Busses Stamatios

Stamatis Busses is Associate Professor of Ancient Greek Philology - Papyrology at the Democritus University of Thrace. He received his degree with specialization in Classical Philology in 1991 from the Department of Philology of the Faculty of Philosophy of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens. He completed his doctoral thesis in Classical Philology at the same University. His research interests include Late Antiquity prose (Rhetoric), Lexicography, Greek Papyrology, Religion (early Christianity), Ancient Greek Art (painting) and Digital Humanities.

From 1999 to 2002, he conducted postdoctoral research at the Institute of Classical Studies, University College London (UCL). In 2004, he continued his postdoctoral research at the Institut fur Papyrologie, University of Heidelberg.From 2004 to 2008, he worked as a researcher at the Institute of Byzantine Studies at the National Hellenic Research Foundation, in various research projects. He has received grants and awards including the Ancient Greek Literature Translation in Modern Greek Award for the book "Lucian, Teacher of Rhetoric" at the 2020 State Awards for the 2019 publishing year.

He taught Modern Greek at the University of Bari, Italy (2000-2005) and Ancient Greek at the Istituto Teologico di San Nicola, Bari (2001), and continued at the same university (2001-2003 and 2004-2005). He has taught seminars in Papyrology at the Hellenic Institute of Byzantine Studies (2007-2014). In 2009 he joined the teaching staff of the Democritus University of Thrace, Department of Greek Philology as Lecturer in Ancient Greek, where he still serves today. He has supervised numerous postgraduate theses, doctoral dissertations and postdoctoral research, and has offered and organized lectures and seminars at institutions abroad and in Greece.

He has published 5 books: on ancient Greek painting, lexicography, satire and digital humanities, as well as a number of articles related to his research interests.