Georgios A. Xenis was born in Limassol in 1972, and studied Classics at the University of Athens, where he was proclaimed the 1997 Class Valedictorian among the 300 members of his graduating class. His graduate studies were at the University of Oxford (M.St. 1998), where he obtained a Distinction award, and at the University of Cyprus (Ph.D. 2001). He is currently Associate Professor of Ancient Greek at the Department of Classics and Philosophy, University of Cyprus. His main research interests are textual criticism, the ancient Scholiasts and Grammarians, and lexicography. He is the editor of (1) Scholia vetera in Sophoclis Electram (de Gruyter: SGLG, 2010), (2) Scholia vetera in Sophoclis Trachinias (de Gruyter: SGLG, 2010), and, quite recently (3) Iohannes Alexandrinus. Praecepta Tonica (de Gruyter: Bibl. Teubneriana, 2015). He has also contributed articles to international journals such as Rheinisches Museum, Philologus, Classical Quarterly, Mnemosyne, Hermes, Tyche, the Oxyrhynchus Papyri. Through a Panhellenic contest organised by the Paedagogical Institute of Greece, his team which included two other scholars was chosen to compile an Ancient Greek - Modern Greek Lexicon (2007), designed to be used by pupils in the State Secondary Schools of Greece.Read more about this authorRead less about this author