Christos Tsagalis

Christos Tsagalis
Christos Tsagalis
Born	25 May, 1970; Athens, Greece
🏳️ Nationality	Greek
💼 Occupation
🏅 Awards	Excellence Award in Classical Philology by the Academy of Athens (2007) Research Fellowship by the Center for Hellenic Studies, Harvard University (2014) Excellence Award in the Humanities, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (2017) National Research Award by the Hellenic Foundation of Research and Innovation (2019)

Christos Tsagalis (Greek: Χρήστος Τσαγγάλης; born 25 May, 1970), Member of the Academia Europaea (Section of Classics and Oriental Studies)..^[1], is a Greek classical scholar. Since 2009 he is teaching at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, where he is Professor of Ancient Greek Philology since 2013.

Early life and education[edit]

Tsagalis was born on 25 May 1970 in Athens, Greece. He was educated at the Lycée Léonin de Patissia (Λεόντειο Λύκειο Πατησίων), a French-Greek school founded in 1838 and governed by the Catholic Monastic community of the Marist Brothers (Frères Maristes) which is dedicated to the education of young men and women. He studied at the University of Athens, graduating with a Bachelor of Arts (BA in Classics) degree in 1992. He then moved first to England, where he studied for a Master of Arts in Classics (MA) degree at King’s College London with a thesis title “The Language of the Homeric Similes” (1993), and then to the United States, where he studied for a Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) degree in Classics at Cornell University. His doctoral thesis was titled “Personal Laments in Homer’s Iliad”, and his PhD was awarded in 1998.

Academic career[edit]

After completing his PhD, Tsagalis returned to Greece and did his military service (1998-2000). He worked as an Instructor in Classics at the Department of Philology at the University of Crete (2000-2001) and was elected Lecturer (2001-2005) and then Assistant Professor in Ancient Greek Philology (2006-2008) at the University of Athens. In 2009 he was elected Associate Professor at the Department of Philology of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki and in 2013 he became Full Professor in the same department^[2]

Personal life[edit]

Tsagalis is married to the classicist Anna Lamari (since 2004). Together they have two children: Alexia (born 2009) and Konstantina (born 2011).

Awards and distinctions[edit]

Tsagalis has been awarded with the Excellence Award in Classical Philology by the Academy of Athens (2007)^[3], with a Research Fellowship by the Center for Hellenic Studies, Harvard University (2014), with the Excellence Award in the Humanities, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (2017), and with the National Research Award by the Hellenic Foundation of Research and Innovation (2019). In 2020 he was appointed Member of the Academia Europaea (Section of Classics and Oriental Studies), Member of the Board and Director of the Department of Language and Literature^[2] of the Center of Greek Language (Κέντρο Ελληνικής Γλώσσας).

Publications[edit]

Authored books[edit]

Epic Grief: Personal Laments in Homer’s Iliad. Untersuchungen zur antiken Literatur und Geschichte, vol. 70, Walter de Gruyter, Berlin-New York 2004.
The Oral Palimpsest: Exploring Intertextuality in the Homeric Epics. Center for Hellenic Studies/Harvard University Press, Cambridge, MA & London, England 2008.
Inscribing Sorrow: Fourth-Century Attic Funerary Epigrams. Trends in Classics Supplementary Volumes, Band 1, Walter de Gruyter, Berlin-New York, 2008.
From Listeners to Viewers: Space in the Iliad, Center for Hellenic Studies/Harvard University Press, Cambridge, MA & London, England 2012.
Ομηρικές μελέτες: προφορικότητα, διακειμενικότητα, νεοανάλυση, Ίδρυμα Μανόλη Τριανταφυλλίδη, Θεσσαλονίκη 2016.
Early Greek Epic Fragments Ι: Antiquarian and Genealogical Epic. Trends in Classics Supplementary Volumes, vol. 47, Walter de Gruyter, Berlin-New York 2017.
Tέχνη ραψωδική: Η εκτέλεση της επικής ποίησης: από την αρχαϊκή έως την αυτοκρατορική περίοδο, University Studio Press, Thessaloniki 2018.
Early Greek Epic Fragments ΙΙ: Κreophylos and Peisandros. Trends in Classics Supplementary Volumes, vol. 129, Walter de Gruyter, Berlin-New York 2022.
Collected Essays. Trends in Classics Supplementary Volumes, Walter de Gruyter, Berlin-New York (2022).

Edited and co-edited books (with authored chapters)[edit]

N. Bezantakos & C. Tsagalis (eds.), Μουσάων Ἀρχώμεθα: Ο Ησίοδος και η αρχαϊκή επική ποίηση. Athens, 2006.
A. Rengakos & C. Tsagalis (eds.), Prizes and Contests in the Homeric Epics. Ithaki, 2007.
A. Markantonatos & C. Tsagalis (eds.), Αρχαία Ελληνική Τραγωδία: Θεωρία και Πράξη. Athens, 2008.
F. Montanari, A. Rengakos, and C. Tsagalis (eds.), Brill’s Companion to Hesiod. Leiden, 2009.
Phil Mitsis & Christos Tsagalis (eds.), Allusion, Authority, and Truth: Critical Perspectives on Greek Poetic and Rhetorical Praxis, Trends in Classics Supplementary Volumes, vol. 7, Walter de Gruyter, Berlin-New York, 2010.
C. Tsagalis (ed.), Homeric Hypertextuality, a special issue in Trends in Classics 2.2, Walter de Gruyter, 2010.
F. Montanari, A. Rengakos, and C. Tsagalis (eds.), Homeric Contexts: Neoanalysis and the Interpretation of Oral Poetry , Trends in Classics Supplementary Volumes, vol. 13, Walter de Gruyter, Berlin-New York, 2012.
C. Tsagalis (ed.), Theban Resonances in Homeric Epic, a special issue of the journal Trends in Classics 6.2 (2014).
M. Fantuzzi and C. Tsagalis (eds.), The Greek Epic Cycle and its Ancient Reception, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2015.
C. Tsagalis & A. Markantonatos (ed.), The Winnowing Oar: New Perspectives in Homeric Studies, (2017, Walter de Gruyter).
C. Tsagalis (ed.), Poetry in Fragments: Studies on the Hesiodic Corpus and its Afterlife, (2017, Walter de Gruyter).
J. Ready and C. Tsagalis (eds.), Homer in Performance: Rhapsodes, Narrators & Characters, (2018, University of Texas Press).

Editorial work[edit]

Since 2017 Tsagalis is the co-editor (with Jonathan Ready, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor) of the Yearbook of Ancient Greek Epic (YAGE), Brill Academic Publishers^[4] and since 2019 (with Patrick Finglass, University of Bristol and Simon Malloch, University of Nottingham) of the series Key Perspectives on Classical Research (KPCR) Walter de Gruyter^[5]

References[edit]

↑ "Academy of Europe: Tsagalis Christos". www.ae-info.org. Retrieved 2022-01-27.
↑ ^2.0 ^2.1 "Διοικητικό Συμβούλιο – Κέντρο Ελληνικής Γλώσσας – Εκδόσεις" (in Ελληνικά). Retrieved 2022-01-27.
↑ Epochi, rizospastis gr | Synchroni (2007-12-29). "rizospastis.gr - Βραβεία της Ακαδημίας Αθηνών". ΡΙΖΟΣΠΑΣΤΗΣ. Retrieved 2022-01-27.
↑ "Yearbook of Ancient Greek Epic". Brill. Retrieved 2022-01-28.
↑ "Trends in Classics - Key Perspectives on Classical Research". De Gruyter. Retrieved 2022-01-28.

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[1] "Academy of Europe: Tsagalis Christos". www.ae-info.org. Retrieved 2022-01-27.

[auto-2] 2.0 ^2.1 "Διοικητικό Συμβούλιο – Κέντρο Ελληνικής Γλώσσας – Εκδόσεις" (in Ελληνικά). Retrieved 2022-01-27.

[3] Epochi, rizospastis gr | Synchroni (2007-12-29). "rizospastis.gr - Βραβεία της Ακαδημίας Αθηνών". ΡΙΖΟΣΠΑΣΤΗΣ. Retrieved 2022-01-27.

[4] "Yearbook of Ancient Greek Epic". Brill. Retrieved 2022-01-28.

[5] "Trends in Classics - Key Perspectives on Classical Research". De Gruyter. Retrieved 2022-01-28.

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