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Spyros Piperakis is a native of Athens, Greece, and
was emplyed in the Department for the Spring 2012 semester,
while working on his Ph.D. in the study of religion at Aristotle
University in Thessaloniki,
Greece, under the supervision of Prof. Panayotis
Pachis. Mr. Piperakis's doctoral dissertation is entitled,
"Thessalos of Tralles and the De virtutibus herbarum."
His M.A. thesis, completed at Aristotle University in 2009,
is entitled, "Astrology and Medicine: Theory and Practice
in Graeco-Roman Antiquity."
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Mr. Piperakis was the second Ph.D. student from Greece to
come to work for a semester as a colleague in our Department
(the first, in Spring 2010, was Ms. Vaia
Touna). Along with the Department's annual study
aborad course in Greece (begun in 2008), mentoring Greek
graduate students was part of the Department's Greek Initiative--a
program generously supported by the Dean of the University
of Alabama's College
of Arts & Sciences.
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Courses
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While in the Department, Mr. Piperakis observed REL
100 and
REL 419 (taught by Prof. Simmons)
along with REL
237
(taught by Prof. McCutcheon).
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