Vasileios Dimoglidis is an Assistant Instructional Professor at UChicago's Classics department. His research focuses primarily on Hellenistic poetry and Greek and Roman theater, with particular interests in narratology, metapoetics, and ancient performance. His current book project, Small Suffering, Grand Poetics: Emotion, Self-fashioning, and Poetic Authority in Theocritus, examines how emotional experience structures narrative in Theocritus and how seemingly minor figures draw on prestigious literary traditions to give significance to their private crises. His work on Greek and Roman drama explores metatheater, body metaphors, and the relationship between dramatic form and performance. A native of Greece, he also teaches Modern Greek language and culture and is interested in creating connections between ancient and modern Greek traditions.
Recent Publications
Dimoglidis, V. (2027), “Aestheticizing Philoctetes: the mimetic mode of the chorus in the parodos and the stasimon of Sophocles’ Philoctetes”, in M. Brown, M. Halleran, and J. Paga (eds.), Reimagining Greco-Roman Drama, London and New York: Routledge, forthcoming: 9,003 words.
Dimoglidis, V. (2027), “Re-voicing Odysseus in Theocritus 3.24”, The Classical Quarterly 77.1: forthcoming, 1,206 words.
Dimoglidis, V. (2024), “Nothing to do with the ‘head’? Hidden meanings of caput in Seneca’s Agamemnon”, Illinois Classical Studies 49.1–2: 142–168.
Dimoglidis, V. (2024), “Reflecting upon language on the Greek tragic stage: towards an interpretation of metalanguage in Euripides’ Ion”, Dionysus ex Machina15: 25–50.
Dimoglidis, V. (2022), “The Latin translations of the prooemium (ll.1–18) of Aratus’ Phaenomena. Reception and interpretation”, Ariadne 28: 41–56.
Dimoglidis, V. (2022), “Plot-makers in Euripides’ Ion”, Cuadernos de Filología Clásica. Estudios griegos e indoeuropeos 32: 115–134.