Konstantinos Spanoudakis

Konstantinos Spanoudakis serves as Professor of Ancient Greek Philology at the University of Crete's Department of Philology, concurrently holding administrative leadership as Vice-Rector for Personnel and Student Affairs followed by Vice-Rector for Finance and Infrastructure since 2016.

His academic formation includes studies at the Universities of Crete and Münster (Germany), culminating in a PhD from the University of St Andrews (Scotland, UK).

Spanoudakis' research centers on Hellenistic poetry, Late Antique literature, and early Christian textual traditions, with specialized expertise in Nonnus of Panopolis' works. His scholarship examines stylistic features of Ancient Greek prose, the history of philology in antiquity, and intersections between pagan and Christian literary cultures.

Recent publications demonstrate sustained focus on Nonnus' Dionysiaca and biblical paraphrases, while extending to Hellenistic authors like Theocritus and Callimachus. His methodological approach integrates papyrological evidence, scholiastic analysis, and reception studies to explore cultural continuity in Late Antiquity.

He received the Classical Literature Prize of the Academy of Athens in 2015 for his critical edition Nonnus of Panopolis, Paraphrasis of the Gospel of John XI.