Department of History and Archaeology

Giorgos Mitropoulos is Assistant Professor of Ancient History.

He completed his undergraduate studies at the Department of History and Archaeology of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens (2014) and obtained his PhD in the History of Greek and Roman Antiquity at the same Department (2020).

He has taught as Adjunct Faculty Member in Ancient Greek and Roman History at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, the University of Crete and the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. He was also the Primary Investigator of the Research Program Greek Matronae: Female Civic Presence and Self-Representation in Imperial Greece (1st-3rd c. CE) hosted by the National Hellenic Research Foundation and financially supported by the Hellenic Foundation for Research and Innovation.

He is the author of numerous studies concerning social, political and cultic life in Hellenistic and Roman Greece and Asia Minor, the formation and dissemination of ruler ideology (kings and Roman emperors) in the same geographical areas, as well as the cult of imperial virtues. His first book The Model of the Roman Emperor and the imitatio imperatoris: Dialectics of Influence between the princeps and the Provincials in the Greco-Roman East (31 B.C. – A.D. 235) was published in 2023 by the Sophia N. Saripolou Library. His latest book is entitled Nero and Greece: The Game of Roles and was published in 2025 by the Crete University Press.

His publications are available in detail at the following link: https://crete.academia.edu/GiorgosMitropoulos