Professor of Latin Literature
ekaram@phil.uoa.gr
Eleni Karamalengou, Professor of Latin literature at the Faculty of Philology and Director of the BA in Archaeology, History and Culture of Ancient Greece, holds a BA (1975) in Classical Philology from the Faculty of Philology, of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens (UoA), a D.E.A. (1976) in Classical Studies (Études Classiques) from the Sorbonne (Paris IV) and a PhD (1979) in Latin literature also from the Sorbonne (Paris IV). She has been a member of the Staff of the Faculty Philology at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens since 1980, rising to the rank of Professor in 2006, while in August 2019 she completed a five-year long tenure as Dean of the School of Philosophy. Her teaching and research interests comprise Roman Rhetoric and Latin Literature of the Augustan Age, and she has taught a variety of courses on the above topics at the Faculty of Philology, both at the undergraduate and the graduate level. She has also supervised numerous MA and PhD theses.
Main Research interests:
Latin literature, especially the literature of the Late Republic and the Augustan Age, Latin elegy, Horace and Vergil, Roman rhetoric, Cicero, Terence, the Muse in Latin poetry.
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