Dr Maria Fragoulaki
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BA, MA, PhD, FHEA

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I was born and grew up in Athens (Greece), where I studied Classics (Classical Philology) at the University of Athens, and then drama (acting), and worked as an actress and translator, copy-editor and advisor in publications on classics and performing arts. I returned to the academia in 2002, when I moved to the UK (London), where I did an MA (Classics in Education, KCL) and a PhD (Classics, UCL). From my PhD thesis (2010) arose my monograph Kinship in Thucydides: Intercommunal Ties and Historical Narrative, 2013, Oxford University Press https://global.oup.com/academic/product/kinship-in-thucydides-9780199697779?cc=gb&lang=en&

Kinship in Thucydides studies the concept of kinship between communities (syngeneia) in Thucydides and ancient Greek politics. It applies new kinship discourses and modern anthropological work on kinship relations beyond biology and descent (relatedness) to ancient constructions of intercommunal kinship, in order to describe and explain the maleable and dynamic nature of kinship claims in ancient Greek politics. As in all periods and societies, kinship is a powerful (albeit at times invisible to cultural outsiders) mechanism, which fuels rhetoric and collective emotions, and mobilises diplomacy and action in war and peace.

Research interests

Ancient Greek historiography, esp. Thucydides and Herodotus
Ethnicity and intercommunal kinship; the emotional and ethical factors of ethnic conflicts in ancient Greece
Thucydides' interaction with Homer and other literary genres
Cultural politics and the social history of archaic and classical Greece
The application of modern anthropological theories of kinship to Greek politics and culture

Education and qualifications

BA Classical Literature (Athens); MA Classics in Education (King's College London); PhD (University College London)

Professional Memberships

Fellow of the Higher Education Academy

Classical Association, UK

Societies for the Promotion of Hellenic and Roman Studies, London

Society for Classical Studies (former American Philological Association)

Date
Type

2024

Fragoulaki, M. and Lignadis, Y. 2024. Thucydides' theatrical performance and the Greece of the Crisis (2010-19): Lessons of war. In: Fragoulaki, M. and Morley, N. eds. Doing Things with Thucydides: Politics, Education, Performance. Bulletin of the Institute of Classical Studies and Oxford University Press
Fragoulaki, M. and Morley, N. 2024. Introduction. In: Fragoulaki, M. and Morley, N. eds. Doing Things with Thucydides: Politics, Education, Performance. Bulletin of the Institute of Classical Studies and Oxford University Press
Fragoulaki, M. and Morley, N. eds. 2024. Doing things with Thucydides: Politics, education, performance. Bulletin of the Institute of Classical Studies and Oxford University Press.

2023

Fragoulaki, M. 2023. Ethnicity in Thucydides. In: Low, P. ed. The Cambridge Companion to Thucydides. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, pp. 160-176., (10.1017/9781316227442)

2022

Fragoulaki, M. 2022. Bloody death in Greek historiography and Homer: Discursive presences and meaningful absences in Herodotus' battle narratives. In: Matijasic, I. ed. Herodotus - The Most Homeric Historian?. Histos - The Online Journal of Ancient Historiography, pp. 107-160.

2021

Fragoulaki, M. 2021. Thucydides. In: Baron, C. ed. The Herodotus Encyclopedia., Vol. 3. Wiley Blackwell, pp. 1462-1466.
Fragoulaki, M. 2021. Death. In: Baron, C. ed. The Herodotus Encyclopedia., Vol. 1. Wiley Blackwell, pp. 414-419.
Fragoulaki, M. 2021. Stasis. In: Baron, C. ed. The Herodotus Encyclopedia., Vol. 3. Wiley Blackwell, pp. 1371-1373.
Fragoulaki, M. 2021. Autochthony. In: Baron, C. ed. The Herodotus Encyclopedia., Vol. 1. Wiley Blackwell, pp. 205-207.
Fragoulaki, M. 2021. The Peloponnesian War. In: Baron, C. ed. The Herodotus Encyclopedia., Vol. 3. Wiley Blackwell, pp. 1075-1077.

2020

Fragoulaki, M. 2020. The mytho-political map of Spartan colonisation in Thucydides: the 'Spartan colonial triangle' vs. the 'Spartan Mediterranean'. In: Powell, A. and Debnar, P. eds. Thucydides and Sparta. Swansea: Classical Press of Wales, pp. 183-219.
Fragoulaki, M. and Constantakopoulou, C. 2020. Introduction - collective memory in ancient Greek culture: concepts, media, and sources.. In: Fragoulaki, M. and Constantakopoulou, C. eds. Shaping Memory in Ancient Greece: Poetry, Historiography and Epigraphy., Vol. 11. Histos Supplementary Volumes Histos
Fragoulaki, M. 2020. Thucydides Homericus and the episode of Mykalessus (Th. 7.29-30): Myth and history, space and collective memory. In: Fragoulaki, M. and Constantakopoulou, C. eds. Shaping Memory in Ancient Greece: Poetry, Historiography and Epigraphy., Vol. 11. Histos Supplementary Volumes, pp. 37-86.
Fragoulaki, M. 2020. The Melian dilemma: remaking Thucydides: first response. Epoiesen (10.22215/epoiesen/2019.6)
Fragoulaki, M. 2020. The naval battle of Arginusae (406 BCE) and the Athenian democracy: A victory turned into a defeat (Greek: Ἡ ναυμαχία στὶς Ἀργινοῦσες (406 π.Χ.) καὶ ἡ ἀθηναϊκὴ δημοκρατία: Μιὰ νίκη ποὺ μετατράπηκε σὲ ἧττα). In: Lessons of War III: Athenian Dramas (Greek: Μαθήματα Πολέμου ΙΙΙ: Ἀθηναίων Δράματα). National Theatre Publications Athens, Greece: National Theatre, pp. 62-67.
Fragoulaki, M. and Constantakopoulou, C. eds. 2020. Shaping memory in ancient Greece: poetry, historiography and epigraphy. Supplement volume 11. Newcastle upon Tyne: Histos.

2019

Fragoulaki, M. 2019. Decompartmentalising Thucydides. [Online]. London: Institute of Classical Studies. Available at: https://ics.blogs.sas.ac.uk/2019/06/28/decompartmentalising-thucydides/
Fragoulaki, M. 2019. Narrative and experience of the human body in war: Homer and Herodotus. Presented at: Homer and Herodotus: A Reappraisal., Newcastle, UK, 4-5 March 2019.
Fragoulaki, M. and Wendt, C. 2019. Thucydides global: Teaching, researching, and performing Thucydides. Presented at: Thucydides Global: Teaching, Researching, and Performing Thucydides, Institute of Classical Studies, London, 30 April 2019. pp. -.

2017

Fragoulaki, M. 2017. Comparing portraits: Nicias' wealth in Plutarch and Thucydides. Anxiety of influence and narrative choice. Presented at: Ritual and Politics, Individual and Community in Plutarch’s Works: An international Colloquium, Crete, Greece, 27-30 April 2017.

2016

Fragoulaki, M. 2016. Emotion, persuasion and kinship in Thucydides: The Plataian debate (3.52-68) and the Melian Dialogue (5.85-113). In: Sanders, E. and Johncock, M. eds. Emotion and Persuasion in Classical Antiquity. Wiesbaden: Franz Steiner Verlag, pp. 113-132.

2015

Fragoulaki, M. 2015. (K.) Buraselis, (V.) Karamanolakis and (S.) Katakis Eds. H μνήμη της κοινότητας και η διαχείρισή της: μελέτες από μια ημερίδα αφιερωμένη στη μνήμη του Τίτου Παπαμαστοράκη [= Communal memory and its handling: studies arising from a one-day colloquium in memory of Titos Papamastorakis]. Athens: Kardamitsa, 2011. Pp. 364. €21.30. 9789603543015.[Book Review]. Journal of Hellenic Studies 135, pp. 253-254. (10.1017/S0075426915000762)

2014

Fragoulaki, M. 2014. Death in Thucydides and Homer. Presented at: Classical Association Annual Conference 2014, Nottingham, UK, 13-16 April 2014.

2013

Fragoulaki, M. 2013. Emotion, persuasion and kinship in Thucydides: The Plataian debate (3.52-68) and the Melian dialogue (5.85-113). Presented at: Emotion and Persuasion in Classical Antiquity, Centre for Oratory and Rhetoric, Royal Holloway, London, UK, 27-28 June 2013.
Fragoulaki, M. 2013. Kinship in Thucydides: Intercommunal ties and historical narrative. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

2012

Fragoulaki, M. 2012. (P.M.) Fraser, Greek ethnic terminology (Lexicon of Greek personal names. Supplementary Volume. Revised for publication after the author's death by S. Hornblower). Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press for the British Academy, 2009. Pp. xxi + 424. £50. 9780197264287. [Book Review]. The Journal of Hellenic Studies 132, pp. 229-230. (10.1017/S0075426912000602)

2010

Fragoulaki, M. 2010. Rengakos (A.) and Tsakmakis(A.) Eds. Brill's Companion to Thucydides. (Brill's Companions in Classical Studies). Leiden: Brill, 2006. Pp. xix + 947. Euro 249. 9789004136830.[Book Review]. The Journal of Hellenic Studies 128, pp. 237-238. (10.1017/S0075426900000793)

2007

Fragoulaki, M. 2007. Thucydides in the light of Herodotus: the kinship ties between Athenians and Thracians. Presented at: The Classical Association Annual Conference, Birmingham, UK, 12-15 April 2007.

2006

Fragoulaki, M. 2006. Kinship in Thucydides: the case of the Kerkyraika narrative (1.24-55). Presented at: The Classical Association Annual Conference 2006, Newcastle, UK, 6-9 April 2006.

My research interests include: Thucydides; Herodotus; Homer; the interaction between history and literature in study of the ancient world; the political and social history of ancient Greece, esp. of the archaic and classical periods; Greek colonization and ethnicity; ancient Greek mythology and religion; comparative and interdisciplinary approaches to classics from the perspectives of: modern anthropological theories of kinship; political science; war studies; sociology of emotions; modern literary criticism.

My monograph Kinship in Thucydides, OUP 2013 (https://global.oup.com/academic/product/kinship-in-thucydides-9780199697779?cc=gb&lang=en&) studies the concept of kinship between communities (syngeneia) in Thucydides and ancient Greek politics. It applies new kinship discourses and modern anthropological work on kinship relations beyond biology and descent (relatedness) to ancient constructions of intercommunal kinship, in order to describe and explain the maleable and dynamic nature of kinship claims in ancient Greek politics. As in all periods and societies, kinship is a powerful (albeit at times invisible to cultural outsiders) mechanism, which fuels rhetoric and collective emotions, and mobilises diplomacy and action in war and peace.

Reviews of Kinship in Thucydides, 2013, OUP

P. Liddel, Omnibus 68, September 2014, 69; S. Forsdyke, Histos 8, 23 November 2014 (http://research.ncl.ac.uk/histos/documents/RR17ForsdykeonFragoulaki.pdf); C. Scardino, BMCR 16 December 2014; P. Low, Mnemosyne, 2015 68/3, 511-14 http://booksandjournals.brillonline.com/content/journals/10.1163/1568525x-12341909 (DOI: 10.1163/1568525X-12341909); R. J. Littman, Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute (N.S.) 21, 2015, 211-243; M. Tamiolaki, Classical Review, January 2015, 65/1, 42-4 (DOI: 10.1017/S0009840X14002686); M. S. Trifirò, Anabases 21, April 2015, 274-5 (URL: http://anabases.revues.org/5349); M. Taylor, sehepunkte Rezensionsjournal fur die Geschichtswissenschaften 15 (2015) No. 4 (URL: http://www.sehepunkte.de/2015/04/24471.html); S. Roy, Classical Journal Online 5.09.2015 https://cj.camws.org/sites/default/files/reviews/2015.09.05%20Roy%20on%20Fragoulaki.pdf; D. Konstan, Journal of Hellenic Studies, 135, 2015, 192-3 (DOI: 10.1017/S0075426915000233); K. Vlassopoulos, Greece & Rome 63.1, April 2016, 134 (DOI: 10.1017/S0017383515000303, Published online: 29 March 2016); P. Debnar, Gnomon 89, 2017, 67-9.

Current Research projects

Thucydides and Homer

My current research involves a monograph on the relationship between Thucydides and Homer, two archetypal war authors, through literary, historical and socio-cultural questions. It is the first large-scale study on the topic.

Collective memory in ancient Greece

I am co-editing a volume entitled Shaping Memory in Ancient Greece: Poetry, Historiography, and Epigraphy, which studies collective memory in ancient Greece through different media and genres (forthcoming, Histos Supplement, 2018)

Undergraduate

Myth and History in Ancient Greek Culture – 20 credits (HS3375)
Drama in Context: Ancient Greek Theatre, Politics and Society - 20 credits (HS3381)
Tyrants, Kings and Democrats: The Rise of Classical Greece - 20 credits (HS3374) (http://www.cardiff.ac.uk/study/undergraduate/courses/course/ancient-history-ba)
Researching the Ancient World: Final Year Dissertation – 40 credits (HS4335)
Independent Second Year Study – 20 credits (HS4334)
Pots, Poems and Pictures: Using Evidence for Ancient History – 20 credits (HS4336)
Greek Historical Texts – 10 credits (HS3345/6) (Spring Semester: Herodotus)

Postgraduate

Themes and Approaches in Ancient History – 20 credits (HST002)
MA Special Topic; Two Greek Historians: Herodotus and Thucydides
MA Religious Studies: Myth, Narrative and Theory

Research supervision

I would be happy to supervise postgraduate research topics on: Thucydides; Herodotus; the interaction of Greek historians with literature; Greek ethnicity and intercommunal kinship in ancient Greece; cultural politics of ancient Greece; the political and social history of archaic and classical Greece; modern theories and the classics.

Teaching profile

October 2004 to date: I have designed and taught BA and MA courses in ancient Greek history (archaic and classical periods, as a core course, in full-size groups, organised in lectures and seminars); ancient Greek literature (Thucydides, Herodotus, Homer, Plato, Greek drama), paying due attention to the historical and cultural context and modern approaches to ancient texts; I have taught ancient Greek and Latin language at all levels.

Career overview

2014-: Lecturer in Ancient Greek History, Cardiff University, School of History, Archaeology and Religion

2013-2014: Associate Lecturer and Honorary Research Fellow, Birkbeck, University of London

2011-2012: University of London, Contributing lecturer to the Intercollegiate MA Course 'Sources and Methods in Ancient History'

2010-2011: Teaching Fellow, University College London, Associate Lecturer, Birkbeck, University of London

2009-2010, 2005-2008: Postgraduate Teaching Assistant, University College London

2007-2010: Associate Lecturer, Birkbeck, University of London

2004-2006: Postgraduate Teaching Assistant, King's College London

1992-2002: Studies of drama; employment as actress, translator and copy-editor in classics and performing arts (Greece)

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July 2007: A.G. Leventis Foundation scholarship, for the academic year 2007-8 (£4,000)

January 2007: The 2006 George Grote Prize for Ancient History (University of London) (£3,000)

2004-7: Funding of my PhD research by the Greek State Scholarships Foundation (Ίδρυμα Κρατικὠν Υποτροφιών, I.K.Y.), following national competition (fees and subsistence, £36,000)

2015-16: Funding for the 2016 Distinguished University Lecture, Cardiff University, Prof. Irad Malkin, 'The Small Greek World' (Research Committee of SHARE (School of History, Archaeology and Religion), Cardiff University: £234)

Erasmus + International Exchange teaching scheme

14-21 May 2017: Russian State University for the Humanities, Moscow, GAUGN (£1,255)

Aelodaethau proffesiynol

Cymrawd yr Academi Addysg Uwch
Aelod o Gyngor Cynghori Institue Astudiaethau Clasurol, Ysgol Astudiaethau Uwch, Prifysgol Llundain
Aelod o Gyngor Adrannau Clasurol y Brifysgol, y DU (CUCD)
Ysgrifennydd Cangen Cymdeithas Glasurol Caerdydd a'r Cylch (Cymru), UK
Aelod o'r Cymdeithasau ar gyfer Hyrwyddo Astudiaethau Helenaidd a Rhufeinig, y DU
Aelod o'r Gymdeithas Glasurol, y Deyrnas Unedig
Aelod o'r Gymdeithas Astudiaethau Clasurol (Cymdeithas Ffilolegol America gynt)

Safleoedd academaidd blaenorol

Academic Service and Esteem

Referee for Academic Journals and Publishers in Classics:

Historia (2012-); Greece and Rome (2011-); Wiley Blackwell (2012-); Philologus (2014-); Oxford University Press (2015-); Journal of Hellenic Studies (2017-)

2013- Honorary Research Fellow, Department of History, Classics and Archaeology, Birkbeck, University of London, UK

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2016- Chair of the Research Ethics Committee and Research Integrity Lead, SHARE

2015- Ancient History Library Representative

Rwy'n croesawu goruchwyliaeth ymgeiswyr PhD addas sy'n dymuno gweithio ar hanes a llenyddiaeth Groeg hynafol y cyfnodau hynafol a chlasurol, yn enwedig Thucydides a'i chyd-destun cymdeithasol-wleidyddol; Theori a gwleidyddiaeth y berthynas hon; Thucydides a Homer; myth; cof cyfunol.

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Ludovico Runco

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