West Palm Beach Public Library
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Program Scholar
Konstantinos P. Nikoloutsos, Visiting Assistant Professor of Classics
Florida Atlantic University, Honors College
Konstantinos P. Nikoloutsos is Visiting Assistant Professor of Classics at Florida Atlantic University, Honors College. He holds degrees of B.A. in Classics from the University of Thessaloniki, M.Sc. in Classics from the University of Edinburgh, and Ph.D. in Classics from the University of Birmingham.
Dr. Nikoloutsos’ research focuses on issues of gender and sexuality in Latin elegy, as well as on the reception of ancient Greece and Rome in modern popular culture, especially cinema and theater. His research also includes modern approaches to the study of ancient literature, such as queer theory and psychoanalysis. Dr. Nikoloutsos is the recipient of the 2008 Paul Rehak Prize, an award given by the Lambda Classical Caucus for the best article on gender and sexuality in classical antiquity that has been published in the last three years and is related to LCC’s mission.
His publications include “Beyond Sex: The Poetics and Politics of Pederasty in Tibullus 1.4,” Phoenix (2007) 61.1-2: 55-82 and “The Alexander Bromance: Male Desire and Gender Fluidity in Oliver Stone’s Historical Epic,” Helios (2008) 35.2: 223-251. Currently, he is working on a book-length project on Roman homoerotic poetry from the late Republic and early Empire and is co-editing (with Mary-Kay Gamel) a volume on ancient Greek women in film.
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Previous Events
Reading Group
Euripides' Iphigenia at Aulis, Translated by W. S. Merwin and George E. Dimock
Join Program Scholar, Professor Konstantinos P. Nikoloutsos for a reading group at the West Palm Beach Public Library
411 Clematis Street, West Palm Beach, FL 33401
Contact Theresa Trabucco at 561-868-7791 to RSVP or to gain more information
May 07 2009 at 06:00 PM
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Iliad Performance
Join the West Palm Beach Public Library for a performance of Homer's Iliad
411 Clematis Street, West Palm Beach, FL 33401
Contact Theresa Trabucco at 561-868-7791 to RSVP or to gain more information
May 05 2009 at 06:30 PM
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Acting Workshop
Join us for an Acting Workshop at the West Palm Beach Public Library
411 Clematis Street, West Palm Beach, FL 33401
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May 05 2009 at 05:00 PM
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Public Lecture
"Iphigenia in Modern Theater and Cinema"
Iphigenia, directed by Mihalis Kakogiannis
Join Program Scholar, Professor Konstantinos P. Nikoloutsos for a reading group at the West Palm Beach Public Library
411 Clematis Street, West Palm Beach, FL 33401
Contact Theresa Trabucco at 561-868-7791 to RSVP or to gain more information
May 04 2009 at 06:30 PM
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Reading Group
Aeschylus' Oresteia, Translated by Peter Meineck
Euripides' Iphigenia at Aulis, Translated by W. S. Merwin and George E. Dimock
Join Program Scholar, Professor Konstantinos P. Nikoloutsos for a reading group at the West Palm Beach Public Library
411 Clematis Street, West Palm Beach, FL 33401
Contact Theresa Trabucco at 561-868-7791 to RSVP or to gain more information
April 30 2009 at 05:00 PM
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Reading Group
Homer's Iliad, Translated by Stanley Lombardo
Join Program Scholar, Professor Konstantinos P. Nikoloutsos for a reading group at the West Palm Beach Public Library
411 Clematis Street, West Palm Beach, FL 33401
Contact Theresa Trabucco at 561-868-7791 to RSVP or to gain more information
April 21 2009 at 05:00 PM
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This library is focusing on the thematic unit “Homer to Hip-Hop: Reinventing the Classics”
