Assistant Professor of Ancient Greek Literature
katkoroli@phil.uoa.gr
Aikaterini Koroli studied Greek Philology at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens (N.K.U.A.). She is a holder of a Master’s degree in Teaching Greek as a Foreign Language (N.K.U.A.) and of a PhD in Classics (N.K.U.A.). She is also holder of a PhD in Ancient History (University of Vienna, Department of Ancient History, Papyrology and Epigraphy / Universität Wien, Institut für Alte Geschichte und Altertumskunde, Papyrologie und Epigraphik). The topic of her first dissertation, which was published in 2016, is the speech-act of requesting in the private correspondence preserved on papyri and ostraca from the Roman, Byzantine and Early Arab periods of Egypt. Her second dissertation deals with the taxation system in late antique Egypt, and includes the re-edition of a broad corpus of Greek tax receipts preserved on parchments and papyri. She has worked for a long period of time as a postdoctoral researcher in affiliation with the Austrian Academy of Sciences (Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften, Institut für Kulturgeschichte der Antike, Documenta Antiqua), the University of Vienna (Universität Wien, Institut für Alte Geschichte und Altertumskunde, Papyrologie und Epigraphik), as well as the Austrian National Library (Österreichischen Nationalbibliothek) in the framework of projects funded from the FWF Austrian Science Fund. She has participated in numerous international conferences and workshops in Europe and the U.S.A.
Research interests:
Greek Papyrology; Ancient Greek Epistolography, Tragedy, and Historiography; Text-linguistics and Sociolinguistics; Social and Economic History of Late Antiquity; Material culture of Late Antiquity; Medieval Palaeography.
Select publications:
A full list of publications is available at https://en-uoa-gr.academia.edu/AikateriniKoroli