Georgios Spiliotopoulos
Lecturer in the Discipline of Classics
(212) 854-2726
gs3460@columbia.edu
604 Hamilton Hall
Fall 2026 Office hours: TBD
Research Interests
Greek: Attic tragedy
Homeric poetry
Papyrology
Latin: Roman novel.
Dr. Georgios Spiliotopoulos graduated with a Ph.D. in Classics in 2022 from the Graduate Center of the City University of New York, having completed part of his doctoral coursework at New York University. His doctoral dissertation, entitled “The Redefinition of the Tragic Cycle of hybris-ate-nemesis-tisis in Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides,” was completed under the supervision of Professor Dee Clayman. Before coming to Columbia, he taught thousands of students for almost a decade at various institutions, including Hunter College and City College of the City University of New York, Montclair State University, and Fordham University. His teaching was recognized by the Society for Classical Studies, and in 2022 he was awarded a Contingent Faculty Grant. Outside of Classics, Dr. Spiliotopoulos is a published poet in Greece and an active chess player at the Marshall Chess Club of New York.
Dr. Spiliotopoulos’s research is centered on Attic tragedy. He is currently finalizing the details for publishing his doctoral dissertation, which will be published as a book in 2027. He is also working on a second monograph exploring the complex relationship between happiness and Greek tragedy, focusing on the works of Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides, as well as their extant fragments. His most recent book review was of 'Reciprocity, Truth, and Gender in Pindar and Aeschylus' by Arum Park. He is also a published poet in Greece: his first poetry book, entitled Leukampelos, was published in 2020.
Selected Publications
Leukampelos, Iolkos, 2020
