Kostas Vlassopoulos

Kostas Vlassopoulos is Associate Professor of Ancient History at the University of Crete. He was awarded the Philip Leverhulme Prize (2012) for his contribution to the field of Classics. He is the author of Unthinking the Greek Polis: Ancient Greek History beyond Eurocentrism (2007), Politics: Antiquity and its Legacy (2010), Greeks and Barbarians (2013) and co-author of My Whole Life: Stories from the Everyday Life of Ancient Slaves (2020). He is co-editor of Slavery, Citizenship and the...See more

Kostas Vlassopoulos is Associate Professor of Ancient History at the University of Crete. He was awarded the Philip Leverhulme Prize (2012) for his contribution to the field of Classics. He is the author of Unthinking the Greek Polis: Ancient Greek History beyond Eurocentrism (2007), Politics: Antiquity and its Legacy (2010), Greeks and Barbarians (2013) and co-author of My Whole Life: Stories from the Everyday Life of Ancient Slaves (2020). He is co-editor of Slavery, Citizenship and the State (2009), Communities and Networks in the Ancient Greek World (2015), Violence and Community: Law, Space and Identity in the Ancient Eastern Mediterranean World (2017) and The Oxford Handbook of Greek and Roman Slaveries (2016). See less