Mikel Labiano completed his PhD in Classical Philology from the Universidad de Salamanca in 1999 with a dissertation on interjections in Aristophanic comedy, supervised by Antonio López Eire. After holding academic positions at the University of La Rioja and the Universidad Complutense de Madrid, he secured a permanent position as Associate Professor of Ancient Greek at the Universitat de València in 2003. Since 2025, he has been a Full Professor at the same university.

His book, Estudio de las interjecciones en las comedias de Aristófanes (Amsterdam: Hakkert, 2000), is widely cited in the major Aristophanic commentaries by Douglas S. Olson: Acharnians (Oxford, 2002), Thesmophoriazusae (Oxford, 2004), and Wasps(Oxford, 2015); as well as in Olson's Clouds (Michigan 2021), Anderson-Dix's Knights (Michigan 2020), and Olson-Biles' Knights(Cambridge 2025). It served as an immediate precursor to Michèle Biraud’s Les interjections du théâtre grec antique (Louvain-La-Neuve, Peeters, 2010) and Lars Nordgren’s Greek Interjections (Berlin, De Gruyter, 2015), as acknowledged by the authors themselves. This study of Ancient Greek interjections is part of a broader line of research concerning conversational Attic Greek, insofar as it can be accessed through textual sources, primarily dramatic texts.

Alongside this line of research on Aristophanic comedy—particularly concerning all aspects of conversational Ancient Greek—he has also studied Euripidean tragedy. He has published several translations of Euripides with Cátedra and Alianza Editorial (Eurípides. Tragedias II. Madrid: Cátedra, 1999; Eurípides. Tragedias III. Madrid: Cátedra, 2000; Eurípides. El Cíclope. Ión. Reso. Madrid: Alianza Editorial, 2010), in addition to several linguistic and philological studies.

His research has also extended to linguistic aspects of the Hippocratic Corpus, focusing on the history of the language, with the aim of contributing to the extensive scholarship on the complex formation of this rich and diverse corpus. In recent years, these studies have led him to participate in two research projects on forgeries, literary pseudoepigrapha, and issues of authorship, with a particular focus on the body of pseudoepigraphic letters and writings within the Hippocratic Collection.

He is currently a member of GRATUV (Grup de Recerca i Acció Teatral de la Universitat de València: https://www.uv.es/gratuv/). Within this group, he plans to continue studying the modes of linguistic expression of political violence in ancient Greek comedy, specifically in Aristophanes, using the analytical frameworks of Conversation Analysis and verbal (im)politeness. These frameworks have been successfully applied to modern Indo-European languages and, more recently, to Ancient Greek. This line of research is situated within a broader, long-range goal: to modernize the methodological framework for studying the conversational language of ancient Greek theatre.

M.A. in Classical Philology (2008) and French Philology (2012) from the University of Valencia. PhD in Greek Philology from the University of Valencia (2013).

My main lines of research are three: 1) the Christian Greek language and literature, 2) the Byzantine hagiography and 3) the reception of classical literature in the literature of the Late Middle Ages and the Renaissance. The first and second lines of research converged in the doctoral thesis work on the Greek texts about Saint Thecla -Acts of Paul and Thecla from the 2nd century and Life and Miracles of Saint Thecla from the 5th century- and subsequently they have been concentrated in two well differentiated areas. On the one hand, in the field of Christian Greek language and literature, the Apocryphal Acts of the Apostles as a whole and in comparison with other texts of the time have been studied in different works, among which the book Tecla de Iconio. La santa ideal, un ideal de santa (2021) stands out. In addition, I am currently actively participating in the preparation of the critical edition, translation and commentary of the Acts of Tomás, within the project "Edition, translation, and commentary of Acta Thomae", financed by the Ministry of Science and Innovation of the Government of Spain (2020-2023). On the other hand, regarding Greek hagiography, the compilations of miracles of saints from the first period of the Byzantine Empire have centered most of the works already published, such as the Spanish translation of the Life and Miracles of Thecla published in the BAC or El culto a las santas y los santos en la Antigüedad tardía y la época bizantina in Síntesis, where the relationship of the Apocryphal Acts of the Apostles is also addressed as a direct antecedent of later hagiography. In this area, I have been the main researcher of the project "Literary Topics in Late-Ancient Christian Hagiography in a Feminine Key" (GV/2020/013), financed by the R+D+i program of the Conselleria d'Innovació, Universitats, Ciència i Societat Digital within the Subsidies subprogram for the realization of R+D+i projects developed by emerging research groups (2020-2021). Recently, I have obtained a grant as main researcher for another project financed by the same entity and scholarship program for the years 2022 and 2023 with the title "Literary topics and narrators in female martyrdom literature" (CIGE/2021/075). Finally, regarding the reception of classical literature in the literature of the Late Middle Ages and the Renaissance, the main objective has been to analyze the presence of elements from tradition and classical literature in didactic and moral works directed women of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries.

During the completion of the doctoral thesis, a stay of 7.5 months was carried out at the Alma Mater Studiorum – Università di Bologna (Italy) and in the second semester of the 2013-2014 academic year, a visiting professor position was obtained at the University of Memphis (USA). In August 2016, a research stay was carried out at the Dumbarton Oaks Research Library of Harvard University in Washington DC thanks to obtaining a scholarship financed by the institution itself. From September 2017 to November of the same year, a 3-month research stay was carried out at the University of Nantes financed by the program for the promotion of research of the Ministry of Education and Science of the Generalitat Valenciana. In July 2019, a 1-month research and training stay in the Coptic language was carried out at the Hill's Museum and Manuscript Library of St. John's University (Minnesota) financed by Dumbarton Oaks. In February 2020, another 1-month teaching / research stay was carried out at the University of Havana (Cuba), invited by this university. In May 2022, a two-week research stay was carried out at the Rijksuniversiteit Groningen (The Netherlands). From September 2014 to September 2019 he has held the position of Assistant Professor at the University of Valencia with a change of profile included in September 2016 through a contest from Didactics of language and literature to Classical Philology. Since 2020 he has held the position of Associate Professor.

The publications exceed 70 in total. The languages ​​of these publications include Catalan, French, English and Italian.

He has taken an active part in more than 40 conferences, some of them held in Belgium, Cuba, France, Italy, Portugal, the United Kingdom and the Czech Republic.

He has actively participated in the organization of conferences, most of them international, between the years 2009-2022.

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Jordi Redondo, PhD in Classical Philology (Salamanca, 1985), is Professor of Greek Philology at the University of Valencia. His main research areas are the history of the ancient Greek language, syntax, rhetoric, and the reception of ancient Greek literature and religion. He was Professor of Greek Philology at the University of Santiago de Compostela (Galicia) (1987-1990), Associate Professor (1990-1991), Full Professor (1991-2012), and Professor at the University of Valencia (since 2012). His major publications include critical editions of the orators Antiphon, Andocides, and Alcidamas, as well as translations of Antiphon and Andocides, the Hymns and Epigrams of Callimachus, and Galen's Anatomical Procedures, and several volumes on the reception of Greek literature. He has also published four textbooks: 1) religion and mythology, 2) syntax, 3) literature, and 4) classical translation theory and practice. He is currently working on a handbook of Greek linguistics (in collaboration). In the field of the history of language, he has focused on early Attic prose (Antiphon, Andocides, Thucydides) and on prose from the Imperial period. Part of this research, including a study on the language of Aratus, has been compiled in the volume *Archaic, Classical and Hellenistic Poetry: Some Contributions to the History of the Ancient Greek Language*, Amsterdam 2015 (with A. Sánchez and Bernet). In the essay entitled *Towards a Sociology of Ancient Greek: A Study of the Sociolects of the Greek Language: Classical, Hellenistic, and Imperial Literature*, Madrid 2016, he addressed the possibilities, methodology, and literary characteristics of vertical dialectal analysis according to different genres. His most recent publication is the volume «Atticism and Koine in Greek prose texts by Jewish writers», Newcastle 2025.

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