Ariadne Konstantinou

Dr. Ariadne Konstantinou is a Greek-Israeli classicist and a senior faculty member in the Department of Classical Studies at Bar-Ilan University in Israel. She began her studies in her hometown at the Department of Philology (Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece) and completed her PhD in Classical Studies at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, with fellowships from the Onassis Foundation and the Hebrew University ("President’s Fellow"). She was awarded postdoctoral fellowships at the University of Toronto in Canada, and at Tel Aviv and Bar-Ilan Universities in Israel. Her research focuses on ancient Greek mythology and religion, on women in antiquity, as well as on Homer and tragedy. More recently, she also worked on Classical Reception and is also now engaged in a research project in Modern Greek Studies. She has published several articles in academic journals and in edited volumes, as well as the monograph Female Mobility and Gendered Space in Ancient Greek Myth (London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2018).

Research:

• Greek and Latin language, literature and culture 
• Greek epic poetry and tragedy   
• Classical mythology & religions in antiquity
• Women & gender in antiquity  
• Mobility and space
• Classical Reception
• Text and image (especially Attic vases)
• Greek social history