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Writing across time and culture, tracing the human experience.

Featured Works

Selected Scholarship

Searching for Intellectual Disability in Byzantium

in ‘Madness’ in the Ancient World: Innate or Acquired?, pp. 229–258, Brepols, 2023.

Holy Places and Liminal Spaces in John Moschos’s Spiritual Meadow

in Boundaries of Holiness, Frontiers of Sainthood, pp 203-228, Brepols 2025.

A Palm from the Thorns: Theodore of Sykeon as a Miracle-Worker

in Miracles et recueils de miracles a Byzance, pp.131-150, Peeters 2025.

Selected Essays

Τρεις γενιές, μια φωνή. Ο Διονύσης Σαββόπουλος και το κοινό μας τραγούδι

Originally published in The Books’ Journal

Στο Στέκι: Εικόνες από μια ενηλικίωση

Originally published in Φρέαρ

Alien: Earth: Η σειρά που έδωσε στα εξωγήινα τέρατα ανθρώπινο πρόσωπο

Originally published in Τα Νέα

About

Portrait of Fotis Vasileiou

I am a historian of late antiquity and Byzantium, and a writer on culture, ideas, and the human condition. This site brings together my scholarly work and essays.