Eva Anagnostou-Laoutides
is Associate Professor at the Department of History and Archaeology, Macquarie University, Sydney
Eva Anagnostou-Laoutides is Associate Professor at the Department of History and Archaeology, Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia. She hold a BA in Classics from Aristotle University of Thessaloniki; an MA in Latin from Leeds University, UK; an MPhil in Ancient History from Macquarie University, Australia; and a PhD in Classics from the University of Kent at Canterbury, UK. Her research focuses on ancient leadership legacies, political and intellectual, and the role of ritual in shaping key conceptual metaphors about legitimate leaders. She has published on the role of regeneration narratives in managing political crises during the Hellenistic and Augustan periods. She also works on metaphors about philosophical inspiration in Plato and their reception by Christian authors from the time of the early Church to the Quattrocento. Her work has received funding by the Australian Research Council and more recently by the Gerda Henkel Foundation. Eva Anagnostou-Laoutides (0000-0002-1634-6941)–ORCID