!!Christos Tsagalis - Biography
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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.
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He is also Assistant Editor of Trends in Classics Supplementary Volumes, ed. by F. Montanari & A. Rengakos.
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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).\\ \\