Maria Gerolemou

Maria Gerolemou

Visiting Assistant Professor

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Education: PhD, Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich

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She holds a degree in classics from Athens and Munich and specializes in ancient Greek drama, Wunderkultur, and ancient science and technology. She has authored two books: On Drama: Bad Women, Mad Women: Gender und Wahnsinn in der Griechischen Tragödie (Classica Monacensia, 2011) and on technology: Technical Automation in Classical Antiquity" (Bloomsbury, 2023). 

Furthermore, she has taken on the role of editor/co-editor for five collective volumes that explore diverse topics, including miracles (Recognizing Miracles in Antiquity and Beyond, De Gruyter, 2018), mirrors (Mirrors and Mirroring from Antiquity to the Early Modern Period, Bloomsbury, 2020), the intersection of technology, medicine, sexuality and gender (Body and Machine in Classical Antiquity, CUP, 2023; Body Technologies in the Greco-Roman World: Technosoma, Gender, and Sex, LUP, 2024), and technologies of animation (Technical Animation in Classical Antiquity, OUP, 2024).

BOOKS

  1. Gerolemou M., Technical Automation in Classical Antiquity, Bloomsbury, London, 2023.

[Review: Katharine Mawford in Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2024.02.04]

  1. Gerolemou M., Bad Women, Mad Women. Gender und Wahnsinn in der griechischen Tragödie, Classica Monacensia, Tübingen, 2011.

[Reviews: Aneta Bialecka in: rezens.tfm, Nr. 2011/1, 15.06.2011; Chiara Thumiger in: Bryn Mawr Classical Review. Bd. 2012.11.12; Bernhard Zimmermann in: Gymnasium 2012, 119, 603f.; Ruth Scodel in: Gnomon 2015, 67-9].

 

BOOKS IN PREPARATION

  1. Gerolemou, M., Missing Persons in the Greco Roman World (to be submitted to CUP/proposal submitted to CUP and accepted)
  2. Gerolemou, M., Hero of Alexandria, On the Art of Automata making: Translation and Commentary (Crete University Press; in Greek)

 

EDITED VOLUMES

  1. Gerolemou, M. (ed. with T. Bur and I. A. Ruffell), Technical Animation in Classical Antiquity, Oxford University Press (in press, 2024).
  2. Gerolemou M. (ed. with G-M. Chesi) Body Technologies in the Greco-Roman World: Technosôma, gender and sex. Liverpool University Press 2023.
  3. Gerolemou, M. (ed. with G. Kazantzidis), Body and Machine in Classical Antiquity, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2023.
  4. Gerolemou, M. (ed. with L. Diamantopoulou), Mirrors and Mirroring: From Antiquity to the Early Modern, Bloomsbury, London, 2020. [Review: Manolis Spanakis in: CJ01.07]
  5. Gerolemou M. (ed.), Recognizing Miracles in Antiquity and Beyond, Trends in Classics - Supplementary Volumes 53, De Gruyter, Berlin, 2018. [Review: Trevor S. Luke in: Bryn Mawr Classical Review. 2019.09.24; Gabriel A.F. Silva, in: Euphrosyne, 2020, vol. 48].

 

EDITED VOLUMES IN PREPARATION

  1. Gerolemou, M. (ed. with C. Scott), Every bone has a story: Bones in Antiquity (to be submitted to OUP).

 

SPECIAL ISSUE

  1. Gerolemou, M. (ed. with M. Hafner), Lucian (special Issue), Revista Iberoamericana de Filosofía, Política y Humanidades, 2019, año 21, nº 41.
  2. Gerolemou, M. (ed. with I. Salvo), Storying Gendered Emotions in Classical Antiquity, Journal for Cognitive Historiography (forthcoming, 2024).

 

SPECIAL ISSUE IN PREPARATION

  1. Gerolemou, M. (ed.), Sensoaesthetic Aspects of Ancient Materials.

 

ARTICLES/CHAPTERS

  1. Gerolemou, M., “Technolarynges”. In M. Gerolemou, T. Bur and I. Ruffell (ed.), Technical Animation in Greco-Roman World, OUP, Oxford (forthcoming)
  2. Gerolemou, M., “Introduction”. In M. Gerolemou, T. Bur and I. Ruffell (ed.), Technical Animation in Greco-Roman World, OUP, Oxford (forthcoming)
  3. Gerolemou, M. “Unlocking Memories: Recognition Scenes in Menander”. In A. Novokhatko, MIND AND LAUGHTER: A cognitive lens for reading the fragments of ancient Greek comedy (forthcoming).
  4. Gerolemou, M., “Constructing Technological Wonders in Classical Antiquity” (with M. Muratov). In V. Dasen, U. Schädler, M. Vespa (ed.), Handbook of ancient play and games, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge (forthcoming)
  5. Gerolemou, M. “Comic Re-cognition in Menander”. In Novokhatko, A., Comic Fragments and Cognition Studies (forthcoming).
  6. Gerolemou, M., “From Hand-Bows to Torsion Artillery Devices”. In M. Flohr, St. Mols, T. Tieleman (eds.), Anchoring Technology, Brill, Leiden, 2023 (11 pages; forthcoming).
  7. Gerolemou, M. (with I. Salvo), “Introduction”. In Storying Gendered Emotions in Classical Antiquity, Journal for Cognitive Historiography (forthcoming).
  8. Gerolemou, M., “Technical Physicians and Medical Machines in the Hippocratic Corpus”. In M. Gerolemou and G. Kazantzidis (eds.), Body and Machine in Classical Antiquity, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2023, 107-125.
  9. Gerolemou, M. “Introduction” (with G. Kazantzidis). In M. Gerolemou and G. Kazantzidis (eds.), Body and Machine in Antiquity, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2023, 1-16.
  10. Gerolemou, M., “Introduction”. In M. Gerolemou and G-M. Chesi (ed.), Body Technologies in the Greco-Roman World: Technosôma, gender and sex, LUP, Liverpool, 2023, 1-10.
  11. Gerolemou, M., “Want to Look Younger and Stronger? Cosmetic Hot Baths in Classical Antiquity:”. In M. Gerolemou and G-M. Chesi (ed.), Body Technologies in the Greco-Roman World: Technosôma, gender and sex, LUP, Liverpool, 2023, 145-60.
  12. Gerolemou, M., “The rhetoric of Elpis in Greek Tragedy: The Gender Factor”. In C. M. Encinas, Sagredo, M. Q. (eds.), Tragic Rhetoric. The Rhetorical Dimensions of Greek Tragedy, Aprilia, Aracne editrice, 2021, 221-244.
  13. Gerolemou, M., “Laughing against the machine”. In P. Swallow and E. Hall (eds.), Aristophanic Humour Theory and Practice, Bloomsbury, London, 2020, 145-51, 239-41.
  14. Gerolemou, M., “Plane and Curved Mirrors in Classical Antiquity”. In M. Gerolemou and L. Diamantopoulou (eds.), Mirrors and Mirroring: From Antiquity to the Early Modern, Bloomsbury, London, 2020, 157-64, 234-7.
  15. Gerolemou, M., “Introduction” (with L. Diamantopoulou). In M. Gerolemou and L. Diamantopoulou (eds.), Mirrors and Mirroring: From Antiquity to the Early Modern, Bloomsbury, London, 2020, 1-6, 199f.
  16. Gerolemou, M., “Why can’t I have wings? Aristophanes’ Birds”. In G. M. Chesi and F. Spiegel (eds.), Classical Literature and Posthumanism, Bloomsbury, London, 2019, 175-181, 373-375.
  17. Gerolemou, M., “Representing the Insane”. In J. Cale Johnson and A. Stavru (eds.), Visualizing the Invisible with the Human body. Physiognomy and Ekphrasis in the ancient World, De Gruyter, Berlin, 2019, 273-285.
  18. Gerolemou, M., “Technological Wonder in Herodotus’ Histories”. In G. Kazantzidis (ed.), Medicine and Paradoxography in the Ancient World (Trends in Classics, special issue), De Gruyter, Berlin, 2019, 41-51.
  19. Gerolemou, M., “Some Thoughts on the Mechanical Features of Pantomime Dancers”. In M. Gerolemou, M. Hafner (eds.), Lucian (special Issue), Revista Iberoamericana de Filosofía, Política y Humanidades, 2019, año 21, nº 41, 273-287.
  20. Gerolemou, M., “Staging Artificial Intelligence: The case of Greek Drama”, In P. Meineck, W. Short, J. Devereaux (eds.), Routledge Companion to Classics and Cognitive Theory, Routledge, London, 2019, 345-355.
  21. Gerolemou, M., “The politics of female madness in Greek Tragedy”. In Tsakiropoulou-Summers T. and Kitsi K. (eds.), Women, Democracy, and the Ideology of Exclusion. From the Birth of Democracy through the Early 20th Century, Routledge, London, 2018, 120-131.
  22. Gerolemou, M., “Zur Auffassung des Wunders in der griechischen Tragödie”. In Mnemosyne 71(5):750-776, 2018.
  23. Gerolemou, M., “Introduction: In search of the Miraculous”. In M. Gerolemou (ed.), Recognizing Miracles in Antiquity and Beyond, de Gruyter, De Gruyter, Berlin, 2018, vii-xviii.
  24. Gerolemou, M., “Wonder-ful Memories in Herodotus’ Histories”. In M. Gerolemou (ed.), Recognizing Miracles in Antiquity and Beyond, De Gruyter, Berlin, 2018, 133-151.
  25. Gerolemou, M., “Educating kings through travel: The wanderings of Odysseus as a mental model in Polybius’ Histories”. In J. Klooster, B. Van Den Berg (eds.), Homer and the good ruler: The Reception of Homeric Epic as Princes’ Mirror, Brill, Leiden, Boston, 2018, 123-140.
  26. Gerolemou, M., “Priestly Dress in the ancient Mediterranean: Herodotus as a source-book”. In C. Brøns and M-L Nosch (eds), Textiles and Cult in the Mediterranean Area in the first millennium BC., Ancient Textile Series, Oxbow Books, UK, 2018, 58-64.
  27. Gerolemou, M. (with M. Zira), “The architecture of memory: the case of Euripides’ Iphigenia in Aulis”. In Journal of Theater and Drama Studies 3.1, 2017, 59-81.
  28. Gerolemou, M., “Thinking of autonomy as automatism: the case of autonomy in Thucydides’ History”. In A. Tsakmakis and C. Marcaccini, Thucydides (special issue), Revista Iberoamericana de Filosofía, Política y Humanidades, año 19, nº 37, 2017, 199-211.
  29. Gerolemou, M., “Homeric and Tragic Madness”. In E. Perdikogianni-Paleologou (ed.), The concept of Madness from Homer to Byzantium: History and aspects (Supplementi di Lexis Ν.S., Nr. V), Amsterdam, 2016, 1-34.
  30. Gerolemou, M., “„ταχύμορον γυναικογήρυτον ὄλλυται κλέος“ - Zum Problem des weiblichen Ruhmes in der griechischen Tragödie” Classica et Mediaevalia 63, 2013, 33-71.

 

CHAPTERS UNDER PREPARATION

  1. Gerolemou, M., “Introduction”. In Gerolemou, M., Sensoaesthetic Aspects of Ancient Materials.
  2. Gerolemou, M., “Exploring Nature through Art and Art through Nature: Cosmic Laws and Water Sources”. In: M. Amsler (ed.), Laws of Natural (Ir)regularity, CUP, Cambridge.
  3. Gerolemou, M., “Technical Naivety and Life in Greek and Roman Drama”. In: Devecka (ed.), What is Life?.

 

ENCYCLOPEDIA ENTRIES

  1. Gerolemou, M., “Euripides’ Hypsipyle”. In The Literary Encyclopedia, 2017 (http://www.litencyc.com).
  2. Gerolemou, M., “Menopause”. In R. S. Bagnall, K. Brodersen, C. Champion, A. Erskine, S. Hubner (eds.), Blackwell’s Encyclopedia of the Ancient World, vol. 8, London, 2013, 4441.
  3. Gerolemou, M., “Hero On Automata”. In The Literary Encyclopedia (forthcoming)

 

ENCYCLOPEDIA ENTRIES

  1. Gerolemou, M., “Thaumasia” in Greek and Roman Humanities Encyclopedia (GROH), Trends in Classics, De Gruyter.

 

REVIEWS/RESPONSES

  1. Gerolemou, M., Rev. L. G. Canevaro. Women of Substance in Homeric Epic, Objects, Gender, Agency. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2018. In: Classical Journal03.03.
  2. Gerolemou, M., Rev. Roby, Courtney. Technical ekphrasis in Greek and Roman science and literature: the written machine between Alexandria and Rome. Cambridge; New York: Cambridge University Press, 2016. In: Bryn Mawr Classical Review12.17.
  3. Gerolemou, M., Matthew Leigh, From Polypragmon to Curiosus: Ancient Concepts of Curious and Meddlesome Behaviour. New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013. Pp. xii + 249. In: Classical Review 2014.03.03.
  4. Gerolemou, M., Resp. to Ch. Thumiger on Gerolemou, Bad Women, Mad Women: Gender und Wahnsiin in der Griechishen Tragödie. In: Bryn Mawr Classical Review01.47.
  5. Gerolemou, M., Rev. Verena Vogel-Ehrensperger. Die übelste aller Frauen?: Klytaimestra in Texten vom Homer bis Aischylos und Pindar. Schweizerische Beiträge zur Altertumswissenschaft, 38. Basel: Schwabe Basel, 2012. In: Bryn Mawr Classical Review 04.35.
  6. Gerolemou, M., Rev. Lauren J. Apfel. The Advent of Pluralism. Diversity and Conflict in the age of Sophocles. In: Gnomon 84, 2012: 71-73.
  7. Gerolemou, M., Rev. Barbara Feichtinger (ed.). Gender Studies in den Altertumswissenschaften: Aspekte von Macht und Erotik in der Antike. Trier 2010: In: Bryn Mawr Classical Review04.35.
  8. Gerolemou, M. Rev. Jessica Lightfoot. Wonder and the Marvellous from Homer to the Hellenistic World. Cambridge 2021 in Phoenix, journal of the Classical Association of Canada.

 

REVIEWS IN PREPARATION

  1. Gerolemou, M. Rev. Backman, Jussi, Antonio Cimino (Edd.): Biopolitics and Ancient Thought. Oxford: Oxford UP 2022. XII, 215 S. (Classics in Theory.) in Gnomon.