Stephanie Roussou
Stephanie Roussou studied Classics at the universities of Cyprus (BA 2007) and Oxford (MSt 2008, DPhil 2012). Her Bachelor’s degree was awarded with grade ‘Excellent’ (9.56/10) and she was the Class Valedictorian of the Department of Classics and the Faculty of Letters of the University of Cyprus. For her Master’s and doctoral studies she was awarded scholarships from the A.G. Leventis Foundation (2007-2008) and the Sloane Robinson Foundation (2007–2010). She has been a Humboldt Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the University of Cologne (2015–2016) and a Margo Tytus Fellow at the University of Cincinnati, USA (2018), and she has worked at Thesaurus Linguae Graecae research programme at the University of California at Irvine (2012–2014) and the universities of Oxford (2017) and Cyprus (2018–2020). She has received funding from the Hellenic Foundation for Research and Innovation in the context of the second call for research projects to support Post-doctoral Researchers (2021). Since 2021 she is Assistant Professor of Ancient Greek Literature at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki.
Her research interests lie in the areas of ancient and Byzantine scholarship, grammar, and lexicography, ancient and Byzantine scholars and scholiasts, the reception of ancient scholarship and grammar in Byzantium, textual criticism, papyrology, and history of classical scholarship. She has written the book Pseudo-Arcadius’ Epitome of Herodian’s De prosodia catholica (Oxford University Press 2018, https://global.oup.com/academic/product/pseudo-arcadius-epitome-of-herodians-de-prosodia-catholica-9780198805588?cc=gr&lang=en&), which received an award from the Academy of Athens for the best monograph or critical edition of a work of classical literature (2020) and the First Book Award from the Classical Association of the Middle West and South in the USA (2020). The following articles of hers have been published in peer-reviewed journals: (1) ‘Numerals or grammatical numbers in Book 15 of Herodian’s Περὶ καθολικῆς προσῳδίας? The limits of word-and-paradigm morphology,’ Classical Philology 107.3 (2012) pp. 238–247 (https://doi.org/10.1086/665635; http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1086/665635), (2) ‘The reception of Herodian in the Byzantine period: the case of Theognostus’, Greek, Roman, and Byzantine Studies 57.2 (2017) pp. 482–506 (http://grbs.library.duke.edu/article/view/15799/6987), (3) ‘Distinguishing between concrete and abstract nouns: A terminological innovation in Herodian?’, Rheinisches Museum 160 (2017) pp. 393–409, (4) ‘ὁμότονος: when did words have the same accent?’, Mnemosyne 71 (2018) pp. 265–280, (5) ‘The invention of the Greek prosodic signs’, Journal of Hellenic Studies 139 (2019) pp. 125–146 (with P. Probert).
Stephanie Roussou
Assistant Professor in Ancient Greek Literature
Curriculum vitae
EDUCATION
2003–2007: BA Classical Studies (grade ‘Excellent’ (9.56/10), Class Valedictorian of the Department of Classics and the Faculty of Letters), University of Cyprus
2007–2008: MSt in Greek and/ or Latin languages and literature, University of Oxford
2008–2012: DPhil in Classical languages and literature, University of Oxford
DPhil thesis
Pseudo-Arcadius’ Epitome of Herodian’s Περὶ καθολικῆς προσῳδίας; with a critical edition and notes on books 1-8, Oxford: University of Oxford (supervisors: Philomen Probert and Nigel Wilson). The thesis was accepted without any corrections and was recommended for publication by Oxford University Press.
MSt dissertation
Herodian on accentuation: some extracts from Pseudo-Arcadius’ Epitome and its relation with other sources, Oxford: University of Oxford (supervisor: Philomen Probert)
ACADEMIC POSITIONS
1. 2021-: Assistant Professor in Ancient Greek literature, Department of Philology, Faculty of Classics, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki.
2. 2021: Post-doctoral Research Fellow funded in the context of the second call for Hellenic Foundation for Research and Innovation research projects, Host Institution: Academy of Athens.
3. 2018–2020: Post-doctoral Research Fellow at the University of Cyprus, Department of Classical Studies and Philosophy.
4. 2018: Margo Tytus Fellow at the University of Cincinnati, USA, Department of Classics.
5. 2017: Researcher on a joint project funded by the John Fell Oxford University Press Research Fund, Wolfson College's Lorne Thyssen Research Fund for Ancient World Topics (due to a successful grant application by Philomen Probert), and the A.G. Leventis Foundation (due to a successful joint grant application on which I took the lead) University of Oxford, Faculty of Classics.
6. 2015–2016: Humboldt Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the University of Cologne, Institut für Altertumskunde.
7. 2012–2014: Research Associate at the Thesaurus Linguae Graecae research programme at the University of California at Irvine.
SCHOLARSHIPS–MERITS–AWARDS
1. Post-doctoral Research Fellowship from the Hellenic Foundation for Research and Innovation, Host Institution: Academy of Athens (2021).
2. Academy of Athens Award for the best monograph or critical edition in classical philology, for the book Pseudo-Arcadius’ Epitome of Herodian’s De prosodia catholica, Oxford University Press, 2018 (2020).
3. First Book Award for the book Pseudo-Arcadius’ Epitome of Herodian’s De prosodia catholica, Oxford University Press, 2018, awarded by the Classical Association of the Middle West and South, USA (2020).
4. Post-doctoral Research Fellowship, University of Cyprus, Department of Classical Studies and Philosophy (2018–2020).
5. Margo Tytus Fellowship, University of Cincinnati, Department of Classics (2018, Spring Semester).
6. Three-week Research Scholarship, Fondation Hardt (2017).
7. Center for Hellenic Studies two-week Fellowship, Harvard University (2017).
8. Research scholarship, A.G. Leventis Foundation (2017).
9. Humboldt Postdoctoral Research Fellowship, University of Cologne (2015–2016).
10. Sloane Robinson Foundation Graduate Award, Lincoln College Oxford (2007–2010).
11. Graduate grant from the A.G. Leventis Foundation (2007–2008).
12. Award for the highest mark in all three departments of the Faculty of Letters, University of Cyprus (2007).
13. Award for the best academic performance in the Department of Classics and Philosophy during the years 2003–2007, University of Cyprus (2007).
14. Scholarship from the Cyprus State Scholarship Foundation for my undergraduate studies at the University of Cyprus, for obtaining the highest mark in the National Examinations for admission to the Department of Classics and Philosophy, University of Cyprus (2003–2007).
15. First prize among Cypriot pupils in the Fourth Competition in Ancient Greek, Organization to internationalize the Greek language (2003).
BOOK
Pseudo-Arcadius’ Epitome of Herodian’s De prosodia catholica. Oxford University Press, Oxford 2018.
ARTICLES
1. "Numerals or grammatical numbers in Book 15 of Herodian’s Περὶ καθολικῆς προσῳδίας? The limits of word-and-paradigm morphology," Classical Philology 107.3 (2012) pp. 238–247.
https://doi.org/10.1086/665635; http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1086/665635
2. "The reception of Herodian in the Byzantine period: the case of Theognostus", Greek, Roman, and Byzantine Studies 57.2 (2017) pp. 482–506.
http://grbs.library.duke.edu/article/view/15799/6987
3. "Distinguishing between concrete and abstract nouns: A terminological innovation in Herodian?", Rheinisches Museum 160 (2017) pp. 393–409.
4. "ὁμότονος: when did words have the same accent?", Mnemosyne 71 (2018) pp. 265–280.
5. "The invention of the Greek prosodic signs", Journal of Hellenic Studies 139 (2019) pp. 125–146.
6. "New readings in the text of Herodian", στο Sean A. Adams (εκδ.) (2019), Scholastic Culture in the Hellenistic and Roman Eras: Greek, Latin, and Jewish (Berlin) pp. 83–101.
7. "Aristarchus", in A. Sommerstein (ed.) (2019), Encyclopedia of Greek Comedy, Wiley-Blackwell Press.
8. "Callistratus", in A. Sommerstein (ed.) (2019), Encyclopedia of Greek Comedy, Wiley-Blackwell Press.
9. "Didymus Chalcenterus", in A. Sommerstein (ed.) (2019), Encyclopedia of Greek Comedy, Wiley-Blackwell Press.
10. "Euphronius", in A. Sommerstein (ed.) (2019), Encyclopedia of Greek Comedy, Wiley-Blackwell Press.
11. "On short and long syllables", Oxyrhynchus Papyri (forthcoming).
12. "Grammatical definitions and declensions", Oxyrhynchus Papyri (forthcoming).
BOOK REVIEW
M. Seppänen, Defining the art of grammar: ancient perceptions of γραμματική and grammatica (Turku 2014). Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2014.09.24. http://bmcr.brynmawr.edu/2014/2014-09-24.html
CONFERENCE PAPERS, PRESENTATIONS, AND LECTURES
1. "Doubtful sections in Pseudo-Arcadius’ Epitome". Herodian workshop, Faculty of Classics, University of Oxford (June 2010).
2. "Late antique and Byzantine perspectives on Herodian’s Περὶ καθολικῆς προσῳδίας". Seminar on ‘Scholars and Scholarship in the Greek and Roman Worlds’, Faculty of Classics, University of Oxford (June 2011).
3. "Dating a Greek grammatical text: the interdependency of change and variation". Symposium on ‘Synchrony and Diachrony: Variation and Change in Language History’, Philological Society UK, Oxford (March 2012).
4. "The preface to Pseudo-Arcadius’ Epitome of Herodian’s Περὶ καθολικῆς προσῳδίας". Colloquium Grammaticum, University of Leiden (September 2015).
5. "Difficult passages in Pseudo-Arcadius’ Epitome of Herodian’s Περὶ καθολικῆς προσῳδίας". Work-in-Progress Seminar, Institut für Altertumskunde, University of Cologne (June 2016).
6. "The reception of ancient grammar in the Byzantine period: the case of Theognostus and Choeroboscus". Institut für Altertumskunde, University of Cologne (June 2016).
7. "ὁμότονος: when did words have the same accent?". Third Scholarly Meeting of Master’s Students, Doctoral Students, and Researchers of Aristotle University of Thessaloniki and University of Cologne; Programme of Scholarly Collaboration funded by DAAD, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (November 2016).
8. "New readings in the text of Herodian". Workshop on ancient grammar, Institut für Altertumskunde, University of Cologne (February 2017).
9. "New readings in the text of Herodian". Conference on ‘Ancient Scholarship: Scholastic Culture in the Hellenistic and Roman Eras’, University of Glasgow (April 2017).
10. "εἴ πέρ τίς σέ μοί φησίν ποτε. Accenting sequences of enclitics in ancient Greek" (joint with Philomen Probert). Comparative Philology Seminar, University of Oxford (May 2017).
11. "Don’t talk about recursion: ancient Greek rules of thumb for getting enclitic accents roughly right" (joint with Philomen Probert). Ancient World Research Cluster Seminar at Wolfson College, University of Oxford (May 2017).
12. "Distinguishing between concrete and abstract nouns: A terminological innovation in Herodian?". Annual Meeting of the Society for Classical Studies, Boston, USA (January 2018).
13. "The reception of Herodian in Choeroboscus and Theognostus". Colloquium of the Department of Classics and Philosophy, University of Cyprus (September 2018).
14. "Why textual criticism of obscure grammatical texts matters". Keynote speaker lecture at the Colloquia Ceranea III, organized by the University of Lodz, Poland (April 2021).
OUTREACH
1. Invited outreach talk on ‘Herodian and the Greek language: rules of thumb for accenting Greek enclitics’ to a general audience of c. 400 people, at an event organized by the Center for Hellenic Studies in Greece and the Society for the Promotion of Education and Learning (SPEL; otherwise called Filekpaideutiki Etairia). The talk and discussion were simultaneously translated so as to be available in both English and Greek (March 2017).
2. Participation as a Roman Maths Teacher in the Festival of Ancient and Modern Science that took place in Oxford (February 2017).
RESEARCH AREAS
Ancient and Byzantine scholarship, grammar, and lexicography
Ancient and Byzantine scholars and scholiasts
Reception of ancient scholarship and grammar in Byzantium
Textual criticism
Papyrology
History of classical scholarship
