Pantelis Michelakis

I studied at the Universities of Cambridge (PhD 1998), London (MA 1994), and Crete (BA 1993). Before joining Oxford, I taught at the Department of Classics and Ancient History at the University of Bristol (2002-24). I was also a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Wolfson College Oxford and Research Fellow at the Archive of Performances of Greek and Roman Drama (1999-2002). I have held Research Fellowships at the University of Bonn, Princeton University, and the Free University in Berlin. I have been Editor-in-Chief of the Classical Receptions Journal (2020-23) and member of the Editorial Board of the International Journal of the Classical Tradition, the Journal of Greek Media & Culture, and the Bloomsbury series Classical Receptions in Twentieth-Century Writing. I am also Honorary President of the Society for the Promotion of Hellenic Studies. I have published on Greek tragedy, performance history, classical reception, film, and media theory/history. Among my publications are the following monographs: Encounters with the Plague in Homer, Sophocles and Thucydides (Oxford University Press, 2025), Greek Tragedy on Screen (Oxford University Press, 2013), Euripides' Iphigenia at Aulis (Duckworth, 2006), and Achilles in Greek Tragedy (Cambridge University Press, 2002). I have also edited or coedited the following volumes of essays: Classics and Media Theory (Oxford University Press, 2020) The Ancient World in Silent Cinema (Cambridge University Press, 2013), Agamemnon in Performance, 458 BC to AD 2004 (Oxford University Press, 2005), and Homer, Tragedy and Beyond: essays in honour of P.E. Easterling (SPHS, 2001).