Maria Kanellou
Maria Kanellou was born in Athens. She studied at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens and at University College London. During her studies, she was awarded 16 scholarships (including scholarships from the Arts and Humanities Research Council, the A. G. Leventis Foundation, the Harold Hyam Wingate Foundation, various scholarships from University College London, and the Lilian Voudouri Foundation), as well as 11 travel grants/bursaries (including bursaries to support her scientific stay at Hardt Fondation, Geneva, twice).
Before joining the Research Centre for Greek and Latin Literature of the Academy of Athens, she held various academic positions (in chronological order): Adjunct Lecturer at Open University of Cyprus; Associate Lecturer at Kent University; Teaching Fellow at UCL (both at the Department of Greek and Latin and UCL Centre for Languages and International Education); and Teaching Fellow at King’s College London. She has also worked as a research fellow of three research programmes (two located in Greece and one abroad), including the project ‘Sharing Ancient Wisdoms’ hosted at King’s College London; she held the title of honorary research fellow at UCL from 2013 until 2016. She has acted as a reviewer for articles for the journals 'Classical Receptions Journal', 'Classical Quarterly', 'Eikasmos', 'Giornale Italiano di Filologia', 'Mnemosyne', and 'Philologus', and as a reviewer of post-doc applications for the Polish National Science Centre.
Maria specialises in Greek epigram, while her research interests include lyric poetry, Greek comedy, Hellenistic poetry, reception and gender studies.
She acted as the principal organiser of international conferences on Greek epigram (UCL, 2013 and 2014) and on Theocritus (University of Athens, 2016), and she has participated in numerous international conferences both in Greece and abroad. She has been the principal editor of two collective volumes on Greek epigram and one on Theocritus (for details see below). Her monograph that offers a diachronic and motif-based analysis of Greek erotic epigram that starts with poems dating from the Hellenistic era and concludes with others from the early Byzantine Era is forthcoming by Oxford University Press.
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Before joining the Research Centre for Greek and Latin Literature of the Academy of Athens, she held various academic positions (in chronological order): Adjunct Lecturer at Open University of Cyprus; Associate Lecturer at Kent University; Teaching Fellow at UCL (both at the Department of Greek and Latin and UCL Centre for Languages and International Education); and Teaching Fellow at King’s College London. She has also worked as a research fellow of three research programmes (two located in Greece and one abroad), including the project ‘Sharing Ancient Wisdoms’ hosted at King’s College London; she held the title of honorary research fellow at UCL from 2013 until 2016. She has acted as a reviewer for articles for the journals 'Classical Receptions Journal', 'Classical Quarterly', 'Eikasmos', 'Giornale Italiano di Filologia', 'Mnemosyne', and 'Philologus', and as a reviewer of post-doc applications for the Polish National Science Centre.
Maria specialises in Greek epigram, while her research interests include lyric poetry, Greek comedy, Hellenistic poetry, reception and gender studies.
She acted as the principal organiser of international conferences on Greek epigram (UCL, 2013 and 2014) and on Theocritus (University of Athens, 2016), and she has participated in numerous international conferences both in Greece and abroad. She has been the principal editor of two collective volumes on Greek epigram and one on Theocritus (for details see below). Her monograph that offers a diachronic and motif-based analysis of Greek erotic epigram that starts with poems dating from the Hellenistic era and concludes with others from the early Byzantine Era is forthcoming by Oxford University Press.
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Articles - Chapters in Collective Volumes by Maria Kanellou
literary value of the Yale papyrus epigrams is much higher
than the scraps would at first suggest. The chapter focuses
on 4 W, in which an old man suffers from gout, and shows
how the poem reworks a rich poetic tradition, including
Greek and probably Latin epigram and Greek comedy. In
parallel, the chapter illustrates how the genre absorbed
and miniaturised themes and motifs from comedy, with
Lucian AP 11.403 forming a unique case study as the same
poet seems to have explored the same theme in both epigram
and comic paratragedy.'' (from the volume's introduction, p. 6)
Due to restrictions, I cannot upload the paper. If you want to read it, you can send me an email.
the codex’s epigrammatic sequence in pages 10–13, which
has been characterised as purely political. It is argued that
there are traces suggesting that non-political poems were
also included. The chapter also examines the issue of the
categorisation of the Yale papyrus epigrams into skoptic
and epideictic ones. It questions the value of the term ‘epideictic’
for hermeneutic purposes and argues that the division
of epigrams based on Kephalas’ editorial work proves
to be too rigid to capture the complexity of epigram as a
poetic form, and might not even mirror the ancient criteria
for the creation of collections of epigrams. In addition,
two epigrams – 35 W which seems to address the symptoms
of love and 33 W with its treatment of Phaethon’s death –
suggest that the codex included epigrams that could have
been perceived by their poet (or compiler) and their original
readership as belonging to subgeneric subdivisions
other than skoptic and the ‘epideictic’. In the process of
examining both issues, the chapter offers new interpretations
of several Yale papyrus epigrams.'' (from the volume's introduction, p. 5)
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Books by Maria Kanellou
If you would like to read specific chapters of this volume, you are welcome to contact me.
Book Reviews by Maria Kanellou
https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/classical-review/article/epigram-and-its-contexts-f-cairns-hellenistic-epigram-contexts-of-exploration-pp-xviii-516-cambridge-cambridge-university-press-2016-cased-7899-us126-isbn-9781107168503/EC05C797804890678CE16CFD6CA9AADF
Literary Epigram - Classics Confidential by Maria Kanellou
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Intern. Conference - Palladas & the New Papyrus by Maria Kanellou
literary value of the Yale papyrus epigrams is much higher
than the scraps would at first suggest. The chapter focuses
on 4 W, in which an old man suffers from gout, and shows
how the poem reworks a rich poetic tradition, including
Greek and probably Latin epigram and Greek comedy. In
parallel, the chapter illustrates how the genre absorbed
and miniaturised themes and motifs from comedy, with
Lucian AP 11.403 forming a unique case study as the same
poet seems to have explored the same theme in both epigram
and comic paratragedy.'' (from the volume's introduction, p. 6)
Due to restrictions, I cannot upload the paper. If you want to read it, you can send me an email.
the codex’s epigrammatic sequence in pages 10–13, which
has been characterised as purely political. It is argued that
there are traces suggesting that non-political poems were
also included. The chapter also examines the issue of the
categorisation of the Yale papyrus epigrams into skoptic
and epideictic ones. It questions the value of the term ‘epideictic’
for hermeneutic purposes and argues that the division
of epigrams based on Kephalas’ editorial work proves
to be too rigid to capture the complexity of epigram as a
poetic form, and might not even mirror the ancient criteria
for the creation of collections of epigrams. In addition,
two epigrams – 35 W which seems to address the symptoms
of love and 33 W with its treatment of Phaethon’s death –
suggest that the codex included epigrams that could have
been perceived by their poet (or compiler) and their original
readership as belonging to subgeneric subdivisions
other than skoptic and the ‘epideictic’. In the process of
examining both issues, the chapter offers new interpretations
of several Yale papyrus epigrams.'' (from the volume's introduction, p. 5)
Due to restrictions, I cannot upload the chapter. If you want to read it, you are welcome to contact me.
If you would like to read specific chapters of this volume, you are welcome to contact me.
https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/classical-review/article/epigram-and-its-contexts-f-cairns-hellenistic-epigram-contexts-of-exploration-pp-xviii-516-cambridge-cambridge-university-press-2016-cased-7899-us126-isbn-9781107168503/EC05C797804890678CE16CFD6CA9AADF
To view the interview, check this link:
http://classicsconfidential.co.uk/2014/12/28/carey-kanellou/