Chrysanthos  Chrysanthou

Chrysanthos Chrysanthou

Assistant Professor of Ancient Greek & ERC StG Grantee 2023

University of Cyprus

Chrysanthos S. Chrysanthou is Assistant Professor of Ancient Greek at the University of Cyprus. He studied Classics at the University of Athens (2007-2011;Class Valedictorian with final average mark 9.67/10). He completed his postgraduate studies at the University of Oxford with Distinction (2012) and his Doctorate of Philosophy with no corrections at the same University (2016). His DPhil thesis was on “Narrative, Interpretation, and Moral Judgement in Plutarch’s Lives”. During his undergraduate, postgraduate, and doctorate he received scholarships and grants from the Onassis Foundation, the A.G. Leventis Foundation, the State Scholarships Foundation of Greece, the State Scholarship Foundations of Cyprus, and the DAAD. He is the author of three monographs and numerous articles and chapters on ancient Greek historiography and biography, narratology, and cognitive classics. He was the principal investigator of a research project on “Social Minds in the Ancient Greek Novel and Imperial Greek Historiography” funded by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) at the University of Heidelberg (2019–2022). He is also the founder and PI of the international research network “Fictional and Factual Narratives in Antiquity” funded by the Excellence Strategy of the University of Heidelberg (2019–). In 2023, he was awarded research funding of 1,49 million euros from the European Research Council (Starting Grants) for his project “Group Minds in Ancient Narrative”. In April 2024, he has unanimously been elected member of the Young Academy of Europe