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Spyridon Tzounakas:

ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR
Department of Classics and Philosophy
Cyprus University of Technology
Cyprus

Biography

Graduated in 1994 from the Department of Philology, Faculty of Letters, University of Athens, Greece, with a majoring in Classics. Postgraduate studies at the University of Athens, supported by a State scholarship. Earned a doctorate from the University of Athens in 2000 for a thesis on “The Metaphor in Lucan’s Pharsalia”. From September 2002 to June 2004 he worked as a Visiting Lecturer in Latin Literature at the Department of Classics and Philosophy, University of Cyprus, where he was appointed Lecturer in August 2004, Assistant Professor in March 2009 and Associate Professor in May 2015.

Research Interest

Literature of the Imperial period Roman Epic (especially Lucan and Valerius Flaccus) Roman Satire (especially Persius) Latin Historiography Roman Elegy (especially Tibullus) Cicero’s Orations Roman Epistolography (especially Pliny the Younger) Roman Stoicism Textual criticism

Publications

  • Spyridon Tzounakas, “Self-Presentation in Pliny’s Epistle 9.23”, forthcoming in A. Gavrielatos (ed.), Self-Presentation and Identity in Roman World, Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing 2016, pp. 14.

  • Spyridon Tzounakas, “Catiline as Atreus in Cicero’s First Catilinarian”, in G. Xenis (ed.), Literature, Scholarship, Philosophy, and History. Classical Studies in Memory of Professor Ioannis Taifacos, Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag 2015, 53-71.

  • Spyridon Tzounakas, “Pliny the Younger as the Roman Demosthenes”, in Olivier Devillers (ed.), Autour de Pline le Jeune, Mélanges à Nicole Méthy, Bordeaux: Ausonius Éditions 2015 (Collection Scripta Antiqua 74), 207-218.

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