Kyriakos Demetriou
PROFILE
As an intellectual historian, Kyriakos N. Demetriou specializes in the history of classical reception(s), eighteenth and nineteenth-century Platonic interpretation, the classical heritage in Victorian Britain, and the history of ancient Greek historiography. His teaching is mainly focused on the history of political thought (ancient and modern), political ideologies and the interpretative approaches in political theory.
K. Demetriou is an elected lifetime member of the Cyprus Academy of Sciences, Letters and Arts, and currently serves as Chair of the Division of "Letters and Arts".
DPhil University College London (Intellectual History, 1993)
MA University of York (Political Philosophy, 1989)
BA University of Athens (Political Science, 1987)
Served: Executive Editor of "POLIS" (2002-2019): The Journal for Ancient Greek and Roman Political Thought (Peer reviewed).
Publisher: Brill Academic Publishers
http://www.brill.com/products/journal/polis-journal-ancient-greek-political-thought
Founding Series Overseeing Editor (2012-), "Companions to Classical Reception", published by Brill.
http://www.brill.com/products/series/brills-companions-classical-reception
Member of the Editorial Board of “Metaforms – Studies in the Reception of Classical Antiquity”, http://www.brill.nl/publications/metaforms
Member of the International Advisory Board of "Innovation", The European Journal of Social Science Research
Formerly member of the Standing Committee for the Humanities, European Science Foundation
Kyriakos Demetriou is also literary author, writer of philosophical novels, published in Greek. (Nine novels published so far, Athens: Poreia, Smile, 2016-2020)
Hobbies: Cinema, Collecting Tinplate Toys (1950s-1960s) and Typewriters.
PS PLEASE EMAIL ME at k.demetriou@ucy.ac.cy IF YOU NEED A COPY or an offprint OF ANY OF PIECE OF MY WORK
Supervisors: Peter Nicholson and Frederick Rosen
Phone: 00357 99 417451
Address: Dept of Social and Political Science, University of Cyprus, P.O. Box 20537, 1578 Nicosia, Cyprus
As an intellectual historian, Kyriakos N. Demetriou specializes in the history of classical reception(s), eighteenth and nineteenth-century Platonic interpretation, the classical heritage in Victorian Britain, and the history of ancient Greek historiography. His teaching is mainly focused on the history of political thought (ancient and modern), political ideologies and the interpretative approaches in political theory.
K. Demetriou is an elected lifetime member of the Cyprus Academy of Sciences, Letters and Arts, and currently serves as Chair of the Division of "Letters and Arts".
DPhil University College London (Intellectual History, 1993)
MA University of York (Political Philosophy, 1989)
BA University of Athens (Political Science, 1987)
Served: Executive Editor of "POLIS" (2002-2019): The Journal for Ancient Greek and Roman Political Thought (Peer reviewed).
Publisher: Brill Academic Publishers
http://www.brill.com/products/journal/polis-journal-ancient-greek-political-thought
Founding Series Overseeing Editor (2012-), "Companions to Classical Reception", published by Brill.
http://www.brill.com/products/series/brills-companions-classical-reception
Member of the Editorial Board of “Metaforms – Studies in the Reception of Classical Antiquity”, http://www.brill.nl/publications/metaforms
Member of the International Advisory Board of "Innovation", The European Journal of Social Science Research
Formerly member of the Standing Committee for the Humanities, European Science Foundation
Kyriakos Demetriou is also literary author, writer of philosophical novels, published in Greek. (Nine novels published so far, Athens: Poreia, Smile, 2016-2020)
Hobbies: Cinema, Collecting Tinplate Toys (1950s-1960s) and Typewriters.
PS PLEASE EMAIL ME at k.demetriou@ucy.ac.cy IF YOU NEED A COPY or an offprint OF ANY OF PIECE OF MY WORK
Supervisors: Peter Nicholson and Frederick Rosen
Phone: 00357 99 417451
Address: Dept of Social and Political Science, University of Cyprus, P.O. Box 20537, 1578 Nicosia, Cyprus
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Editor Kyriakos N. Demetriou
Companion's editors: Ingrid D. Rowland and Sinclair W. Bell
As a master of his discipline, the ancient Roman architect Vitruvius has been read widely for centuries. This collection of essays by an international team of experts investigates his influence and reception in ideas, artistic forms, and building practices from antiquity to modern day. The stories of influence told in these pages suggest that it is the unbridgeable gulf between the Vitruvian text and surviving monuments that makes reading the Ten Books so endlessly compelling. The contributors to this volume offer their own, original readings, which are organized into the five sections: transmission; translation; reception; practice; and Vitruvian topics.
We invite proposals for new volumes in the series from scholars of Ancient Philosophy. We seek contributions that offer a fresh and insightful perspective on key figures and topics in Ancient Philosophy, and that are accessible to a wide audience of scholars and students.
Proposals should be well-developed and demonstrate a clear understanding of the goals and scope of the series. We encourage proposals that cover a broad range of themes, including but not limited to:
Ancient Greek and Roman philosophy
Pre-Socratic philosophy
Platonic and Aristotelian philosophy
Ethics and moral philosophy
Metaphysics and epistemology
Logic and reasoning
Proposals should include a brief summary of the proposed volume, a table of contents, a list of contributors (if applicable), and a timeline for completion. Proposals should be submitted to the series editor for review.
We invite submissions on the history of classical reception (Series: Brill's Companions to Classical Reception"), aimed at scholars and students interested in the ways in which classical works and ideas have been received, adapted, and reinterpreted throughout history.
We welcome submissions on a wide range of topics related to the reception of classical works and ideas, including but not limited to:
The reception of classical literature in later periods
The influence of classical art and architecture on later periods
The reception of classical political thought and philosophy
The role of classical religion and mythology in later periods
The reception of classical scholarship and its impact on intellectual thought
We are particularly interested in submissions that focus on the reception of classical works and ideas in specific historical periods or cultural contexts, or that offer a comparative perspective on the reception of classical works and ideas in different regions or disciplines.
All submissions will be subject to a peer-review process.
To submit a proposal or for further information, please contact the editor at k.demetriou@ucy.ac.cy
"This is the most informative book I have read on George Grote, England's second greatest ancient historian, since Mrs Grote's life of her husband (1873). For the first time Grote is placed firmly into the intellectual milieu of his time ... Demetriou is not obsessed with finding where Grote made mistakes. He reads Grote's "History of Greece" and "Plato" as documents moulded by the political thought of their time. His analysis of Greek history and Platonic studies in England before Grote reveals Grote's enormous contribution. For moderns Greek history begins with Grote, as Roman with Mommsen. Anything earlier is ignored. We underestimate his contribution because ignorant of what came before. Demetriou by emphasising Grote's predecessors makes his achievement clear. A comprehensive up to date bibliography and an index of names conclude the volume." Religious Studies, 2000.
ABSTRACT
George Grote (1794-1871) belonged to the leading Philosophic Radicals of early Victorian Britain. A student of James Mill and Jeremy Bentham, a self-educated classical scholar, and a committed utilitarian liberal, he succeeded in revolutionizing the field of Greek studies. The author draws on both unpublished works of Grote and also a wide range of published material, with emphasis on the 'History of Greece' and 'Plato and the other Companions of Sokrates', to give us this study of the historian's thought and understanding of classical Greece. The book starts with an examination of Grote's early intellectual influences and then proceeds to an extensive critical exploration of the reception of Athens and Plato in pre-Grotean historiography and classical scholarship. Grote's monumental work completely reversed the traditional antidemocratic approach to the history of Greece, rehabilitated the Sophists and the demagogues after centuries of derision, examined in detail the working of Athenian democracy and the merits of political participation, and demonstrated that Plato's desire was to stimulate philosophical thinking in his audience, rather than establishing a system of dogmatic solutions to moral and metaphysical problems. At the time, Grote's original works formed an encyclopedia of classical studies and a major contribution to the history of political thought. His enduring significance in our own time is foremost the result of his profound and vast scholarship, but it also proves that ancient Greek history and theory can be still understood in the light of today's values and used as a resource for contemporary political reflection.
REVIEWS
Professor George Huxley, Review of Kyriacos N. Demetriou, “George Grote on Plato and Athenian Democracy”, Ελληνικά 51.2, 2001, pp. 415-418.
Stuart Dawson, Polis: The Journal for Ancient Greek Political Thought 17 (1-2):187-198 (2000)
Reviews (Victorian Studies)
'Demetriou’s essays provide a most useful and nuanced guide to the understanding of the reception and uses made of Plato, Platonisms and Greek History in 19th century Britain... This volume provides an excellent overview of Plato and the Greeks in Victorian Britain, with close attention to detail, especially in light of the still prevalent preponderance of clichés about Plato and Platonism... This is a most useful collection.' International Journal of the Platonic Tradition 'Demetriou [...] portrays not only the contributions made by Grote to Platonic studies in the nineteenth century but also the changing landscape of Platonic interpretation across the whole of the nineteenth century and the first half of the twentieth... indeed the most valuable feature of this volume is the author’s analysis of Victorian Platonism and the central role played by Grote’s Plato in the shaping of this tradition.' Victorian Studies
Series:
Brill's Companions to Classical Reception, Volume: 23
Volume Editors: Sophia Papaioannou, Andreas Serafim, and Michael Edwards
This volume, examining the reception of ancient rhetoric, aims to demonstrate that the past is always part of the present: in the ways in which decisions about crucial political, social and economic matters have been made historically; or in organic interaction with literature, philosophy and culture at the core of the foundation principles of Western thought and values. Analysis is meant to cover the broadest possible spectrum of considerations that focus on the totality of rhetorical species (i.e. forensic, deliberative and epideictic) as they are applied to diversified topics (including, but not limited to, language, science, religion, literature, theatre and other cultural processes (e.g. athletics), politics and leadership, pedagogy and gender studies) and cross-cultural, geographical and temporal contexts. See Less
Copyright Year: 2022
BCCR is the only series dedicated to publishing "Companions to Classical Reception". Since its inception in 2012 more than 25 volumes have appeared, and some are in the pipeline for publication. All titles go through a rigorous double peer-review process. For any proposal or information about the series please contact Kyriakos Demetriou, k.demetriou@ucy.ac.cy
Volumes in the series deal with subjects related to the broad field of Classical reception including, but not limited to reception of art, literature, architecture, history, religion, political thought, and intellectual thought (including volumes on influential Classical scholars and the history of classical scholarship) in later centuries and in various scholarly disciplines. The Series will show a systematic coverage of subjects. Written by the foremost specialists in the respective fields, they aim to provide full-balanced accounts at an advanced level, as well as synthesis of debate and the state of scholarship.
Brill’s Companion to Classics in the Early Americas illuminates the remarkable range of Greco-Roman classical receptions across the western hemisphere from the late fifteenth to the early nineteenth century. Bringing together fifteen essays by scholars working at the intersection of Classics and all aspects of Americanist studies, this unique collection examines how Hispanophone, Lusophone, Anglophone, Francophone, and/or Indigenous individuals engaged with Greco-Roman literary cultures and materials. By coming at the matter from a multilingual transhemispheric perspective, it disrupts prevailing accounts of classical reception in the Americas which have typically privileged North over South, Anglophone over non-Anglophone, and the cultural production of hegemonic groups over that of more marginalized others. Instead it offers a fresh account of how Greco-Roman literatures and ideas were in play from Canada to the Southern Cone to the Caribbean, treating classical reception in the early Americas as a dynamic, polyvocal phenomenon which is truly transhemispheric in reach.
Editors: Sophia Papaioannou, Andreas Serafim, Kyriakos Demetriou
Brill’s Companion to the Reception of Homer from the Hellenistic Age to Late Antiquity presents a comprehensive account of the afterlife of the Homeric corpus. Twenty chapters written by a range of experts in the field show how Homeric poems were transmitted, disseminated, adopted, analysed, admired or even criticized across diverse intellectual environments, from the 3rd century BCE to the 6th century CE. The volume explores the impact of Homer on Hellenistic prose and poetry, the Second Sophistic, the Stoics, some Christian writers and the major Neoplatonists, showing how the Greek paideia continued to flourish in new contexts.
The book offers a comprehensive and multidisciplinary approach to this important topic by bringing together internationally recognised scholars from a variety of disciplines, including ancient and modern historians, historians of political thought, political philosophers, and political scientists.
Brill's Companions to Classical Reception, Volume: 17
Editors: Petros Bouras-Vallianatos and Barbara Zipser
Brill’s Companion to the Reception of Galen presents a comprehensive account of the afterlife of the corpus of the second-century AD Greek physician Galen of Pergamum. In 31 chapters, written by a range of experts in the field, it shows how Galen was adopted, adapted, admired, contested, and criticised across diverse intellectual environments and geographical regions, from Late Antiquity to the present day, and from Europe to North Africa, the Middle and the Far East.
The volume offers both introductory material and new analysis on the transmission and dissemination of Galen’s works and ideas through translations into Latin, Syriac, Arabic, Hebrew and other languages, the impact of Galenic thought on medical practice, as well as his influence in non-medical contexts, including philosophy and alchemy.
Editor Kyriakos N. Demetriou
Companion's editors: Ingrid D. Rowland and Sinclair W. Bell
As a master of his discipline, the ancient Roman architect Vitruvius has been read widely for centuries. This collection of essays by an international team of experts investigates his influence and reception in ideas, artistic forms, and building practices from antiquity to modern day. The stories of influence told in these pages suggest that it is the unbridgeable gulf between the Vitruvian text and surviving monuments that makes reading the Ten Books so endlessly compelling. The contributors to this volume offer their own, original readings, which are organized into the five sections: transmission; translation; reception; practice; and Vitruvian topics.
We invite proposals for new volumes in the series from scholars of Ancient Philosophy. We seek contributions that offer a fresh and insightful perspective on key figures and topics in Ancient Philosophy, and that are accessible to a wide audience of scholars and students.
Proposals should be well-developed and demonstrate a clear understanding of the goals and scope of the series. We encourage proposals that cover a broad range of themes, including but not limited to:
Ancient Greek and Roman philosophy
Pre-Socratic philosophy
Platonic and Aristotelian philosophy
Ethics and moral philosophy
Metaphysics and epistemology
Logic and reasoning
Proposals should include a brief summary of the proposed volume, a table of contents, a list of contributors (if applicable), and a timeline for completion. Proposals should be submitted to the series editor for review.
We invite submissions on the history of classical reception (Series: Brill's Companions to Classical Reception"), aimed at scholars and students interested in the ways in which classical works and ideas have been received, adapted, and reinterpreted throughout history.
We welcome submissions on a wide range of topics related to the reception of classical works and ideas, including but not limited to:
The reception of classical literature in later periods
The influence of classical art and architecture on later periods
The reception of classical political thought and philosophy
The role of classical religion and mythology in later periods
The reception of classical scholarship and its impact on intellectual thought
We are particularly interested in submissions that focus on the reception of classical works and ideas in specific historical periods or cultural contexts, or that offer a comparative perspective on the reception of classical works and ideas in different regions or disciplines.
All submissions will be subject to a peer-review process.
To submit a proposal or for further information, please contact the editor at k.demetriou@ucy.ac.cy
"This is the most informative book I have read on George Grote, England's second greatest ancient historian, since Mrs Grote's life of her husband (1873). For the first time Grote is placed firmly into the intellectual milieu of his time ... Demetriou is not obsessed with finding where Grote made mistakes. He reads Grote's "History of Greece" and "Plato" as documents moulded by the political thought of their time. His analysis of Greek history and Platonic studies in England before Grote reveals Grote's enormous contribution. For moderns Greek history begins with Grote, as Roman with Mommsen. Anything earlier is ignored. We underestimate his contribution because ignorant of what came before. Demetriou by emphasising Grote's predecessors makes his achievement clear. A comprehensive up to date bibliography and an index of names conclude the volume." Religious Studies, 2000.
ABSTRACT
George Grote (1794-1871) belonged to the leading Philosophic Radicals of early Victorian Britain. A student of James Mill and Jeremy Bentham, a self-educated classical scholar, and a committed utilitarian liberal, he succeeded in revolutionizing the field of Greek studies. The author draws on both unpublished works of Grote and also a wide range of published material, with emphasis on the 'History of Greece' and 'Plato and the other Companions of Sokrates', to give us this study of the historian's thought and understanding of classical Greece. The book starts with an examination of Grote's early intellectual influences and then proceeds to an extensive critical exploration of the reception of Athens and Plato in pre-Grotean historiography and classical scholarship. Grote's monumental work completely reversed the traditional antidemocratic approach to the history of Greece, rehabilitated the Sophists and the demagogues after centuries of derision, examined in detail the working of Athenian democracy and the merits of political participation, and demonstrated that Plato's desire was to stimulate philosophical thinking in his audience, rather than establishing a system of dogmatic solutions to moral and metaphysical problems. At the time, Grote's original works formed an encyclopedia of classical studies and a major contribution to the history of political thought. His enduring significance in our own time is foremost the result of his profound and vast scholarship, but it also proves that ancient Greek history and theory can be still understood in the light of today's values and used as a resource for contemporary political reflection.
REVIEWS
Professor George Huxley, Review of Kyriacos N. Demetriou, “George Grote on Plato and Athenian Democracy”, Ελληνικά 51.2, 2001, pp. 415-418.
Stuart Dawson, Polis: The Journal for Ancient Greek Political Thought 17 (1-2):187-198 (2000)
Reviews (Victorian Studies)
'Demetriou’s essays provide a most useful and nuanced guide to the understanding of the reception and uses made of Plato, Platonisms and Greek History in 19th century Britain... This volume provides an excellent overview of Plato and the Greeks in Victorian Britain, with close attention to detail, especially in light of the still prevalent preponderance of clichés about Plato and Platonism... This is a most useful collection.' International Journal of the Platonic Tradition 'Demetriou [...] portrays not only the contributions made by Grote to Platonic studies in the nineteenth century but also the changing landscape of Platonic interpretation across the whole of the nineteenth century and the first half of the twentieth... indeed the most valuable feature of this volume is the author’s analysis of Victorian Platonism and the central role played by Grote’s Plato in the shaping of this tradition.' Victorian Studies
Series:
Brill's Companions to Classical Reception, Volume: 23
Volume Editors: Sophia Papaioannou, Andreas Serafim, and Michael Edwards
This volume, examining the reception of ancient rhetoric, aims to demonstrate that the past is always part of the present: in the ways in which decisions about crucial political, social and economic matters have been made historically; or in organic interaction with literature, philosophy and culture at the core of the foundation principles of Western thought and values. Analysis is meant to cover the broadest possible spectrum of considerations that focus on the totality of rhetorical species (i.e. forensic, deliberative and epideictic) as they are applied to diversified topics (including, but not limited to, language, science, religion, literature, theatre and other cultural processes (e.g. athletics), politics and leadership, pedagogy and gender studies) and cross-cultural, geographical and temporal contexts. See Less
Copyright Year: 2022
BCCR is the only series dedicated to publishing "Companions to Classical Reception". Since its inception in 2012 more than 25 volumes have appeared, and some are in the pipeline for publication. All titles go through a rigorous double peer-review process. For any proposal or information about the series please contact Kyriakos Demetriou, k.demetriou@ucy.ac.cy
Volumes in the series deal with subjects related to the broad field of Classical reception including, but not limited to reception of art, literature, architecture, history, religion, political thought, and intellectual thought (including volumes on influential Classical scholars and the history of classical scholarship) in later centuries and in various scholarly disciplines. The Series will show a systematic coverage of subjects. Written by the foremost specialists in the respective fields, they aim to provide full-balanced accounts at an advanced level, as well as synthesis of debate and the state of scholarship.
Brill’s Companion to Classics in the Early Americas illuminates the remarkable range of Greco-Roman classical receptions across the western hemisphere from the late fifteenth to the early nineteenth century. Bringing together fifteen essays by scholars working at the intersection of Classics and all aspects of Americanist studies, this unique collection examines how Hispanophone, Lusophone, Anglophone, Francophone, and/or Indigenous individuals engaged with Greco-Roman literary cultures and materials. By coming at the matter from a multilingual transhemispheric perspective, it disrupts prevailing accounts of classical reception in the Americas which have typically privileged North over South, Anglophone over non-Anglophone, and the cultural production of hegemonic groups over that of more marginalized others. Instead it offers a fresh account of how Greco-Roman literatures and ideas were in play from Canada to the Southern Cone to the Caribbean, treating classical reception in the early Americas as a dynamic, polyvocal phenomenon which is truly transhemispheric in reach.
Editors: Sophia Papaioannou, Andreas Serafim, Kyriakos Demetriou
Brill’s Companion to the Reception of Homer from the Hellenistic Age to Late Antiquity presents a comprehensive account of the afterlife of the Homeric corpus. Twenty chapters written by a range of experts in the field show how Homeric poems were transmitted, disseminated, adopted, analysed, admired or even criticized across diverse intellectual environments, from the 3rd century BCE to the 6th century CE. The volume explores the impact of Homer on Hellenistic prose and poetry, the Second Sophistic, the Stoics, some Christian writers and the major Neoplatonists, showing how the Greek paideia continued to flourish in new contexts.
The book offers a comprehensive and multidisciplinary approach to this important topic by bringing together internationally recognised scholars from a variety of disciplines, including ancient and modern historians, historians of political thought, political philosophers, and political scientists.
Brill's Companions to Classical Reception, Volume: 17
Editors: Petros Bouras-Vallianatos and Barbara Zipser
Brill’s Companion to the Reception of Galen presents a comprehensive account of the afterlife of the corpus of the second-century AD Greek physician Galen of Pergamum. In 31 chapters, written by a range of experts in the field, it shows how Galen was adopted, adapted, admired, contested, and criticised across diverse intellectual environments and geographical regions, from Late Antiquity to the present day, and from Europe to North Africa, the Middle and the Far East.
The volume offers both introductory material and new analysis on the transmission and dissemination of Galen’s works and ideas through translations into Latin, Syriac, Arabic, Hebrew and other languages, the impact of Galenic thought on medical practice, as well as his influence in non-medical contexts, including philosophy and alchemy.
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The volume offers both introductory material and new analysis on the transmission and dissemination of Galen’s works and ideas through translations into Latin, Syriac, Arabic, Hebrew and other languages, the impact of Galenic thought on medical practice, as well as his influence in non-medical contexts, including philosophy and alchemy.
(Series Editor, Kyriakos Demetriou)
Brill’s Companion to the Reception of Aeschylus explores the various ways Aeschylus’ tragedies have been discussed, parodied, translated, revisioned, adapted, and integrated into other works over the course of the last 2500 years. Immensely popular while alive, Aeschylus’ reception begins in his own lifetime. And, while he has not been the most reproduced of the three Attic tragedians on the stage since then, his receptions have transcended genre and crossed to nearly every continent. While still engaging with Aeschylus’ theatrical reception, the volume also explores Aeschylus off the stage--in radio, the classroom, television, political theory, philosophy, science fiction and beyond.
Thematic Coverage: Areas/Strands in the Series
BCCR’ structure and sc0pe revolve basically around five major topical areas and each “Companion” is expected to fall under one of the distinctly identifiable categories:
(a) Literature/Historiography
(b) Philosophy/Intellectual History
(c) History of Classical Scholarship (i.e. individual scholars/schools of thought/movements)
(d) Science and Medicine/Art & Architecture
(e) Ancient Figures
BCCR is so designed as to address a bibliographical need, in terms of (a) providing “Companions” to neglected, un-neglected or under-developed fields or areas of studies related to the history of classical reception/appropriation, (b) offering full documentation and analytical accounts of eminent classicists and their influences, and (b) suggesting theoretical frameworks and areas for further research on the history of classical studies.
BCCR is intended to serve an international audience of non-specialists as well as specialists by providing accessible and yet highly professional, concise and systematic accounts of themes as categorized above (Greek or Roman). More specifically, BCCR is designed for specialist and non-specialist scholars and graduate, or otherwise advanced students in classics, working on a wide range of classical studies, intellectual historians, philosophers, political theorists, cultural historians and the general reader.
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Please email me at: k.demetriou@ucy.ac.cy
Series Editor: Kyriakos N. Demetriou
Volumes in the series deal with subjects pertaining to the broad field of Classical reception including, but not limited to reception of art, literature, architecture, history, religion, political thought, and intellectual thought (including volumes on influential Classical scholars and the history of classical scholarship) in later centuries and in various scholarly disciplines. The Series will show a systematic coverage of subjects. Written by the foremost specialists in the respective fields, they aim to provide full-balanced accounts at an advanced level, as well as synthesis of debate and the state of scholarship.
All Companions are peer-reviewed.
Volumes in the series deal with subjects pertaining to the broad field of Classical reception including, but not limited to reception of art, literature, architecture, history, religion, political thought, and intellectual thought (including volumes on influential Classical scholars) in later centuries and in various scholarly disciplines. The Series will show a systematic coverage of subjects. Written by the foremost specialists in the respective fields, they aim to provide full-balanced accounts at an advanced level, as well as synthesis of debate and the state of scholarship.""
Greek Oligarchy, and the pre-Solonian Areopagos Council in [Aristotle] Ath. Pol. 2.2-8.4
Author: Robert W. Wallace
Source: Volume 31, Issue 2, pp 191 –205
Thucydides as a Prospect Theorist
Authors: Josiah Ober and Tomer J. Perry
Source: Volume 31, Issue 2, pp 206 –232
Hesiod: Man, Law and Cosmos
Author: Alex Priou
Source: Volume 31, Issue 2, pp 233 –260
Thucydides in Wartime: Reflecting on Democracy and its Discontents
Author: Christine Lee
Source: Volume 31, Issue 2, pp 261 –287
Who’s Happy in Plato’s Republic?
Author: Jonathan Culp
Source: Volume 31, Issue 2, pp 288 –312
Political Technê: Plato and the Poets
Author: Dougal Blyth
Source: Volume 31, Issue 2, pp 313 –351
Plato’s Rejection of the Instrumental Account of Friendship in the Lysis
Author: Howard J. Curzer
Source: Volume 31, Issue 2, pp 352 –368
Jefferson’s Platonic Republicanism
Author: M. Andrew Holowchak
Source: Volume 31, Issue 2, pp 369 –386
Hobbes and Dionysius of Halicarnassus on Thucydides, Rhetoric and Political Life
Author: Timothy W. Burns
Source: Volume 31, Issue 2, pp 387 –424
Book review: Aristotle’s Teaching in the Politics, written by Thomas Pangle
Author: Stephen Salkever
Source: Volume 31, Issue 2, pp 425 –428
Book review: Aristotle. His Life and School, written by Carlo Natali
Author: Lloyd Gerson
Source: Volume 31, Issue 2, pp 429 –431
Book review: John Stuart Mill’s Platonic Heritage. Happiness Through Character, written by Antis Loizides
Author: Giovanni Giorgini
Source: Volume 31, Issue 2, pp 432 –434
Book review: The Greek Polis and the Invention of Democracy: A Politico-cultural Transformation and Its Interpretation, written by Johann P. Arnason, Kurt A. Raaflaub and Peter Wagner
Author: Eric W. Robinson
Source: Volume 31, Issue 2, pp 435 –442
Book review: The Reception of Aristotle’s Ethics, written by Jon Miller
Author: S.J. Arthur Madigan
Source: Volume 31, Issue 2, pp 443 –449
Book review: Reflections on Aristotle’s Politics, written by Mogens Herman Hansen
Author: Peter L. P. Simpson
Source: Volume 31, Issue 2, pp 450 –451
Book review: Aeschylus’s Suppliant Women: The Tragedy of Immigration, written by Geoffrey W. Bakewell
Author: Rebecca Futo Kennedy
Source: Volume 31, Issue 2, pp 452 –455
Book review: Private Lives, Public Deaths: Antigone and the Invention of Individuality, written by Jonathan Strauss
Author: Larissa Atkison
Source: Volume 31, Issue 2, pp 456 –459
Book review: Protagoras of Abdera: The Man, His Measure, written by Johannes M. van Ophuijsen, Marlein van Raalte, and Peter Stork
Author: Christopher Moore
Source: Volume 31, Issue 2, pp 460 –465
Book review: Political Philosophy Cross-Examined: Perennial Challenges to the Philosophic Life, written by Thomas L. Pangle and J. Harvey Lomax
Author: David Corbin
Source: Volume 31, Issue 2, pp 466 –470
Book review: Marcus Tullius Cicero: On the Republic and On the Laws, written by David Fott
Author: Jonathan Zarecki
-- Department of Social and Political Sciences, University of Cyprus
Co-sponsors:
-- Department of Classics, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens
-- Department of Classics and Philosophy, University of Cyprus
Conveners:
-- Kyriakos Demetriou (Cyprus)
-- Sophia Papaioannou (Athens)
-- Andreas Serafim (Cyprus/ OU Cyprus/ Trinity College Dublin)
Keynote speaker:
-- Michael Gagarin (Austin)
Confirmed speakers:
-- Adele Scafuro (Brown)
-- Alessandro Vatri (Oxford)
-- Andreas Hetzel (Hildesheim)
-- Andreas Michalopoulos (Athens)
-- Antonis Petrides (OU Cyprus)
-- Antonis Tsakmakis (Cyprus)
-- Benoit Sans (Brussels)
-- Brenda Griffith-Williams (UCL)
-- Christopher Carey (UCL)
-- Costas Apostolakis (Crete)
-- Dimos Spatharas (Crete)
-- Eleni Volonaki (Peloponnese)
-- Flaminia Beneventano della Corte (Siena)
-- Francesca Scrofani (EHESS/Università degli Studi di Trento)
-- Gabriel Danzig (Bar Ilan University)
-- Georgios Vassiliades (Paris IV-Sorbonne)
-- Jakob Wisse (Newcastle)
-- Jennifer Devereaux (Southern California)
-- Jessica Evans (Middlebury)
-- Jon Hesk (St Andrews)
-- Judith Mossman (Nottingham)
-- Kathryn Tempest (Roehampton)
-- Margot Neger (Salzburg)
-- Maria Kythreotou (Cyprus)
-- Michael Paschalis (Crete)
-- Rebecca van Hove (KCL)
-- Ricardo Gancz (Bar Ilan University)
-- Robert Sing (Cambridge)
-- Roger Brock (Leeds)
-- Sophia Xenophontos (Glasgow)
-- Stephen Todd (Manchester)
-- T. Davina McClain (Northwestern State University)
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Θα πεθάνει ή όχι ο Λασίφ στα σαράντα του χρόνια, όπως προέβλεψε η μάγισσα; Ο Γκάρρικ βιώνει το μαρτύριο του απόλυτου τρόμου, ενώ ο Αντριάν αναχωρεί από το Ντένβερ για να επισκεφτεί τα χαρακώματα του Σομ. Ποιο είναι το μυστικό του; Ο αμαξάς Σεβαλιέ οδεύει για το Μποβέ μ' έναν μυστηριώδη επιβάτη, όμως κάτι θα συμβεί που θ' αλλάξει τη ζωή του. Ο Γουάλας ταξιδεύει στο Λονδίνο για να εκδώσει το βιβλίο του, ωστόσο ακολουθεί μία σειρά από απροσδόκητα γεγονότα. Ένας ανώνυμος ήρωας επαναλαμβάνει το ίδιο δρομολόγιο. Ο Μάρκους Μπλοχ κοιμάται στην αγροικία του για τριάντα ολόκληρα χρόνια. Ή μήπως όχι; Ο γκαλερίστας Μερσέρ μαγνητίζεται από την τεχνοτροπία ενός πίνακα, μια εμμονή που θα έχει παράδοξες επιπτώσεις στη ζωή του. Ο Αμεντέο εξομολογείται τις αμαρτίες του στον πατέρα Ιουστίνο, ωστόσο κάτι πάει στραβά. Ο Δον Τριστάν βγαίνει για κυνήγι, μεσολαβεί κάτι παράξενο και συνέρχεται σ' ένα σκοτεινό μέρος. Εντοπίζεται δώδεκα χρόνια αργότερα. Τι συνέβη; Ο Ντέιλ ζει ανυποψίαστος στη σοφίτα του, όταν αντιλαμβάνεται πως κάποιος τον παρακολουθεί.
Μυθοπλαστική αφήγηση - διηγηματικός ιστός με κεντρικό θεματικό άξονα την αναζήτηση του νοήματος, σ' έναν κόσμο φαινομενικά υποταγμένο στο πεπρωμένο του. Στην τελευταία πράξη, οι πρωταγωνιστές -φιγούρες ετερόκλητες, μα και τόσο όμοιες στην ιλαροτραγικότητά τους- εκτινάσσονται από άλλες εποχές και διαφορετικούς τόπους, και συναντιούνται σ' ένα βαγόνι, για να προσθέσουν, οι ίδιοι, την τελική ψηφίδα στο μωσαϊκό της αινιγματικής τους ύπαρξης. (Από την παρουσίαση στο οπισθόφυλλο του βιβλίου)
Ο νεαρός, φιλόδοξος ερευνητής Γκέιλ Έλιοτ αφοσιώνεται στη μελέτη ενός λησμονημένου φιλοσόφου του δέκατου όγδοου αιώνα, ωστόσο σταδιακά αποσπάται από τον "εαυτό" του και ασυνείδητα αφομοιώνεται από το κεντρικό πρόσωπο της αφήγησης.
Ο φιλόσοφος (Φλόυερ Σίντενχαμ), σε μια τελευταία, μοιραία συνάντηση με τον Έλιοτ, αποκηρύσσει το έργο του, και σε έναν χρόνο ασύμβατο, μεταξύ ονειρικής απόδρασης και μιας σχεδόν μυστικής σύλληψης της πραγματικότητας, σε ένα συγκλονιστικό ταξίδι στο παρελθόν, αναλαμβάνει ο ίδιος να ολοκληρώσει το βιβλίο παραμερίζοντας τον συγγραφέα.
Ποιος είναι εν τέλει ο ήρωας του βιβλίου; Ο συγγραφέας ή ο πρωταγωνιστής του; Ποιος είναι, αληθινά, ο πρωταγωνιστής στο Χειρόγραφο; Προβολή της φαντασίας του συγγραφέα, ένα πληγωμένο φάντασμα ή η προσωποποίηση μιας ενοχής συνείδησης; Μια παράξενη ιστορία, με φόντο το Λονδίνο δύο εποχών. (Από την παρουσίαση στο οπισθόφυλλο του βιβλίου)
Ένας φοιτητής Φιλοσοφίας φτάνει σε ένα παλιό βικτοριανό κτίριο, για να βιώσει μια παράδοξη περιπλάνηση στο παρελθόν. Το ιστορικό οικοδόμημα -παλιό σανατόριο ανίατων ασθενών, στέγη φοιτητών πια- διυλίζεται στον χρόνο και στη λονδρέζικη ομίχλη, μαζί με τους ενοίκους του, και μετατοπίζεται με βιαιότητα σε τρεις διαδοχικές εποχές, με ανάστροφη πορεία και απροσδόκητο προορισμό. (Από την παρουσίαση στο οπισθόφυλλο του βιβλίου), σελ. 144.
Σπονδυλωτή ανάδρομη αφήγηση σε τριάντα τρεις ενότητες. Μνημονικές αναπαραστάσεις εναγώνιας ενδοσκόπησης και αυτο-εξιστόρησης, μέσα από τις οποίες αποκαλύπτονται τα μυστικά και τα τραγικά γεγονότα που οδήγησαν τον πρωταγωνιστή σε μια αλλοτριωμένη ύπαρξη. Ο Λέναρντ Μάισνερ, ο ίδιος πλέον αντιμέτωπος με τον θάνατο και τη θνητότητα, καλείται ν' αναλάβει τις ευθύνες του. (Από την παρουσίαση στο οπισθόφυλλο του βιβλίου)
Ο νεαρός, φιλόδοξος ερευνητής Γκέιλ Έλιοτ αφοσιώνεται στη μελέτη ενός λησμονημένου φιλοσόφου του δέκατου όγδοου αιώνα, ωστόσο σταδιακά αποσπάται από τον «εαυτό» του και ασυνείδητα αφομοιώνεται από το κεντρικό πρόσωπο της αφήγησης. Ο φιλόσοφος (Φλόυερ Σίντενχαμ), σε μια τελευταία, μοιραία συνάντηση με τον Έλιοτ, αποκηρύσσει το έργο του, και σε έναν χρόνο ασύμβατο, μεταξύ ονειρικής απόδρασης και μιας σχεδόν μυστικής σύλληψης της πραγματικότητας, σε ένα συγκλονιστικό ταξίδι στο παρελθόν, αναλαμβάνει ο ίδιος να ολοκληρώσει το βιβλίο παραμερίζοντας τον συγγραφέα. Ποιός είναι εν τέλει ο ήρωας του βιβλίου; Ο συγγραφέας ή ο πρωταγωνιστής του; Ποιός είναι, αληθινά, ο πρωταγωνιστής στο «Χειρόγραφο»; Προβολή της φαντασίας του συγγραφέα, ένα πληγωμένο φάντασμα ή η προσωποποίηση μιας ένοχης συνείδησης; Μια παράξενη ιστορία, με φόντο το Λονδίνο δύο εποχών.
Τρεις μήνες και μία μέρα (Three months and a day)
Ένας φοιτητής φιλοσοφίας φτάνει σε ένα παλιό βικτοριανό κτίριο, για να βιώσει μια παράδοξη περιπλάνηση στο παρελθόν. Το ιστορικό οικοδόμημα – παλιό σανατόριο ανίατων ασθενών, στέγη φοιτητών πια – δυιλίζεται στον χρόνο και στη λονδρέζικη ομίχλη, μαζί με τους ενοίκους του, και μετατοπίζεται με βιαιότητα σε τρεις διαδοχικές εποχές, με ανάστροφη πορεία και απροσδόκητο προορισμό. Σπονδυλωτή ατμοσφαιρική αφήγηση που διαδραματίζεται σε “τρεις μήνες και μία μέρα”.
A CONFERENCE IN HONOUR OF PROFESSOR CHRIS CAREY.
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