Zinon Papakonstantinou, PhD
Professor and Director of Undergraduate Studies
Classics and Mediterranean Studies
Contact
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1818 UH
Address:
601 S. Morgan St.
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About
Areas of Research and Publication:
Ancient Greek social and cultural history; Greek epigraphy; Greek literature; Classical Reception
Courses recently taught:
- Greek Civilization (CL 100)
- The Ancient World: Greece (HIST/CL 202)
- The Ancient World: Rome (HIST/CL 203)
- Sport in the Ancient World (HIST/CL 219)
- Herodotus and His World (CL/HIST 405)
- Athenian Democracy and Society in the Age of Aristophanes (CL/HIST 408)
Selected Publications
Books:
- Victory and Memory in Ancient Greek Sport, Oxford University Press: Oxford and New York, forthcoming.
- Cursing for Justice: Magic, Disputes, and the Lawcourts in Classical Athens, Franz Steiner Verlag: Stuttgart, 2021.
- Sport and Identity in Ancient Greece, Routledge: London 2019.
- Sport, Bodily Culture and Classical Antiquity in Modern Greece (co-edited with Eleni Fournaraki), Routledge: London 2011.
- Sport in the Cultures of the Ancient World. New Perspectives (editor), Routledge: London, 2010.
- Lawmaking and Adjudication in Archaic Greece, Duckworth: London, 2008.
Recent Articles and Chapters (since 2021; for a complete list see CV link above):
- “A prosbasis at the Great Asklepeia of Kos” forthcoming in Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik (2025).
- “Social Elites and Equestrian Competition in Hellenistic and Early Imperial Rhodes” forthcoming in Ancient Society (2025).
- “Greek Legal Pluralism: The Case of Sport and Festivals” in Hans Beck and Kaja Harter-Uibopuu (eds), Ancient Greek Law: Vectors of Unity and Local Idiosyncrasy, Vienna and Cologne: Böhlau, 2025, 151-180.
- “Athletes and Athletics in the Oracular Tablets of Dodona” Classica et Mediaevalia 73 (2024), 377-394.
- “Sport and Games” in J. Toner (ed.), A Cultural History of Leisure in Antiquity, London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2024, 79-97.
- “Sport Prizes in Archaic and Classical Greece: Funeral Games and the Great Panathenaia” in C. Begass, C. Mann, and M. T. Montalto (eds.), Money and Honor in Ancient Athletics, Stuttgart: Steiner Verlag, 2024, 91-114.
- ”Law, Litigation, and Sport in Ancient Greece” in A. Futrell and T. Scanlon (eds), Oxford Handbook of Sport and Spectacle in the Ancient World, Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2021, 592-602.
- “Conflict and Accommodation” in P. Christesen and C. Stocking (eds), A Cultural History of Sport in Antiquity, London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2021, 121-139.
Notable Honors
2019-2022, Mercator Fellow, Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft - University of Mannheim, Germany.
2013-2016, Fellowship for Experienced Researchers (Forschungsstipendium für erfahrene Wissenschaftler), Alexander von Humboldt Foundation - University of Hamburg, Germany.
Education
BA, Crete
MA, Cincinnati
MPhil, Cambridge
PhD, Washington