Panagiotis Agapitos was born in Athens in 1959. He received his MA in Byzantine Studies and Musicology from the University of Munich, and his PhD in Byzantine Literature from Harvard University. Since 1992 he has taught Byzantine Literature at the University of Cyprus. He has published two books on Byzantine romances of love, the first critical edition of the thirteenth-century vernacular romance Livistros and Rhodamne, as well as a series of articles on interpretative approaches to Byzantine literature, the theory of rhetoric and literary genres in Byzantium, the history of manuscripts and the editorial problems of Medieval Greek texts.
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