Stelios Pelasgos has studied English literature in the University of Athens and holds a Ph.D. in Aesthetic Education. This was awarded for his multidisciplinary research, based on the theory of  multiple intelligence, into the educational value of the traditional storyteller’ s apprenticeship. His experimental research distinguished and quantified the benefits of traditional storytelling for contemporary pupils in primary education. The published form of this research is recognised as the prime reference in any Greek bibliography of storytelling and is used as a course book in 2 Greek Universities.

 He has also devised an original educational method, “Fairy Tales Against Addiction”, based on traditional European and Greek fairy tales. It is used by the Ministry of Education of Cyprus, under his supervision, as a method to prevent the use of drugs and other addictive substances in pre-adolescents. In another of his projects, “The Black Ship”, former drug addicts relate stories of their descent to the hell of drug addiction. These stories are juxtaposed with extracts from Homer’s Odyssey, relating the descent of Ulysses to the Underworld.

 Stelios Pelasgos has created and conducted many intergenerational programs where elders relate life stories and folk tales amongst themselves and in public (in schools, public libraries, a local radio and small theaters). An anthology of these stories is published in two books.