Adjunct Lecturer

g.mitro[at]hotmail[dot]com

Giorgos Mitropoulos is Post-doc researcher in the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens and is the Primary Investigator of the Research Project Greek Matronae: Female Civic Presence and Self-Representation in Imperial Greece (1st - 3rd c. CE) in the National Hellenic Research Foundation. He has taught Ancient Greek and Roman History in the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, the University of Crete and the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. His main research interests include the society, politics and cultic practices in the Hellenistic and Roman world and the formation and diffusion of the ruler ideology in the Greek East, topics on which he has published various papers in international scientific journals and collective volumes. His monograph, entitled The model of the Roman emperor and the imitatio imperatoris: Dialectics of influence between the princeps and the provincials in the Graeco-Roman East (31 B.C. – A.D. 235) was published on 2023 in Greek,and treats the theme of the exemplum of the Roman Emperor and his imitation in the Hellenophone provinces.

Selected publications:

Mitropoulos, G. The Model of the Roman Emperor and the imitatio imperatoris: Dialectics of Influence between the princeps and the Provincials in the Greco-Roman East (31 B.C. – A.D. 235), Saripoleion Foundation Library, Athens, 2023 (in Greek).

Mitropoulos, G. Demokratia & Res Publica: Comparative Views on Ancient Greek and Roman Structures (with co-editors K. Buraselis, F. Camia). Proceedings of the CIVIS Seminar Week of Ancient History (NKUA, 20-22/9/2021), Mediterraneo Antico 27, 2024.

Mitropoulos, G. ‘Politics in the Aetolian Koinon at the Coming of Rome’, Veleia 42 (2025), pp. 33-42.

Mitropoulos, G. ‘The Art of Refusal: Refusing Cultic Honours in the Hellenistic Monarchies and Imperial Rome’, Mediterraneo Antico 27 (2024), pp. 111-126.

Mitropoulos, G. ‘The Sphinx and the She-wolf: Some Remarks on Aetolian Politics after the Antiochian War’, Klio 101 (2019), pp. 77-106.

Mitropoulos, G. Nero and Greece: The Game of Roles, Crete University Press (in Greek, under publication in 2025).

Most of his publications may be found on: https://eie.academia.edu/GiorgosMitropoulos