Sarischouli Panagiota
Panagiota Sarischouli studied Classics, Byzantine, and Modern Greek at Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. Thanks to scholarships awarded by the International Graduate College of Hamburg as well as by the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD), she pursued postgraduate studies at the Freie Universität Berlin where she wrote her thesis on Berlin papyri (PhD 1994). From 1995 to 1998, she held a research post at Berlin’s Egyptian Museum and Papyrus Collection funded by the Gerda Henkel Foundation; since 1999, she has been working as an external research fellow at Berlin’s Papyrus Collection editing numerous papyrus texts. In 1999 she was appointed lecturer, and in 2015 Professor of Ancient Greek Literature & Papyrology at Democritus University of Thrace. In April 2019, she joined the Department of Classics at Aristotle University of Thessaloniki as a Professor of Ancient Greek Literature & Papyrology.
She has published three monographs: 1) Berliner Griechische papyri. Christliche literarische Texte und Urkunden aus dem 3. bis 8. Jahrhundert n. Chr. (Serta Graeca 3), Wiesbaden: Reichert Verlag 1995, 2) Spätptolemäische Urkunden aus dem Herakleopolites (BGU xviii.1), Berlin: SMPK 2000, 3) Πλουτάρχου Περί Ίσιδος καί Οσίριδος. Ο μύθος [Plutarch’s De Iside et Osiride: The myth], Thessaloniki: University Studio Press 2011. Her book Decoding the Osirian Myth: A Transcultural Reading of Plutarch’s Narrative is currently under publication. She has edited numerous literary, sub-literary, and documentary papyrus texts in articles published in international journals and edited volumes.
Her research interests include Greek papyrology (texts from Ptolemaic, Graeco-Roman, and early Byzantine Egypt), imperial literature (esp. Plutarch and Lucian), the transmission of magical knowledge in the Roman period and Late Antiquity, religious syncretism, and cultural interactions in the eastern Mediterranean.
She is a member of the research and editorial team (https://voices.uchicago.edu/magicalpapyri/participants/) of the international research project “Transmission of Magical Knowledge in Antiquity: the Papyrus Magical Handbook” (https://neubauercollegium.uchicago.edu/faculty/magical_knowledge/), which is under the auspices of the Neubauer Collegium for Culture and Society; the University of Chicago, and aims at a complete re-edition, translation, and commentary of 88 ancient magical handbooks from Graeco-Roman Egypt (PGM/PDM). The first volume (Greek and Egyptian Magical Formularies: Text and Translation, vol. I) appeared in 2022 and volumes II and III are due in 2024 and 2025 respectively.
