Theodoros Papanghelis，Academician of the Department of Literature and Arts at the Academy of Athens, Director of the Centre for Classical Languages. Professor in the Department of Classical Studies and Head of the Latin Section at Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece; Visiting Professor at the University of Western Macedonia; Member of the Editorial Board of the journal Trends in Classics. His primary research interests encompass classical Latin poetry, Greek poetry, and philosophical theory. In April 2013 he was elected ordinary member of the Academy of Athens and since September 2021 he is President of the Centre for the Greek language.

　　His publications include: Propertius: A Hellenistic Poet on Love and Death (Cambridge, 1987); Poetics of the Roman Neoteroi (in Greek, Athens, 1994); From Pastoral Eutopia to Political Utopia: A Study of Virgil’s Eclogues (in Greek, Athens, 1995); Changed Bodies: Reading Ovid’s Metamorphoses (in Greek, Athens, 2009); Rome and Her World (in Greek, Thessaloniki, 2005); Ovid’s Ars Amatoria, translated into Greek with an essay on Latin lovers (Athens, 2000); Virgil’s Aeneid, translated into Greek with an introductory essay (Athens, 2018); and Lucretius on Nature (Athens, 2021).

　　He has co-edited several collective volumes, including: A Companion to Apollonius Rhodius (Leiden-Boston-Köln, 2001), A Companion to Greek and Roman Pastoral (Leiden-Boston, 2006), Generic Interfaces in Latin Literature (Berlin-New York, 2013), and In the Mists of the Past (Berlin, 2024).