Manolis Papathomopoulos

Emmanuel (Manolis) Papathomopoulos (Greek: Εμμανουήλ "Μανόλης" Παπαθομόπουλος; 1930 – 20 April 2011) was a Greek classical philologist, Byzantinist and university professor, Professor of classical philology at the University of Ioannina.

Life

Papathomopoulos graduated in 1957 from the Sorbonne University and began his career as attaché de recherche (Research fellow) at the Paris CNRS in 1963–1964; in 1968–1969 he became research associate at Peterhouse College (University of Cambridge). From 1968 to 1997 he taught classical philology at the University of Ioannina.

Together with Andreas Papandreou, Papathomopoulos founded the PASOK in 1974.

Research activity

Papathomopoulos was a prolific textual critic of classical and Byzantine texts. He wrote no less than 30 books, many of which consisting in critical editions, and some 60 papers, on top of compiling concordances to Apollonius of Rhodes, Nicander, Oppian, Quintus Smyrnaeus and Sophocles. He initially worked on Greek literature of the imperial age, publishing a critical edition of the Metamorphoses by Antoninus Liberalis and of anonymous parapraseis of poems by Dionysius Periegetes, Oppian and Nicander; at the same time, he began working on the Byzantine scholar Maximus Planudes, publishing the critical edition of his Greek translation of Ovid's Epistles of Heroines. He would went on to publish Planudes's translations of Augustine's De trinitate, of Boethius's Consolation of Philosophy, of Ovid's Metamorphoses and of the Distica Catonis. In 2003 he published the Teubner text of Oppian.

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