Ioannis Papadopoulos
Ioannis Papadopoulos was born in Xanthi, Greece (1987). He obtained his BA in History at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens (2009) where he specialized in the study of the last Neo-Platonists of the Academy of Athens in the 6th century AD, in Early Medieval Ecclesiastical History and in Utopian Studies. In 2011 he obtained his Master in Early Medieval History at the University of Leeds where he focused on the emergence of Visigothic Monasticism, the End of Roman Britain and the Utopian vision in the activities of Chrodegang of Metz. He submitted his MA dissertation on the Monastic Ideal in the Life of Severinus of Noricum. In 2018 he submitted his PhD thesis at the University of Leeds on the Idea of Rome in Late Antiquity (Perceptions of Late Roman ‘patriotism’ and on the conception of Rome as an urban archetype of Utopia in late Roman thought 350-420 AD). He taught Late Roman History at the University of Leeds. Currently, he is a post-doctoral researcher at the department of History of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, focusing on identity issues in Roman Greece and on traces of anti-Roman discourse in the works of the Second Sophistic (Graeco-Roman Otherness and Self-Awareness of the local elites in mainland Greece 66 -264 AD). His research interests include: History and Ideas of the Second Sophistic movement, City-Praises (Panegyrics - Laudationes Urbium) in the Second Sophistic and in Latin literature, Local Athenian History and Atthidography in the third century BC, Late Roman and Greek Religious and Intellectual History, Resistance to Hellenization and Romanization in the Hellenistic World, Utopian Thought in the Late Roman Empire, Invention of Traditions in Late Roman Paganism, Primitivism and the Concept of the ‘Noble-Savage’ in Classical and Late Antiquity Literature, Existentialism, Religion and the Crisis of the Third century AD, Messianism and Radical Idealism in the Hellenistic and Roman World, Religious Syncretism from the Hellenistic Times to Late Antiquity, Hellenism in Late Antiquity, Rome and the Client kingdoms, Religion and Politics in the Seleucid Empire, The Later Seleucid Kings and the Near and Middle East, The late Pharaonic period of Egypt and the Saite ‘Renaissance’. Perceptions of Egyptian Patriotism and Egyptianism under Greek and Roman Rule. The Evolution of Late Egyptian Paganism from the Hellenistic Times to Late Antiquity, The Idea of the City in Classical and Post-Classical World, The Cities of Roman Greece, the Evolution of Pagan and Christian Sacral Geographies in Late Antiquity.
Address: Athens, Greece
Address: Athens, Greece
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