Ioannis Xydopoulos
Professor of Ancient Greek History at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
Ioannis Xydopoulos is a Professor of Ancient Greek History at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece. The author of several works on ancient Macedonia, beginning with his published thesis Social and Economic Relations between Macedonians and the Other Greeks, Thessaloniki 1998 (rev. ed. 2006), his interests later centered on issues of identity and perception, as in second book, The Perception of Ancient Thracians in Classical Greek Historiography, as well as on violence in Antiquity. He is the co-editor of the collective volume Xydopoulos, I. K. – Vlassopoulos, K. – Tounta, E. (eds.), Violence and Community: Law, Space and Identity in the Ancient Eastern Mediterranean World, Routledge, London and New York 2017. He is currently the Head of the Section of Ancient Greek, Roman and Byzantine and Medieval History.