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I hold a BA in Classics and Philosophy from the University of Cyprus, and an MPhil and PhD (both in Classics) from the University of Cambridge. I am a member of the Centre for Classical Studies of the University of Lisbon and the PI of its team ‘Byzantium’. I am also an Assistant Professor and Director of the Department of Classical Studies of the University of Lisbon. I work in two inter-related areas. The first is concerned with the interaction between Christianity and the classical literary tradition in Nonnus’ two epics, the secular Dionysiaca and the Christian Paraphrase of the Gospel according to John. My second area of work lies in the broad intersection between mythology, education, and rhetoric in the Imperial period and Late Antiquity. In this field I was awarded a project on the reception of Achilles in Late Antiquity, funded by FCT for four years (2018–2022).
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Identification

Personal identification

Full name
Fotini Hadjittofi

Author identifiers

Ciência ID
AB12-6538-98CF
ORCID iD
0000-0002-2092-2497
Affiliation

Science

Category
Host institution 		Employer
2010/03/01 - Current Researcher (Research) Universidade de Lisboa Centro de Estudos Clássicos, Portugal
Universidade de Lisboa Centro de Estudos Clássicos, Portugal

Positions / Appointments

Category
Host institution 		Employer
2023/12 - Current Organic Unit Director Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Letras, Portugal
Universidade de Lisboa - Departamento de Estudos Clássicos, Portugal
Projects

Contract

Designation Funders
2018/09 - 2022/09 Late Achilles in the Classroom and Court
PTDC/LLT-LES/30930/2017
Principal investigator
Universidade de Lisboa Centro de Estudos Clássicos, Portugal
 Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Outputs

Publications

Book chapter
  1. Hadjittofi, Fotini; Fernandes, Vanessa. "Teaching". In A Cultural History of Higher Learning. United Kingdom: Bloomsbury, 2025.
    Accepted
  2. Hadjittofi, Fotini. "Nonnus of Panopolis: Paraphrase of the Gospel According to John". In Collected Imperial Greek Epics. United States: University of California Press, 2024.
    Accepted
  3. Hadjittofi, Fotini. "The Greek Jeweled Style". In A Late Antique Poetics? The Jeweled Style Revisited, 25-43. London, United Kingdom: Bloomsbury, 2023.
    Published
  4. Hadjittofi, Fotini. "Nonnus' Indians Between Conversion and Acculturation". In Nonnus of Panopolis in Context IV: Poetry at the Crossroads, 227-242. Leuven, Belgium: Peeters, 2022.
    Published
  5. Hadjittofi, Fotini. "Nonnus' Europa and Cadmus: Re-configuring Masculinity in the Dionysiaca". In Nonnus of Panopolis in Context III, 263-281. Netherlands: BRILL, 2021.
    10.1163/9789004443259_015
  6. Lefteratou, Anna; Hadjittofi, Fotini. "Generic Debates and Late Antique Christian Poetry". In The Genres of Late Antique Christian Poetry: Between Modulations and Transpositions, 3-36. De Gruyter, 2020.
    Published • 10.1515/9783110696219-001
  7. Hadjittofi, Fotini. "Nonnus' Paraphrase of the Gospel According to John as Didactic Epic". In The Genres of Late Antique Christian Poetry: Between Modulations and Transpositions, 249-264. De Gruyter, 2020.
    10.1515/9783110696219-014
  8. Hadjittofi, Fotini. "Town and gown in the orations of Choricius of Gaza". In Learning Cities in Late Antiquity, 145-163. Routledge, 2019.
    Published • 10.4324/9781315097848-7
  9. Hadjittofi, Fotini. "Homer is a Dancer: The Poet in Choricius". In L’École de Gaza: espace littéraire et identité culturelle dans l’Antiquité tardive, 151-162. Belgium: Peeters, 2017.
    Published
  10. Hadjittofi, Fotini. "Major Themes and Motifs in the Dionysiaca". In Brill’s Companion to Nonnus of Panopolis . BRILL, 2016.
    10.1163/9789004310698_008
  11. Hadjittofi, Fotini. "Cross-dressing in the Declamations of Choricius of Gaza". In Fabrique de la déclamation antique, 353-371. France: MOM Éditions, 2016.
    Published
  12. Hadjittofi, Fotini. "Centring Constantinople in Himerios’ Oratio 41". In New Perspectives on Late Antiquity in the Eastern Roman Empire, 230-244. United Kingdom: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2014.
    Published
  13. Hadjittofi, Fotini. "Erotic Fiction and Christian Sexual Ethics in Nonnus’ Episode of Morrheus and Chalcomede". In The Ancient Novel and the Frontiers of Genre, 187-204. Netherlands: Barkhuis, 2014.
    10.2307/j.ctt20d8733.16
  14. Hadjittofi, Fotini. "Zeus nos Fenómenos de Arato: um deus democrata?". In Vir bonus peritissimus aeque. Estudos de homenagem a Arnaldo do Espirito Santo, 157-164. Portugal, 2013.
    Published
  15. Hadjittofi, Fotini. "Nonnus’ Unclassical Epic: Imaginary Geography in the Dionysiaca". In Unclassical Traditions - Volume II. Perspectives from East and West in Late Antiquity, 29-42. United Kingdom: Cambridge University Press, 2011.
    Published
  16. Hadjittofi, Fotini. "Res Romanae: Cultural Politics in Quintus Smyrnaeus' Posthomerica and Nonnus' Dionysiaca". In Quintus Smyrnaeus: Transforming Homer in Second Sophistic Epic, 357-378. Germany: DE GRUYTER, 2007.
Book review
  1. Hadjittofi, Fotini. "INTERACTIONS BETWEEN GREEK AND LATIN EPIC - (K.) Carvounis, (S.) Papaioannou, (G.) Scafoglio (edd.) Later Greek Epic and the Latin Literary Tradition. Further Explorations. (Trends in Classics Supplementary Volume 136.) Pp. viii + 216. Berlin and Boston: De Gruyter, 2023.". (2023): https://doi.org/10.1017/S0009840X23001622.
    Published • https://doi.org/10.1017/S0009840X23001622
  2. Hadjittofi, Fotini. "ASPECTS OF NONNUS OF PANOPOLIS - (H.) Bannert, (N.) Kröll (edd.) Nonnus of Panopolis in Context II: Poetry, Religion, and Society. Proceedings of the International Conference on Nonnus of Panopolis, 26th – 29th September 2013, University of Vienna, Austria. (Mnemosyne Supplements 408.) Pp. xx + 436, colour ills. Leiden and Boston: Brill, 2018. Cased, €121, US$140. ISBN: 978-90-04-34119-7.". 69, 1 (2018): 90-92. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0009840x18002834.
    Published • 10.1017/s0009840x18002834
  3. Hadjittofi, Fotini. "JOSEPH GEIGER, Hellenism in the East. Studies on Greek Intellectuals in Palestine". 44, (2016): 364-365.
    Published
Edited book
  1. Hadjittofi, Fotini. Epic Heroism in Late Antiquity (Special Issue of the journal Phoenix). Toronto, Canada: University of Toronto Press. 2024.
    Accepted • Editor
  2. Hadjittofi, Fotini; Lefteratou, Anna. The Genres of Late Antique Christian Poetry : Between Modulations and Transpositions. De Gruyter. 2020.
    Published • https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110696219
Encyclopedia entry
  1. Hadjittofi, Fotini. "Quintus of Smyrna: The Posthomerica". In The Literary Encyclopedia, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/10451/24794.
    Published • Hadjittofi, F. 'Quintus of Smyrna: The Posthomerica', in: The Literary Encyclopedia, 2010.
Journal article
  1. Hadjittofi, Fotini; Hagith Sivan. "Sex and Sanctity in the Apocryphal Acts of Andrew: A Christian Bedtrick and its Biblical Bedrock". Journal of Early Christian Studies 32 (2024): 45-74. https://muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/article/923168/pdf.
    Published
  2. Hadjittofi, Fotini. "Short-Circuiting Heroism: Suicidal Achilles(es) in Quintus Smyrnaeus’ Posthomerica". Phoenix (2024):
    In press
  3. Hadjittofi, Fotini. "Preface: Epic Heroism in Late Antiquity". Phoenix (2024):
    In press
  4. Hadjittofi, Fotini. ""All The Famous Deeds of Achilles Are Yours": Homeric Exemplarity in Late Antique Panegyric". Arethusa 54 3 (2021): 291-320. http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/are.2021.0010.
    10.1353/are.2021.0010
  5. Hadjittofi, Fotini; Hagith Sivan. "Staging Rachel: Rabbinic Midrash, Theatrical Mime, and Christian Martyrdom in Late Antiquity". Harvard Theological Review 113 3 (2020): 299-333. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0017816020000127.
    Open access • Published • 10.1017/s0017816020000127
  6. Hadjittofi, Fotini. "The Poet and the Evangelist in Nonnus’ Paraphrase of the Gospel according to John". Cambridge Classical Journal 66 (2020): 70-95. http://hdl.handle.net/10451/45701.
    Open access • Published • 10.1017/S1750270520000056
  7. Hadjittofi, Fotini. "Sleeping Europa from Plato Comicus to Moschus and Horace". The Classical Quarterly 69 1 (2019): 264-277. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0009838819000545.
    Published • 10.1017/s0009838819000545
  8. Hadjittofi, Fotini. "poikilonôtos anêr: Clothing Metaphors and Nonnus’ Ambiguous Christology in the Paraphrase of the Gospel according to John". Vigiliae Christianae 72 2 (2018): 165-183. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/15700720-12341338.
    10.1163/15700720-12341338
  9. Hadjittofi, Fotini. "Midas, the Golden Age Trope, and Hellenistic Kingship in Ovid's Metamorphoses". American Journal of Philology 139 2 (2018): 277-309. http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/ajp.2018.0014.
    10.1353/ajp.2018.0014
  10. Hadjittofi, F.. "The Death of Love in Nonnus' Dionysiaca: The Rapes of Nicaea and Aura". Ramus 37 1-2 (2008): 114-135. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-71249137592&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
  11. Hadjittofi, Fotini. "Callimachus’ Sexy Athena: The Hymn to Athena and the Homeric Hymn to Aphrodite". Materiali e discussioni per l’analisi dei testi classici 2008 60 (2008): 9-37. http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.1607287.
    Published • 10.2139/ssrn.1607287
Magazine article
  1. Fernandes, Vanessa; Hadjittofi, Fotini. "A figura do herói guerreiro na declamação grega da antiguidade tardia", Forma Breve, 2023, https://proa.ua.pt/index.php/formabreve/article/view/34789.
  2. Hadjittofi, Fotini. "A Coluna de Justiniano em Constantinopla", Forma de Vida , 2021, https://formadevida.org/fhadjittofifdv22#_ftn1.