Michail Paschalis

Michail Paschalis is a Professor of Classical Philology at the University of Crete. He is the author of the monograph "Virgil’s Aeneid: Semantic Relations and Proper Names" (Oxford 1997) and has written numerous studies on the literature of the Hellenistic period, classical Roman times, and late antiquity. He has edited three volumes on Greco-Roman poetry (epic, lyric, bucolic) and co-edited five volumes of proceedings from the international RICAN conferences on the ancient novel, in the series Ancient Narrative Supplementa. He has published studies on the Cretan Renaissance and the role of Academies, and co-edited the proceedings of an international conference on Erotokritos. His work also includes studies on the following authors: Giovanni Boccaccio, Torquato Tasso, Vincenzo Cornaro, Georgios Chortatsis, Adamantios Korais, Dionysios Solomos, Andreas Kalvos, Alexandre Dumas, Alexandros Rizos Rangavis, Gustave Flaubert, Emmanouil Roidis, Thomas Hardy, Georgios Vizyinos, Alexandros Papadiamantis, C. P. Cavafy, Nikos Kazantzakis, Giorgos Seferis, Pantelis Prevelakis. As part of his research on the modern Greek novel, his forthcoming book focuses on Kazantzakis's "Cretan" novels.