MUSICOLOGY
(Musicología)
Review of Theory and Praxis of Music
Dimitris Mantzilas
He was born in Athens in 1972. He studied Classics at the University of Athens. In 1995 he gained a Greek
State’s scholarship and continued his studies at the University Paris-IV (Paris-Sorbonne), where he prepared a D.E.A. (1996) and a Doctorat (2000) in Latin Literature,
titled: Les divinités dans l’œuvre poétique d’Ovide (The Deities in Ovid’s Poetical Work). Moreover, he has translated and / or commentated various
Greek and Roman authors and anonymous poems (Callimachus, Sappho, Aristophanes, Alcman, Herondas, Life of Aesop, Carmina
Burana, Cicero, Plutus, Catullus, Tacitus). He is mostly interested in Roman religion and mythology, lyric poetry, magic, medicine, comedy, bucolic poetry, astronomy,
and Etruscology. Last but not least, he plays the piano and sings in choirs as an amateur.