Tsitsibakou-Vasalos Evanthia


Rank: 
Associate Professor
Tel.: 
2310 997116
Office: 
207 n.b.

INFORMATION

Evanthia Tsitsibakou-Vasalos studied Classics at the Universities of Athens (B.A. 1972) and Chicago (M.A. 1975, Ph.D 1985).

She has worked as a Teaching Instructor in the School of Theology of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (1986-1988), and as Lecturer (1988–1993), Assistant Professor (1993–1997), and (since 2006) Associate Professor of Ancient Greek Literature in the Department of Philology, Faculty of Classics of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki.

Her research interests include Greek Lyric, Homer, Homeric Criticism in Antiquity, Etymology, and Greek Tragedy. She has written the book Ancient Poetic Etymology. The Pelopids: Fathers and Sons, Klassische Philologie, Palingenesia-Band 89 (Stuttgart 2007), and has published articles in scholarly journals on Homer, Alcman, Stesichorus, and Aeschylus.

CURRICULUM  VITAE

NAME

Evanthia Tsitsibakou-Vasalos

Associate Professor

ADDRESS

University of Thessaloniki

School of Philology

Department of Classics

Thessaloniki, Greece 540 06

Office 207 new building

Telephone:

(031) 2310 997116         

Fax:

(031) 2310 997009

e-mail:

evasalou@lit.auth.gr / eva@cperi.certh.gr

PERSONAL

Date of birth:

February 21, 1949

Marital Status:

Married, 3 children

Address            :

Democratias 87, Panorama

Thessaloniki, Greece 552 36

EDUCATION

National and Kapodistrian University of Athens

Department of Classics, BA            1967-72

University of Chicago, U. S. A.

Department of Classical Languages and Literatures, MA     1973-1975

Thesis Title: “The Function of the Chorus in the Fully Developed Tragedy”

University of Chicago, U. S. A.

Department of Classical Languages and Literatures, Ph.D     1985

Thesis Title:  “Stesichorus and his Poetry”

CAREER

Post-doc in the School of Theology, Aristotelian University of Thessaloniki1986-1988

Lecturer in the Aristotelian University of Thessaloniki, Department of Philology,

Faculty of Classics             1988 - 93

Assistant Professor             1993- 97

Associate Professor            2006-

BOOKS

2007. Ancient Poetic Etymology. The Pelopids: Fathers and Sons, Klassische Philologie, Palingenesia-Band 89 (Stuttgart)

ARTICLES

1. “Two Homeric Formulae in the P. Lille Poem: θεοὶ θέσαν and ἄναξ ἑκάεργος Ἀπόλλων,” Glotta  64 (1986) 165-84

2. “The Meter of the Lille Stesichorus,” GRBS 28 (1987) 401-31

3. “The Textual Problems of the P. Lille Poem, vv. 228-231,” QUCC n.s. 28 (1988) 137-48

“The Homeric ἄφαρ in the Oedipus Myth and the Identity of the Lille Mother,”Glotta 67 4. (1989) 60-88

5. “Stesichorus Geryoneis  SLG  15 I-II,” Ελληνικά 41 (1990) 7-31

6. “Stesichorus Geryoneis S 11. 5-26: the dilemma of Geryon,” Ελληνικά 42 (1991 -1992) 245-57

7. “Alcman’s Partheneion PMG 1. 13-15. Αἶσα, Πόρος and ἀπέδιλοςἈλκά: their Past and Present,” MD 30 (1993) 129-51

8. “Stesichorus: Poet and Thinker,” EEΠΘ3 (1993) 27-45

9. “Stesichorus’ Geryoneis, SLG 15 I-II, (Ελληνικά 41 (1990) 7-31):  Corrigendum,” Ελληνικά 43 (1993) 216-17

10. “Aeschylus Agam. 141: ἀέπτοις-ἀάπτοις in Context,” Ελληνικά 45 (1995) 231- 46

11. “Oxy. 3876. Frr. 1-24: The Meleager Myth,” Ελληνικά 46 (1996) 7-26 

12. “Gradations of Science. Modern Etymology versus Ancient. Nestor: Comparisons and Contrasts,” Glotta 74 (1997/98) 117-132

13. “Alcman: PMGF 56=125 Calame,”  ΕΕΦΣΠΘ 8 (1999) 125-138

14. “Πηλεγών-Σκάμανδρος (Il. 21. 139-383). Etymological Patterns in Homer,” BICS 44 (2000) 1-17

15. “Alcman: Poetic Etymology. Tradition and Innovation,” RCCM  43 (2001) 15-38

16. “Aphrodite in Homer and the Homeric Hymns. Poetic Etymology,” in: Etymologia:  Studies in Ancient Etymology (Proceedings of the Cambridge Conference on Ancient Etymology, September 2000), Μünster 2003

17. “Πέλοψ: Όνομα και Πράγμα. Γλωσσική και Ποιητική Ενότητα,” Studies in Greek Linguistics, 2 vols,  Proceedings of the 23rd Annual Meeting of the Department of Linguistics, School of Philology,  Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, 17-19 May  2002  (Thessaloniki 2003)  1: 438-451     

18. “Ιλιάς Ζ: Ραψωδία της Νοητικής Ταλάντευσης. Θεματική και Γλωσσική Eνότητα,” Δημητρίῳ στέφανος, Festschrift in honor of Professor D. Lypourlis, (eds) Α. Βassiliadis, P.Κοtzia, Αi. D. Mauroudis,  D.Α.Chrestidis (Thessaloniki 2004) 21-58

19. “Brightness and Darkness in Pindar’s Pythian 3: Aigla - Koronis - Arsinoë and Her Coming of Age,” in Light and Darkness in Ancient Greek Myth and Religion, M. Christopoulos, Efimia D. Karakantza and O. Levaniouk (eds.), Lexington Books (Lanham, Boulder, New York, Toronto, Plymouth, UK 2010) 30-76 (International Conference organized by the University of Patras, Department of Philology (6-8 July 2007).

20. “Chance or Design? Language and Plot Management in the Odyssey. Klytaimnestra ἄλοχος μνηστὴ ἐμήσατο,” in: Narratology and Interpretation, J. Grethlein and A. Rengakos (eds.) (Berlin, New York 2008) 177-212 (International Conference organized by the Aristotelian University of Thessaloniki, Department of Classics (6-8 December 2007), with the title, ‘Narratology and Interpretation. The Content of the Form in Ancient Texts.”

21.  “Stesichorus' λίου Πέρσις and the Epic Tradition,” Classics@ Volume 6: 1-51 (International Conference in Ancient Olympia, 9-10 July 2010), Efimia D. Karakantza, (ed.), The Center for Hellenic Studies of Harvard University, edition of March 9, 2011.  

RESEARCH AND TEACHING INTERESTS

Archaic Lyric Poetry, Homeric epos, Homeric Scholiasts, Etymology and Tragedy