Dimitra
Samara
Demetra Samara was born in Thessaloniki. She graduated from the School of Philology of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (BA 1997). She pursued postgraduate studies in the same School (MA 2002, PhD 2014), specializing in Medieval Greek Philology. She worked as a teacher in Greek Secondary Education (2002-2020). In the meantime, she taught and conducted research for the Department of Medieval and Modern Greek Studies at the School of Philology, AUTh (2015-2019). Since 2020 she teaches Medieval Greek Philology at the School of Philology, AUTh (as a member of the Laboratory and Teaching Staff). Since 2025 she is Assistant Professor of Medieval Greek Philology at AUTh. Her research focuses on rhetoric, hagiography, epistolography, and poetry in the Palaeologan era.
Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
School of Philology
PhD
Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
School of Philology
MA (Medieval Greek Philology)
Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
School of Philology
BA (Medieval Greek Philology/ Modern Greek Philology
School of Philology, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki / Department of Medieval Greek Studies
Assistant Professor
School of Philology, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki / Department of Medieval Greek Studies
Member of the Laboratory and Teaching Staff
Greek Secondary Public Education
Teacher of Greek Language and Literature
Deutsche Schule Thessaloniki
Teacher of Greek Language
HISTORY OF MEDIEVAL GREEK SCHOLARSHIP AND INTRODUCTION TO MEDIEVAL GREEK PHILOLOGY (Undergraduate)
MEDIEVAL GREEK POETRY AND PROSE (Undergraduate)
MEDIEVAL GREEK EPISTOLOGRAPHY (Undergraduate)
SPECIALIZED TOPICS OF MEDIEVAL GREEK PROSE II (Undergraduate)
SPECIALIZED TOPICS OF MEDIEVAL GREEK PROSE I (Undergraduate)
BYZANTINE SCHOLARSHIP: COMPULSORY TEXTS (Undergraduate)
SPECIALIZED TOPICS OF MEDIEVAL GREEK POETRY I (Undergraduate)
Ethopoeia Dramatica by Manuel Philes. Introduction, Critical Edition, English Translation, Commentary [Hellenica 112], Alessandria.
D. SAMARA
Books
Αποσπάσματα της Πανοπλίας Δογματικῆς στον κώδικα Parisinus gr. 1310, Parekbolai 14, 171-180.
Δ. ΣΑΜΑΡΑ
Journal Papers
Monasticism and Intellectual Trends in Late Byzantium, in: S. Kotzabassi (ed.), A Companion to the Intellectual Life of the Palaeologan Period (Brill’s Companions to the Byzantine World, 12), Leiden-Boston, 322-344.
D. SAMARA - I. TAXIDIS
Book Chapters
In the poet’s workshop: drafts and variants in Manuel Philes’ poetry, Medioevo Greco 23, 179-191.
I. TAXIDIS - D. SAMARA
Journal Papers
ΘΕΟΔΩΡΟΣ ΜΟΥΖΑΛΩΝ. Ἡ ζωή καί τό συγγραφικό ἔργο ἑνός λογίου τοῦ 13ου αἰώνα [Βυζαντινά Κείμενα και Μελέτες 64], Thessaloniki.
D. SAMARA
Books
- Το φυσικό περιβάλλον στο έργο του Μανουήλ Φιλή, Conference entitled: Κόσμος, Φύση και Περιβάλλον στο Βυζάντιο (World, Nature and Environment in Byzantium), Mystras, May 27, 2025.
- Παραλλαγές και σχεδιάσματα στο ποιητικό έργο του Μανουήλ Φιλή, Online Conference of the Palaeography and Codicology (PalCod) Laboratory and the MA Program of Byzantine Philology, February 3, 2023.
- Ecphrastic symbolisms and image-making in “Ethopoeia dramatike to Ioannes Kantakouzenos” by Manuel Philes, Speaking Images: The Byzantine Ekphrasis, Byzantine Literature Webinar, December 11, 2020.
- «Δραματική» ποίηση στην παλαιολόγεια εποχή: το Εγκώμιο του Μανουήλ Φιλή προς τον Ιωάννη Καντακουζηνό, 2nd [9th] Greek Byzantinists’ Conference, Patras, December 13-15, 2017.
- Ήσσονες λόγιοι στο Βυζάντιο: η περίπτωση του Θεοδώρου Μουζάλωνα, Conference Talk for the Seminar of the Department of Medieval Greek Philology of the Center for Byzantine Studies (acad. year 2016-2017), entitled: The Byzantine Literature in the Palaeologan Era (1261-1453), Thessaloniki, March 22, 2017.
- Funerary epigrams by Manuel Philes for John Cheilas, metropolitan of Ephesus, 23rd International Congress of Byzantine Studies, Belgrade 22-27 August 2016.
- Gregorios II Kyprios – Theodore Mouzalon: The Contra Beccum Oration, 22nd International Congress of Byzantine Studies, Sofia 22-27 August 2011.
- Ο Θεοδόσιος Σαπωνόπουλος στο επιστολάριο του Γρηγορίου Β’ Κυπρίου, Colloquium of the Department of Medieval and Modern Greek Studies (School of Philology, AUTh): Epistolography in the Palaeologan era, Thessaloniki, March 21, 2011.