Nestan Egetashvili

In 2000, Nestan Egetashvili graduated from the Institute of Classical Philology, Byzantine and Modern Greek Studies at Ivane Javakhishvili Tbilisi State University, with a degree in Georgian Language and Literature, and Modern Greek Language and Literature as an additional specialization.
From 2000 to 2002, she completed a Master’s program in Classical Philology at the same university, presenting a thesis titled “Dionysiaca by Nonnus of Panopolis in the Context of Late Antique Thought.”
In 2005, she entered the PhD program at the same institute.
In 2008, she enrolled in the university’s doctoral program in Classical Philology and Antiquity Studies.
In 2011, she defended her dissertation “Mythopoetic Models and Image-Symbols in Dionysiaca by Nonnus of Panopolis” and was awarded the academic degree of Doctor of Philology.

From 2003 to 2006, she taught Modern Greek at Tbilisi Classical Gymnasium No. 1.
From 2006 to 2009, she served as the official representative of the Greek company “Dika” in Georgia.
From 2013 to 2014, she was an assistant professor at the European Public College of Tourism, Regional Development and Informatics.
Since 2014, she has been an Associate Professor at the State University of Physical Education and Sport of Georgia.

Between 1996 and 2002, she attended various seminars and programs on Greek culture, history, civilization, and language organized by universities in Athens, Thessaloniki, Ioannina, and Rethymno.
In 2006, she received a scholarship from the A. Onassis Foundation and completed a two-month training in teaching Greek as a foreign language at Arsakeio Gymnasium in Athens.
She is the author of the monograph “Mythopoetic Models and Image-Symbols in Dionysiaca by Nonnus of Panopolis,” published in 2013 under the TSU Institute’s program Logos.
Since 2016, her short stories have appeared in Literary Newspaper.
She has published scholarly articles in Georgian, Greek, and English, including in international academic journals.
Notably, her article “An Attempt to Remove the Asia-Europe Opposition: Κάυκασος in the Dionysiaca of Nonnus of Panopolis” was published in 2017 in Volume 408 of Brill’s Mnemosyne, an academic journal of ancient literature founded in Leiden in 1683.
In 2019, her short story collection “Frozen Sugar” was published by Intelekti Publishing.