Angeliki Tzanetou
Assistant Professor of the Classics

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Office Hours | 2:00 Tuesday and Thursday
Office | 4046 Foreign Languages Building, (217) 333-8650

Angeliki Tzanetou (B.A. University of Athens 1988, Ph.D. University of Illinois 1997) joined the department in 2005. Her research interests include Greek drama, Greek political theory, gender and religion. She is the author of City of Suppliants: Tragedy and the Athenian Empire (under contract with University of Texas Press); and co-editor with Maryline Parca of Finding Persephone: Women’s Rituals in the Ancient Mediterranean (Studies in Ancient Folklore and Popular Culture series. Bloomington-Indianapolis: Indiana University Press 2007). She has also published articles on ritual and gender in drama and on tragedy and politics. Among her current projects is a study of motherhood in Greek literature and society. She also serves as Coordinator of the Modern Greek Studies program for Classics.