Dr Pantelis Michelakis

pantelis michelakis
Academic's faculty job title
Associate Professor of Classical Reception Director of the Archive of Performances of Greek and Roman Drama Fellow, St Hilda's College
pantelis.michelakis@classics.ox.ac.uk

Qualifications: MA UCL, PhD Cantab

ORCID: 0000-0002-4005-2898

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Link to project page: http://www.apgrd.ox.ac.uk/about-us/people

 

Academic Background

I studied at the Universities of Cambridge (PhD 1998), London (MA 1994), and Crete (BA 1993). Before joining Oxford, I taught at the Department of Classics and Ancient History at the University of Bristol (2002-24). I was also a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Wolfson College Oxford and Research Fellow at the Archive of Performances of Greek and Roman Drama (1999-2002). I have held Research Fellowships at the University of Bonn, Princeton University, and the Free University in Berlin. I have been Editor-in-Chief of the Classical Receptions Journal (2020-23) and member of the Editorial Board of the International Journal of the Classical Tradition, the Journal of Greek Media & Culture, and the Bloomsbury series Classical Receptions in Twentieth-Century Writing. I am also Honorary President of the Society for the Promotion of Hellenic Studies.

Research Interests

Archaic and classical Greek literature, Greek theatre, Classical reception, reception of Greek and Roman drama in antiquity and in the modern world, Greece and Rome on stage and screen, media theory/history

Research Keywords

Archaic and classical Greek literature, Greek drama, Greek tragedy, tragedy, modern theatre, theatre history, film/TV history, old/new media, cultural transmission, digital humanities, medical humanities

Teaching

Tragedy, Greece and Rome on stage and screen, reception of Greek and Roman literature in English poetry, reception theory

Current/recent research topics supervised: Crete in archaic Greek literature and thought; the concept of the future in Greek tragedy; miasma in Greek tragedy and its modern reception; hatred in early Greek literature; queer theory and gender ambiguity in Greece and Rome; performativity and classical antiquity in performance in the Edwardian era; African adaptations of Greek tragedy; Ancient Greece in computer games; Greece and Rome in science fiction.

Publications

Full Publications: Prof. Pantelis Michelakis

Selected Publications:

Encounters with the Plague in Homer, Sophocles and Euripides (forthcoming 2025)

Classics and Media Theory (Oxford University Press, 2020) 

Greek Tragedy on Screen (Oxford University Press, 2013)

The Ancient World in Silent Cinema (Cambridge University Press, 2013; with Maria Wyke)

Euripides' Iphigenia at Aulis (Duckworth, 2006)

Agamemnon in Performance, 458 BC to AD 2004 (Oxford University Press, 2005; with Edith Hall, Fiona Macintosh and Oliver Taplin), and 

Achilles in Greek Tragedy (Cambridge University Press, 2002) 

Homer, Tragedy and Beyond: essays in honour of P.E. Easterling (SPHS, 2001; with Felix Budelmann)