Stavros Tsitsiridis
Professor of Ancient Greek Philology and Ancient Theatre at the University of Patras
Stavros Tsitsiridis was born in Rethymno and studied Classical Philology at the University of Crete. He continued his studies with a scholarship from the German government at the University of Cologne, where he earned his PhD in 1995. He has taught at the University of Cyprus, Saarland University, and the University of Patras, where he currently serves as Professor of Ancient Greek Philology and Ancient Theatre. He is the director of the Graduate Program in Ancient Theatre and of the Institute of Ancient Theatre at the University of Patras. He also directs the international scholarly journal Logeion/Λογείον, published by the University of Crete Press. His research interests focus on Plato, Aristotle’s Poetics, the Peripatetic philosophers, and Ancient Theatre in its full scope.