Graduate (Honours), Faculty of Philology of the Athens University. Ph.D., University College London. Former Director at the Centre of Editions of Ancient Greek Texts, Academy of Athens. Professor Emerita of Ancient Greek Literature at the Faculties of Philology, Universities of Athens and of the Peloponnese. Honorary Director of the Research Institute of Byzantine Studies. President of the Society of Greek Philologists and former Vice President of the F.I.E.C. Author of books and many articles on Greek drama, rhetoric, reception, and Greek language. Two volumes have been published in her honour in Greece and Germany (De Gruyter) with the participation of distinguished scholars from Greece and abroad.