Publications

1. MONOGRAPHS

  1. Médée et la rhétorique de la mémoire au féminin (Ovide, « Héroïde » XII)
    Approches littéraires, Paris: L’Harmattan, 2018.
    ISBN: 9782343140636
  2. La représentation de la femme dans les « Héroides d’Ovide » : Parole et mémoire dans les Lettres XII, XX et XXI
    Doctoral thesis, Université Paris IV–Sorbonne, 2011.

2. EDITED VOLUMES

  1. The Reception of Ancient Cyprus in Western Culture
    S. Tzounakas, S. Alekou, S. Harrison (eds.), Trends in Classics – Supplementary Volumes 139, De Gruyter, 2023.
    ISBN: 978-3-11-099665-4
  2. Concepts and Functions of Philhellenism. Aspects of a Transcultural Movement
    M. Vöhler, S. Alekou, M. Pechlivanos (eds.), Trends in Classics – Pathways of Reception 7, De Gruyter, 2021.
    ISBN: 978-3-11-071571-2

3. PEER-REVIEWED JOURNAL ARTICLES

  1. From Medea to Cleopatra: Allusion, Illusion and Reality in Ovid’s Heroides 12, Les Études Classiques 90, 2022, pp. 359–386.
  2. Alekou / D. Keramida, Travelling Imagines in Ovid’s Heroides, Mediterranean Chronicle 11, 2022, pp. 63–79.
  3. Female (Anti-)Exempla in Pliny’s and Ovid’s ‘Heroines’: Rebellious Women’s Silenced Battles, Mediterranean Studies 2, 2021, pp. 132–154.
  4. La femme voyageuse dans les Héroïdes X, XII et XXI: lectures intra-ovidiennes, Classica et Mediaevalia 68, 2020, pp. 71–97.
  5. Cultural Conflicts in Medea’s Letter: Hellenism Revised in Ovid’s Heroides 12, Rivista di Cultura Classica e Medioevale 2, 2019, pp. 441–454.
  6. Medea’s Legal Apology in Ovid’s Heroides 12, Latomus 2, 2018, pp. 311–334.
  7. Ο νομικός Λόγος στην Επιστολή της Μήδειας (Ηρωίδες 12), Mediterranean Chronicle 8, 2018, σσ. 239–249.
  8. Ancient Echoes of Gendered Phobias in 19th Century Europe and the Cypriot Press, Mediterranean Chronicle 5, 2015, pp. 213–244.

4. CHAPTERS IN PEER-REVIEWED EDITED VOLUMES

  1. Rethinking Ovidian Womanhood in Carol Ann Duffy’s ‘Eurydice’, in J. Hamilton, M. Vöhler & E. Sistakou (eds.), Parentheses of Reception, Berlin/Boston: De Gruyter (Trends in Classics – Supplementary Volumes 185), 2025.
  2. The Fictional Origins of ‘Heroic’ Rape Imagery: Callisto, Arachne and Pygmalion’s Statue in Ovid’s Metamorphoses, in N. Bruno (ed.), Archaeologies, Origins, Antiquities. Narrating Early Cultural History in Ancient Greece and Rome, Berlin/Boston: De Gruyter (Beiträge zur Altertumskunde 421), 2025.
  3. Ovid’s ‘Good’ Women: The Cypriot Exemplum Against the Background of the Statue (R)evolution, in S. Tzounakas, S. Alekou & S. Harrison (eds.), The Reception of Ancient Cyprus in Western Culture, Berlin/Boston: De Gruyter (Trends in Classics – Supplementary Volumes 139), 2023, pp. 221–248.
  4. Introduction, S. Tzounakas, S. Alekou & S. Harrison, in The Reception of Ancient Cyprus in Western Culture, Berlin/Boston: De Gruyter (Trends in Classics – Supplementary Volumes 139), 2023, pp. 1–10.
  5. The Ambiguity of Love and the Ideology of Rape in Ovidian Ekphraseis: Pygmalion’s Prequel to Arachne’s Story, in S. Tzounakas (ed.), The Reception of Ancient Cyprus in Roman Sources and Beyond: Eleven Studies, Rome: Deinotera Editrice (The Seeds of Triptolemus 3), 2023, pp. 89–100.
  6. Law in Disguise: The Ambiguous Ecphraseis of Minerva and Arachne in Ovid’s Metamorphoses, in I. Ziogas & E. Bexley (eds.), Roman Law and Latin Literature, London: Bloomsbury, 2022, pp. 227–248.
  7. The Rhetoric of Gender in the Heroides of the French Renaissance: Revisiting Female Exempla, in M. Edwards, S. Papaioannou & A. Serafim (eds.), Brill’s Companion to the Reception of Ancient Rhetoric, Leiden: Brill, 2022, pp. 527–566.
  8. The Art of Death in Ovid’s Heroides, in Ch. Batistella (ed.), Ovid’s “Heroides”, Illinois Classical Studies 1–2, 2021, pp. 31–58.
  9. Underneath the Arachnean and Minervan Veil of Ambiguity: Cultural and Political Simulatio in Ovidian Ecphrasis, in M. Vöhler, T. Fuhrer & S. Frangoulidis (eds.), Strategies of Ambiguity in Ancient Literature, Berlin/Boston: De Gruyter (Trends in Classics – Supplementary Volumes 114), 2021, pp. 175–191.
  10. Το ‘δίκαιο’ μιας Οβιδιανής Δολοφόνου στην ψευδο-αυτοβιογραφία της Μήδειας: Ιστορικές προοπτικές στην Ηρ. 12, in Δ. Ράιος – Ε. Χουλιαρά (eds.), Θρησκεία και Μυθολογία στον Ρωμαϊκό Κόσμο, Αθήνα–Ιωάννινα: Καρδαμίτσα, 2021, σσ. 31–59.
  11. Concepts and Functions of Philhellenism. Aspects of a Transcultural Movement (Introduction), M. Vöhler, S. Alekou & M. Pechlivanos, in Concepts and Functions of Philhellenism. Aspects of a Transcultural Movement, Berlin/Boston: De Gruyter (Trends in Classics – Pathways of Reception 7), 2021, pp. 1–6.
  12. ‘Inappropriate’ Philhellenism in Roman Satire, in M. Vöhler, S. Alekou & M. Pechlivanos (eds.), Concepts and Functions of Philhellenism. Aspects of a Transcultural Movement, Berlin/Boston: De Gruyter (Trends in Classics – Pathways of Reception 7), 2021, pp. 51–76.
  13. Η Έννοια του Δικαίου και της Ανταπόδοσης στην Υπόθεση της Μήδειας (Οβιδίου Ηρωίδες 12), in Α. Αιμιλιανίδης, Π. Βουτουρής, Σ. Μήτας & Μ. Πουργούρης (eds.), Λογοτεχνία και Δίκαιο: Πτυχές μιας Πολυσύνθετης Σχέσης, Λευκωσία: Νομικές Εκδόσεις Hippasus, 2020, σσ. 71–80.
  14. Γυναικοφοβία ή Θηλυκοποίηση του Φόβου: Από την Αρχαία Μυθολογία στην Ευρωπαϊκή Απομυθοποίηση του Κυπριακού Μισογυνισμού, in A. Alekou (ed.), Ο Χρήσιμος Εχθρός: Δοκίμια για την Κατασκευή του «Άλλου», Λευκωσία: Πανεπιστημιακές Εκδόσεις Κύπρου, 2018, σσ. 209–242.

5. BOOK REVIEWS

  1. Nel giardino di Pomona. Le “Metamorfosi”di Ovidio e l’invenzione di una mitologia in terra d’Italia, by L. Aresi, Bibliothek der Klassischen Altertumswissenschaften, Heidelberg: Universitätsverlag Winter, 2017, in The Classical Review, 68.2 (2018), pp. 1-3.
  2. Ovid and Hesiod. The Metamorphosis of the Catalogue of Women, by I. Ziogas, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2013, in The Classical Review, 64.2 (2014), pp. 458-460

6. ENCYCLOPEDIC ENTRIES

  1. “Philhellenism”, in Erskine, A./ Hollander, D./ A. (eds.), The Encyclopedia of Ancient History, Wiley, 2025

7. OTHER PUBLICATIONS

  1. Co-editor of Issue 10 (2020) of the international journal Mediterranean Chronicle, together with Vasileios Pappas, under the supervision of Professors Kaiti Diamantakou and Vaios Vaiopoulos.
  2. Co-editor of Issue 9 (2019) of the international journal Mediterranean Chronicle, together with Vasileios Pappas, under the supervision of Professor Vaios Vaiopoulos.