Christos Simelidis

Christos Simelidis is Associate Professor of Late Antique and Byzantine Literature at the University of Thessaloniki. He studied Classics and Byzantine Studies in Thessaloniki and Oxford, where he was a Senior Scholar at Merton and Somerville Colleges. He has been a Fellow in Byzantine Studies at Dumbarton Oaks, Washington, DC (2006–7, 2018–9), and a British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow at Lincoln College, University of Oxford (2007–10). His research interests include the literature of Late Antiquity and Byzantium; the reception of classical and biblical texts in early Christian and Byzantine literature; Greek palaeography and textual criticism; and various aspects of Byzantine scholarship (what was read, by whom, and with what degree of understanding).