MARIA YPSILANTI
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ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR
Department of Classics and Philosophy
Apostolides,
10, Kallipoleos Ave.& 1, Eressou str.
She obtained her first degree from the Department of Greek Philology of the Faculty of Philosophy of the University of Athens (1991-1995). She studied at a post-graduate level at King’s College (University of London), Department of Classics (M.A. in Classics, 1996-1997), and at University College London (University of London), Department of Greek and Latin (PhD in Classics, 1998-2003). PhD thesis: An Edition with Commentary of Selected Epigrams of Crinagoras. The book (revised and enriched with the rest of Crinagoras’ poems, with double as much the size of the thesis) was piblished by Oxford University Press (2018). In 1999 she was awarded a three-year scholarship from the National Scholarships Foundation of Greece (IKY) in support of her PhD research. From 2004 onwards she teaches Ancient Greek Literature at the University of Cyprus.
Hellenistic Poetry, Poetry of Late Antiquity, Epigram, Tragedy, Textual Criticism.
Principal Investigator of a Research Program funded by the University of Cyprus (2010-2012) on Nonnus' Paraphrase of the Gospel of St.John. Main collaborators: Laura Franco, Margherita Maria Di Nino. Short-term collaborators: Filip Doroszewski, Claudia Greco, George Kazantzides, Julia Demetriou. (all collaborators hold a doctoral degree). Consultants: Katerina Carvounis (National and Kapodistrian University of Athens), Antonia Giannouli (University of Cyprus)
Principal Investigator of a Research Program funded by the Research and Innovation Foundation of Cyprus (2018-) on Greek Bible Epic. Consultants: Katerina Carvounis (National and Kapodistrian University of Athens), Antonia Giannouli (University of Cyprus).
Principal Investigator of a Research Program funded by the Research and Innovation Foundation of Cyprus (2019-) on the edition with commentary of the Eighth Book of the Greek Anthology.
Books
1.Maria Ypsilanti, The Epigrams of Crinagoras of Mytilene (OUP 2018)
Reviews
Lee Fratantuono, Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2019.01.14 https://bmcr.brynmawr.edu/2019/2019.01.13/
Taylor Coughlan, Classical Review 69 (2019) https://www.academia.edu/39781530/Review_of_M._Ypsilanti_Epigrams_of_Crinagoras
Kathryn Gutzwiller, Classical World 113 (2020) https://muse.jhu.edu/article/749689
Agnieszka Kotlińska-Toma, Eos 106 (2019), 142-4
Colin Leach, Classics for All (21 May 2018) https://classicsforall.org.uk/reading-room/book-reviews/epigrams-crinagoras-mytilene-introduction-text-commentary
2. Maria Ypsilanti, Τριφιοδώρου Ἰλίου Ἅλωσις (Athens, Stigmi 2019)
3. Maria Ypsilanti, Laura Franco (with the collaboration of Filip Doroszewski καὶ Claudia Greco), Nonnus’ Paraphrase between Poetry, Rhetoric and Theology: Rewriting the Fourth Gospel in the Fifth Century. Mnemosyne, Supplement 436. Late Antique Literature (Brill, Leiden 2020)
In preparation, under contract with Oxford University Press
Maria Ypsilanti et al., An edition with Commentary of the Epigrams of Gregory of Nazianzus
Journal Articles
1. “Three Presentations of Clytaemnestra in Greek Tragedy”, Platon 53 (2003), 351-79
2. “Notes on Anyte”, Hermes 131 (2003), 502-7
3. “Literary Loves as Cycles: from Meleager to Ovid”, Antiquité Classique 74 (2005), 83-110
4. “Apotelesmatica 2.14-140: Sources and Models”, Rheinisches Museum 149 (2006), 65-98
5. “An Aspect of Leonidas’ Reception in later Epigrammatists and the Art of Variation: The Case of Fishermen’s Epitaphs”, Classical Philology 101 (2006), 67-73
6. “Mime in Verse: Strategic Affinities in Theocritus and Herondas”, Maia 58 (2006), 411-31
7. “The Doorkeeper and the Herdsmen: The Homeric Background of Euripides’ Helen 437-82”, Grazer Beiträge 25 (2006), 1-14
8. “Lais and her Mirror”, Bulletin of the Institute of Classical Studies 49 (2006), 203-23
9. “Triphiodorus Homericus: People in the Iliou Halosis and their Forebears in the Iliad and Odyssey”, Wiener Studien 120 (2007), 93-114
10. “Movement and Constraint of Tragic Heroes and Chorus: the Case of Euripides’ Medea and Hippolytus”, Rivista di Cultura Classica e Medioevale 50 (2008), 157-80
11. “On the Design of Two Callimachean Priamels”, Philologus 152 (2008), 77-89
12. “Οὐκ ἐμὸς ὁ μῦθος: Callimachus’ Use of the Story of Melanippe in his Bath of Pallas”, Quaderni Urbinati di Cultura Classica 92 (2009), 105-17
13. “Deserted Delos: A Motif of the Anthology and its Poetic and Historical Background”, Greek, Roman and Byzantine Studies 50 (2010), 63-85
14. “Trimachio and Fortunata as Zeus and Hera: Quarrel in the Cena and Iliad 1”, Harvard Studies in Classical Philology 105 (2010), 221-37
15. “Thomas Mann’s Die Betrogene and the Mother of Electra”, Antike und Abendland 57 (2011), 169-79
16. “Ἀνάλκιδες Ἀθῆναι: Femininity and its Absence in Colluthus’ Rape of Helen”, Wiener Studien 130 (2017), 153-70
17. “Epigrammatic topoi, Christian ideas and real events in selected epigrams of Gregory of Nazianzus for Nonna, Caesarius and Basil the Great”, Rivista di Cultura Classica e Medioevale 60 (2018), 435-58
18. “Listing the Argonauts and the Warriors at Troy: Apollonius Rhodius in the Homeric catalogues of Triphiodorus”, Classical Journal 114 (2019), 281-30819. “Critical Notes on Greek Epigrams”, Classical Philology 114 (2019), 626-37
20. “Pervigilium Veneris”, στὸ Ξ. Σκαρτσῆ (ἐκδ.), Πρακτικὰ τοῦ 26ου Συμποσίου Ποίησης: Ποίηση καὶ Ἔρωτας (Πάτρα 2006), 63-8
21. Ἐπίδραση τοῦ ἀρχαίου ἑλληνικοῦ ἐπιγράμματος σὲ λογίους-ποιητὲς τοῦ 19ου αἰώνα” στὸ G. A. Xenis (ed.), Literature, Scholarship, Philosophy, and History. Classical Studies in Memory of Ioannis Taifacos (Franz Steiner Verlag: Stuttgart 2015), 183-209
22. “Image-Making and the Art of Paraphrasing: Aspects of Darkness and Light in the Metabole” στὸ K. Spanoudakis (ed.), Nonnus of Panopolis in Context. Poetry and Cultural Milieu in Late Antiquity (Trends in Classics: Berlin-New York 2014), 123-37
23. “Homeric vocabulary in Nonnus’ Paraphrase of St. John's Gospel: examination of themes and formulas in selected passages” in A. Efstathiou and I. Karamanou (edd.), Homeric Receptions Across Generic and Cultural Contexts (Trends in Classics: Berlin-New York 2016), 215-24
24. “Echoes of Hellenistic Epigrams in Inscriptional Epitaphs”, in M. A. Harder, R. F. Regtuit, G. C. Wakker, Past and Present in Hellenistic Poetry: Hellenistica Groningana 21 (Peeters: Leuven, Paris, Bristol 2017), 59-82
25. (with Laura Franco), “Characterisation of persons and groups of persons in the Metabole” in Herbert Bannert, Nicole Kröll (edd.), Nonnus of Panopolis in Context II: Poetry, Religion, and Society (Brill: Leiden 2018), 166-83
26. Margherita Maria Di Nino, Maria Ypsilanti, “Shepherding the Past: Nonnus’ Parable of the Good Shepherd between Pagan Models and Christian Exegesis”, in Filip Doroszewski, Katarzyna Jażdżewska (edd.), Nonnus of Panopolis in Context IIΙ: Old Questions and New Perspectives, Brill's Late Antique Literature series, A Supplement to Mnemosyne 2020), 330-52
27) Laura Franco, Maria Ypsilanti, “Presentation of biblical figures in poetic paraphrase: John the Baptist and Pontius Pilate in Nonnus’ Metabole of St. John’s Gospel” in Filip Doroszewski, Katarzyna Jażdżewska (edd.), Nonnus of Panopolis in Context IIΙ: Old Questions and New Perspectives, Brill's Late Antique Literature series, A Supplement to Mnemosyne 2020), 369-79
Publications on Literature (other than Ancient Greek Literature):
BOOK
Edition and Poetic translation with extensive commentary as regards literature and realia
-Φρανσουὰ Βιγιόν (Παράρτημα: Καρόλου, Δούκα τῆς Ὀρλεάνης), Μπαλλάντες καὶ ἄλλα Ποιήματα, Εἰσαγωγή, Μετάφραση, Σχόλια (Ἀθήνα, Στιγμή, 2010) 323 pp.
Reviews: Εύη Καρκίτη, "Στο μεταίχμιο δύο εποχών", Αγγελιοφόρος, 11.7.2010
Κατερίνα Σχινά, "Ο ποιητής που περιγέλασε τον θάνατο και τον χρόνο", Η Καθημερινή / Ειδική Έκδοση, 20.6.2010
Other:
Poetic Translations
Article
-George Seferis, 'Erotikos Logos', The Poetry Ireland Review 74 (2002), 38-41
Books
-Ἐλισάβετ Μπάρρετ-Μπράουνινγκ, Πορτογαλικά Σονέτα καὶ ἄλλα Ποιήματα (Ἀθήνα, Στιγμή, 2007) 155 pp.
Review: Γιώργος Βαρθαλίτης, "Οράματα για συντροφιά", Ποιητική 3, Άνοιξη-Καλοκαίρι 2009
-Ἑρρίκου Χάινε, Ποιήματα (Ἀθήνα, Στιγμή, 2007) 141 σσ.
Presentation: Εκδοτικό Ημερολόγιο, Το Βήμα, 10-6-2007
Articles in Public Press/Periodicals
Σύγχρονη Ἄποψη (2008-2010. Editors Achilleas Aimilianidis, Michalis Kontos, etc.): 2008: “Ελληνική γλώσσα κι Αγγλισμοί” (Ἀπρίλιος), “Ελληνική Ιστορία: Μνήμη και Λήθη” (Ἰούνιος), “Ντόπιοι, Ξένοι, πολιτισμοί και Πολιτισμός” (Ἰούλιος), “Όλα για το Πτυχίο: μια κοινωνία σε παράνοια” (Σεπτέμβριος), “Κρίση στον πολιτισμό μας;” (Ὀκτώβριος), “Ενδιαφερόμαστε πραγματικά για ό,τι συμβαίνει γύρω μας;” (Νοέμβριος), “Η εποχή του Ευφημισμού” (Δεκέμβριος), “Εθνικός και Εθνικιστικός: οι ιδέες και η παραμόρφωσή τους” (Δεκέμβριος). 2009: “Βία και Πολιτεία” (Ἰανουάριος), “Η χυδαιότητα του Νεο-” (Μάρτιος), “Η βαρβαρότητα του οχήματος” (Ἀπρίλιος), “Η αγένεια του πρώτου προσώπου” (Ἰούνιος). 2010: “Το τέλος της Ομορφιάς” (Μάιος).
Ελέυθερη Ζώνη: 2010: “Στέγη και Πόλη” (Ὀκτώβριος). 2012: “Εθνική Αυτοσυντήρηση και Εθνική Αυτοκτονία” (Ἰούνιος).