I read Classics at the University of Athens, with minors in Byzantine and Modern Greek Literature, as a Cyprus State Scholarship Foundation scholar, graduating first in my year (2022) and receiving an “Award of Excellence” from the Greek State Scholarships Foundation. I then came to Oxford for an MSt in Classics, generously supported by an Oxford Robert and Soulla Kyprianou Graduate Scholarship, which I completed with Distinction (2023), also receiving a college prize from Brasenose, where I have remained for my doctoral studies. My DPhil is funded by the A. G. Leventis and Onassis Foundations together with Brasenose College, where I am a Senior Hulme Scholar.
My doctoral research explores how Aristophanic comedy employs proverbial expressions beyond a merely naturalistic reflection of colloquial speech. Bringing together close philological reading with concepts of humour and sociolinguistic theories, I trace how proverbiality functions across multiple dramaturgical aspects and levels, aiming to contribute to the understanding of the aspirations, mechanisms, and effects of Aristophanes’ theatre of words.
Beyond Greek (and Roman) comedy, my research interests include Greek tragedy, lyric, iambus, and epigram, ancient folk narrative culture, ritual and religion, and ancient scholarship, particularly paroemiographic and gnomological collections, and the scholia to Aristophanes.
During my doctoral studies, I have taken great pleasure in teaching Greek and Latin languages and literature at the Faculty of Classics, as well as at Queen’s and University Colleges. I have presented my research at numerous conferences and seminars and co-organised an international conference on Greek Comedy and Education (2025).
Publications
“Ὥσπερ φαρμακόν; Scapegoat Rituals and the Relationship of Comedy to Iambus,” Logeion (forthcoming, Spring 2026).
