Professor of Latin Literature
amichalop@phil.uoa.gr

Andreas N. Michalopoulos teaches Latin language and literature at the Department of Philology and the Department of History and Archaeology of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens. He received his BA in Classical Philology (1993) from the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, while his MA (1994) and PhD (1997) in Latin from the University of Leeds, where he studied with the support of a Greek state scholarship. Before joining the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens in 2007, he had taught at the University of Leeds, the University of Thessaly and the Democritus University of Thrace.

Research interests:

Augustan poetry, Ancient Etymology, Roman drama, Roman novel, Modern reception of classical literature.

Select publications:

• Ancient Etymologies in Ovid’s Metamorphoses: A Commented Lexicon. Leeds: Francis Cairns Publications, 2001
• Ovid, Heroides 16 and 17: Introduction, Text and Commentary. Cambridge: Francis Cairns Publications, 2006
• Ovid, Heroides 20 and 21: Introduction, Text, Translation, and Commentary. Athens: Papadimas, 2013 [in Greek]
• Roman Lyric Poetry: Horace Carmina. Athens: HEAL, 2016 (with Ch.N. Michalopoulos) [in Greek]
• Roman Love Elegy. Athens: HEAL, 2016 (with Ch.N. Michalopoulos) [in Greek]
• Roman Epic Poetry. Athens: HEAL, 2016 (with Ch.N. Michalopoulos) [in Greek]