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Professor Ioannis Ziogas is a scholar of Latin Poetry and Ancient Greek Literature at Durham University's Department of Classics and Ancient History. His research focuses on the politics and poetics of Augustan-era Latin poetry, with particular attention to Ovid's reception of Hesiod and the interplay between legal discourse and poetic expression in Roman literature. He has authored monographs such as Law and Love in Ovid (OUP, 2021) and Ovid and Hesiod (CUP, 2013), and co-edited volumes on spatial constructions in epic and wordplay in Latin poetry. Ziogas also explores the reception of classical antiquity in modern literature, examining how Greco-Roman themes appear in works by David Malouf and Salman Rushdie.
- Education: Studied in Greece and the U.S., worked in Australia before joining Durham in 2016
- Research Interests: Latin poetry, Greek epic, law and literature, reception studies, gender studies
His recent publications analyze legal metaphors in Ovid's elegiac poetry, spatial narratives in epic traditions, and juridical dimensions in ancient texts like the story of Phryne's trial. Ziogas actively supervises PhD students on topics related to Latin poetry's reception, law in classical literature, and Hellenistic poetic traditions.
Outreach activities include public lectures on Ovid's Metamorphoses, Augustan-era legal themes in elegy, and Virgil's Aeneid's cultural reception. His work bridges ancient literary analysis with modern interdisciplinary approaches, emphasizing the enduring relevance of classical texts.
