Christos Tsagalis - Biography#

Christos Tsagalis is Professor of Ancient Greek Literature at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. He is the author of 8 books: Epic Grief: Personal Laments in Homer’s Iliad (2004), The Oral Palimpsest: Exploring Intertextuality in the Homeric Epics (2008), Inscribing Sorrow: Fourth-Century Attic Funerary Epigrams (2008), From Listeners to Viewers: Space in the Iliad (2012), Ομηρικές μελέτες: προφορικότητα διακειμενικότητα, νεοανάλυση (2016), Early Greek Epic Fragments: Genealogical and Antiquarian Epic (2017), Τέχνη ραψωδική: η απαγγελία της επικής ποίησης από την αρχαϊκή έως την αυτοκρατορική εποχή (2018), Omero: Iliade, vol. I: Libri IX-XII (Fondazione Lorenzo Valla, forthcoming). He has edited 3 volumes of collected essays: (1) Homeric Hypertextuality (2010), (2) Theban Resonances in Homeric Epic (2014), (3) Poetry in Fragments: Studies on the Hesiodic Corpus and its Afterlife (2017). He has also co-edited 12 volumes of collected essays: (1) with N. Bezantakos: Μουσάων Ἀρχώμεθα: Hesiod and Archaic Greek Epic (2006), (2) with A. Rengakos: Prizes and Contests in the Homeric Epics (2007), (3) with A. Markantonatos: Ancient Greek Tragedy: Theory and Praxis (2008), (4) with F. Montanari and A. Rengakos: Brill’s Companion to Hesiod (2009), (5) with Phil Mitsis: Allusion, Authority, and Truth: Critical Perspectives on Greek Poetic and Rhetorical Praxis (2010), (6) with F. Montanari and A. Rengakos: Homeric Contexts: Neoanalysis and the Interpretation of Oral Theory (2012), (7) with M. Fantuzzi: The Greek Epic Cycle and its Ancient Reception (Cambridge 2015), (8) with A. Markantonatos: The Winnowing Oar: New Perspectives in Homeric Studies (2017), (9) with J. Ready Homer in Performance: Rhapsodes, Narrators & Characters (2018). He is co-editor (with J. Ready) of the Yearbook of Ancient Greek Epic and (with P. Finglass & S. Malloch) of the series Key Perspectives on Classical Research.

He is also Assistant Editor of Trends in Classics Supplementary Volumes, ed. by F. Montanari & A. Rengakos.

He has won the Academy of Athens Award in Classics (2007), has been a Fellow of the Center for Hellenic Studies (Harvard University) in 2002 and 2014, and has been awarded the National Research Award by the Hellenic Foundation for Research and Innovation (2019).