Sex and the ancient city: Aspects of sexual intercourse in Greco-Roman antiquity

A CONFERENCE IN HONOUR OF
PROFESSOR CHRIS CAREY, UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON

ORGANIZERS: ANDREAS SERAFIM (University of Cyprus) & GEORGE KAZANTZIDIS (University

of Patras) & KYRIAKOS DEMETRIOU (University of Cyprus)
VENUE AND TIME: University of Cyprus, New Campus, 11-13 June 2019, Room: B108
SPONSORS: Department of Social and Political Science & Postgraduate Programme in Gender
Studies, University of Cyprus

Andreas Serafim a specialist in Greek oratory/rhetoric, law and performance, with a wide
range of other research interests, including ancient Greek religion, reception, linguistics,
sex/gender theories, and other interdisciplinary theories (such as persuasion and humour
theories). He obtained a Ph.D. degree from University College London (2013; supervisor: Chris
Carey), and he is currently a Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Cyprus. His first
monograph, Attic Oratory and Performance (Routledge 2017), for the completion of which he
was awarded a prestigious Government of Ireland Postdoctoral Fellowship (2015/16), has been
endorsed by Professor Konstantinos Kapparis (University of Florida) and positively reviewed
in Bryn Mawr Classical Review by Professor Victor Bers (Yale University). Andreas Serafim
has also published the interdisciplinary volume, The Theatre of Justice: Aspects of
Performance in Greco-Roman Oratory and Rhetoric (Brill 2017; together with Sophia
Papaioannou and Beatrice da Vela), which received positive reviews from Peter O’Connell
(University of Georgia) and Cristian Criste (Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich). The
interdisciplinary character of Andreas’ research is also central to six forthcoming publications:
first, two commentaries on Demosthenes’ Second Olynthiac and Lysias’ Olympic Oration
(forthcoming in September 2019); second, another Routledge monograph, Religious Discourse
in Attic Oratory and Politics (publication expected in 2020); and third, a series of volumes:
The Ancient Art of Persuasion across Genres and Topics (forthcoming in September 2019),
Brill’s Companion to the Reception of Ancient Rhetoric (publication expected in 2020); and
The Rhetoric of Unity and Division in Ancient Literature (publication expected in 2020).

George Kazantzidis graduated from the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki and obtained his
DPhil from the University of Oxford, with a thesis on Melancholy in Hellenistic and Latin
Poetry. His interests lie at the crossroads between medicine and literature in antiquity, with a
special focus on the history of mental illness and the emotions. He is currently finishing his
monograph on disease in Lucretius’ De rerum natura and looks forward to moving to his next

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the Sublime”.

Kyriakos Demetriou is Professor of Political Thought at the University of Cyprus, Department

of Social and Political Science. He is a graduate of University College London (1993) and his
research interests focus primarily on the history of classical reception, especially in the 18th
and 19th centuries, Europe. He has published widely, in the form of books, edited volumes and
journal articles, worldwide. His most known works include: George Grote on Plato and
Athenian Democracy: A Study in Classical Reception (Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang, 1999).
Classics in the Nineteenth Century, 4 volumes (Bristol: Continuum, 2004). Studies on the
Reception of Plato and Greek Political Thought in Victorian Britain (Aldershot: Ashgate,
2011). The Platonic Legend (Athens: Poreia, 2008 – in Greek). In the Reign of Queen Victoria:
14 Texts on Cyprus, 1878-1891 (Athens: University of Cyprus Press, 2000, in Greek).
Democracy in Transition: Political Participation in the European Union (Springer, in press,
2012). J. S. Mill: A British Socrates, ed. K. Demetriou/A. Loizides (Palgrave Macmillan, in
press, 2013). Companion to George Grote and the Classical Heritage, ed. (forthcoming, Brill,
2014). A Companion to the Reception of Euripides, co-edited with Rosanna Lauriola
(forthcoming Brill, 2014). Professor Demetriou is Executive Editor of Polis since 2002 (The
Journal for Ancient Greek Political Thought, Imprint Academic UK), and Overseeing Editor
of Brill’s Series “Companions to Classical Reception”. He is a Member of the International
advisory board of Innovation, The European Journal of Social Science Research and member
of the Editorial Team of Brill’s Series Metaforms: Studies in the Reception of Classical
Antiquity.