Kostas Vlassopoulos graduated from the Department of History and Archaeology of the University of Athens in 1999. He received his MA from the University of Crete in 2001, and completed his PhD dissertation at the University of Cambridge in 2005. He taught Greek history at the University of Nottingham between 2005-2015, before moving to the University of Crete, where he is currently teaching ancient history. His main research interests are the history of slavery, the study of globalization and intercultural encounters in antiquity, comparative history, the history of political thought and practice and the history of historiography. He is the author of several monographs and articls, of which the most recent are: Greek and Roman Slaveries (with Ε. Μπαθρέλλου), Wiley-Blackwell. Blackwell Sourcebooks in Ancient History series. 2022, and Historicising Ancient Slavery, Edinburgh University Press. Edinburgh Studies in Ancient Slavery series, vol. 2021. He is also the Principal Investigator of the ERC Advanced Grant Slavegents (Enslaved persons in the making of societies and cultures in Western Eurasia and North Africa, 1000 BCE – 300 CE) which is hosted at the Institute of Mediterranean Studies/FORTH (Rethymno).