Alexandros Kampakoglou

I teach a range of Greek language and literature papers. For Mods, I cover Papers I, II, VI (Greek Literature Portfolio, Commentary, and Prepared Translation), and VIII (Greek Unprepared Translation and Language). For Greats, I teach the following papers: Greek Literature of the 5th Century BCE, Greek Tragedy, Early Greek Hexameter Poetry, and Hellenistic Poetry. I also teach the Greek components for the joint schools of Classics and English and Classics and Modern Languages.

My research focuses on the poetry of the Hellenistic period (4th–1st century BCE), with particular interest in how Hellenistic poets engage with earlier Greek poetry and indigenous traditions. I explore how this intertextuality serves both to honor royal patrons and to assert poetic individuality.

I have published two books. My most recent monograph, Callimachus: Select Longer Fragments, was published in March 2025 in the Aris & Phillips Classical Texts Series (Liverpool University Press). Aimed at both professional classicists and students, this edition presents representative poems and fragments of Callimachus of Cyrene (3rd century BCE), accompanied by detailed introductions and explanatory notes.

My first book, Studies in the Reception of Pindar in Ptolemaic Poetry (De Gruyter, 2019), examines the reception and reinterpretation of the lyric poet Pindar (early 5th century BCE) by poets in Alexandria under the first three Ptolemies (ca. 310–240 BCE).

I am currently preparing a second volume on Callimachus’ epigrams for the Aris & Phillips Classical Texts Series, as well as 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.