Efimia Karakantza
Professor of Ancient Greek Literature at the University of Patras
Efimia Karakantza is Professor of Ancient Greek Literature at the University of Patras, Greece. She was the Chair of the Department of Philology of the same University in 2022-25. She was awarded the “Alexandros Papanoutsos” award of Excellence in Teaching for the academic year 2024. Her recent publications focus on metafeminist and political readings of ancient Greek literature, mainly Homeric poetry and Greek tragedy, as well as their contemporary reception in literature, the performing arts and on screen. Her latest books are: ‘Who Am I? (Mis)Identity and the Polis in Oedipus Tyrannus, HSS 86, Harvard UP 2020; Antigone, Routledge 2023; and (co-editor) Ancient Necropolitics. Maltreating the living, abusing the dead in Ancient Greece, Mnemosyne Supplement 492, Brill 2025.is Professor of Ancient Greek Literature at the University of Patras, Greece. She was the Chair of the Department of Philology of the same University in 2022-25. She was awarded the “Alexandros Papanoutsos” award of Excellence in Teaching for the academic year 2024. Her recent publications focus on metafeminist and political readings of ancient Greek literature, mainly Homeric poetry and Greek tragedy, as well as their contemporary reception in literature, the performing arts and on screen. Her latest books are: ‘Who Am I? (Mis)Identity and the Polis in Oedipus Tyrannus, HSS 86, Harvard UP 2020; Antigone, Routledge 2023; and (co-editor) Ancient Necropolitics. Maltreating the living, abusing the dead in Ancient Greece, Mnemosyne Supplement 492, Brill 2025.