Project Director
Prof Jason König, School of Classics, University of St Andrews
Jason was Principal Investigator on a recently completed Leverhulme Trust Research Project (2017-2023), entitled ‘Mountains in ancient literature and culture and their postclassical reception’. His publications include: The Folds of Olympus: Mountains in Ancient Greek and Roman Culture (Princeton University Press, 2022; shortlisted for the London Hellenic Prize 2022), and an edited volume entitled Mountain Dialogues from Antiquity to Modernity (Bloomsbury, 2021). He has also published on representations of landscape in the work of nineetenth-century travellers to Greece.
Contributors
Thanks also to:
- Maria Christodoulou, Faidon Moudopoulos-Athanasiou and Rebecca Sweetman as co-organisers of the Athens conference in October 2025.
- Christina Roald and Callisto Lodwick for their extensive contributions, including a series of guest posts, as undergraduate research assistants (funded by the St Andrews Research Internship Scheme) in semester 2, 2024-25.
- Mary Woodcock Kroble as IT advisor for the project.
Funding partner
The ‘Mountains of Greece’ project is generously funded by the University of St Andrews Impact and Innovation fund.