Zoe Stamatopoulou

I am a philologist specializing in Greek literature. I have published a monograph on the reception of Hesiodic poetry in the 5th c. BCE (Hesiod and Classical Greek Poetry, Cambridge University Press, 2017) and several articles on Homeric and Hesiodic poetry, Greek lyric and drama, as well as Plutarch. I am currently writing a commentary of Plutarch’s Symposium of the Seven Sages for the Cambridge Greek and Latin Classics series. I find Plutarch’s rich and complex reception of Greek wisdom figures and traditions fascinating, and I look forward to working with students interested in this author and his ideas. I also continue to pursue my interests in archaic hexameter poetry and in Greek lyric in several projects, including a brief monograph on Hesiod and a co-edited volume on ancient scholarship on Greek lyric.   

Select Publications (For a full list, please see my Academia.edu page)

Monographs
[in progress] Commentary on Plutarch’s Symposium of the Seven Sages (under contract for the Cambridge Greek and Latin Classics series).

[in progress] New Surveys in the Classics: Hesiod. Cambridge University Press

Hesiod and Classical Greek Poetry: Reception and Transformation in the Fifth Century BCE. Cambridge University Press. (2017)

Articles and Book Chapters 
[forthcoming] “Simonides.” In M. Noussia (ed.) Handbook of Lyric Poetry (in Modern Greek; ca. 10,500 words)

“Hesiodic didactic in Plutarch’s Lives.” In C. Chrysanthou and T. Duff (eds.) Generic Enrichment in Plutarch's Lives. Routledge: 29-46. (2025) 

“Book 21.” In J. Ready (ed.) Oxford Critical Guide to Homer’s Iliad. Oxford University Press: 240-53. (2024) 

“Siblings in the Hesiodic Catalogue of Women.” Yearbook of Ancient Greek Epic 7: 11-28. (2024) 

“Women, politics, and entertainment in Plutarch's Symposium of the Seven Sages.” Illinois Classical Studies 44: 209-31. (2019)

“Wounding the Gods: the mortal theomachos in the Iliad and the Hesiodic Aspis.” Mnemosyne 70: 920-38. (2017) 

“The quarrel with Perses and Hesiod’s biographical tradition.” Greek, Roman, and Byzantine Studies 51: 1-17. (2016) 

“Constructing Periander in Plutarch’s Symposium of the Seven Sages.” CHS Research Bulletin 5 (2016)

“Inscribing performances in Pindar’s Olympian 6.” Transactions of the American Philological Association 144: 1-17. (2014)

“Reading the Aspis as a Hesiodic poem.” Classical Philology 108: 273-85. (2013)