Professor of Ancient Greek Literature and Papyrology
papath@phil.uoa.gr
Amphilochios Papathomas holds a Ptychion (4-year BA) in Classics from the Faculty of Philology of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens (UoA) (Class: “Excellent”), and a PhD in Classics and Papyrology from the Ruprecht–Karls University of Heidelberg, Germany (Class: “summa cum laude”). He has held an Alexander von Humboldt Fellowship for advanced scholars at the University of Heidelberg, Germany, as well as a Lise Meitner Fellowship at the University of Vienna, Austria. He has taught at the Universities of Salzburg, Vienna, Cyprus, Athens, Bratislava, Thrace (Komotini), Heidelberg and Freiburg. He has been a staff member of the Department of Philology of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens since November 2000. He has taught and currently teaches various modules in Herodotus, Thucydides, Euripides, Hellenistic Poetry, Papyrology, Paleography, and the Attic Orators, both at the undergraduate and postgraduate levels and has supervised more than 30 PhD dissertations. He has given a large number of invited lectures at many universities in Europe and the USA. He is a member of the Editorial Board of the journal Archaeognosia (Athens). He currently serves as President of the Greek Papyrological Society and Secretary General of the Greek Humanistic Society.
Main Administrative Posts at UoA
Head of the Faculty of Philology of UoA (2016-2019), Member of the UoA Senate (2016-2019), Head of the Classics Library (2014-2019).
Research interests
Ancient Greek Historiography, Attic Drama, Attic Oratory, Greek and Latin Papyrology, Greek Paleography, Greek Literature of Late Antiquity.
Select publications
For publication details of 170 other scholarly studies see http://www.phil.uoa.gr/tomeis/tomeas-klasikis-filologias/melh-dep-klas-biografika/amfilochios_papathomas_gr.html. Many of these publications can be found on academia.edu: uoa.academia.edu/AmphilochiosPapathomas.