Expertise

Dr. Tsakiropoulou-Summers’s research interests include women and democracy, women in antiquity, gender studies, epic poetry, and tragedy.

Her teaching interests include the following:

  • All levels of Greek and Latin languages
  • Cultural courses:  Ancient Greek History; Classics in Film; Ancient Greek Civilization & Culture; Alexander the Great; Survey of Latin Literature from Translation; Women in Ancient Greece; Roman Family; Greek & Latin Roots of Medical Terminology
  • Greek Literature: Sophocles’ Antigone, Homer’s Odyssey; Homer’s Iliad; Aristophanes’ Lysistrata; Lysias’ Kata Eratosthenous; Plato’s Apology; New Testament Greek
  • Latin Literature: Sallust; Lucretius; Plautus’ Amphitruo; Catullus; Martial; Cicero’s Philippics I and In Catilinam; Horace’s Ars Poetica
  • Modern Greek: Beginning & Intermediate levels
Communities
Classics
Degrees
PhD, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign