Nic Panagopoulos was born in Greece to Classicist parents and was educated in England, attaining his BA (1988) and PhD (1994) from Royal Holloway, University of London. He is the author of The Fiction of Joseph Conrad: The Influence of Schopenhauer and Nietzsche (1998); the post-doctoral study, Heart of Darkness and The Birth of Tragedy: A Comparative Study (2007); and co-editor of The Place of Lord Byron in World History: Studies in His Life, Writings, and Influence (2013). He has published on a wide range of canonical writers (e.g. Plato, Shakespeare, Swift, Byron, Dickens, Huxley, Beckett, Orwell) using a comparative philosophical methodology. He has read, studied, acted in or taught Shakespeare most of his life, and after seeing Roland Emmerich’s Anonymous in 2014, he is a passionate Oxfordian keen to contribute to the SAQ with his knowledge of classical Greek literature and philosophy. His recent articles on Shakespeare include, “Physis and Nomos in King Lear,” Shakespeare and Greece, Alison Finlay & Vassiliki Markidou, eds., Bloomsbury, 2016, pp. 115-138; “Justice in The Republic and King Lear,” Merope: Journal of Humanities, Anno XXXI, no.74, July 2021, pp. 19-44; and “The Socratic Component of Hamlet”, forthcoming, The Oxfordian 28 (2026).