Dr. Ioanna Papadopoulou was born in Athens. She studied Classics at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, and then completed her M.A. (in Classics) at the School of Philology of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, where she also conducted her PhD thesis on Ancient Greek Drama. Her Post-Doctoral Research on ancient Greek riddles was conducted (supported by bursary from the State Scholarships Foundation) at the Department of History and Philosophy of Sciences of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens. Her main research interests and her publications are focused on ancient Greek (Attic) drama (Tragedy, Old and New Comedy; especially Aeschylus and Aristophanes) and Roman drama (Plautus, Terence, Seneca), but also include ancient Greek metre and music, ancient Greek geography (Pausanias, Strabo) and Open and Distance Education (in connection to teaching Attic and Roman Drama and Theatre). Her monograph “The Antiphonies in the Choral Songs of Aeschylus” (Athens 2006, in Greek) has been awarded by the Academy of Athens. From December 2019 she is a faculty member of the University of the Peloponnese-The Theatre Studies Department as Tenured Assistant Professor of Classics. She was Junior Lecturer in Latin at the University of Glasgow (U.K.), and has taught, as Temporary Lecturer, at the Department of Philology of the University of Patras and at the Department of Theatre Studies of the University of the Peloponnese. In 2006 she was elected and appointed in the position of Lecturer in Classics at the Department of Greek Philology of the Democritus University of Thrace; in 2013 she became Assistant Professor of Classics, and was tenured in 2016. Since 2002 she is an Affiliate Professor of the Hellenic Open University, where she has taught in the undergraduate program of “Greek Civilization” (module “Ancient Greek Theatre”), and since 2018, in the interdisciplinary postgraduate program “Creative Writing”. Furthermore, she is the scientific director of the series “Ancient Theatre” of the “Metaichmio” publications, and, from 2016, she is member of the Organizing and the Scientific Committee and also instructor at the Summer School “The ancient Greek drama as performance art” (Faculty of Greek Philology- Democritus University of Thrace). She is reviewer and member of the Editorial Board of international scientific journals on civilization and theatre. She has collaborated, as scientific advisor, in the performance of Greek dramas and in the composition of play texts.
