Stayros Girgenis

Stavros Girgkenis was born in 1972. He resides and works in Thessaloniki as a philologist in secondary education since 2001. In 1998, he received his master's degree from the Department of Philology at Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, with a thesis titled "The Lycurgus of Aeschylus." He holds a Ph.D. in Philology from the same university, with a dissertation titled "Politics, Ideology, and Institutions of Hegemonic Athens in Aeschylus' Suppliants" (2009). Since 1998, he has translated 15 annotated volumes of works from ancient literature, ranging from Democritus and Hesiod to the Orphics and the apocryphal Gospel of Thomas. Since 2017, he has been publishing the essay-literary magazine "Noemastis" with collaborators under Rome Editions, and he is also a member of the editorial board of the bilingual (Greek-Spanish) magazine Erato-ArsPoetica. He is a regular contributor to the philosophical magazine "Philosophein." His poems and translations have been published in numerous print and online magazines. In 2012, he published his first poetry collection titled "The Expected" (Vouné Editions), and in 2017, his second collection titled "Magadis (Fugue)" (Rome Editions). In 2018, he published the poetry collections "On Dreams" and "At the Center of the Eye (Human Daemons)" with Rome Editions. In the same year, he published an anthology of translated poems by Mexican poet Homero Aridjis titled "Opening of the Trojan Horse" and an anthology of ancient Tamil love poetry (Kurunthokai) with the same publisher.