Athens: Questions and Paradoxes, Seoul, Korea University, Department of History, 12 April 2008.
Kazantzakis’ Alexis Zorbas: Its Ancient and Modern Models, Pusan, Pusan University of Foreign Studies, Institute for Mediterranean Sudies, 11 April 2008.
Reflections on Solomos’ Orpheus, A Two-day Conference in Honor of Professor Emeritus S. N. Philippides, Rethymnon, 22-23 February 2008.
2007
The Learnedness of ‘Popular’ Alexandre Dumas, père, Popular Literature from Antiquity to Modern Times, 1st Interdivisional Colloquium of the Department of Philology, Rethymnon, 21 November 2007.
How Lyctos Was Turned into Dictaea: Barozzi, Ariosto, and Poetic Invention, 1st International Symposium on Ancient Lyttos, Lyktos eüktimenê, Kastelli Pediados. 9-11 November 2007.
Nikos Kazantzakis’ Progress in Novel-writing from Alexis Zorbas to Christ Recrucified. Nikos Kazantzakis 1957-2007: Distortions, Omissions, Mythicizations, An International Conference, University of Athens, School of Philosophy, Department of Philology, Athens 1-3 November 2007.
The ‘Battle’ of Crete: The Critics’ Crete and Versions of Crete in Kazantzakis [in Greek], Nikos Kazantzakis and Cretan Civilization, A Conference Celebrating the 50th Anniversary of Nikos Kazantzakis’ Death, Heraklion-Myrtia (Varvaroi), 28-30 September 2007.
Petronius and Virgil: Readings and Contexts, The Ancient Novel and its Reception of Ancient Literature, A KYKNOS Conference at University College Cork, Ireland, Wednesday 29 August – Friday 31 August 2007.
A Roman emperor in the underworld: Re-examining Seneca’s Apocolocyntosis, in The Uses of Hell, An International Conference Held at the School of Classics, Russian and Religion at the University of Bergen, 4-5 August, 2007.
Korais’ Commentary on Iliad 1-4: Exegetical Design and Ideological Background, XIIe Congrès International des Lumières, Trajectoires d’Adamance Coray dans le monde des Lumières: Smyrne-Montpellier-Paris, Montpellier, 8-15 July 2007.
“I removed the mist that clouded your eyes”: Visions of the Supernatural from Homer to Sikelianos, Light and Darkness in Ancient Greek and Roman Mythology and Religion from the Archaic Age to the Augustan Period, A Conference organized by the University of Patras, Department of Philology, 6-8 July 2007.
Seneca’s Apocolocyntosis and Petronius’ Satyrica, 4th Rethymnon International Conference on the Ancient Novel, Rethymnon, 20-22 May 2007.
The Topography of Alexis Zorbas as a Construction, International Conference Nikos Kazantzakis 2007: Fifty Years Later, Heraklion & Rethymnon, 18-21 May 2007.
The Gaze of Odysseus and Rome, Multiculturalism in Rome: Social and Literary Life, University of Thrace, Komotini, 2-5 May 2007.
The Abduction of Helen: a Reappraisal, Signs of Life? New Contexts for Later Greek Hexameter Poetry, A Confererence at the Faculty of Classics, Cambridge, 19-21 April 2007.
2006
Homer and Walter Scott in The Lord of Morea, Universiteit van Amsterdam, Faculteit der Geesteswetenschappen, Nieugriekse Taal- en Letterkunde en Byzantinologie, Amsterdam, 8 November 2006
From Homer to the Enlightenment: Metaphors of Light in Korais’ Papatrechas, Universiteit van Amsterdam, Faculteit der Geesteswetenschappen, Nieugriekse Taal- en Letterkunde en Byzantinologie, Amsterdam, 9 November 2006.
The Representation of Sound in Greek and Roman ekphrasis, Universiteit van Amsterdam, Faculteit der Geesteswetenschappen, Klassiekgriekse Taal- en Letterkunde, Amsterdam, 9 November 2006.
The Birth of Kazantzakis’ Alexis Zorbas and its four Midwives: Homer, Plato, Dante and Shakespeare, Universiteit van Amsterdam, Faculteit der Geesteswetenschappen, Nieugriekse Taal- en Letterkunde en Byzantinologie, Amsterdam, 10 November 2006.
Chortatzis’ Erophile: The Italian Intertexts of its Choral Songs, 10th International Cretological Congress, Chania, 1-8 October 2006.
Prevelakis and Kazantzakis, Pantelis Prevelakis, A colloquium, Rethymnon, 13 May 2006.
The Novels of Thomas Hardy: Virgilian and Other Intertexts, The Successors of Theocritus and Virgil: The Reception of Bucolic Poetry in ancient and Modern Times, An International Conference organized by the Department of Philology, Rethymnon, May 22-23 2006.
The Modern Greek Novel and Classical Antiquity from its Origins to Kazantzakis, Lectures organized by the Vikelaia Municipal Library in Heraklion, 3 and 5 April 2006.
Αlexis Zorbas: sa gestation et ses quatre sage-femmes (Homère, Platon, Dante et Shakespeare), Université de Paris-Sorbonne (Paris IV), 11 March 2006
Homer and Walter Scott in The Lord of Morea, Université de Paris-Sorbonne (Paris IV), 8 March 2006.
The Birth of Alexis Zorbas and its four Midwives: Homer, Plato, Dante and Shakespeare, a Lecture delivered at the Hellenic Humanistic Society, University of Athens, 22 February 2006.
2005
“Baudelaire’s little poem” and Other Intertexts in Emmanuel Roidis’ Short Prose Writings, The short story in Modern Greek and foreign literatures: Theory-form-reception, A Conference organized by the Greek Society of General and Comparative Literature, Athens, 8-11 December 2005.
The Genre of Erotokritos, Neograeca Medii Aevi VI, Ioannina, 29 September-2 October 2005
Devising your Topic in Ancient Historiography, Seminars on Ancient Greek Literature and Culture, Delphi, 29 July 2005.
Homer, Plato and Dante in Kazantzakis’ Alexis Zorbás, Social Aspects of Hell: A Cross-cultural Approach, A Conference organized by the University of Thessaly, Dept. of History, Archaeology and Anthropology, Volos, 26-28 June 2005.
The Greek and the Latin Alexander Romance: Comparative Readings, 3rd Rethymnon International Conference on the Ancient Novel, Rethymnon, May 22-24 May 2005
“Descending to Piraeus”: Homer, Plato and Dante in Kazantzakis’ The Life and Deeds of Alexis Zorbas, Abteilung Neogräzistik des Instituts für Byzantinistik, Kunstgeschichte und Neogräzistik, LMU Munich, 9 May 2005.
The Greek Historical Novel (1850-1880), Classical Antiquity and Walter Scott, Oxford University, 4 March 2005.
The Elusive City: An Interpretation of Senecan Tragedy, King’s College London, Department of Classics, 3 March 2005.
Viewing Sound and Listening to Image: Developing Trends in Greek and Roman ekphrasis, King’s College London, Department of Classics, 2 March 2005.
The Greek Historical Novel (1850-1880), Classical Antiquity and Walter Scott, Centre for Byzantine, Ottoman and Modern Greek Studies, Institute of Archaeology and Antiquity, University of Birmingham, 1 March 2005.
The Greek Historical Novel (1850-1880), Classical Antiquity and Walter Scott, Centre for Hellenic Studies, The Byzantine and Modern Greek Seminar, Kin’’s College London, 28 February 2005.
2004
La costruzione di Zante in Foscolo e Kalvos, Università di Perugia, 3 December 2004.
La costruzione di Zante in Foscolo e Kalvos, Università di Venezia, 1 December 2004.
From Orbecche to Erophile: Issues of Poetics, A Two-day Conference in Honor of Professor Theocharis Detorakis, 12-13 November 2004, University of Crete, Rethymnon
Ugo Foscolo, Andreas Kalvos and the Classics: Constructions of a Birthplace, Columbia University, 27 October 2004.
The Greek Historical Novel (1850-1880), Classical Antiquity and Walter Scott, Columbia University, 25 October 2004.
The Greek Historical Novel (1850-1880), Classical Antiquity and Walter Scott, Brown University, 21 October 2004.
The Greek Historical Novel (1850-1880), Classical Antiquity and Walter Scott, Harvard University, 20 October 2004.
Amor, arma and armenta in Ovid’s Metamorphoses, Boston College, 18 October 2004
Ugo Foscolo, Andreas Kalvos and the Classics: Constructions of a Birthplace, University of Princeton, 15 October 2004.
From Homer to the Enlightenment: Metaphors of Light in Korais’ Papatrechas, University of Princeton, 14 October 2004.
The Greek Historical Novel (1850-1880), Classical Antiquity and Walter Scott, University of Arizona, 7 October 2004.
Amor, arma and armenta in Ovid’s Metamorphoses, University of Arizona, 6 October 2004.
Ugo Foscolo, Andreas Kalvos and the Classics: Constructions of a Birthplace, University of Arizona, 5 October 2004.
The Elusive City: An Interpretation of Senecan Tragedy, Dramatic and Performance Space in Senecan Drama, An international colloquium organized by the Department of Philology, Rethymnon, 26 May 2004.
Viewing Sound and Listening to Image: Developing Trends in Greek and Romanekphrasis, International Conference: Viewing and Listening in the Ancient World, Rethy 23-25 May 2004.
The Bucolica of Alexandros Rangavis, The Revival of Classical Meters, A colloquium organized by the Institute for Mediterranean Studies, Rethymnon, 3 May 2004.
2003
Amor, arma and armenta in Ovid’s Metamorphoses, A Lecture organized by King’s College London at the Institute of Classical Studies, London, 24 November 2003.
Amor, arma ed armenta nelle Metamorfosi di Ovidio, University of Venice 17 November 2003, University of Siena ad Arezzo 19 November 2003, University of Rome Tor Vergata, 20 November 2003.
Charidimos in Kornaros’ Erotokritos: A New Interpretation, The Poetics of Erotokritos, An International Conference organized by the University of Crete and the Vikelaia Library, Heraklion-Rethymnon, 13-15 November 2003.
From the Virgilian Sibyl to Seneca’s Cassandra, Prophecy and Ecstasy in the Ancient World, An International Conference in Honor of Walter Burkert, University of Thessaly, Deparment of History, Archaeology and Social Anthropology, Volos, 21-23 June 2003.
Constructions of the Country: Longus, Virgil and Theocritus, 2nd Rethymnon International Conference on the Ancient Novel, Rethymnon, 19-20 May 2003.
Poetry and History in George Seferis: From Aristotle’s Poetics to the Events of the Battle of Crete [in Greek], Chania, 12 May 2003.
Seferis and Prevelakis: an Unknown Typescript of Seferis’ Translation of Eliot’s The Waste Land in the Prevelakis Library [in Greek], Department of philology, University of Crete, Rethymnon, 1 April 2003.
2002
La costruzione di Zante in Foscolo and Kalvos, University of Florence (Dipartimento di Italianistica) 16 November 2002 and University of Siena ad Arezzo 18 November 2002.
George Seferis’ Translation and Readings of Pervigilium Veneris 86-93: From T. S. Eliot to Sir Cecil Clementi and Walter Pater [in Greek], 7th Panhellenic Symposium of Latin Studies, Thessaloniki, 16-19 Ocrober 2002.
Names, Semantics, and Narrative in Ovid’s Metamorphoses, What’s in a Name? A Conference on the Exploration of Personal Names in Latin Literature, 9-11 July 2002, Gregynog Hall, Newtown, Powys.
Pandora and the Wooden Horse: A Reading of Triphiodorus’ Ilii excidium, Roman and Greek Imperial Epic, An International Conference, Retymnon, 20-21 May 2002.
2001
Seferis and Apuleius: The Translation of the Metamorphoses and the Six Nights on the Acropolis [in Greek], in From Virgil to Seferis, A Colloquium organized by the Division of Classics, Rethymnon, 12 December 2001.
Greeks and Romans in Virgil’s Aeneid [in Greek], Heraklion, 10-12 December 2001.
The Modern Greek Novel and the Classical Tradition from Soutsos’ Leandros to Politis’Lemonodasos [in Greek], in The Reception of Antiquity in the Byzantine and Modern Greek Novel, An International Conference organized by the Department of Philology, Rethymnon, 9-10 November 2001.
Eroto-kritos: Semantic Explorations in Kornaros’ Poem [in Greek], 9th International Conference of Cretan Studies, Elounda, 1-6 October 2001.
Callimachus’ Hymn to Zeus [in Greek], Yakintheia, 7 July 2001.
Seferis as a Reader of Apuleius [in Greek], in The Roman Novel, A Conference organized by the University of Thrace, Komotini, 17 May 2001.
Reading Space: A Re-examination of Apuleian ecphrasis, in Space in the Ancient Novel, An International Conference organized by the Department of Philology, Rethymnon, 14-15 May 2001.
Deo plenus: From the Cumaean Sibyl to Inspired Cato [in Greek], in Enthousiasmos, Mania, Initiation, and Festivals in the Ancient World, A Conference organized by the School of Philosophy, Rethymnon, 5 May 2001
2000
Two Early Prose Narratives (O Papatrechas and O Logiotatatos Taxidiotis) in the Light of the Enlightenment [in Greek], Rethymnon, 14 November 2000.
City and Identity in Senecan Tragedy, Space in Ancient Drama, A Conference organized by the Department of Philology, Rethymnon, 2 October 2000.
Etymology and enargeia: Re-reading Moschus’ Europa, Cambridge Conference on Ancient Etymology, Cambridge 25-27 September 2000.
The Historian’s Subject-matter and Aristotle’s Rhetoric and Poetics, Delphi, 2 August 2000
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