Papagiannis Grigorios

GRIGORIOS PAPAGIANNIS

 

• Professor in Byzantine Philology

• Graduate, Department of Greek, Faculty of Humanities, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece

• Doctor of Philosophy, Universität Hamburg, Germany

E-mail: gpapagia@helit.duth.gr

Department of Humanities

Democritus University of Thrace University Campus GR 69100

Tel.: +30-25310-39955

 

RESEARCH AREAS

• Byzantine Hymnography

• Byzantine Epigrams

• Byzantine Epistolography

• Palaeography, Metric in Greek poetry, Text Criticism

• Reception of the ancient Greek Literature by the byzantine authors

• Byzantine Lexicography

 

EDUCATION

1983-1988: Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Diploma in Classics

1988-1989: Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, postgraduate student in the Depart­ment of Greek Philology and undergraduate student in the Department of Pastoral Theology

1989: Erasmus scholarship, Freie Universität Berlin, Germany

1991-1993: Fellow of the Graduiertenkolleg „Griechische und Byzantinische Text­überlieferung, Humanismusforschung und Neulatein“, Universität Hamburg, Germa­ny

1989-1995: Universität Hamburg, PhD (Byzantine Philology)Doctoral Thesis: “Τhe­odoros Prodromos, Jambische und hexametrische Tetrasticha auf die Haupterzählun­gen des Alten und des Neuen Testaments, Handschriftliche Textüberlieferung und kritische Edition”

Supervisor: Prof. Dr. A. Kambylis

1993: Attendance of the Introductory Seminars for Secondary Education (100 hours), Thessaloniki, Greece

 

CAREER HISTORY

1992-1995: Academic Assistant, Universität Hamburg, Germany

1997-1999: Professor of Philology in State Secondary Schools, Serres, Greece

2000-2006: Lecturer in Byzantine Philology, Democritus University of Thrace, Greece

2007-2013: Assistant Professor in Byzantine Philology, Democritus University of Thrace [tenure granted 2011]

2013: Associate Professor in Byzantine Philology, Democritus University of Thrace, Greece

2018: Professor in Byzantine Philology, Democritus University of Thrace, Greece

 

SCHOLARSHIPS/GRANTS

1989: Erasmus Scholarship (for postgraduate Studies at the Freie Universität Berlin, Germany, 5 months)

1989-1992: Scholarship, Foundation “Alexandros S. Onassis” (for doctoral studies at the Universität Hamburg, Germany, 3 years)

1991-1993: Financial assistance for microfilm purchase and visits to foreign libraries for inspection of manuscripts from the Graduiertenkolleg, „Textüberlieferung – Humanismusforschung – Neulatein“, Universität Hamburg, Germany.

 

PUBLICATIONS

 

BOOKS

• Thesis: “Τheodoros Prodromos, Jambische und hexametrische Tetrasticha auf die Haupterzählungen des Alten und des NeuenTestaments, Einleitung, kritischer Text, Indices” [Μeletemata 7/1-2], Wiesbaden 1997, pp. 222 + 407

• Ακάθιστος ύμνος: άγνωστες πτυχές ενός πολύ γνωστού κειμένου (κριτικές και μετρικές παρατηρήσεις, σχολιασμένη βιβλιο­γραφία), Vanias Publications, Thessaloniki 2006, pp. 306.

• Philoprodromica: Βeiträge zur Textkonstitution und Quellenforschung der Historischen Gedichte des Theodoros Prodromos, Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften [Wiener Byzantinistische Studien XXIX], Wien 2012, pp. 259.

 

ARTICLES / CHAPTERS IN VOLUMES (A SELECTION)

• Παρατηρήσεις εις τα επιγράμματα του Γεωργίου Πισίδη, in: ΕΕΒS 51 (2003) (= Festschrift for Prof. Dr. Athanasios Kominis), pp. 5-48

• Φώτιος και Μ. Βασίλειος: Μια περίπτωση άμεσης επίδρασης, in: Hellenika 53/2 (2003) 327-336

• Hymnographica “nova„ apud Su(i)dam, in: Βyzantinische Zeitschrift 97 (2004) 543-557.

• Παρατηρήσεις στον Βίο Κοσμά του Μελωδού (έκδ. Κολοβού), in: Byzantina 24 (2004) 57-127• Kύματι θαλάσσης, in: Βyzantinische Zeitschrift 98 (2005) 465-472

• Παρατηρήσεις στην έκδοση των επιστολών του Ευσταθίου Θεσσαλονίκης, in: «Ροδόπη» (Yearbook of the Department of Greek Philology, Democritus University of Thrace) Vol. 2, Komotini 2013, pp. 131-159

• Ερμηνευτικά και κριτικά σχόλια στον Ιωάννη Γεωμέτρη, στο: Βυζαντινά Σύμμεικτα 34 (2024) 91-101

 

REVIEWS

“Francesco D’ AIUTO, Tre canoni di Giovanni Mauropode in onore di santi militari, [Suppl. n. 13 al „Bollettino dei Classici“], Roma, Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei 1994”, in: Byzantinische Zeitschrift 90 (1997) 118-120

Soeur Maxime (Leila) AJJOUB / Joseph PARAMELLE, Livre d’heures du Sinaï (Sinaiticus Graecus 864). SC 486. Paris, Cerf 2004. 491 S.

ISBN 2-20407547-7“, in: Βyzantinische Zeitschrift 100 (2007) 189-196

 

EDITING

• «Θεμέλιος»: Festschrift for Professor Georgios Dimitrokallis, Κomotini 2003

• Ζ΄ Συνάντηση Βυζαντινολόγων Ελλάδος και Κύπρου: «Παράδοση και ανανέωση στο

Βυζάντιο» (Book of Abstracts: “Tradition and Progress in Byzantium”, 7th Meeting

of Byzantinologists of Greece and Cyprus), Κomotini 2011

 

 

RESEARCH PROGRAMMES

In progress: “D.I-A.L.G.”: ‘Diachronic interactive Lexicon of Greek’. The programme includes (a) the digitalization of the lexicons of Greek (of any era and any kind) and (b) the editing of a new diachronic Lexicon of Greek on the basis of the included lexicons. The programme is under theaegis of the Democritus University of Thrace (available at: http://dialg.helit.duth.gr)

 

Under preparation: Creation of a digital corpus of Byzantine Hymnology, which will allow digital search and lexicographic analysis of the texts.