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Georgia Xanthaki-Karamanou
Georgia Xanthaki-Karamanou, is a known classical scholar in Greece and abroad. She got her Ph.D. with distinction from the University College London.
She has been Director at the Academy of Athens, where she has edited texts of ancient Greek and Byzantine authors. Professor of Ancient Greek Literature and Head of the Department of Philology at the Universities of Athens and Peloponnese. Director of the newly established Research Institute of Byzantine Culture at Mystras, which is affiliated to the University of the Peloponnese. She is President of the Society of Greek Scholars and Vice-President of the International Federation of Classical Studies (F.I.E.C.).
She has published books and many articles on Ancient Greek Literature, especially Greek drama, rhetoric, reception, and the development of Greek language from the Antiquity to modern era. She has many times been invited to preside in international conferences and give plenary lectures. Her work is recognized with many good reviews and citations from distinguished scholars in Greece and abroad. A special volume on social and cultural values in Antiquity and Byzantium is dedicated to her and also a second volume on Greek tragedy is under publication in her honour by the well-known German publishers W. de Gruyter as a recognition of her contribution to Humanities.