Sistakou Evanthia (Evina)
Evina Sistakou received her Bachelor in Classics (1993), MA (1996) and PhD (2000) from the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (AUTh). She has worked as a researcher at the Centre for the Greek Language, Thessaloniki (2001-2006) and taught Ancient Greek Literature at the Faculty of Philology of the University of Patras (2002) and the Faculty of Philosophy and Pedagogy of AUTh (2002-2005). Since 2017 she is Professor of Ancient Greek Literature at the Department of Classics of AUTh.
Her research interests focus on Hellenistic poetry, Homeric philology, poetics and aesthetics in ancient Greek poetry, and the reception of antiquity. She has published the following monographs: (1) Tragic Failures. Alexandrian Responses to Tragedy and the Tragic (Trends in Classics Supplementary Volumes 38, De Gruyter, Berlin-New York 2016), (2) The Aesthetics of Darkness. A Study of Hellenistic Romanticism in Apollonius, Lycophron and Nicander (Hellenistica Groningana 17, Peeters, Leuven 2012), (3) Reconstructing the Epic. Cross-Readings of the Trojan Myth in Hellenistic Poetry (Hellenistica Groningana 14, Peeters, Leuven 2008), (4) The Geography of Callimachus and Hellenistic Avant-Garde Poetry (Athens 2005, in Modern Greek), (5) Renouncing the Epic. Aspects of the Trojan Myth in Hellenistic Poetry (Athens 2004, in Modern Greek) and (6) Theocritus ‘Thyrsis or the Song’ (Herakleion 1998, in Modern Greek). She has edited the volume Hellenistic Lyricism, Trends in Classics 9.2, De Gruyter, Berlin-Boston 2017, and co-edited (with P. Kyriakou and A. Rengakos) Brill’s Companion to Theocritus, Leiden-Boston 2021, (with A. Rengakos) Dialect, Diction, and Style in Greek Literary and Inscribed Epigram, De Gruyter, Berlin-New York 2016 and (with R. Hunter and A. Rengakos) Hellenistic Studies at a Crossroads: Exploring Texts, Contexts and Metatexts, De Gruyter, Berlin-New York 2014. She has published numerous articles on Hellenistic poetry.