Open University of Cyprus

Faculty Member, BA Programme in Hellenic Culture

Assistant Professor in Classics

About

Antonis K. Petrides, b. 1975, was elected Lecturer at the Open University of Cyprus in October 2007. Since then he has served as Academic Coordinator and Tutor in two Thematic Units (yearlong modules): ELP 10 (Introduction to the study of Greek Culture) and ELP 31 (Ancient Greek Theatre). In 2009 he was appointed Academic Head of the BA Programme “Studies in Greek Culture” (a two-year rotating office). He has also served on many university committees and has organized public lecture series and conferences.
Antonis is member of scholarly societies and institutions, such as the Cambridge Philological Society, the Society for the Promotion of Hellenic Studies, the A.G. Leventis Scholars Society etc. In 2009 he was appointed by the Cyprus Ministry of Education member of the Committee for the Revision of the National Curriculum in Greek and Latin. To that effect he has co-authored (with Professor Antonis Tsakmakis) a 100-page Expert Report, which was endorsed by the Cyprus government as the New National Curriculum. He is also the main author of a book designed to support the teaching of Homer’s Odyssey in the Gymnasium Grade A (= American Middle School, Grade 7). 
Antonis studied Greek Philology at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki graduating top of his class in 1999 (GPA 9.65/10). He also studied Classics at Trinity College, University of Cambridge (MPhil & PhD, 2000-2005). His MPhil and PhD theses were supervised by Professor Richard L. Hunter, Regius Professor of Greek at Trinity College. During his undergraduate studies Antonis was afforded a grant by the Greek National Scholarship Foundation. His postgraduate studies were also supported by scholarships from the Greek National Scholarship Foundation, the A.G. Leventis Foundation, the British Academy and Trinity College, Cambridge.
Antonis’ research interests lie mainly in the field of Greek and Roman drama (particularly, comedy, mime and pantomime), Hellenistic literature (mainly of the ‘comic mode’: mimiamb, epic and philosophical parody, etc.) and Greek physiognomics. He has published book chapters and papers in refereed international journals (such as The Classical Quarterly, Greek Roman and Byzantine Studies, Hermes, Eikasmos) and peer-reviewed collective volumes. Prominent among his recent publications is the volume New Perspectives on Postclassical Comedy (Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing 2010), co-edited with Dr. Sophia Papaioannou (Uni. Athens). A thoroughly revised and rewritten version of his PhD thesis (Faces of Allusion: Intertextuality and the Mask of New Comedy) will be published by Cambridge University Press (work in progress).  Currently, he is editing the proceedings of an OUC conference on the reception of ancient myth (with Professor S. Efthymiadis). He is also compiling two volumes of major interpretive essays on Aeschylus’ Choephori and Sophocles’ Electra in Greek translation.

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