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).
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