Kyriakos Demetriou

PROFESSOR
Department of Social and Political Sciences
Cyprus University of Technology
Cyprus

Biography

Synopsis: As an intellectual historian, Professor Kyriakos N. Demetriou (DPhil University College London) specializes in the history of classical reception, with emphasis on eighteenth and nineteenth-century Platonic tradition and the history of 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. For a more comprehensive profile please visit https://ucy.academia.edu/KyriakosDemetriou Executive Editor of POLIS (2002-present): The Journal for Ancient Greek Political Thought (Peer-reviewed). http://www.brill.com/products/journal/polis-journal-ancient-greek-political-thought Founding Series Overseeing Editor, Brill's Companions to Classical Reception. Forthcoming Companions and Instructions to Editors at: 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, State Literature Awards Committee of the Ministry of Education (2013-16). Hobbies: Antique tinplate toy collection (ISBN 978-960-19-0455-9, Athens: 2010), collecting typewriters, Cinema: for my best movies, please visit http://works.bepress.com/kyriakos_demetriou/22/ Institutional Management: Elected Member of UCY Council and member of Council Committees Departmental Coordinator -- Journalism Studies Departmental Coordinator: MA Social and Political Theory POSTAL ADDRESS Professor Kyriakos Demetriou Department of Social and Political Science University of Cyprus P.O.Box 20537 1678 Nicosia CYPRUS

Research Intrest

Classical Reception, Intellectual History History of Ancient Historiography Ancient Political Thought British Utilitarianism Democratic theory, Liberalism.

List of Publications
George Grote on Plato and Athenian Democracy. A Study in Classical Reception (Frankfurt: Peter Lang, 1999).