Karakasis Evangelos
Evangelos Karakasis graduated the Division of Classics at the Department of Philology of Ioannina University (1991), holds an MPhil in Classics from the University of Cambridge (Pembroke College) and his PhD from the same University and College (2001). He has served and taught at the University of Cambridge, at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, at the University of Ioannina, while since 13.02.2020 he has been appointed as a Professor of Ancient Greek and Latin at the Department of Philology of Aristotle University of Thessaloniki.
Evangelos Karakasis’ research interests focus on Latin and Ancient Greek literature, mainly their interaction as a means of producing meaning. More specifically, his research interests include: Roman Comedy, Roman Bucolic Poetry, Literature of the Neronian Period, History of Latin, The Epic of the Flavian Era, The Reception of Roman Comedyby Medieval Latin, Greek Literature of the Imperial Times. He has taught all the above-mentioned subjects, has written books and / or articles with the above-mentioned topics and has participated in various conferences with relevant paqpers. In the field of Ancient Greek Literature, in addition to his main involvement with the Greek literature of the Roman rule, his books also include independent chapters on Greek New Comedy (mainly Menander), Greek bucolic poetry (Theocritus , Moschus, Bion and the post-theocriticean, in general, development of the pastoral trope in Greek literature). He also studies the didactics and the history of the teaching of Latin in the Greek secondary education and, therefore, he was the Organizer and the Scientific Responsible of the Conference entitled: ‘Docere et Discere…! Latin in Education. Reviews – Proposals – Perspectives’ under the auspices of the Dean at the Faculty of Philosophy of Ioannina University (17.05.2017).