Professor of History, Theory and Reception of Ancient Theatre
She studied Classics at the University of Ioannina and took her PhD from the University of Bristol, UK (PhD title: ‘The Drama of Storytelling: A Study of the Greek Tragic Chorus’, 1994). She has been teaching ancient drama theory at the School of Drama, AUTH, since 1995. Publications in languages other than Greek: “Between Texts and Contexts: Moderns Against Ancients in the Reception of Ancient Tragedy in Greece (1900–1933)”, in: Dimitris Tziovas (ed.), Re-imagining the Past: Antiquity and Modern Greek Culture, Oxford University Press, Oxford 2014, p. 209-228; “Self and Other in Aeschylus’ Persians: A propos de Gotscheff”, GRAMMA 22.2 (2014), p. 95-107 [https://ejournals.lib.auth.gr/gramma/article/view/6257]; “‘Familière et partageant l’origine grecque’: idéologie et théâtre dans les mises en scène contemporaines du répertoire dramatique grec ancien. À propos de l’Électre de Peter Stein”, Mélanges en mémoir de Charalampos Orfanos, Pallas, no 108 (2018), p. 103-119 [https://journals.openedition.org/pallas/9861]; “Mechanisms of Female Exclusion: Women Between Ritual and Emotion”, in: Katerina Kitsi and Tatiana Tsakiropoulou-Summers (eds.), Women and the Ideology of Political Exclusion: From Classical Antiquity to the Modern Era, Routledge, London 2018, p. 132-145; “A Dramaturgy of the Self: Deianira Between the Grid and the Couch”, in: Hallie Marshall and C. W. Marshall (eds.), Greek Drama V, Studies in the Theatre of the Fifth and Fourth Centuries BCE, Bloomsbury, London 2020, pp. 47-60; [in collaboration with Efthymios Kaltsounas, Tonia Karaoglou, and Natalie Minioti], «‘Communal Hellenism’ and Ancient Tragedy Performances in Greece (1975-1995): The Ritual Quest», Journal of Greek Media and Culture, vol. 7, no. 1 (2021), pp. 69–103; ‘The Dramaturgy of Vocatives: Dynamics of Communication in Sophocles’ Thebes’, Skenè. Journal of Theatre and Drama Studies, 8.1 (2022): 143–66 [https://skenejournal.skeneproject.it/index.php/JTDS/article/view/378].
BOOKS
The Person of Grief: Sophocles’ Electra Between Text and Performance (To prosopo tou penthous: I Electra tou Sofokli anamesa sto keimeno kai tin parastasi), Polis, Athens 2014.
‘A princess familiar to our nativeness’: Getting Familiar with Tragedy on the Modern Greek Stage (‘Mia gnorimi kyra tis ithageneias mas: i exoikeiosi me tin tragodia sth neoellinikin skini), Nissos, Athens 2022.
In the theatre, she has worked as dramaturg in several ancient drama performances. She has co-translated, with K. Valakas, Sophocles’ Women of Trachis (National Theatre of Northern Greece, 2004, Epidavros Festival).
Office: Exadaktylou Building, 1st Floor Phone: 2310 992142
Email: elenipa@thea.auth.gr
