Evangelos Karakasis
Professor of Ancient Greek and Latin Philology
Evangelos Karakasis is a graduate of the Classical Studies program of the Department of Philology at the University of Ioannina (1991). He holds an M.Phil. in Classical Philology from the University of Cambridge (Pembroke College) and a PhD from the same university and college (2001). He has served and taught at the University of Cambridge, the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, and the University of Ioannina. Since February 13, 2020, he has been Professor of Ancient Greek and Latin Philology in the Department of Philology at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki.
Evangelos Karakasis’s research interests focus on Latin and Ancient Greek philology, especially on the interactive relationship between them as a means of producing meaning. More specifically, his research interests include Roman Comedy, Roman Bucolic Poetry, the literature of the Neronian period, the history of the Latin language, Flavian epic, the reception of Roman Comedy in Medieval Latin literature, and Greek literature of the Imperial period. He has taught all of the above subjects, authored books and/or articles on these topics, and participated in various academic conferences with related presentations.
In the field of Ancient Greek literature, beyond his main focus on Greek literature under Roman rule, his books also include independent chapters on New Greek Comedy (especially Menander), Greek bucolic poetry (Theocritus, Moschus, Bion, and the post-Theocritean development of the pastoral mode in Greek literature in general). He also studies pedagogy and the history of teaching Latin in Greek secondary education and, in this context, served as Organizer and Scientific Coordinator of the conference titled: “Docere et Discere…! Latin in Education: Retrospectives – Proposals – Prospects,” held under the auspices of the Dean’s Office of the School of Philosophy at the University of Ioannina (May 17, 2017).