Cohort Year:
2018
Research Interests:
Greek Tragedy; Ancient Religion and Mythology; Homer
Education:
B.A. University of Athens 2017, Classics
Christina Filippaki earned her BA in Classics from the University of Athens in 2017. She also spent a semester of her undergraduate studies majoring in Classics at the University of Wroclaw in Poland as an exchange student. She has taught Ancient and Modern Greek language and literature to high school students in Greece and Belgium. Her main academic interests include Greek tragedy, ancient religion and mythology, and Homeric poetry, with a particular focus on the transition of characters and ideas through different genres. She is also interested in the reception of classical literature and the representation of gender in ancient poetry.