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Pantelis Michelakis

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A photo of Pantelis Michelakis, standing before a rocky wall.

Pantelis Michelakis is Associate Professor of Classical Reception and Fellow of St Hilda’s College, University of Oxford. He has held various positions as member of the Department of Classics and Ancient History at the University of Bristol (2002-24) and as Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Wolfson College Oxford and Research Fellow at the Archive of Performances of Greek and Roman Drama (1999-2002). 

Selected publications

Pantelis is the author of Encounters with the Plague in Homer, Sophocles and Euripides (forthcoming 2025, for a taster see here), Greek Tragedy on Screen (Oxford University Press, 2013), EuripidesIphigenia at Aulis (Duckworth, 2006), and Achilles in Greek Tragedy (Cambridge University Press, 2002). He has also edited or coedited the following volumes of essays: Classics and Media Theory (2020) The Ancient World in Silent Cinema (2013), Agamemnon in Performance, 458 BC to AD 2004 (2005), and Homer, Tragedy and Beyond: essays in honour of P.E. Easterling (2001). For his full list of publications, see Pantelis Michelakis' publications>>