Simelidis Christos
Christos Simelidis studied Classics and Byzantine Studies at Thessaloniki and Oxford, where he was a Senior Scholar at Merton and Somerville College. He did his doctoral work under the supervision of Nigel G. Wilson. He has been a Fellow in Byzantine Studies at Dumbarton Oaks, Washington DC (2006-7, 2018-9) and a British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow at Lincoln College, University of Oxford (2007-10).
His major research project is a critical edition of the Carmina of St. Gregory of Nazianzus for the Corpus Christianorum series. His research interests include the literature of Late Antiquity and Byzantium, the reception of classical and biblical texts in the early Christian and Byzantine literature, Greek palaeography and textual criticism, and various aspects of Byzantine scholarship (what was read, by whom and with what degree of understanding).
Selected Publications
Selected Poems of Gregory of Nazianzus (Hypomnemata 177). Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2009.
Introduction to Astronomy by Theodore Metochites, Singapore; Hackensack, NJ: World Scientific, 2017 (with E.A. Paschos).
John Geometres, Life of the Virgin Mary, Edited and translated by Maximos Constas and Christos Simelidis (Dumbarton Oaks Medieval Library 77), Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press 2023.
‘Aeschylus in Byzantium’, in R. Kennedy (ed.), Brill’s Companion to the Reception of Aeschylus, Leiden; Boston: Brill 2017, 179-202.
‘Two Lives of the Virgin: John Geometres, Euthymios the Athonite, and Maximos the Confessor’, Dumbarton Oaks Papers 74, 2020, 125-159.
