Andreas Markantonatos

Andreas Markantonatos is Professor of Greek at the Department of Philology in the University of the Peloponnese, Director of the Centre for Ancient Rhetoric and Drama (CARD), and Vice-President of the Olympic Centre for Philosophy and Culture (OCPC).  He is the author, among others, of Tragic Narrative: A Narratological Study of Sophocles’ Oedipus at Colonus (2002), Oedipus at Colonus: Sophocles, Athens, and the World (2007), Euripides’ Alcestis: Narrative, Myth, and Religion (2013), The Voice of the Past: Critical Perspectives on Attic Drama (2019) [in Modern Greek], and Euripides’ Heracles: Mortal Bodies and Immortal Memory (2020).  He has edited several multi-authored volumes, including Crisis on Stage: Tragedy and Comedy in Late Fifth-Century Athens (2012, together with Bernhard Zimmermann), Brill’s Companion to Sophocles (2012) and Brill’s Companion to Euripides (2019), and has published widely on Greek drama and modern literary theory.  He is currently working on an annotated edition of Sophocles’ Oedipus at Colonus for Liverpool University Press.