{"id":12682,"date":"2025-05-22T13:49:46","date_gmt":"2025-05-22T11:49:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/byzantinistik.geschichte.uni-mainz.de\/?page_id=12682"},"modified":"2025-09-03T12:29:13","modified_gmt":"2025-09-03T10:29:13","slug":"prof-dr-panagiotis-agapitos","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/byzantinistik.geschichte.uni-mainz.de\/en\/prof-dr-panagiotis-agapitos\/","title":{"rendered":"Prof. Dr. Panagiotis Agapitos"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/jgu-base-pageheader>\n
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Panagiotis Agapitos studied Byzantine Studies, Byzantine Art History and Musicology at the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universit\u00e4t in Munich (Mag. Art. 1982), Classical and Byzantine Philology at Harvard University (MA 1986, PhD 1990). Between 1992 and 2021, he was Professor of Byzantine Philology at the university of Cyprus. As a visiting professor, he has taught in Berlin, Paris, Rome, Ghent and Stanford. He was a scholarship student of the Alexander-von-Humboldt Stiftung, the Gerda-Henkel Stiftung and the A. G. Leventis Foundation. Between 2016 and 2020, he was a visiting researcher at the Max Planck Institute for European Legal History in Frankfurt. Since October 2021, he has been working as a Gutenberg Fellow<\/a> at the Department of Byzantine Studies at the JGU and the Leibniz Wissenschaftscampus \u201cByzanz zwischen Orient und Okzident\u201d with a five-year project<\/a> funded by the Gutenberg Forschungskolleg. <\/p>\n\n

His research interests focus on textual and literary criticism with a focus on Byzantine rhetoric, poetics, erotic fiction and the representation of death in Byzantine literature. He has published about eighty academic papers, three monographs and several edited volumes as publisher. In addition, he has presented the first critical edition of the 13th-century verse novel \u201cLivistros und Rodamni\u201d (Athens 2006) and its English translation with introduction (Liverpool 2021). For several years he has been working on the methodological problems associated with writing a history of Byzantine literature. He has published three historical crime novels set in 9th-century Byzantium. For a detailed curriculum vitae and list of publications, see here<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n

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