Dr Elena Theodorakopoulos PhD (Bristol)

I teach courses on Roman poetry and prose, Athenian Drama, Latin language, Classics and contemporary/20^th century literature, Classics and film.

I welcome research proposals on women’s writing and classical reception, and on any aspect of Roman republican or Augustan poetry.

Current supervision:
Elizabeth Cook’s Achilles as a model for feminist reception
Ali Smith, gender, and the reception of Ovid’s Metamorphoses
Research topics I have supervised in the past include:
Tacitus’ Agricola and the politics of fama
Romulus and Numa in Ovid’s Fasti
Speech and Silence in Ovid’s Heroides
Postmodernism and Classical Reception

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 My current projects are:

• the reception of classical literature and myth in contemporary writing by women, and the translation/adaptation of classical literature by women writers.
• a book on Catullus with particular emphasis on the performative aspects of his work

Past research

I have written on forms of closure in Roman and Hellenistic poetry, on the representation of Rome in film, and on Catullus.