Evina Sistakou

Evina Sistakou took her Bachelor in Classics at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, from where she also received her MA Thesis (1996) and PhD Dissertation (1999) as a fellow of the State Scholarships Foundation of Greece (I.K.Y.). She has worked as a researcher at the Centre for the Greek Language, Thessaloniki (2001-2006) and has taught Greek at the Faculty of Philology of the University of Patras (2002) and the Faculty of Philosophy and Pedagogy of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (2002-2005). Since 2006 she is Assistant Professor, since 2012 Associate Professor and since 2017 Professor of Greek Literature at the Department of Classics of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. Her research interests focus on Hellenistic poetry and poetics, Homeric philology, literary genres, narratology, names and catalogues, poetics and aesthetics in Greek poetry. She has published the following monographs: (1) Theocritus ‘Thyrsis or the Song’ (Herakleion 1998, in Modern Greek), (2) Renouncing the Epic. Aspects of the Trojan Myth in Hellenistic Poetry (Athens 2004, in Modern Greek), (3) The Geography of Callimachus and Hellenistic Avant-Garde Poetry (Athens 2005, in Modern Greek), (4) Reconstructing the Epic. Cross-Readings of the Trojan Myth in Hellenistic Poetry (Hellenistica Groningana 14, Peeters, Leuven 2008), (5) The Aesthetics of Darkness. A Study of Hellenistic Romanticism in Apollonius, Lycophron and Nicander (Hellenistica Groningana 17, Peeters, Leuven 2012) and (6) Tragic Failures. Alexandrian Responses to Tragedy and the Tragic (Trends in Classics Supplementary Volumes 38, De Gruyter, Berlin-New York 2016). She has written the chapters on Apollonius Rhodius and didactic poetry in B. Zimmermann/A. Rengakos (ed.), Handbuch der griechischen Literatur der Antike, Band II, München 2014, the chapters on the fragments of Apollonius Rhodius and on the poems of Moschus and Nicaenetus in D. Sider (ed.), Hellenistic Poetry. A Selection, University of Michigan Press 2016, and numerous articles on Hellenistic poetry.
Address: Thessaloníki, Thessaloniki, Greece