Maria Fragoulaki^FHEA is Senior Lecturer in Ancient Greek History at Cardiff University. She is an expert on the history and literature of ancient Greece, particularly Thucydides, Herodotus, and Greek historiography.

Fragoulaki was awarded her PhD in Classics from University College London in 2010. Her thesis was entitled Kinship in Thucydides: xyngeneia and Relatedness Between Cities and Ethnic Groups.^[1] She received her Masters in Classics Education from King's College London, and she studied for a BA in Classical Philology at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece.

Fragoulaki published a monograph, Kinship in Thucydides: Intercommunal Ties and Historical Narrative, with Oxford University Press in 2014.^[2] The book was based on her doctoral thesis. As a research student at the University of London, she received the 2006 George Grote Prize for Ancient History. Before taking a post at Cardiff University, Fragoulaki held teaching and research positions at Birkbeck, UCL, and KCL.

Fragoulaki is a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy. She was a Visiting Researcher at Harvard University, Center for Hellenic Studies, Washington, DC, in 2019. In 2018-19 she was a Visiting Research Fellow of the Institute of Classical Studies, School of Advanced Study, University of London.

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• Fragoulaki, M. and Morley, N. (eds.) 2024. Doing Things with Thucydides: Politics, Education, Performance. Bulletin of the Institute of Classical Studies and Oxford University Press.
• Fragoulaki, M. 'Ethnicity in Thucydides'. The Cambridge Companion to Thucydides, ed. by Polly Low. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2023.
• Fragoulaki, M. and Constantakopoulou, C. (eds.) 2020. Shaping Memory in Ancient Greece: Poetry, Historiography and Epigraphy. Supplement volume 11. Newcastle upon Tyne: Histos.
• Fragoulaki, M. 2014 Kinship in Thucydides: Intercommunal Ties and Historical Narrative. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

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• Lecture: Maria Fragoulaki on the human body in Herodotus' battle scenes