# Eleni Fassa CHS Associate in Hellenic Studies. Member of the CHS Greece "Pre-doctoral Fellowships in Hellenic Studies" Academic Committee Assistant Professor of Hellenistic and Roman History at Democritus University of Thrace ![fassa-eleni.jpg](/sites/g/files/omnuum7151/files/styles/hwp_4_5__320x400/public/chsgreece/files/fassa-eleni.jpg?itok=65U2EpFl) email laptop\_windows [Eleni Fassa's extended bio](https://www.he.duth.gr/en/node/13743) Eleni Fassa holds a BA in Classical Philology from the University of Athens, an MA in Ancient Drama from the University of Exeter, and a PhD in Hellenistic and Roman History from the University of Athens. In 2023-2024, she was awarded a Harvard Research Fellowship in Comparative Cultural Studies at the Center for Hellenic Studies. From 2017 to 2019, she was a postdoctoral fellow at the National Hellenic Research Foundation's Institute of Greek and Roman Antiquity, where she received funding from the Greek State Scholarships Foundation & the National Strategic Reference Framework program for her research project, "The Egyptian Gods in Macedonia: Cultic Experience of Diversity and Acculturation Strategies in Greco-Roman Macedonia." Her research centers on the religious and cultural history of the Greco-Roman East, with particular interests in Isiac and other "Oriental" cults of the eastern Mediterranean, the religious history of Macedonia, the integration of divinities perceived as foreign, and the spiritual communities of late Hellenism. She is the author of *Julian the Syrian: Letters to Iamblichus* (2016), *The Birth of a Cult: Sarapis and the Ptolemies in 3rd Century Alexandria* (2020), and *Bread and Games: Violence and Entertainment in the Greco-Roman World* (2023). She is currently an assistant professor of Hellenistic and Roman History at the Department of History and Ethnology, Democritus University of Thrace. - ## People [Affiliates](/people/affiliates)