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BA Program in the Archaeology, History, and Literature of Ancient Greece

MATTHAIOS, STEPHANOS

Professor of Ancient Greek Literature

smatthaios@phil.uoa.gr

Stephanos Matthaios studied Classics at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens (BA 1988) and completed his postgraduate studies in Classics and Linguistics at the University of Göttingen (PhD in Classics 1998). He worked as Research Assistant at the Department of Classics of the University of Cologne (1998-2000), as Lecturer and Assistant Professor of Ancient Greek Literature at the University of Cyprus (2000-2006) and as Assistant Professor of Ancient Greek Literature at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (2006-2018). Since 2018 he has been Associate Professor of Ancient Greek Literature at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens. During SS 2010 he taught as visitor at the Department of Classics of the University of Freiburg. During SS 2014 he taught as Spinoza visiting fellow at the Classics Department of the University of Leiden.

Research interests

  • Ancient linguistics
  • Homeric scholarship in Antiquity
  • Ancient commentaries and scholia
  • Eratosthenes and the Hellenistic science
  • Ancient and Byzantine lexicography

Select publications

  • Brill’s Companion to Ancient Greek Scholarship, vol. 1: History, Disciplinary Profiles, vol. 2: Between Theory and Practice, Leiden – Boston: Brill 2015 (edited volumes, with F. Montanari and A. Rengakos)
  • Ancient Scholarship and Grammar. Archetypes, Concepts and Contexts (Trends in Classics – Suppl. Vol. 8), Berlin – New York: Walter de Gruyter 2011 (edited volume, with F. Montanari and A. Rengakos)
  • Linguistische und epistemologische Konzepte – diachron, Münster: Nodus Publikationen 2007 (edited volume, with P. Schmitter)
  • Untersuchungen zur Grammatik Aristarchs: Texte und Interpretation zur Wortartenlehre (Hypomnemata 126), Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht 1999