Costas Panayotakis

Costas Panayotakis is a Professor of Latin (Classics) at the University of Glasgow, specializing in Roman comedy, textual criticism, and ancient fiction. His research focuses on Latin fiction, Roman comic theatre, and the fragments of Atellane comedy and mime. He has held prestigious fellowships, including the Leverhulme Trust Research Fellowship (2023–2024) and the British Academy Balsdon Fellowship (2012). He has supervised numerous postgraduate students in areas like Roman satire, medical writing, and classical texts.

• Department: Classics
• Affiliations: University of Glasgow

His research interests include Petronius’ Satyricon, moral maxims (sententiae), and the interplay between high and low culture in Roman antiquity. He has published extensively on Roman drama, textual criticism, and ancient literature, with notable works such as Decimus Laberius: The Fragments (2010) and ongoing projects on Atellane fragments and Publilius’ moral maxims.

Key awards and grants include the Carnegie Trust Grant (2009), John Robertson Bequest Grant (2005), and Leverhulme Trust support. He has contributed to academic boards and projects, such as the ERC-funded Priscian’s Ars grammatica project and the Spanish-funded Latin grammatical fragments research.