Andreas Gavrielatos
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Lecturer
Director of Postgraduate Taught Programmes
School Co-Director of Careers, Employability and Placements
Office
Edith Morley G30Areas of interest
I like Seneca, for he teaches how to become happy. But Persius managed to win my heart with a single line from his satires (1.27): scire tuum nihil est, nisi te scire hoc sciat alter? (Is your gaining of knowledge worthless, unless someone else knows you know it?).
With my research I always look for people’s experiences and reactions. And I have found two ways to do this: I am researching peoples’ names, the customs and hopes behind them, how cultural exchanges influence them, and what they can reveal. And I do research in literature: how it develops over time, grows, and changes, so that it encompasses hopes, feelings, and everyday lives of ordinary people. Finally, I have written on the diversity of our world, and how multiculturalism has always shaped societies and offered new identities. And I love discussing all the above.
Postgraduate supervision
I have supervised theses of all levels in various areas in Latin Literature and Roman History. I am particularly interested in supervising projects on Latin Literature, (especially Neronian), Onomastics (both Literary and Socio-Historical), and Cultural and Linguistic Interactions in the Roman Empire (asking questions of identities and experiences).
Teaching
Undergraduate:
- Latin Language & Literature
- Texts, Readers & Writers
- History, Culture and Society in the time of Nero
- University Wide: Leadership Skills and Values from Antiquity
Postgraduate Taught:
- Research Methods
- Roman Satire
- Multiculturalism and Diversity in the Roman World
Background
Born in Athens, I grew up in Chalcis (Euboea), the city where Aristotle spent the last days of his life, and most of my childhood memories are by the shores where the Greeks departed for Troy. It is then no surprising that I first read Ancient Greek at the age of 8 and I became immediately passionate about Classical antiquity. Gaining knowledge from the past and becoming through that knowledge shaped my future thereafter and became my driving force, as the first in my extended family to show interest in academia and graduate from University.