Kostas Myrsiades

Kostas Myrsiades, professor emeritus of Greek and comparative literature at West Chester University in Pennsylvania, is a distinguished translator and Hellenist and the recipient of the Gold Medallion (1995) from Greece's Hellenic Society of Translators of Literature. He is the author and/or translator of 22 books, articles, and invited lectures on Greek literature and culture, including Reading Homer's "Odyssey" (Bucknell University Press). For twenty-two years (1990-2012) he edited College...See more

Kostas Myrsiades, professor emeritus of Greek and comparative literature at West Chester University in Pennsylvania, is a distinguished translator and Hellenist and the recipient of the Gold Medallion (1995) from Greece's Hellenic Society of Translators of Literature. He is the author and/or translator of 22 books, articles, and invited lectures on Greek literature and culture, including Reading Homer's "Odyssey" (Bucknell University Press). For twenty-two years (1990-2012) he edited College Literature , a quarterly of literary criticism and theory. See less