Lecturer of Ancient Greek Literature
Athena Bazou holds a BA in Classics from the Faculty of Philology of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens (N.K.U.A.), an MA in Ancient Greek Literature (University of Paris IV- Sorbonne), a MA in European Studies - National and European Educational Policy (University Paris III-Nouvelle Sorbonne) and a PhD in Ancient Greek Literature (University of Paris IV-Sorbonne). She worked as a Project Manager (EU- funded Educational Projects) in the R & D Department of Ellinogermaniki Agogi (2000-2002), while she was involved in Open and Distance Learning courses at the Hellenic Open University for 19 years, as a Member of the Teaching Staff, Technical Coordinator and Content Developer. She also worked as a Researcher for the Academy of Athens, on Greek and Latin Literature (2003-2012), while she has been a staff member of the Department of Philology of the N.K.U.A. since 2013. She has taught Ancient Greek Language, Palaeography, Ancient Greek Medicine, Ancient Greek Science, Philosophy (Plato-Aristotle), Ancient Oratory, both on undergraduate and postgraduate level at the N.K.U.A., and Ancient Greek Medicine at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (Department of Medicine, Postgraduate course in the History of Medicine). She has published articles on Galen, Plato, Oriental Tradition of Medical Texts and Ancient Science.
Research interests:
Ancient Medical Texts, Ancient Greek Science and Technology, Critical Editions of Ancient Greek Texts, Text Transmission, Palaeography, Ancient Greek Philosophy (Plato – Aristotle), Second Sophistic, History of Ancient Greek Scholarship, Oriental Tradition of Ancient Medical Texts.
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