Ioanna Karamanou
Ioanna Karamanou is Tenured Assistant Professor of Greek Drama at the Department of Theatre Studies of the University of the Peloponnese. She studied at Cambridge University and at the University of London (UCL) as a bursar of the Cambridge European Trust, the A.S. Onassis Foundation and the Stathatou Foundation. She is the author of Euripides: Danae and Dictys (De Gruyter, Berlin/ New York 2006), Euripides: Alexandros (De Gruyter, Berlin/ Boston 2017), Refiguring Tragedy: Studies in Greek Tragic Fragments and their Reception (De Gruyter, Berlin/ Boston 2018) ans she has co-edited a collective volume entitled Homeric Receptions across Generic and Cultural Contexts (De Gruyter, Berlin/ New York 2016).
She has authored more than thirty-five publications on Greek drama and its reception in international peer-reviewed journals and collective volumes. She participates in four international research projects on Greek drama. She has collaborated with theatre practitioners in Greek drama productions (The Old Vic, National Theatre of Northern Greece, The Actors of Dionysus).
LECTURE
City-state (polis) in Euripidean Tragedy
This seminar sets out to explore the political facets of Euripidean drama through the analysis of particular passages from plays such as Heraclidae, Suppliant Women and Phoenissae. On the basis of tragic examples, it will seek to raise questions about civic participation in democratic Athens and demonstrate the inherently political character of Euripidean tragedy. At the same time, the seminar aims at bringing forward the political dimension of plays widely regarded as ‘domestic’ (Helen, Iphigenia in Tauris, Ion), so as to underscore the close interaction between the city-state and the household in classical Athens.