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Dr Almut Fries is a Lecturer in Classics at the University of Oxford's The Queen's College. She holds a DPhil from Oxford and Habilitation from Göttingen, specializing in archaic and classical Greek poetry. Her research focuses on artistic expression in language, metre, and literary history, with recent work on Pindar's First Pythian Ode and Indo-European comparative poetics. She teaches Greek and Latin language, Homer, Virgil, and Greek tragedy at both Mods and Greats levels. Her publications include editions of Pindar and Euripides, and she co-edited a volume on ancient Greek comedy.
Her research keywords encompass Greek Poetry (especially tragedy, epic, lyric), textual criticism, palaeography, and Indo-European studies. Current projects include exploring the historical context of Pindar's ode and Graeco-Anatolian mythological connections. Teaching modules span early Greek hexameter poetry, 5th-century Greek literature, and Latin works of the 1st century BC.
Her publications reflect expertise in textual scholarship, ancient metre, and cross-cultural analysis. Recent articles address comparative Indo-European myths, Byzantine scholarship on Pindar, and Euripidean authorship debates. No scientific awards are listed, but her academic contributions are widely recognized in classical studies.
