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Senior Fellow HEA
email a.makrinos@ucl.ac.uk
Student Feedback and Consultation hours:ÌýMondays 11am-12Ìýand ThursdaysÌý2-3pm
Research interests:ÌýHomer, scholarship in Byzantium (esp. Eustathius of Thessalonica and reception of the Homeric text with emphasis on allegorical interpretation), reception studies (esp. modern reception of Homer in cinema and modern poetry), teaching Classics with VR and AI.
I was born and educated in Chios (Greece). I studied Classics at the University of Athens and then moved to Ïã¸ÛÁùºÏ²Ê with a private scholarship in 1998-9 in order to complete a one-year MA in Classics at the Department of Greek and Latin. In 2000, I was offered a scholarship for a PhD in Classics on "Eustathius' Commentary on Homer's Odyssey (ch. 1379-97)" under the supervision of Prof. R. Janko and Prof. C. Carey which I completed in 2004, and in the following years I continued my research on this subject as a Postdoc Research Fellow. Since then I have worked as a Lecturer in the School of English and Drama at Queen Mary University of London and as a Research and Teaching Fellow at KCL and Ïã¸ÛÁùºÏ²Ê. Since 2012 I have been a member of the Department of Greek and Latin as a Teaching Fellow in Classics, thenÌýa Senior Teaching Fellow in Classics and a Senior Teaching Fellow of the Higher Education Academy. Recently, I have become an Associate Professor in Classics (Teaching).Ìý
I am also a member of , and a Member of the Ïã¸ÛÁùºÏ²Ê Academic Board. For the last 11 years I have also served as the Director of the Summer School in Homer which takes place every year at the Dept of Greek Latin, Ïã¸ÛÁùºÏ²Ê.
Publications
Books
• Eustathius' Commentary on the Odyssey - book 1 (Routledge ~ contracted for 2024)
• Codex Sinaiticus: New Perspectives on the Ancient Biblical Manuscript (assistant editor), British Library 2015
Recent Articles
• "": Homer's poetic legacy, BBC History Magazine, May 2016
• "Perceptions of Greece in the works of Roman authors" (in Europatria, ed. F. de Oliveira, Centre of Classical and Humanistic Studies of the University of Coimbra, Lisbon 2013)
• "Tragedy in Byzantium: Sophocles in Eustathius' Commentary on the Odyssey" (in Dialogues with the Past, vol. I, (BICS Supplement 125), ed. by A. Bakogianni, London 2013)
• "In search of ancient myths: documentaries and the quest for the Homeric world" (in Classics in the Modern World: a 'Democratic Turn'?, ed. by L. Hardwick and S. J. Harrison, Oxford University Press: Oxford 2013).
• The Homer Encyclopedia (edited by M. Finkelberg) Includes three entries "Eustathius", "Byzantine Reception", "Homeric paraphrases" Blackwell, 2011
• "Eustathius' archbishop of Thessalonica Commentary on the Odyssey: Codex Marcianus 460 and Parisinus 2702 revisited" Bulletin of the Institute of Classical Studies, vol. 50, (2007) pp. 171-192
Reviews
•ÌýR. Hunter, "The measure of Homer", The Classical Review (2020) no 70.1 16-18.
• R. J. Cunliffe, "A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect", International Journal of the Classical Tradition, 2014.
• S. Montiglio, "", BMCR 2012
• G. D. Bird, , (Hellenic Studies 43), The Classical Review 62 (2012) no 1, 8-10.
• K. A. Raaflaub - H. Van Wees, "", The Classical Review - Aug. 2010
• M. Mueller, "The Iliad" Second edition, The Classical Review 60 (2010) no 2, 604.
• M.M.Winkler, "", Scholia 16 (2007) 47
Radio & Film
• ÌýÌý2022-3, documentary dir. Aaron Wheeler (contribution on the Odyssey and academic advice)
• Actors of Dionysus, Daily Dose, reading a passage from The OdysseyÌýonÌýYOUTUBE
• "" 2011, Carol Winifred Film Studios - Spiked Wheel films, inspired by the recent discovery of the 4th c. diary of St. Katherine (academic advice & translation)
• "", BBC Radio 4, presented by Bettany Hughes (contribution on Homer and Eustathius)
• "", BBC World Service, presented by Bettany Hughes (contribution to a panel about the Iliad)
Projects in progress
- Eustathius project: The aim of this project is to accomplish an edition of Eustathius' Commentary on the Odyssey (Book 1) with an English translation, and expanded explanatory notes.
Talks for Schools
• Homer and popular media
• Introduction to Homer
• Homer in Cinema
• Heroism in Homer
• The Gods in the Iliad and the Odyssey
• Modern reception of Homer
• Women in the Homeric epics
Teaching
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