Antonis K . Petrides
I am an Associate Professor of Classics at the Open University of Cyprus, where I have been teaching since 2007. I studied Greek Philology (specializing in Classics) at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (1995–99). I also read Classics at Trinity College, University of Cambridge (MPhil & PhD, 2000-2005). My studies were funded by the Greek National Scholarship Foundation (IKY), the A.G. Leventis Foundation, the British Academy and Trinity College, Cambridge.
My research interests lie mainly in the field of Greek and Roman drama (particularly postclassical performance), Hellenistic literature (mainly of the ‘comic mode’: mimiamb, epic and philosophical parody, etc.), and Greek physiognomics. I am also interested in reception studies (mainly the reception of ancient Greek drama in modern Greek literature); in the theory and practice of long-distance adult learning; in the didactics of ancient Greek language and literature in secondary education; and in Modern Greek literature of Cyprus.
Prominent among my recent publications is the monograph Menander, New Comedy and the Visual (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press 2014), and the volumes Greek Tragedy after the Fifth Century (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, forthcoming 2018), co-edited with Vayos Liapis, Debating with the Eumenides: Aspects of the Reception of Greek Tragedy in Modern Greece (Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, forthcoming 2018), co-edited with Vayos Liapis and Maria Pavlou, and New Perspectives on Postclassical Comedy (Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing 2010), co-edited with Sophia Papaioannou. I have also edited an Introduction to the History of Cyprus (with G. Kazamias and E. Koumas; Nicosia: Open University of Cyprus 2013), and the proceedings of an OUC conference on the reception of ancient myth (with S. Efthymiadis, Athens: Ion Publications 2015). Currently, I am preparing a new commentary on Menander’s play Dyskolos for Oxford University Press.
I have been a member of scholarly societies and institutions, such as the Cambridge Philological Society, the Society for the Promotion of Hellenic Studies, the A.G. Leventis Scholars Society etc. In 2009, I was appointed by the Cyprus Ministry of Education member of the Committee for the Reform of the National Curriculum in Greek and Latin. To that effect, I co-authored (with Professor Antonis Tsakmakis) a Report, commissioned and endorsed by the Cyprus government as the New National Curriculum. I have also written or edited several student textbooks and teacher guides, currently in use in Cypriot early secondary education (Gymnasium, Grades A-C).
Phone: 00357-22411983
Address: P.O. BOX 12794
Latsia, Nicosia
2252
Cyprus
My research interests lie mainly in the field of Greek and Roman drama (particularly postclassical performance), Hellenistic literature (mainly of the ‘comic mode’: mimiamb, epic and philosophical parody, etc.), and Greek physiognomics. I am also interested in reception studies (mainly the reception of ancient Greek drama in modern Greek literature); in the theory and practice of long-distance adult learning; in the didactics of ancient Greek language and literature in secondary education; and in Modern Greek literature of Cyprus.
Prominent among my recent publications is the monograph Menander, New Comedy and the Visual (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press 2014), and the volumes Greek Tragedy after the Fifth Century (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, forthcoming 2018), co-edited with Vayos Liapis, Debating with the Eumenides: Aspects of the Reception of Greek Tragedy in Modern Greece (Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, forthcoming 2018), co-edited with Vayos Liapis and Maria Pavlou, and New Perspectives on Postclassical Comedy (Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing 2010), co-edited with Sophia Papaioannou. I have also edited an Introduction to the History of Cyprus (with G. Kazamias and E. Koumas; Nicosia: Open University of Cyprus 2013), and the proceedings of an OUC conference on the reception of ancient myth (with S. Efthymiadis, Athens: Ion Publications 2015). Currently, I am preparing a new commentary on Menander’s play Dyskolos for Oxford University Press.
I have been a member of scholarly societies and institutions, such as the Cambridge Philological Society, the Society for the Promotion of Hellenic Studies, the A.G. Leventis Scholars Society etc. In 2009, I was appointed by the Cyprus Ministry of Education member of the Committee for the Reform of the National Curriculum in Greek and Latin. To that effect, I co-authored (with Professor Antonis Tsakmakis) a Report, commissioned and endorsed by the Cyprus government as the New National Curriculum. I have also written or edited several student textbooks and teacher guides, currently in use in Cypriot early secondary education (Gymnasium, Grades A-C).
Phone: 00357-22411983
Address: P.O. BOX 12794
Latsia, Nicosia
2252
Cyprus
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Monographs by Antonis K . Petrides
Στο βιβλίο συνάπτονται ως Επίμετρο δύο κείμενα: το πρώτο είναι μια σύντομη επισκόπηση της ποιητικής συλλογής του Θεοκλή Κουγιάλη Μυθολόγιον (1981) με αφορμή την πρόσφατη εκδημία του ποιητή (3 Ιανουαρίου 2018). Το δεύτερο είναι η ανακοίνωση που εκφώνησε ο γράφων κατά την τελετή βράβευσης του Κυριάκου Χαραλαμπίδη με το βραβείο «Γιώργος Φιλίππου Πιερίδης» (2019) της Ένωσης Λογοτεχνών Κύπρου, στις 15 Μαΐου 2019.
Edited volumes by Antonis K . Petrides
Chapter 1: After the Fifth Century: (Dis)continuities in Greek tragedy
Chapter 2: Theatre Performance after the Fifth Century
Chapter 3: Beyond Athens: The Dissemination of Greek Tragedy from the Fourth Century Onwards
Chapter 4: Music and Dance in the Greek Tragic Theatre after the Fifth Century
Chapter 5: Fourth-century Tragedy: The Fragments
Chapter 6: Rhesus
Chapter 7: Hellenistic Tragedy and Satyr Drama
Chapter 8: Biblical Tragedy: The Exagoge of Ezekiel
Chapter 9: Society, Ethics, and Intellectual Trends in Greek Tragedy after the Fifth Century
Chapter 10: Attitudes towards Tragedy from the Second Sophistic to Late Antiquity
Chapter 11: Scholars and Scholarship on Tragedy""
About the Author
Antonis K. Petrides (BA University of Thessaloniki, MPhil & PhD Trinity College, University of Cambridge) is Lecturer in Classics at the Open University of Cyprus. Sophia Papaioannou (BA University of Crete, PhD University of Texas at Austin) is Assistant Professor of Latin at the University of Athens.""
CHAPTERS:
1. Cyprus in Antiquity Π. Χριστοδούλου
2. Cyprus under the Byzantine Empire Β. Νεράντζη-Βαρμάζη
3. Frankish and Venetian Cyprus C. Schabel
4. The Ottoman Period Θ. Σταυρίδης
5. Cyprus under the British (1878-1945) Α. Γιάγκου
6. Cyprus in the national and international arenas, 1945-1960: The EOKA struggle – diplomacy and the creation of the republic of Cyprus Ε. Χατζηβασιλείου
7. Post-war Cyprus, 1945-1960: social, political and economic development Ε. Χατζηβασιλείου
8. The Problems of the new Republic Γ. Καζαμίας
9. The 1974 Coup and the Turkish Invasion Γ. Καζαμίας
10. The Turkish invasion: the international community response Ν. Χριστοδουλίδης
11. In search of a settlement Ν. Χριστοδουλίδης
12. The Annan plan and the April 2004 plebiscite. Cyprus entry to the EU.1999-2004 Ν. Χριστοδουλίδης
13a. Archaeological museum, Kourio, Amathounta, Pafos-Mosaics Π. Χριστοδούλου
13b. The Saint Neofytos Monastery, Kykkos Monastery, Aggeloktisti, churches of Mt. Troodos, Byzantine Museum, Saint Napa's' Monastery Χ. Χατζηχριστοδούλου
13c. Ayia Sophia, Omerye Mosque, Ayia Napa C. Schabel
13d. The Old Archbishopric, Nicosia; Cyprus Folk Art Museum; The House of Hadjigeorgakis Kornessios; Ε. Ηγουμενίδου
13e. Museum of the National Struggle, Imprisoned Tombs, Machairas Hideout Α. Κάρυος
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Εκτός από διαχρονικές, οι προσεγγίσεις του τόμου είναι εξ ορισμού επίσης και πολυθεματικές, αφού κινούνται στον χώρο της λογοτεχνίας, της ιστορίας, της αρχαιολογίας, της ιστορίας της τέχνης και των πολιτισμικών σπουδών. Ως προς τη λογοτεχνία, οκτώ συμβολές ιχνηλατούν τις μεταποιήσεις των μυθικών αφηγήσεων σε διάφορα είδη της αρχαίας ελληνικής, βυζαντινής και νεώτερης ελληνικής λογοτεχνίας. Οι Καναβού και Πετρίδης επικεντρώνονται στην αθηναϊκή κωμωδία, Αρχαία και Νέα, μελετώντας τον μύθο ως θεατρικό διακείμενο. Ο Λιαπής εξετάζει την πρόσληψη του ψευδο-ευριπίδειου Ρήσου στο αρχαιοελληνικό μυθιστόρημα, συγκεκριμένα στο Δάφνις και Χλόη του Λόγγου. Ο Χριστοδούλου αναλύει τη λειτουργία του μύθου στους ρητορικούς λόγους και την πολιτική σκέψη του Ισοκράτη και ο Κουλακιώτης στους πλουτάρχειους Βίους. Δύο συμβολές καλύπτουν στον χώρο της βυζαντινής γραμματείας. Ο Ευθυμιάδης μελετά μυθολογικούς υπαινιγμούς κυρίως στην επιστολογραφία, ενώ ο Cesaretti περιγράφει την αλληγορική χρήση του μύθου των Σειρήνων κυρίως στον 11ο και τον 12ο αιώνα. Η εξερεύνηση της παρουσίας του αρχαιοελληνικού μύθου στη λογοτεχνία δεν θα μπορούσε, βέβαια, να μην προεκταθεί και στην ποίηση της νεώτερης Ελλάδας (Βογιατζάκη).
Τρεις συμβολές εξετάζουν πτυχές του αρχαιοελληνικού μύθου σε σχέση με τη θρησκεία, στην αρχαία εποχή, κατά τη μετάβαση από τον παγανισμό στον χριστιανισμό και τέλος κατά την περίοδο του Βυζαντίου. Πίσω από τους αγώνες στα Νέμεα η Ζολοτνίκοβα αναζητεί τις μυθικές τους αιτιολογίες. Οι Δεληγιαννάκης και Magdalino περιηγούνται στα fora των ελληνικών πόλεων της ύστερης αρχαιότητας και της βυζαντινής Κωνσταντινούπολης αντιστοίχως και εξετάζουν τη θέση της παγανιστικής πλαστικής στον δημόσιο χώρο των χριστιανικών αυτών κοινωνιών. Μεταξύ θρησκείας και πολιτικής κινείται η Μάρκου, η οποία μελετά αναπαραστάσεις μύθων στα αρχαία κυπριακά νομίσματα.
Έξι κεφάλαια τέλος εξετάζουν ποικίλες πτυχές της πρόσληψης του μύθου στη νεώτερη εποχή. Στον χώρο της σύγχρονης ελληνικής πολιτικής μυθολογίας ανήκει η συμβολή του Τζάκη, ο οποίος σκιαγραφεί την επίδραση του μύθου της Αθήνας στους στρατιωτικούς προσανατολισμούς της ελληνικής επανάστασης. Η Χατζή χαρτογραφεί το μοτίβο της μυθικής Αρκαδίας από την αρχαιότητα μέχρι και τον ύστερο 20ο αιώνα εστιάζοντας ως επί το πλείστον στις καλλιτεχνικές απεικονίσεις του από την Αναγέννηση και εξής. Ο Παπαϊωάννου δεν μελετά μύθους ως ιστορίες, αλλά την εκδοτική τύχη και την παιδαγωγική αξιοποίηση ενός αρχαίου μυθογράφου, που έλαβε ο ίδιος μυθικές διαστάσεις: του Αισώπου. H Φουσέκη περπατά στα δρομάκια της Πλάκας και παρατηρεί πώς οι αρχαιοελληνικές μυθικές παραστάσεις λειτουργούν πια ως τουριστικό προϊόν. Η συμβολή της Κόντου τέλος ακολουθεί τα αχνάρια των αρχαιοελληνικών μύθων στα φιλοσοφικά σπουδαστήρια της γερμανικής κυρίως φιλοσοφίας του Διαφωτισμού επιστρέφοντας μάλιστα στο αρχέτυπο των Σειρήνων, που είχε απασχολήσει και τον Cesaretti."
Papers in journals & collective volumes by Antonis K . Petrides
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ABSTRACT:
Menander’s debt to tragedy was already recognised in antiquity. Modern scholarship has further illuminated the multiple forms that the intertextual dialogue between New Comedy and tragic theatre, among other genres, has assumed. Nonetheless, the reverse hermeneutic movement—not from tragedy to Menander but from Menander to tragedy—can also prove particularly fruitful. Understanding certain aspects of Menander’s dramaturgy—specifically, the technique I term “pseudo-happy end,” with its evident tragic antecedents—may also shed light on tragedy itself and contribute to the resolution of long-standing philological issues, such as the question with which I shall conclude: whether part of line 1679 in Euripides’ Helen ought to be obelized or not.
«Ancient-style Skeuè in Modern Performances of Greek Drama: the Example of Chris Vervain’s The Grouch and his Daughter (2020)», in I. David, A. Piqueux & É. Prioux (eds.), Des arts visuels aux arts vivants: Empreintes des représentations figurées sur les spectacles antiques ou inspirés de l’Antiquité. Special issue of Cahiers du Théâtre Antique 25.7 (2024), 217–244.
This article presents a case study of how the ancient figurative arts, primarily mask-making, influenced modern theatre practice. Chris Vervain, a British theatre scholar, director, and mask-maker, adapted and staged several ancient tragic and comic plays in masks. This chapter investigates her adaptation of Menander's Dyskolos, entitled The Grouch and his Daughter (2020), a feminist re-imagining of the ancient play with enhanced speaking parts for the women and an original ending. This chapter shows how Vervain’s masks essentially recreate what must have been Menander’s original mask castings. Any deviations serve the adaptation’s agenda to humanise and idealise the character types.
"Strategies of Verbal Humour in Menander’s Dyskolos. From Linguistics to Dramaturgy", in K. E. Apostolakis & I. M. Konstantakos (eds.), The Play of Language in Ancient Greek Comedy. Comic Discourse and Linguistic Artifices of Humour, from Aristophanes to Menander, Berlin & Boston: De Gruyter 2024, 347–391
ABSTRACT:
This chapter uses the advances in Humour Studies to examine Menander’s techniques of verbal humour in his play Dyskolos. Menander’s credible pretensions to linguistic naturalism render his scripts privileged data pools for studying Greek conversational humour in the late fourth century BCE. However, in Menander, the nature and the distribution of the various verbal humour mechanisms and idiosyncrasies to a play’s characters transcends naturalism, constructing an artificial theatrical discourse of ethical and thematic import. The chapter’s main points are the following: (a) that on the surface, Menander uses verbal humour naturalistically, mirroring its occurrence and function in natural conversational contexts; (b) that dramaturgically speaking, Menander’s conversational humour is characterisational and relational, contributing to the construction and individualisation of character and drawing connecting lines between various dramatis personae; and (c) that its function is also thematic, distributed to characters in such a way as to bolster the fundamental dichotomies of the play (city/country, rich/poor, slave/free).
This study explores the intertextual pedigree and the polemic discourses woven around the δύσκολος in Libanius’ Declamation 27, focusing on its most innovative aspect: the never-before-seen presentation of a δύσκολος, not as an agelast, but as an antigelast. The explanation for this innovation of a traditional figure may lie in the context of Libanius' contemporary Antioch.
In what follows, I discuss a selection of passages from Menander’s Dyskolos (ll. 3944, 90–4, 96–7, 299–301, 352–5, 498–9, 596–600, 730, 836–8, 924–5 and 937–40) in relation to which I propose new supplements and/or endorse alternative readings suggested by others in recent decades, among them some of Austin’s own."
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