Xenophontos Sophia
Sophia Xenophontos obtained her BA in Classical Studies from the University of Cyprus in 2007 (awarded with Excellent). She holds a Master of Studies in Greek Language and Literature from the University of Oxford (awarded with Distinction in 2008). Her doctoral thesis was undertaken at the University of Oxford (2008–2011) under the supervision of the Regius Professor of Greek Christopher Pelling and focused on ethical education in Plutarch. Her postgraduate studies were funded by the Alexander Onassis Foundation and the A.G. Leventis Foundation. During her academic career she first taught Greek at the University of Oxford (2010–2011) and was subsequently Visiting Lecturer at the Department of Classical Studies and Philosophy of the University of Cyprus (2012–2013), Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Université libre de Bruxelles (2013–2014), and Lecturer in Classics (2014–2018) and Assistant Professor of Classics at the University of Glasgow (2018–2022). Since 2022 she has been Associate Professor of Greek at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki.
Her research interests lie mainly in the Greek literature of the first centuries CE, with special emphasis on Plutarch and Galen, and the reception of classical antiquity in Byzantium.
She is the author of 5 books and co-editor of 4 volumes. She has also published a total of 46 other studies in top-rated international academic journals and edited volumes subject to peer review. In the UK she was Project Leader and Principal Investigator on three research projects funded by the Wellcome Trust, the AHRC, and the Carnegie Trust respectively. Her overall grant portfolio from research projects, scholarships, and awards amounts to €717.000,00. She is a member of the editorial board for the international journal Imago temporis: medium Aevum, Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (UK), and reviewer for 13 academic journals, 7 publishers, and 7 funding bodies.
