Kostas Vlassopoulos

Konstantinos (Kostas) Vlassopoulos is an Associate Professor of Ancient History in the Department of History and Archaeology at the University of Crete and Research Director of the Department of the Ancient and Byzantine World at the Institute for Mediterranean Studies. His research interests include the history of ancient slavery, intercultural relations and globalization in antiquity, and ancient politics and its modern reception. He has recently received an Advanced European Research Council Grant for the research program SLaVEgents: Enslaved Persons in the Making of Ancient Societies and Cultures across Western Eurasia and North Africa, 1000 BCE – 300 CE (2023-2028). His publications include Unthinking the Greek Polis: Ancient Greek History beyond Eurocentrism (2007); Politics: Antiquity and its Legacy (2010); Greeks and Barbarians (2013); Historicising Ancient Slavery (2021); and Greek and Roman Slaveries (2022). He is a member of the editorial board of the Journal of Ancient History and Brill’s Research Papers in Ancient History series.