Alexandros Kampakoglou

I teach most Greek language and literature papers. For Mods, I teach Homer’s Iliad (first term), Greek language (third to fifth terms), and Greek literary aspects of Texts and Contexts (third term). I teach the following papers for Greats: Greek Literature of the 5th century BCE, Greek Tragedy, Early Greek Hexameter Poetry, and Hellenistic Poetry. I also teach the Ancient and Classical French Tragedy paper for the joint school of Classics and Modern Languages.

My research focuses on the poetry of the Hellenistic period (4th–1st cent. BCE). I am particularly interested in exploring the various ways in which Hellenistic poets engage with both previous Greek poetry and indigenous traditions not only to praise their royal patrons, but also to define their own individuality. 

My first book, entitled Studies in the Reception of Pindar in Ptolemaic Poetry (De Gruyter: Berlin) was published in 2019. It examines the reception of the lyric poet Pindar (first half of the 5th century BCE) in the poetry produced in Alexandria under the first three Ptolemies (ca. 310–240 BCE).

My second book is a commentary on select longer fragments of Callimachus (3rd cent. BCE) for the Aris & Phillips Classical Texts Series, Liverpool University Press. It is planned to be published in the first half of 2025. Aimed at both professional classicists and students, this edition brings together representative poems and fragments of Callimachus equipped with detailed introductions and notes. 

I am currently preparing a second volume on Callimachus’ epigrams for the same series and a survey of modern scholarship on Callimachus for the Trends in Classics — Key Perspectives on Classical Research series (De Gruyter).

“Daphnis in the Middle: Theocritus’ Inter-Generic Poetics and the Origins of the Bucolic Genre.” Scripta Classica Israelica vol. 42, 2023, pp. 67–89

“Pan’s Pipes: Lyric Echoes and Contexts in Theocritus.” Brill’s Companion to Theocritus, edted by P. Kyriakou, E. Sistakou, and A. Rengakos, Brill, Leiden, 2021, pp. 242–270. 

“Maidens and the City: Argive Ritual and Choreia in Callimachus’ Hymn 5.” Féminités hellénistiques: Voix, genre, representations, edited by C. Cusset, P. Belenfant, C.-E. Nardone, Hellenistica Groningana 25, Peeters, Leuven, 2020, pp. 25–51.

“Danaus bougenēs: Greco-Egyptian Mythology and Intercultural Poetics.” Greek, Roman, and Byzantine Studies, vol. 56, 2016, pp. 111–139.

“Staging the Divine: Epiphany and Apotheosis in Callimachus HE 1121–1124.” Harvard Studies in Classical Philology, vol. 108, 2015, pp. 119–171.

“Cowherd or athlete? Aegon's Ambiguous Status and the Erotics of Genre in Theocritus Idyll 4.” Phoenix, vol, 68, 2014, pp. 1–26.