Geoffrey Horrocks, Professor of Comparative Philology at the University of Cambridge, is the author of the internationally acclaimed book Greek: A History of the Language and its Speakers, which traces the history and structure of the Greek language from Linear B to the present day.

He has also published a survey of contemporary syntactic theory and has made an outstanding contribution in his published work to our understanding of the syntactic structure of Modern Greek. In addition, he is the author of a number of influential articles on the history and pre-history of the Greek epic tradition.

Professor Horrocks will be in Athens to present the Greek edition of his work Ελληνικά: Η ιστορία της γλώσσας και των ομιλητών της by Hestia Publishers.

Speakers

			George Giannakis, Associate Professor of Linguistics, University of Ioannina
			A. Markopoulos, Professor of Byzantine Studies, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens
			Melita Stavrou, Professor of Linguistics, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
			Maria Tzevelekou, Linguist, Director Language Research Institute