Associate Professor of Ancient Greek Philology and Ancient Theatre, Department of Theatre Studies, University of Patras
Teaching Experience
Higher Education:
University of Patras
Open and Distance Education:
Hellenic Open University, Open University of Cyprus
Supervisor of two completed doctoral dissertations at the Department of Theatre Studies of the University of Patras. Co-supervisor of doctoral dissertations at the University of Patras, the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, and the University of Ioannina. Participation in seven-member doctoral examination committees.
Supervisor of postgraduate dissertations in the MA programme Ancient Greek Theatre (University of Patras), at the Open University of Cyprus, and co-supervisor in the MA programme Korais (Department of Philology, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens).
Research Activity
“The Mask in Commedia dell’Arte and Ancient Greek Comedy: A Comparative and Historical Approach, with Emphasis on the Methodology of Acting”, Research Action Support for Researchers with an Emphasis on Young Researchers – Cycle B’ (ESPA 2014–2020).
Start date: 04/12/2019
End date: 03/03/2021
Duration: 15 months
Project Code/MIS: 5047160
Funding: €41,500
Participation as Principal Investigator (“Academic Advisor”).
Administrative Work
- Coordinator of the Library Committee, Department of Theatre Studies, University of Patras (2018– )
- Member of the European Universities alliance EuniCoast
- President of the Scientific Supervisory Board of the Model General High School of Patras
Books
- Poetics and Religion in Pindar. Ambits of Performance and Cult, London: Routledge, 2025.
- Euripides’ Bacchae: Readings (co-edited with Eleni Boliaki), Athens: Herodotos, 2023.
- Elements of Tragedy in Flavian Epic (co-edited with Sofia Papaioannou), Berlin/Boston: De Gruyter, 2021.
- Study Guide on Ancient Greek Drama, Hellenic Open University, 2015.
Selected Articles in Collective Volumes and Journals
- “Cassandra in Bacchic Frenzy on Stage in The Trojan Women,” in: St. Tsitsiridis (ed.), Readings of Euripides’ Trojan Women, Heraklion: Crete University Press, 2025, pp. 169–187.
- “The 1966 Oresteia in America: Stage Interpretation and Ideological Background,” in: Gogo Varzelioti – Konstandza Georgakaki (eds.), Alexis Solomos: The Noble Initiate of the Spirit, Conference Proceedings, 17 December 2018, Athens 2024 (publication by NKUA and the National Theatre), pp. 107–132.
- “Alexis Solomos as Translator of Aristophanes’ Birds (1979),” in: Kaiti Diamantakou (ed.), ‘Lost in Translation’ or (Re)Exploring Unpublished Translations of Ancient Drama, Proceedings of the Scientific Workshop, 3 June 2024, Library Amphitheatre of the School of Philosophy, NKUA, Athens 2024, pp. 85–99.
- “‘Faithful … to this Duty’: The Problematic of Moral Duty in Seven Against Thebes by Aeschylus,” in: Andreas G. Markantonatos – Kaiti Diamantakou (eds.), The Concept of Moral Duty in Ancient Greek Theatre, Conference Proceedings: National Theatre, 23–25 September 2021, Athens 2022, pp. 132–159.
- “Eteocles and Polynices in Statius’ Thebaid: Revisiting the Issue of Tragic Causality,” in: Sophia Papaioannou – Agis Marinis (eds.), Elements of Tragedy in Flavian Epic, De Gruyter, Berlin–Boston 2021, pp. 149–169.
- “The Mask in Commedia dell’Arte and Ancient Greek Comedy: Towards a Comparative Approach, with Emphasis on the Methodology of Acting,” Mediterranean Chronicle 10, 2020, pp. 59–88.
- “‘Realism’ and Reflections of Art in Aeschylean Stage Settings (Persae, Supplices, Theoroi),” Logeion 9, 2019, pp. 45–79.
- “Statius and Greek Tragedy. The Legacy of Thebes,” in: William J. Dominik, Kyle Gervais and Carole E. Newlands (eds.), Brill Companion to Statius, Brill, Leiden–Boston 2015, pp. 343–361.
- “Dionysiac Metaphor in Aeschylus’ Seven against Thebes,” Materiali e Discussioni 69, 2012, pp. 9–43.
- “Seeing Sounds: Synaesthesia in the Parodos of Seven against Thebes,” Logeion 2, 2012, pp. 26–59.
Book Reviews
Reviews published in Classical Review, Logeion, and Athens Review of Books.
Translations
- Translation of Alan Hughes’ book The Performance of Comedy in Ancient Greece, Heraklion: Crete University Press, 2019.
- Translations of scholarly articles.
Conference Presentations and Lectures
Presentations at international and Greek conferences, including at the University of Cambridge, University of British Columbia, Universidade de Santiago de Compostela, and the Universities of Athens, Patras, and Crete.
Invited lectures at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, the University of Crete, the Open University of Cyprus, the University of Cambridge, and others.
Email: a.p.marinis@gmail.com
