Michael D. Konaris

Michael studied Classics and Modern History at Oxford and Cambridge and has held postdoctoral fellowships at Freie Universität, Berlin, the Center for Hellenic Studies at Princeton, and EHESS. His research interests lie in the history of classical scholarship and especially in the history of the study of Greek religion in Europe and North America as well as in the history of comparisons between ancient Greece and China.

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He is the author of The Greek Gods in Modern Scholarship​

and a co-editor of The Multiple Antiquities of Greek Modernity

 

Since 2023 Michael is a Research Fellow at the Research Centre for Greek and Latin Literature of the Academy of Athens:

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In 2022/23 he organized a series of lectures on Greek mythology for the Academy of Athens. 

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In 2024 Michael organized a series of lectures on the history of classical scholarship and classical studies in different parts of the world after WWII.

 

In 2025 he organized a series of lectures on representations of nature in Greek, Latin, Chinese and Japanese literarure.

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In 2026 he is organizing a series of lectures on flowers, trees, and forests in Greek, Latin, Chinese and Japanese literature.

 

 ​​His current book project, which he pursues in collaboration with the Swedish Institute at Athens, concerns the correspondence and intellectual exchange  between the great  Swedish scholar of Greek religion, Martin P. Nilsson and J.G. Frazer, E.R. Dodds, A.D. Nock and other preeminent classical scholars, concerning major debates in the study of Greek religion from its origins to late antiquity.

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