Deligiannis Ioannis

Ioannis Deligiannis is Professor of Latin in the Department of Humanities at Democritus University of Thrace. He studied Classics at the University of Athens before undertaking postgraduate studies at University College London, where he specialised in Greek and Latin Palaeography, Codicology, and Textual Criticism. He went on to complete his Doctorate in Latin Philology at the University of Cambridge. He taught Greek and Latin as a Lecturer at University College Cork in Ireland and, from 2009 to 2014, was a Researcher at the Research Centre for Greek and Latin Literature of the Academy of Athens. Since July 2014, he has been a member of Democritus University of Thrace. He is the author of several monographs, including: i) Fifteenth-Century Latin Translations of Lucian’s Essay on Slander (2006), ii) M. Tullius Cicero, On the Republic, Six Books: Introduction, Text, Translation, Commentary (2015), iii) M. Tullius Cicero, On the Laws, Three Books: Introduction, Text, Translation, Commentary (2017), iv) M. Tullius Cicero, On the Republic & On the Laws (2021), v) M. Tullius Cicero, Speeches of Thanksgiving on His Return before the Senate & to the Roman Citizens. Appendix: [M. Tullius Cicero] The Speech of the Day before the Exile: Introduction, Text, Translation, Interpretative Commentary (2021), vi) Herodoti Historia per Matthiam Palmierum Pisanum e Graeco in Latinum versa: The Latin Translation of Herodotus’ Histories by Mattia Palmieri (2025). In collaboration with K. Sp. Staikos, he has also published Aldus Manutius’ Prefaces to the Complete Works of Aristotle (1495–1498) (2019). He has edited a number of academic volumes, among them: i) Investigating the Translation Process in Humanistic Latin Translations of Greek Texts: Proceedings of an International Conference, Democritus University of Thrace, Komotini, 28–29 April 2017 (2017), ii) Cicero in Greece, Greece in Cicero: Aspects of Reciprocal Reception from Classical Antiquity to Byzantium and Modern Greece (2024). In addition, together with colleagues, he has co-edited: i) Identities: Language and Literature. Proceedings of the International Conference Celebrating 20 Years of the Department of Greek Philology, Democritus University of Thrace, Vols. A–B (2017–2018), ii) Post-Byzantine Latinitas: Latin in Post-Byzantine Scholarship (15th–19th Centuries) (2020). He has contributed articles to international journals and conference proceedings, written numerous book reviews, and delivered papers at international conferences, university seminars, and other scholarly events.