Dr Elena Theodorakopoulos PhD (Bristol)

Dr Elena Theodorakopoulos

Classics, Ancient History and Archaeology
Senior Lecturer in Classics

Contact details

Telephone
+44 (0)121 414 3624
Email
e.m.theodorakopoulos@bham.ac.uk
Address
Arts Building
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Edgbaston
Birmingham
B15 2TT
UK

My research interests are in two main areas: Roman poetry of the Republic and Principate, and the reception of classical culture and literature in contemporary film and literature.

Teaching

I teach courses on Roman poetry and prose, Athenian Drama, Latin language, Classics and contemporary/20th century literature, Classics and film.

Postgraduate supervision

I welcome research proposals on women鈥檚 writing and classical reception, and on any aspect of Roman republican or Augustan poetry.

Current supervision:
Elizabeth Cook鈥檚 Achilles as a model for feminist reception
Ali Smith, gender, and the reception of Ovid鈥檚 Metamorphoses
Research topics I have supervised in the past include:
Tacitus鈥� Agricola and the politics of fama
Romulus and Numa in Ovid鈥檚 Fasti
Speech and Silence in Ovid鈥檚 Heroides
Postmodernism and Classical Reception

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Research

聽My current projects are:

  • the reception of classical literature and myth in contemporary writing by women, and the translation/adaptation of classical literature by women writers.
  • a聽book on Catullus with particular emphasis on the performative aspects of his work

Past research

I have written on forms of closure in Roman and Hellenistic poetry, on the representation of Rome in film, and on Catullus.

Publications

Recent publications

Book

Theodorakopoulos, E & Cox, F (eds) 2018, . Classical Presences, Oxford University Press.

Theodorakopoulos, E & Cox, F (eds) 2016, . Classical Presences, Oxford University Press.

Theodorakopoulos, E & Cox, F (eds) 2012, . Oxford University Press.

Theodorakopoulos, E 2010, . Bristol Phoenix Press.

Spencer, D & Theodorakopoulos, E (eds) 2006, . Levante Editori, Bari.

Article

Balmer, J & Theodorakopoulos, E 2024, '', Arion, vol. 32, no. 2, pp. 88-101.

Theodorakopoulos, E 2024, '', The Robert Graves Review, vol. 1, no. 4, pp. 758-767. <>

Theodorakopoulos, E 2019, '', Synthesis, vol. 12 (2019). <>

Chapter (peer-reviewed)

Theodorakopoulos, E 2021, . in L Jansen (ed.), Anne Carson: Antiquity. 1st edn, Bloomsbury Studies in Classical Reception, Bloomsbury Publishing, London, pp. 271-282.

Theodorakopoulos, E 2019, . in C Martindale & F Mac Gorain (eds), The Cambridge Companion to Virgil. 2nd edn, Cambridge Companions to Literature, Cambridge University Press, pp. 226-240.

Chapter

Theodorakopoulos, E 2013, . in L Hardwick & S Harrison (eds), Classics in the Modern World: A Democratic Turn?., Chapter 20, Oxford University Press.

Theodorakopoulos, E & Cox, F 2012, . in E Theodorakopoulos & F Cox (eds), Female Transgressions: Classical Reception and Contemporary Women Writers. Oxford University Press.

Theodorakopoulos, E 2012, . in E Theodorakopoulos & F Cox (eds), Female Transgressions: Classical Reception and OCntemporary Women Writers.

Theodorakopoulos, E 2007, . in D Larmour & D Spencer (eds), The sites of Rome: time, space, memory. Oxford University Press, Oxford.

Book/Film/Article review

Theodorakopoulos, E 2009, '', The Classical Review, vol. 59, no. 1, pp. 8-10.