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Antony Makrinos

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email a.makrinos@ucl.ac.uk

Senior Fellow HEA

  • Student Feedback and Consultation hours: Mondays 11am-12 and Thursdays 2-3pm

Research interests: Homer, scholarship in Byzantium (esp. Eustathius of Thessalonica and reception of the Homeric text with emphasis on allegorical interpretation), reception studies (esp. modern reception of Homer in cinema and modern poetry), teaching Classics with VR and AI.

I was born and educated in Chios (Greece). I studied Classics at the University of Athens and then moved to UCL with a private scholarship in 1998-9 in order to complete a one-year MA in Classics at the Department of Greek and Latin. In 2000, I was offered a scholarship for a PhD in Classics on "Eustathius' Commentary on Homer's Odyssey (ch. 1379-97)" under the supervision of Prof. R. Janko and Prof. C. Carey which I completed in 2004, and in the following years I continued my research on this subject as a Postdoc Research Fellow. Since then I have worked as a Lecturer in the School of English and Drama at Queen Mary University of London and as a Research and Teaching Fellow at KCL and UCL. Since 2012 I have been a member of the Department of Greek and Latin as a Teaching Fellow in Classics, then a Senior Teaching Fellow in Classics and a Senior Teaching Fellow of the Higher Education Academy. Recently, I have become an Associate Professor in Classics (Teaching). 

I am also a member of EUROCLASSICA, and a Member of the UCL Academic Board. For the last 11 years I have also served as the Director of the Summer School in Homer which takes place every year at the Dept of Greek Latin, UCL.

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Publications

Books

• Eustathius' Commentary on the Odyssey - book 1 (Routledge ~ contracted for 2024)

Codex Sinaiticus: New Perspectives on the Ancient Biblical Manuscript (assistant editor), British Library 2015

Recent Articles

• "We are all Trojans...": Homer's poetic legacy, BBC History Magazine, May 2016

• "Perceptions of Greece in the works of Roman authors" (in Europatria, ed. F. de Oliveira, Centre of Classical and Humanistic Studies of the University of Coimbra, Lisbon 2013)

• "Tragedy in Byzantium: Sophocles in Eustathius' Commentary on the Odyssey" (in Dialogues with the Past, vol. I, (BICS Supplement 125), ed. by A. Bakogianni, London 2013)

• "In search of ancient myths: documentaries and the quest for the Homeric world" (in Classics in the Modern World: a 'Democratic Turn'?, ed. by L. Hardwick and S. J. Harrison, Oxford University Press: Oxford 2013).

The Homer Encyclopedia (edited by M. Finkelberg) Includes three entries "Eustathius", "Byzantine Reception", "Homeric paraphrases" Blackwell, 2011

• "Eustathius' archbishop of Thessalonica Commentary on the Odyssey: Codex Marcianus 460 and Parisinus 2702 revisited" Bulletin of the Institute of Classical Studies, vol. 50, (2007) pp. 171-192

Reviews

• R. Hunter, "The measure of Homer", The Classical Review (2020) no 70.1 16-18.

• R. J. Cunliffe, "A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect", International Journal of the Classical Tradition, 2014.

• S. Montiglio, "From Villain to Hero: Odysseus in Ancient Thought", BMCR 2012

• G. D. Bird, Multitextuality in the Homeric Iliad, The Witness of the Ptolemaic Papyri, (Hellenic Studies 43), The Classical Review 62 (2012) no 1, 8-10.

• K. A. Raaflaub - H. Van Wees, "A Companion to Archaic Greece", The Classical Review - Aug. 2010

• M. Mueller, "The Iliad" Second edition, The Classical Review 60 (2010) no 2, 604.

• M.M.Winkler, "Troy: from Homer's Iliad to Hollywood epic", Scholia 16 (2007) 47

Radio & Film

•  Rockall 2022-3, documentary dir. Aaron Wheeler (contribution on the Odyssey and academic advice)

• Actors of Dionysus, Daily Dose, reading a passage from The Odyssey on YOUTUBE

• "Katherine of Alexandria" 2011, Carol Winifred Film Studios - Spiked Wheel films, inspired by the recent discovery of the 4th c. diary of St. Katherine (academic advice & translation)

• "Byzantium Unearthed", BBC Radio 4, presented by Bettany Hughes (contribution on Homer and Eustathius)

• "The Forum: The Iliad Beauty, Brutes and Battles", BBC World Service, presented by Bettany Hughes (contribution to a panel about the Iliad)

Projects in progress

  • Eustathius project: The aim of this project is to accomplish an edition of Eustathius' Commentary on the Odyssey (Book 1) with an English translation, and expanded explanatory notes.

Talks for Schools

• Homer and popular media
• Introduction to Homer
• Homer in Cinema
• Heroism in Homer
• The Gods in the Iliad and the Odyssey
• Modern reception of Homer
• Women in the Homeric epics

Teaching

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