Vasileios Dimoglidis

Vasileios Dimoglidis (he/him/his) is a Ph.D. Candidate in Classical Philology. He received his B.A. (2016) and M.A. (2019) in Classics from the University of Ioannina in Greece. He is specializing in Greek & Roman Theater and Hellenistic Poetry. In his M.A. Thesis (under the supervision of Helen Gasti) Vasileios examined various aspects of metapoetry in Euripides’ Ion. In his Ph.D. Dissertation (under the supervision of Susan Prince) he focuses on the construction of emotions in Theocritus' Idylls and the manipulation of his reader's responses. Besides his Dissertation, Vasileios is also working on a monograph project that examines the symbolic values of the term caput in Seneca’s tragedies (SCS 2023, ICS (49) 2024), where he suggests that Seneca turns caput into a more complex signifier than a mere term for the ‘head’. Caput is used as a metaphor for body and identity. As such, it serves as a pejorative form of (self-)address, a marker denoting downgraded status, and as Seneca’s commentary on theatrical roles; it also turns into a symbol of the political ruler, while decapitation represents defeat and loss of political identity and power. Seneca deploys caput as the body part that indicates shifting structures of identity (familial, theatrical, political) embedded in, capturing, and commenting upon a ‘tragic’ world of domestic violence, role anxieties, and of civic unrest.


His publications may be found on academia.edu.

BA in Classics: University of Ioannina 2016

MA in Classics: University of Ioannina 2019

Greek and Roman Theater • Hellenistic poetry • ancient emotions • ancient readers/audience • body metaphors • (meta)poetics • stagecraft and ancient performance • ethnographic discourses • race and ethnicity • gender studies • translational studies (and the Latin translations of Greek literature) • the concept of Time in Greek and Latin literature • nonverbal behavior (esp. proxemics and chronemics).

Peer Reviewed Publications

Dimoglidis, V (2014. ) “Euripides’ Electra: The Presentation of Clytemnestra’s Character” .Kymothoē, , 24 ,271-285. [in modern Greek]

Dimoglidis, V. (2015. ) “Stage Directions in Euripides’ Electra” .Kymothoē , , 25 ,269-297. [in modern Greek]

Dimoglidis, V. (2017. ) “The Course of Phaedra’s Erotic Passion in Euripides’ Hippolytus” .Archive , , (13 ) ,12-20.

Dimoglidis, V. (2018. ) “Stage Directions and Metatheatre in Seneca’s Phaedra" .Kymothoē , , 28 ,367-408. [in modern Greek]

Dimoglidis, V. (2018. ) “Metatheater in the Parodos of Euripides’ Ion. A Possibility of Parasatyric Referentiality” .Mediterranean Chronicle, , 8 ,207-237. [in modern Greek]

Dimoglidis, V. (2020. ) “Metaperformative Elements in Euripides’ Ion” .Irinna , , 7 ,36-44. [in modern Greek]

Dimoglidis, V. (2020. ) “Metamythology in Euripides’ Ion” .Eisodos - Zeitschrift für Literatur und Theorie, , 2020.1 Frühling ,10-27.

Dimoglidis, V. (2021. ) “Models for the Audience’s Emotional Response in Euripides’ Ion” .Archive, , 17 ,6-15.

Dimoglidis, V. (2021. ) “Euripides’ Ion l.528: An Example of Comic Self-consciousness” .Electryone , , 8.1 ,1-7.

Dimoglidis, V. (2022. ) "Plot-makers in Euripides’ Ion" .Cuadernos de Filología Clásica. Estudios griegos e indoeuropeos, , 32 ,115-134.

Dimoglidis, V. (2019. ) "Metadrama in Plautus’ Epidicus" .Dodone Philology, , 48 ,69-94.

Dimoglidis, V. (2022. ) "The Latin Translations of the Prooemium (ll.1-18) of Aratus’ Phaenomena. Reception and Interpretation” .Ariadne, , 28 ,41-56.

Other Publications

Book review Dimoglidis, V. (2022), “A new commentary on Euripides’ Ion - Gibert (J.C.) (ed.) Euripides: Ion. Pp. xiv + 383. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2019”, The Classical Review 72.1: 46-48.

Published Books

Dimoglidis, V. & P. Piperias & A. Psomiadou (eds.) (2020), Twenty Studies in Ancient Greek and Latin Literature, Ioannina: Carpe Diem Press. [394 pages 17x24 cm, in modern Greek, ISBN: 978-618-84504-8-6] .

Book Chapter

Dimoglidis, V. (2018), “Modalities of Time in Euripides’ Hippolytus”, in Proceedings of the 9th Graduate and PhD Candidate Conference (Faculty of Philology of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens), Athens, pp. 94-111. [in modern Greek]

Dimoglidis, V. (2020), “The Dramatic Function of the Curse (ἀρά) in Euripides’ Hippolytus”, in V. Dimoglidis & P. Piperias & A. Psomiadou (eds.), Twenty Studies in Ancient Greek and Latin Literature, Ioannina: Carpe Diem Press, pp. 329-343. [in modern Greek]

Lecture

Dimoglidis, V. (December 14, 2020; invited), "Plot-makers and generic hybridity in Euripides’ Ion", in: University of Ioannina, Department of Philology. The lecture was given for the graduate seminar “Metapoetry in Ancient Greek and Latin Literature”. [in modern Greek, online via Microsoft Teams]

Dimoglidis, V. (December 09, 2022; peer-reviewed), "Ἄφατον ἄφραστον ἀναύδητον λόγον ἐμοὶ θροεῖς: Metalanguage in Euripides’ Ion", in: "2022-2023 Postgraduate Work-in-Progress Seminar Series", Institute of Classical Studies, School of Advanced Study, University of London, UK. [online via Zoom]

Paper Presentations

Dimoglidis, Vasileios (01-03-2025. ) “Bracketed information on letter-writing: an interpretation of the meta-communicative parenthesis of Pliny’s Letters”, in: Society for Classical Studies, 156th Annual Meeting, Philadelphia, PA.

Dimoglidis, Vasileios (10-18-2024. ) “«Her Space, Her Time»: proxemics, chronemics, and female agency in Theocritus’ Idyll 2”, in: The Classical Association of the Atlantic States, 2024 Annual Meeting, New Brunswick, NJ.

Dimoglidis, Vasileios (09-05-2024. ) “κοινὸς γὰρ δὴ ἔστω ὑμῖν ὁ λόγος (Prt. 358a2-3): Internal audience’s reactions as models for external readers’ response in Plato’s Protagoras”, in: AMPHORAE XVIII - The Annual Meeting of Postgraduates in Hellenic or Roman Antiquity and Egyptology, University of Western Australia, Perth.

Dimoglidis, Vasileios (05-25-2024. ) “The ‘Others’ and the Roman self in Latin Tragedy. Ethnography in Seneca’s Phaedra”, in: 20th Symposium on Classical Studies, University of Ioannina, Greece. [in modern Greek, online via Microsoft Teams] .

Dimoglidis, Vasileios (11-03-2023. ) “Discussing the ‘Other’ in Roman tragedy: ethnography and anxiety in Seneca’s Phaedra”, in: The Classical Association of the Middle West and South - The Southern Section, 103rd Anniversary Meeting, Greensboro, NC.

Dimoglidis, Vasileios (01-06-2023. ) “Nothing to do with the ‘head’? Hidden meanings of the caput in Seneca’s Thyestes and Agamemnon”, in: Society for Classical Studies, 154th Annual Meeting, New Orleans, LA .

Dimoglidis, Vasileios (06-05-2021. ) “The Latin translations of the prooemium (ll.1-18) of Aratus’ Phaenomena. Reception and interpretation”, in: 7th Graduate Students Conference in Classics, University of Ioannina. [online via Microsoft Teams] .

Dimoglidis, Vasileios (06-01-2018. ) “The dramatic function of the Curse (ἀρά) in Euripides’ Hippolytus”, in: 6th Graduate Students Conference in Classics, University of Ioannina. [in modern Greek] .

Dimoglidis, Vasileios (10-05-2017. ) “Modalities of time in Euripides’ Hippolytus”, in: 9th Postgraduate and Ph.D. Students’ Conference, organized by the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens. [in modern Greek] .

Dimoglidis, Vasileios (06-02-2017. ) “Stage directions and metatheater in Seneca’s Phaedra”, in: 5th Graduate Students Conference in Classics, University of Ioannina. [in modern Greek] .

Dimoglidis, Vasileios (01-28-2014. ) "Stage directions in Euripides’ Electra”, in: 4th Graduate Students Conference in Classics, University of Ioannina. [in modern Greek] .

Dimoglidis, Vasileios (03-31-2013. ) “The course of Phaedra’s erotic passion in Euripides’ Hippolytus”, in: 2nd Annual Meeting of Graduate Students in Classics – Spring Session, University of Ioannina. [in modern Greek] .

Dimoglidis, Vasileios (11-27-2012. ) “Euripides’ Electra: The presentation of Clytemnestra’s character”, in: 3rd Graduate Students Conference in Classics, University of Ioannina. [in modern Greek] .

2017: Organization assistant: University of Ioannina Conference “Hybrid and extraordinary beings. Deviations from ‘normality’ in Ancient Greek mythology and modern medicine”, November 26, 2017.

2023 - present: Anonymous reviewer for the classics journal Rosetta.

2023 - present: Peer Mentor for first-year graduate students of the Classics Department of UC.

2024-2025: D.E.I. Committee - UC Classics, graduate officer

2024: CAMWSCorps - Interviews editor.

LATN 1011-001 Elementary Latin 1 (FS2023) Level:Undergraduate

LATN 1012-001 Elementary Latin 2 (SS2024) Level:Undergraduate

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dimoglvs@mail.uc.edu