Dr Evangelia Anagnostou-Laoutides
- Qualifications
- Publications
- Interviews/Radio/TV Presentations
- Supervision
- School and University Service
- Awards
- Projects in Progress
- Contact
Eva joined the School of Languages, Cultures and Linguistics in 2006. Previously she taught at the universities of Kent and Wales (Lampeter and Aberystwyth) in the UK.
Qualifications
PhD in Classics (2002), University of Kent, UK
Thesis: Studies in Ancient Erotic Mythology: Ritual and Literary values of Initiation Patterns.
MA in Latin literature (1998) University of Leeds, UK
Dissertation: A comparison of Meleager’s Hellenistic epigrams with Propertius’ Elegies in the ‘Monobiblos’.
Other Subjects: Roman Comedy: Plautus, Terence, Menander and their commentators: A. Gelius, A. Donatus.
BA in Classical Philology (1997) Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece
Teaching Qualifications
GCHE: Graduate Certificate in Higher Education, School of Education, Monash University (to be completed in June 2009)
ATAP: Associate Teacher Accreditation Programme, Unit for the Enhancement of Learning and Teaching of the University of Kent, 2002-2003.
Publications
Books
Anagnostou-Laoutides, E. 2005. Eros and Ritual in Ancient Literature: Singing of Atalanta, Daphnis and Orpheus. Gorgias Press Dissertation Series, New Jersey, USA.(xxx+574 pp.)
Journal Articles:
Anagnostou-Laoutides, E. and Konstan, D. 2008. “Daphnis and Aphrodite: a Love-Affair in Theocritus Idyll 1,” American Journal of Philology 129.4, 497-528.
Anagnostou-Laoutides, E. 2007. “Ancient Ritual and the Search for Arcadia: From Vergil to Poussin,” Transcultural Studies 2-3: 19-53.
Anagnostou-Laoutides, E. 2007. “Ancient Theatre: Past Identity Dilemmas in Modern Background,” Athena 117: 53-75.
Anagnostou-Laoutides, E. 2006. “The Trojan Exodus: The Initiation of a Nation,” Iris 19: 1-49.
Anagnostou-Laoutides, E. 2004. “The Death of Daphnis,” Proceedings of the LISA 2002 Conference on “Death and Cult,” British Archaeological Report International Series 1282: 77-86.
Chapters in Books
Anagnostou-Laoutides, E. 2006a1. “Ovid” in the Encyclopedia of Ancient Erotic Literature, G. Brulotte and J. Phillips (eds.), Routledge: New York: 981-992.
Anagnostou-Laoutides, E. 2006a2. “Latin Verse” in the Encyclopedia of Ancient Erotic Literature, G. Brulotte and J. Phillips (eds.), Routledge: New York: 765-773.
Anagnostou-Laoutides, E. 2006a3. “Modern Greek Literature” in the Encyclopedia of Ancient Erotic Literature, G. Brulotte and J. Phillips (eds.), Routledge: New York: 576-583.
Anagnostou-Laoutides, E. 2006. “Artemis-Cybele” in the Micrasiatica Graeca Encyclopedia, K. Ferla and A. Sideris et al. (eds.), Foundation of the Hellenic World, Athens (funded by the Greek Ministry of Culture and the European Union): http://www.egiklopedia.gr/asiaminor/index_en.html.
To the above project I contributed a total of 14 articles ranging from two to twenty pages on the following subjects: “Mithras,” “Heracles,” “Helios”, “Persephone,” “Smyrna,” “Erythraia,” “Colophon,” “Tralleis,” “Anazarbos,” “Notion,” “Cyme,” “Myous,” “Kios.” All articles include a prominent section on the eastern cults that the Asiatic Greeks had adopted.
Reviews:
Anagnostou-Laoutides, E. 2006. Alexander: Destiny and Myth by Claude Mosse, trans. J. Lloyd. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2004. Appeared in Bryn Mawr Classical Review: http://ccat.sas.upenn.edu/bmcr/2006/2006-01-11.html
Anagnostou-Laoutides, E. 2006. Myth and Symbol I. Symbolic Phenomena in Ancient Greek Culture by S. Des Bouvrie. Papers from the first international symposium on symbolism at the University of Tromsø, June 4-7, 1998. Papers from the Norwegian Institute at Athens, 5. Bergren: Paul Aströms Förlag, 2002, appeared in The Classical Review 56.2: 496-498.
Anagnostou-Laoutides, E. 2004. Myth and History in Ancient Greece, The Symbolic Creation of a Colony by Claude Calame. Princeton University Press 2003. Appeared in Bryn Mawr Classical Review: http://ccat.sas.upenn.edu/bmcr/2004/2004-11-34.html
Submitted in 2008/2009
Anagnostou-Laoutides, E. “Acontius: A lover cum Magician”
Anagnostou-Laoutides, E. and Riley, L. “The Myth of Danae: Retracing a Symbol of Prostitution from Renaissance to Antiquity”
Anagnostou-Laoutides, E. “Comparative Perspectives in University Assessment: The Assessment Plan for Latin Intermediate”
“The Sexual Hypocrisy of Domitian” (with Dr Michael Charles)
Forthcoming
Ancient Messages from the Dead (book proposal)
“Women and Dogs in Herodas’ Mimiamb 7: a New Interpretation” (presented to the APA 2009)
“Daphnis and Heracles: Mad Lovers in Heaven” (presented at the (Ir)rationality in Antiquity Conference, British Columbia, 2005)
“The Reign of Zeus in Aeschylus and Aratus” (presented to Drama VII conference 2007)
“The Statue of Zeus and Political Acculturation” (chapters for a collective volume, the result of the Zeus Conference, Brisbane 2008, contract with Cambridge Scholars Press)
“Destined to Rule: The Origins of Hellenistic Kingship” (presented at the Cults and Creeds Workshop, London, Institute of Classical Studies, 2006)
“How Man can change God: Prometheus and Providence in Hans Blumenberg” (presented at the Blumenberg Symposium, 2008, Monash University)
“Sport and Festival in the Ancient Greek World” by D. Philips and D. Pritchard. Review to appear in Scholia.
“Meleager and Propertius: Eastern sensibility and Augustan Rome” (book proposal based on my MA dissertation)
The Princeps and the Sun (presented at the Aberystwyth Conference I co-organised)
Persephone and Cybele (presented at the ASCS Conference 2006)
The second conjugation of verbs in Latin
The Passive Perfect Participle in Latin
Orpheus and Aristaeus: adversaries or reflections? (based on my PhD thesis)
The Song of Solomon: A hymn to Tammuz (based on my PhD thesis)
Conference Presentations:
Philadelphia, January 2009: American Philological Association
Title: “Women and Dogs in Herodas’ Mimiamb 7: a New Interpretation”
Melbourne, November
2008: Hans Blumenberg Workshop, Monash University
Title: “How Man Can Change God: Prometheus and Providence in Hans Blumenberg”
Brisbane, July 2008: Zeus Conference, University of Brisbane
Title: “The Statue of Zeus and Political Acculturation”
Wellington, July 2007: VII Drama Conference
Title: “Aeschylus and Aratus: the Reign of Zeus”
Newcastle, February 2007: Australasian Society for Classical Studies Conference (ASCS)
Title: “Daphnis Vergilianus”
London, March 2006: Cults and Creeds Workshop
Title: “Destined to Rule: The Origins of the Hellenistic Ruler Cult”
Melbourne, February 2006: Classical Association of Victoria
Title: “Aeneid Book Two: The initiation of a nation”
Hobart, February 2006: Australasian Society for Classical Studies Conference
Title: “Persephone and Cybele: The Sicilian Connection”
Victoria, British Columbia, February 2005: (Ir)rationality in Antiquity conference
Title: “Heracles and Daphnis as Mad Lovers”
Rhodes, December 2004: Foreign Relations and Diplomacy: Greece, Egypt and the Near East.
Title: “Daphnis: a Near Eastern god in Egypt”
Groningen, August 2003: Workshop on Minor Hellenistic authors
Title: Respondent for S. Stuart: “The blues in Aratus”
Aberystwyth, July 2004: Myth and Image: Augustan Rome, Egypt and the East Conference
Title: “Him Whom the Sun loveth”
Nottingham, July 2004, Oath in Greek Society
Title: “Acontius and Cydippe: a Hellenistic Oath or a Near Eastern Spell?”
Leeds, April 2004: Classical Association Conference
Title: “Amat bonus otia Heracles? His Sicilian Adventures”
Stellenbosch, June-July 2003: CASA biennial Conference
Title: “Daphnis and Heracles as dying lovers”
Gregynog, May 2003: Annual Staff Colloquium of Welsh Universities
Title: “Daphnis: the death of an Orphic Phoenician”
Warwick, April 2003: Classical Association Centenary Conference
Title: “Persephone and Cybele: A reflection in the mirror”
Calgary, March 2003: CACW Conference on “Text and Material Culture”
Title: “The Orphic Aspects of Daphnis”
Liverpool, May 2002. LISA Conference on “Death and Cult”
Title: “The death of Daphnis”
Edinburgh, April 2002: Classical Association Conference
Title: “Theocritus and the Hebrew Tradition: the Song of Solomon revisited”
Manchester, April 2001: Classical Association Conference
Title: “Aristaeus, Vergil, Orpheus: A triangle or a straight line?”
Pretoria, January 2001: International Conference: Magic, myth and Mysteries.
Title: “The myth of Atalanta in antiquity”
Conference organisation
In 2004 I also co-organised an international conference at the University of Wales, Aberystwyth on Myth and Image: Augustan Rome, Near East and Egypt with the support of the University of Wales, Lampeter and UWICA (University of Wales Institute of Classics and Ancient History).Public Lectures
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May 2009: Melbourne Greek Australian Cultural League. Book Presentation (Dean Kalymniou)
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September 2008: Melbourne Greek Australian Cultural League. Book Presentation (Dina Amanatidou)
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September 2007: Melbourne Antipodes Culture Festival. Presentation of the literary competition winners
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March 2007: Sydney University Classics Research Seminar. Presentation on Aphrodite and Daphnis in Theocritus, later published with D. Konstan (AJPh 2008)
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July 2006: Melbourne University Classics Research Seminar. Presentation on Daphnis in Theocritus and Vergil
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April 2006: Melbourne, Anniversary of the Classics Journal Athena, “Ancient Theatre in Modern Background: Identity Dilemmas”
- November 2004: Aberystwyth Philosophical Society Lecture. Presentations on The Politics of the Skies in the Augustan Era
Forthcoming :
- July 2009: The two faces of Zeus – A democratic tyrant? Series of radio presentations for the community radio 3ZZZ.
- September 2009: The Aggelideion institute Literary Competition.
Projects in Progress
- The Triumph of the Orient: Myth and Image in the Roman Empire.
My aim is to examine the profile of Augustus as a patron who wishes to advance his political propaganda through the arts he favours. One of the main elements of Augustan demagogy seems to have been the adoption and re-introduction of eastern ideas and cults that swarmed into Rome from an early date but were further consolidated in the Roman culture during the Augustan era. The origin of these cults as well as the literary and archaeological evidence of their popularity will be the focus of our study.
This Project inspired me to organise (with Roman historian S. Sorek) an International Conference on Myth and Image: Augustus, Near East and Egypt between 8-10 July, 2004 at Aberystwyth with the support of the University of Lampeter and of UWICAH (University of Wales Institute of Classics and Ancient History). Please, visit www.augustan-east.org.uk.
- The Teleology of Cosmic Phenomena in Antiquity
I shall examine myths of primordial divine elements and their origins, weather phenomena and the tradition of the Deluge, the Golden Age myth, traditions about the constellations and ancient theologies. Also divine meteorology and cosmic order in the Stoic and the Pythagorean thought and the employment of these traditions by ancient writers are in the core of my study.
- Ancient Messages from the Dead
Ancient culture figures enjoy certain adventures during their lives and often a certain semi-divine origin. Beyond establishing a kind of a CV of an ancient hero, this study focuses on their deaths. Throughout the Near East, Greece and Rome culture heroes, the first ones to introduce people to cooked food, the institution of marriage and laws that forbid murder, die in remarkably similar ways that tend to allude to their resurrection. My argument focuses on the journey these ideas made from the ancient Near East to the Greek and consequently the Roman world and their celebration in ancient mysteries like the Orphic and the Dionysian.
Interviews/Radio/TV Presentations
• April 2009: Article in the Age for Modern Greek at Monash: http://www.theage.com.au/national/education/a-modern-greek-return-20090515-b5mw.html
• February 2009: Articles in Neos Kosmos and Ta Nea promoting the re-introduction of Modern Greek.
• March 2009: radio presentations in 3xy and SBS Melbourne for the re-introduction of Modern Greek at Monash.
• March 2008: A series of radio presentations for the 3ZZZ radio station on Ancient Ritual and the Rembetika Songs
• January 2008: Article in the Age for the Monash BA in Classical Studies
• February 2007: Article in Neos Kosmos on my book Eros and Ritual: http://diatribe-column.blogspot.com/2007/03/singing-of-atalanta-daphne-and-orpheus.html
• March 2006: I gave an interview promoting Classical Studies on the SBS Radio
• April 2006: I gave an interview promoting Classical Studies at the Community Channel 31.
• July 2007: A series of radio presentations for the 3ZZZ radio station on Ancient Greek Afterlife Beliefs.
Referee
I have acted as a referee for Transcultural Studies: Interdisciplinary Approaches and for the Phoenix.
HDR Supervision
I have successfully supervised 2 Honours dissertations: Luke Riley (2007, Rape in Terence’s Eunuch) and Ellie Brown (2007, Religious Pollution as a Pretext for Colonisation).
I currently supervise an Honours student (Kate McLardy) and a PhD student (Ellie Brown). Their topics deal with Women’s Cults in the Hellenistic World, and Apollo, Bloodguilt and Colonisation respectively.
Student Successes
2009: Leeper Prize Award for Ellie Brown. The Classical Association of Victoria awards the highest-achieving student who completed a 4th year Honours in Classical Studies in the calendar year 2008.
2008: Hugh Niall received first prize at the annual Australasian Society of Classical Studies Unseen Latin Translation Competition.
2008: Leigh McKinnon: Commendation for the competition outlined above.
School Service
Convener of Classical Studies and Member of the School Executive 2006-2007
Member of the Research Committee 2006-2007
Member of the Internationalisation Committee 2006-2008
Member of the Honours Committee 2006-2009
University Service
Member of the Board of Arts 2008-2009
Member of the Equity and Diversity Committee, Faculty of Arts 2008-2009
Awards
1. In April 1997 I was awarded a three-year scholarship by the State Scholarships’ Foundation of Greece, after exams in: Latin Poetry, Latin Prose, History of Latin Literature, English.
2. International Conference Awards of the SECL, University of Kent at Canterbury.
The awards funded paper presentations at the International Conference of the Classical
Association of South Africa (CASA), Pretoria, 22-25 January 2001 and the International Conference of the CACW in Calgary, Canada, 21-22 March 2003.
3. Conference Award by the Classical Association for 2001, 2002, 2003.
The awards covered my expenses for paper presentations at the Classical Association in Manchester, 18-22 April 2001, Edinburgh, 4-7 April 2002, and Warwick, 11-14 March 2003.
4. International Conference Award by the SSHRC (Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada) for the presentation of a paper at the International Conference of the Classical Association of the Canadian West (CACW) in Calgary, Canada, 21-22 March 2003.
5. Conference Award by the British Academy.
The award was used towards my expenses for the presentation of a paper at the 25th biennial CASA Conference in Stellenbosch, S. Africa, 26 June-2 July 2003.
6. Conference Award from the Department of Classics at the University of Wales, Lampeter.
The Award was also used for the CASA conference mentioned above.
7. Conference Award by the Hellenic Society.
The Award covered my expenses towards the presentation of a paper at the Oath in Greek Society Conference, Nottingham, 30 June-2 July 2004.
8. Conference Award by the University of Victoria at British Columbia, Canada.
The Award will cover my expenses for the presentation of a paper at the (Ir)rationality in Antiquity Conference that will take place at Victoria, 18-9 February 2005.
9. New Appointee Grant by the Arts Faculty, Monash University, for research to be undertaken between 2006-2008.
10. 4 Travel Grants by the School of Languages, Cultures and Linguistics for paper presentations in London (2006), ASCS 2007 (Newcastle), New Zealand (Drama IV), and Brisbane (Zeus at Olympia).
11. Research Grant by the School of Languages, Cultures and Linguistics for article publications during 2007-8.
12. June 2009: Dean’s Award for Teaching Excellence, Faculty of Arts, Monash University.
Projects in Progress
- The Triumph of the Orient: Myth and Image in the Roman Empire.
My aim is to examine the profile of Augustus as a patron who wishes to advance his political propaganda through the arts he favours. One of the main elements of Augustan demagogy seems to have been the adoption and re-introduction of eastern ideas and cults that swarmed into Rome from an early date but were further consolidated in the Roman culture during the Augustan era. The origin of these cults as well as the literary and archaeological evidence of their popularity will be the focus of our study.
This Project inspired me to organise (with Roman historian S. Sorek) an International Conference on Myth and Image: Augustus, Near East and Egypt between 8-10 July, 2004 at Aberystwyth with the support of the University of Lampeter and of UWICAH (University of Wales Institute of Classics and Ancient History). Please, visit www.augustan-east.org.uk.
- The Teleology of Cosmic Phenomena in Antiquity
I shall examine myths of primordial divine elements and their origins, weather phenomena and the tradition of the Deluge, the Golden Age myth, traditions about the constellations and ancient theologies. Also divine meteorology and cosmic order in the Stoic and the Pythagorean thought and the employment of these traditions by ancient writers are in the core of my study.
- Ancient Messages from the Dead
Ancient culture figures enjoy certain adventures during their lives and often a certain semi-divine origin. Beyond establishing a kind of a CV of an ancient hero, this study focuses on their deaths. Throughout the Near East, Greece and Rome culture heroes, the first ones to introduce people to cooked food, the institution of marriage and laws that forbid murder, die in remarkably similar ways that tend to allude to their resurrection. My argument focuses on the journey these ideas made from the ancient Near East to the Greek and consequently the Roman world and their celebration in ancient mysteries like the Orphic and the Dionysian.
Contact Details
Menzies Building (Building 11), Clayton Campus, Room W323
Phone: (03) 9905 2241 (international: +61 3 9905 2241)
Fax: (03) 9905 5437 (international: +61 3 9905 5437)
Email: Eva.AnagnostouLaoutides@arts.monash.edu.au
Mailing Address:
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Classical Studies Program
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Monash University VIC 3800
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