Curriculum Vitae

Evanthia Sistakou

Professor, School of Philology

Personal Information

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sistakou@lit.auth.gr
Scopus ID26037816700
Γνωστικό Αντικείμενο:
Αρχαία Ελληνική Φιλολογία
Επιστημονική Ειδίκευση:
- Κατάρτιση εκπαιδευτικών με επιστημονική εξειδίκευση
- Ανθρωπιστικά
- Ιστορία, φιλοσοφία και σχετικά αντικείμενα

Education

Προπτυχιακές Σπουδές

1993	Πτυχίο Τμήμα Φιλολογίας/Σχολή Φιλοσοφική Αριστοτέλειο Πανεπιστήμιο Θεσσαλονίκης Greece Κλασική Φιλολογία

Μεταπτυχιακές Σπουδές

1996	ΜΔΕ Τμήμα Φιλολογίας/Σχολή Φιλοσοφική Αριστοτέλειο Πανεπιστήμιο Θεσσαλονίκης Greece Κλασική Φιλολογία

Διδακτορικό Δίπλωμα

2000	ΔΔ Τμήμα Φιλολογίας/Σχολή Φιλοσοφική Αριστοτέλειο Πανεπιστήμιο Θεσσαλονίκης Greece

Course Work

Courses of Winter semester of 2025–26 academic year

	SCHOOL OF PHILOLOGY
ΑΕΦ105	ARCHAIC LYRIC POETRY – HELLENISTIC POETRY
ΑΕΦ142	ANCIENT GREEK SEMINAR I (poetry)
ΑΕΦ153	EPIC

Courses of Spring semester of 2025–26 academic year

	SCHOOL OF PHILOLOGY
ΑΕΦ104	TRAGEDY
ΑΕΦ153	EPIC

Theses Supervised

Student Theses within AUTh

In progress

Doctoral

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Postgraduate

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2024–2025

Postgraduate

The Hesiodic Theogony and the Birth of Regions. From Cosmogony to Geography in the Argonautica of Apollonius Rhodius.

2023–2024

Postgraduate

The closed space in the Argonautica of Apollonius Rhodius

2021–2022

Doctoral

No title

2019–2020

Postgraduate

The Incorporation of the Epic Cycle in the Argonautica of Apollonius Rhodius: Epic Mythology till the Time of the Argonauts

2018–2019

Postgraduate

The presence of the divine element in the bucolic epigrams: A study of certain cases
The love by the first sight in three ideal love novels of the imperial era (Chariton, Xenophon of Ephesus, Achilles Tatiusl)

2017–2018

Postgraduate

The presence of the sea in erotic discourse: maritime metaphors in the epigrams of the Palatine Anthology

Administrative Work

Τμήματος
#	Από	Έως	Θέση Όργανο / Επιτροπή
2	2010	2012	Member, Αναμόρφωση Προγράμματος Σπουδών
1	2006	2013	Member, Γενική Συνέλευση

Research Projects

Participant
2011–2026
1996–2026	Καταθέσεις για μέλη Δ.Ε.Π. από Εθνικούς Φορείς σε συγκεκριμένο λογαριασμό της Επιτροπής Ερευνών, με κράτηση 3%.

Non ELKE AUTh

Participation

Work Acknowledgement

Publications

(2025)

Book Chapter

Voehler Martin, Hamilton John, Sistakou Evanthia . (2025) . Introduction . Parentheses of Reception . [eds] Martin Vöhler, John Hamilton, Evina Sistakou Berlin, Boston . Berlin, Boston . de Gruyter Brill . p.1-5
Σιστάκου Ευανθία . (2025) . Χὠς ἴδον, ὣς ἐμάνην: χώρος, επιθυμία και γυναικείο βλέμμα στην ελληνιστική ποίηση . Πολύνοια. Μελέτες προς τιμήν του Καθηγητή Μ.Ζ. Κοπιδάκη . [επιμ.] Ιάνθη Ασημακοπούλου, Βασίλειος Π. Βερτουδάκης, Εβίνα Σιστακού

Conference Proceedings Article

Sistakou Evanthia . (2025) . The Classics in Viennese Modernity: A Hesiodic Parenthesis in Gustav Klimt’s Beethoven Frieze . Parentheses of Reception . 17th International Trends in Classics conference "Parentheses of Reception" . [eds] John T. Hamilton, Evina Sistakou, Martin Vöhler . Thessaloniki, Greece
Sistakou Evanthia . (2025) . The Visceral Thrills of Tragedy: Flesh, Blood and Guts Off and On the Tragic Stage . Horror in Classical Antiquity and Beyond: Body, Affect, Concepts . 14ο Διεθνές Συνέδριο "Trends in Classics: Horror in Classical Antiquity and Beyond. Body, Affect . [eds] Chiara Thumiger, George Kazantzidis . Thessaloniki, Greece

Book - Textbook

Hamilton John (editor), Voehler Martin (editor), Sistakou Evanthia (editor) . (2025) . Parentheses of Reception . De Gruyter Brill
Σιστάκου Ευανθία (editor), Ασημακοπούλου Ιάνθη (editor), Βερτουδάκης Βασίλειος (editor) . (2025) . Πολύνοια: Μελέτες προς τιμήν του Καθηγητή Μ.Ζ. Κοπιδάκη . Εκδόσεις Κίχλη

(2024)

Journal Article

Sistakou Evanthia . (2024) . χὠς ἴδον, ὣς ἐμάνην: Space, Desire and the Female Gaze in Hellenistic Poetry . Trends in Classics . vol.16 no.1 p. 124-143

Conference Proceedings Article

Sistakou Evanthia . (2024) . From the Authorial to the Editorial tour de force: How to Read Callimachus’ Aetia and Hecale . Labor Imperfectus: Unfinished, Incomplete, Partial Texts in Classical Antiquity . 15ο Διεθνές Συνέδριο "Trends in Classics" :Labor imperfectus. Unfinished, Incomplete, Partial Texts in Classical Antiquity . [eds] Jacqueline Fabre-Serris , Marco Formisano, Stavros Frangoulidis . Thessaloniki, Greece

Translation

Ρεγκάκος Αντώνιος, Σιστάκου Ευανθία, Zimmermann Bernhard (editor) . (2024) . Ιστορία της αρχαίας ελληνικής γραμματείας: Α' τόμος Αρχαϊκή και κλασική εποχή

Book - Textbook

Montanari Franco (editor), Papangelis Theodoros (editor), Zimmermann Bernhard (editor), Sistakou Evanthia (editor) . (2024) . In the Mists of Time, Negotiating the Past in Ancient Literature: Studies in Honor of Antonios Rengakos . De Gruyter Brill

(2022)

Journal Article

Sistakou Evanthia . (2022) . The Palimpsest of Speech Genres in Ps-Theocritus’ Erastes: A Response to Peter Bing . Aevum Antiquum

Book Chapter

Sistakou Evanthia . (2022) . Mythography in Alexandrian Verse . The Oxford Handbook of Greek and Roman Mythography . [eds] R. Scott Smith, Stephen M. Trzaskoma

Translation

Κωνσταντάκος Ιωάννης (editor), Σιστάκου Ευανθία (editor), Ρεγκάκος Αντώνιος (editor) . (2022) . Αρχαία ελληνική και ρωμαϊκή κωμωδία: 43 μελέτες . University Studio Press
Σιστάκου Ευανθία (editor), Ρεγκάκος Αντώνιος (editor) . (2022) . Ελληνιστική γραμματεία: 30 μελέτες . University Studio Press

(2021)

Book Chapter

Sistakou Evanthia . (2021) . The Sweet Pleasures of Theocritus’ Idylls: A Study in the Aesthetics of ἁδύτης . Brill's Companion to Theocritus

Conference Proceedings Article

Sistakou Evanthia . (2021) . Borges in Alexandria? Modes of Ambiguity in Hellenistic Poetry . Strategies of Ambiguity in Ancient Literature . 13ο Διεθνές Συνέδριο "Trends in Classics" : Ambiguity in Acient Literature . [eds] Martin Vöhler, Therese Fuhrer, Stavros Frangoulidis . Thessaloniki, Greece

Translation

Sistakou Evanthia (editor), Regkakos Antonios (editor) . (2021) . Ευριπίδης: 35 Μελέτες . University Studio Press

Book - Textbook

Sistakou Evanthia (editor), Kyriakou Poulcheria (editor), Regkakos Antonios (editor) . (2021) . Brill's Companion to Theocritus . Brill

(2020)

(2019)

Journal Article

Sistakou Evanthia . (2019) . The Wound and the Kiss: The Morbid Pleasures of Post-Theocritean Aesthetics . Trends in Classics . vol.11 no.2 p.285

Conference Proceedings Article

Sistakou Evanthia . (2019) . Denarrating the Narratable in the Aetia: A Postmodern Take on Callimachean Aesthetics . Callimachus Revisited. New perspectives in Callimachean Scholarship . Callimachus Revisited: New perspectives in Callimachean Scholarship . (eds.) Klooster J.J.H., Harder M.A., Regtuit R.F., Wakker G.C. . Peeters . p.329-350

Conference Announcement

Sistakou Evanthia . (2019) . The Alternative Futures of the Lyric Characters: Time Imagined and Time Sung in the Bucolic Corpus . Beyond the ‘Now’: The Poetics of Expectation, Repeatability, and Timelessness in Greek and Latin Lyric
Sistakou Evanthia . (2019) . Postmodernism in Alexandria?: Modes of Ambiguity in Hellenistic Poetry . Trends in Classics. Intended Ambiguity,

(2018)

Book Review

Sistakou Evanthia . (2018) . Vanda Zajko, Helena Hoyle (ed.), A Handbook to the Reception of Classical Mythology . Bryn Mawr Classical Review

(2017)

Book Chapter

Sistakou Evanthia . (2017) . Theocritus' Idylls: On the Verge of Modern Lyric . Hellenistic Lyricism . Berlin-Boston . p.281-316

Conference Proceedings Article

Sistakou Evanthia . (2017) . From Present to Presence: Modes of Presentification in Hellenistic Poetry . Past and Present in Hellenistic Poetry . Past and Present in Hellenistic Poetry . p.1-23

Book - Textbook

Sistakou Evanthia (editor) . (2017) . Hellenistic Lyricism

(2016)

Book Chapter

Sistakou Evanthia . (2016) . Apollonius Rhodius: Fragments . Hellenistic Poetry. A Selection
Sistakou Evanthia . (2016) . Moschus . Hellenistic Poetry. A Selection
Sistakou Evanthia . (2016) . Nicaenetus . Hellenistic Poetry. A Selection

Book Review

Sistakou Evanthia . (2016) . S. Hornblower, (trans., comm. and introduction), Lykophron: Alexandra . The Classical review . p. 373-375
Sistakou Evanthia . (2016) . P. A. LeVen, The Many-Headed Muse: Tradition and Innovation in Late Classical Greek Lyric Poetry . Classical Philology . Vol.11 no.1 p.94-97

Book - Textbook

Sistakou Evanthia (editor), Regkakos Antonios (editor) . (2016) . Dialect, Diction, and Style in Greek Literary and Inscribed Epigram . Berlin . De Gruyter

Monograph

Sistakou Evanthia . (2016) . Tragic Failures. Alexandrian Responses to Tragedy and the Tragic . Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG

(2015)

Book Chapter

Sistakou Evanthia . (2015) . The Epic Mythology in Apollonius Rhodius’ Argonautica . Studies on the Greek Epic Cycle
Sistakou Evanthia . (2015) . The Hellenistic Reception of the Epic Cycle . A Companion to the Epic Cycle
Sistakou Evanthia . (2015) . The Hellenistic Reception of the Epic Cycle . A Companion to the Epic Cycle
Σιστάκου Ευανθία . (2015) . Apollonios von Rhodos . Handbuch der griechischen Literatur der Antike

(2014)

Book Chapter

Sistakou Evanthia . (2014) . Hexametrische Lehrdichtung . Handbuch der griechischen Literatur der Antike . p.115-140
Sistakou Evanthia . (2014) . Mapping Counterfactuality in Apollonius’ Argonautica . Geography, Topography, Landscape. Configrations of Space in Greek and Roman Epic
Sistakou Evanthia . (2014) . Mapping Counterfactuality in Apollonius’ Argonautica . Geography, Topography, Landscape. Configrations of Space in Greek and Roman Epic

Book Review

Sistakou Evanthia . (2014) . Β. Acosta-Hughes‒S.A. Stephens, Callimachus in Context: From Plato to the Augustan Poets . The Classical Review . Vol.64 no.1 p.83-85

Conference Proceedings Article

Σιστάκου Ευανθία . (2014) . From Emotion to Sensation: the Discovery of the Senses in Hellenistic Poetry . Hellenistic Studies at a Crossroads: Exploring Texts, Contexts and Metatexts

Book - Textbook

Hunter Richard (editor), Regkakos Antonios (editor), Sistakou Evanthia (editor) . (2014) . Hellenistic Studies at a Crossroads: Exploring Texts, Contexts and Metatexts . Berlin . De Gruyter

(2013)

Conference Proceedings Article

Sistakou Evanthia . (2013) . From Present to Presence: Modes of Presentification in Hellenistic Poetry . Past and Present in Hellenistic Poetry . Groningen
Sistakou Evanthia . (2013) . The Dynamics of Space in Moschus’ Europa . Aitia . Metamorfosi Epiche. Prospettive di ricerca sull’ epillio greco e romano . Roma . Vol.6
Sistakou Evanthia . (2013) . The Dark Side of Euphorion . Euphorion et les mythes

(2012)

Book Review

Sistakou Evanthia . (2012) . W. H. Race (ed., trans.), Apollonius Rhodius, Argonautica, Loeb classical library 1, Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Mass.- London 2009 . Exemplaria Classica . vol.16
Sistakou Evanthia . (2012) . Ch. Cusset (ed.), Cyclopodie: édition critique et commentée de l' Idylle VI de Théocrite, Collection de la maison de l' Orient et de la Méditerranée, 46, Série littéraire et philosophique, 15, Maison de l' orient méditerranéen, Lyon 2011 . Bryn Mawr Classical Review . no.2012.09.42

Without Type

Sistakou Evanthia . (2012) . The Aesthetics of Darkness. A Study of Hellenistic Romanticism in Apollonius, Lycophron and Nicander: Hellenistica Groningana 17 . Leuven-Paris-Walpole, MA . Peeters

(2011)

Conference Proceedings Article

Sistakou Evanthia . (2011) . Mock epic in the Greek Anthology . Homère revisité : parodie et humour dans les réécritures homériques . (Eds) Acosta-Hughes B., Cusset Ch., Durbec Y., Pralon D. . Besançon . Presses Universitaires de France-Comté . p.193-210

(2010)

Journal Article

Sistakou Evanthia . (2010) . Reading the Authorial Strategies in the Derveni Papyrus . Trends in Classics . vol.2 p.18-30

(2009)

Journal Article

Sistakou Evanthia . (2009) . Fragments of an Imaginary Past: Strategies of Mythical Narration in Apollonius’ Argonautica and Callimachus’ Aitia . Rivista di Filologia e di Istruzione Classica . vol.137 p.380-401

Book Chapter

Sistakou Evanthia . (2009) . Callimachus Hesiodicus Revisited . Brill’s Companion to Hesiod . Eds.: Montanari, F. and Rengakos Antonios . Leiden . Brill . p.219-252

Conference Proceedings Article

Sistakou Evanthia . (2009) . Poeticizing Natural Phenomena: the Case of Callimachus . Nature and Science in Hellenistic Poetry . (Eds) Harder M.A., Regtuit R.F., Wakker G.C. . Leuven . Peeters . p.177-199
Sistakou Evanthia . (2009) . Breaking the Name Codes in Lycophron’s Alexandra . Lycophron: éclats d’obscurité . (Eds) Cusset C., Prioux E. . Saint-Étienne . Presses Universitaires de Saint-Étienne . p.237-257
Sistakou Evanthia . (2009) . Snapshots’ of Myth: The Notion of Time in Hellenistic Epyllion . Narratology and Interpretation: The Content of the Form in Ancient Texts . Narratology and Interpretation: The Content of the Form in Ancient Texts . Eds.: Grethlein, J. and Rengakos Antonios . Berlin-New York . p.293-319

(2008)

Book Chapter

Sistakou Evanthia . (2008) . Beyond the Argonautica: In Search of Apollonius’ Ktisis Poems . Brill’s Companion to Apollonius Rhodius . Eds.: Rengakos Antonios and Papanghelis Theodoros . Leiden . Brill . p.311-340

Without Type

Sistakou Evanthia . (2008) . Reconstructing the Epic: cross-readings of the Trojan Myth in Hellenistic Poetry . Leuven . Peeters

(2007)

Journal Article

Sistakou Evanthia . (2007) . Cyclic Stories? The Reception of the Cypria in Hellenistic Poetry . Philologus . vol.151 p.78-94

Book Chapter

Sistakou Evanthia . (2007) . Glossing Homer: Homeric Exegesis in Early Third Century Epigram . Brill’s Companion to Hellenistic Epigram . (Eds) Bing P., Bruss J.S. . Leiden . Brill . p.391-408

(2005)

Conference Proceedings Article

Σιστάκου Ευανθία . (2005) . Το παιχνίδι των αισθήσεων στον Ύμνο εις Λουτρά της Παλλάδος του Καλλίμαχου . 24ο Συμπόσιο Ποίησης

Monograph

Σιστάκου Ευανθία . (2005) . Η γεωγραφία του Καλλίμαχου και η νεωτερική ποίηση των ελληνιστικών χρόνων

(2004)

Monograph

Σιστάκου Ευανθία . (2004) . Η άρνηση του έπους: όψεις του Τρωικού μύθου στην ελληνιστική ποίηση

(2002)

Journal Article

Sistakou Evanthia . (2002) . Kallimachos als Homererklärer: Das Beispiel der geographischen Namen . Wiener Studien
Σιστάκου Ευανθία . (2002) . Απολλώνιος Ρόδιος Αργοναυτικά: παράδοση και νεωτερικότητα στον κατάλογο των Αργοναυτών (Ι 23-233) . Ελληνικά

(2000)

Translation

Σιστάκου Ευανθία (editor) . (2000) . J. Latacz, Όμηρος. Ο θεμελιωτής της ευρωπαϊκής λογοτεχνίας

(1998)

Book - Textbook

Σιστάκου Ευανθία . (1998) . Θεοκρίτου ‘Θύρσις ή Ωιδή’

Distinctions

2016

Award of the Academy of Athens for the best monograph or critical edition in Classics to Evina Sistakou for her Book «Tragic Failures. Alexandrian Responses to Tragedy and the Tragic» (De Gruyter, Berlin 2016)

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Curriculum Vitae

Evanthia Sistakou

Προπτυχιακές Σπουδές

Μεταπτυχιακές Σπουδές

Διδακτορικό Δίπλωμα

Courses of Winter semester of 2025–26 academic year

Courses of Spring semester of 2025–26 academic year

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