International Conference, 23-24 November 2017, University of Athens, Greece

The Rhetoric of (dis)unity:

Community and division in Greco-Roman prose and poetry

SPEAKERS

ALESSANDRO VATRI (OXFORD) is Junior Research Fellow of Wolfson College, University of Oxford.
He studied Classics at Sapienza, University of Rome (Italy) and was awarded a DPhil in Classical
Languages and Literature at Oxford in 2013. His areas of research are Ancient Greek linguistics
and rhetoric, ancient cultural history, and the digital humanities. In particular, he is interested
in the study of language and literature as communication media in the ancient world and in
the reconstruction of the native perception and cognition of language and its psychological
effects. His first monograph Orality and Performance in Classical Attic Prose. A Linguistic
Approach (Oxford University Press) was published in March 2017.
[alessandro.vatri@classics.ox.ac.uk]
ANDREAS MICHALOPOULOS (ATHENS) is Associate Professor of Latin at the Classics Department of
the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens. He is the author of: Ancient Etymologies
in Ovids Metamorphoses: A Commented Lexicon (Leeds, 2001), Ovid, Heroides 16 and 17:
Introduction, Text and Commentary (Cambridge, 2006), Ovid, Heroides 20 and 21:
Introduction, Text, Translation, and Commentary (in Greek, Athens, 2013), Roman Lyric
Poetry: Horace Carmina (in Greek, Athens 2016, with Ch. N. Michalopoulos), Roman Love
Elegy (in Greek, Athens 2016, with Ch. N. Michalopoulos), Roman Epic Poetry (in Greek,
Athens 2016, with Ch. N. Michalopoulos). His research interests include Augustan poetry,
Ancient Etymology, Roman drama, Roman novel, and modern reception of classical literature.
[amichalop@phil.uoa.gr]
ANDREAS SERAFIM (CYPRUS) is a specialist in Greek rhetoric and performance criticism, with a
Ph.D. from University College London (2013). He is currently a Postdoctoral Fellow at the
University of Cyprus. He has recently published his Routledge monograph, Attic Oratory and
Performance (January 2017). He has also published the interdisciplinary volume Theatre of
Justice: Aspects of Performance in Greco-Roman Oratory and Rhetoric (Brill: April 2017). The
next great research challenge for him is to prepare his second monograph: Religious Discourse
in Attic Oratory and Politics (under contract, Routledge; expected in 2020). He is also co-
editing the volume The Ancient Art of Persuasion across Genres and Topics (contracted with
Brill; co-editors are Kyriakos Demetriou and Sophia Papaioannou; expected in 2018) and the
first Brills Companion to the Reception of Ancient Rhetoric (co-editors are Michael Edwards
and Sophia Papaioannou; expected in 2020). [serafim.andreas@ucy.ac.cy]

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B BREIJ (RADBOUD UNIVERSITY NIJMEGEN) is professor of Latin and Ancient Rhetoric at Radboud
University in Nijmegen, the Netherlands. She specializes in declamation and oratio figurata.
[b.breij@let.ru.nl]
BRENDA GRIFFITH-WILLIAMS (LONDON) is an Honorary Research Associate in the Department of
Greek and Latin at UCL, and her main research interest is Athenian inheritance law. She has
published A commentary on selected speeches of Isaios (Brill, 2013, based on her 2009 PhD
thesis), and she is under contract to produce a Forschungsbericht on Isaios for the
journal Lustrum. Her other publications include a number of book reviews, and articles about
the Athenian legal system. [b.griffith-williams@ucl.ac.uk]
CHRISTOS KREMMYDAS (LONDON) [Christos.Kremmydas@rhul.ac.uk]
CRISTINA ROSILLO-LOPEZ (SEVILLE) is senior lecturer at Pablo de Olavide University, Spain. She is a
specialist on the Late Roman Republic, especially about its political, cultural, rhetoric and
financial aspects. Her PhD (University of Neuchtel, Switzerland) was published as La
corruption la fin de la Rpublique romaine: aspects politiques et financiers (Historia
Einzelschriften, 2010). Her second book was published this year: Public Opinion and Politics in
the Late Roman Republic (Cambridge University Press). [mcroslop@upo.es]
T. DAVINA MCCLAIN (NORTHWESTERN STATE UNIVERSITY) is a Professor of Classics at the Louisiana
Scholars' College, the honours college at Northwestern State University and the Theodore
Harris Roberts Endowed Professor of Rhetoric and Debate. She teaches Latin and Greek in the
Scholars College at NSU, after serving as the Director of the College for over seven years. She
serves at the Secretary-Treasurer of the Classical Association of the Middle West and South-
Southern Section and as a member of the Governing Board of the International Public Debate
Association. Originally from Texas, she earned her BAs in History and Classics at Trinity
University (San Antonio), MA in Latin and PhD in Classical Studies at Indiana University
(Bloomington). Her research has delved into Greek pedagogy, comparative mythology,
prostitution in the Mediterranean, and the Roman historian Livy. [mcclaind@nsula.edu]
DIMOS SPATHARAS (CRETE) is Assistant Professor of Ancient Greek Literature at the Department
of Philology, University of Crete. He is the author of a commentary on Isocrates Against
Lochites and co-editor of two volumes. He has written several articles on Attic oratory, the
Sophists, Athenian Law and emotions. His recent publications include: Kinky stories from the
rostrum: storytelling in Apollodorus Against Neaira, Ancient Narrative 9 (2009); Self-praise
and envy: from rhetoric to the Athenian courts, Arethusa 44 (2001); Liaisons Dangereuses:
Procopius, Apollodorus and Lysias, CQ 62.2 (2012). [spatharasd@gmail.com]
ELENI VOLONAKI (KALAMATA) studied Ancient Greek Literature in the Department of Philology,
University of Crete and continued her postgraduate studies at the Department of Classics,
Royal Holloway, University of London. She did her PhD under the supervision of Christopher
Carey [entitled A Commentary on Lysias speeches Against Agoratos (13) and Against
Nikomachos (30)], which has been published in Greek (editions: Papazisi 2010). Research
interests focus on Ancient Greek Law, Greek Rhetoric (esp. forensic and epideictic rhetoric
and oratory), Greek values and epic poetry, and Hellenistic rhetoric. She is currently working
on the completion of a Commentary on Lycurgus speech Against Leokrates, which is to be
published as a supplementary volume of BICS. [evolonaki2003@yahoo.co.uk]

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FLAMINIA BENEVENTANO (SIENA) carries out her research at the University of Siena (Centro di
Antropologia del Mondo Antico) where she was awarded her PhD in October 2017, and
previously her Master of Arts (2013) and Bachelor (2010) degrees. Her academic interests are
currently related to the topic of appearance and demonstration, namely to the semantic area
of the verb phainein together with its compounds and derivatives. Her Ph.D. thesis looked
into the cultural category of phasma in ancient Greece, and her parallel interests concern the
topic of evidence and persuasion, especially addressed from the point of view of pragmatic
linguistics. Her research has been hitherto conducted between Siena, Paris (EHESS Centre
AnHiMA) and London (UCL). [flaminia.beneventano@gmail.com]
GEORGE PARASKEVIOTIS (CYPRUS) is currently Adjunct Lecturer at the Department of Classical
Studies and Philosophy at the University of Cyprus. He studied Classical Philology at
Democritus University of Thrace (Komotini) and developed a keen interest in the Augustan
Period. He continued his studies at the School of Classics at the University of Leeds, where he
did a Masters degree (MA in Latin) and worked mainly on Augustan Poetry and especially on
Vergil. He remained under the supervision of Prof. Robert Maltby at the University of Leeds,
where he wrote his PhD thesis, entitled Vergils Use of Greek and Roman Sources in the
Eclogues (submitted for publication) that was generally supported by the Greek State
Scholarships Foundation (I.K.Y.). After receiving a doctoral degree in March 2010, he started
working at the University of Patras and then at the University of Cyprus where he has been
teaching various Latin modules since January 2012. His research interests lie chiefly in Latin
Pastoral, Vergil, Roman love elegy (Propertius), the use of myth in Augustan Poetry, Roman
Comedy (Terence), Roman Drama (Seneca), Latin epigram (Corpus Priapeorum) and the role
of humour in ancient literature having published various articles on these subjects in peer-
reviewed journals. [paraskeviotis.giorgos@ucy.ac.cy]

ILIAS ARNAOUTOGLOU (ATHENS) Graduate of Faculty of Law, Aristotelian University of

Thessaloniki. PhD on ancient Greek history from the University of Glasgow (1993). Assistant
editor for the Lexicon of Greek Personal Names, Oxford from 1994 to 1999. Currently director
of research in the Research Centre for the History of Greek Law, Academy of Athens. He has
written extensively on Hellenistic and Greco-Roman associations, ancient Greek legal history
and institutions and institutions in pre-19th century Turkish-occupied Greece. Member of the
Copenhagen Associations Project. [iliasarn@Academyofathens.gr]

IOANNIS M. KONSTANTAKOS (ATHENS) studied classical philology at the universities of Athens and
Cambridge and is now Associate Professor of Ancient Greek Literature at the National and
Kapodistrian University of Athens. His scholarly interests include ancient comedy, ancient
narrative, fiction, folklore, and the relations between Greek and Near-Eastern literatures and
cultures. He has published four books and numerous articles on these topics. He has also given
many lectures, conference papers and seminars in Greek and European higher institutions.
He has received scholarships from the Greek State Scholarships Foundation and the
Alexander S. Onassis Public Benefit Foundation. In 2009 he was awarded the prize of the
Academy of Athens for the best classical monograph published within the previous five years.
In 2012 he was a finalist for the Greek state prize for critical essay. [iokonstan@phil.uoa.gr]
MARCO ROMANI MISTRETTA (HARVARD) is currently a PhD candidate in Classical Philology at
Harvard University, where he has been since 2012. He read Classics at the University of Pisa
and the Scuola Normale. His research deals with a number of ancient philosophical and
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intellectual-historical issues, focusing primarily on the idea of craftsmanship and technical
creation in antiquity. Under the guidance of Mark J. Schiefsky, he is now writing a dissertation
on Greek and Roman conceptions of invention and discovery. He has also written on Latin
poetry of the Augustan age and its reception in Renaissance and early modern Europe, as well
as on the history of Classical scholarship in Italy and elsewhere. His work has been published
in Materiali e discussioni, the Classical Quarterly and the International Journal of the Classical
Tradition. [romanimistretta@fas.harvard.edu]

MARIA KYTHREOTOU (CYPRUS) got her Ph.D. degree from the University of Cyprus in 2017 (BA,
2008 & MA, 2010 from the same university). She is Adjunct Lecturer in the Department of
Classical Studies and Philosophy at the same university. She has taught Ancient Greek and
Latin courses to the undergraduate students. She is interested in Greek historiography and
rhetoric and in teaching Ancient Greek and Latin to beginners. [kythreotou.maria@ucy.ac.cy]

MARIA S. YOUNI (KOMOTINI) is Professor of Law and Dean of the Faculty of Law at the University
of Thrace in Greece. [mayouni@law.duth.gr]

MICHAEL EDWARDS (ROEHAMPTON) is Professor of Classics at the University of Roehampton,

London. Formerly Director of the Institute of Classical Studies, he is the immediate Past
President of the International Society for the History of Rhetoric and is currently an Overseas
Fellow of the Onassis Foundation. He has published widely on the Attic orators, and is
currently working on an OCT of Isaios. [Mike.Edwards@roehampton.ac.uk]
MICHAEL PASCHALIS (CRETE) is Emeritus Professor of Classics at the University of Crete,
Department of Philology. He has published over 100 articles and 13 books on Hellenistic
literature, Classical Roman literature, the Ancient Novel, the literature of Late Antiquity, the
reception of the Classics (in Modern Greek literature and in Italian, English, and French
literature) and Modern Greek Literature. He is the author of Virgils Aeneid: Semantic
Relations and Proper Names (Oxford 1997), the editor of three volumes of Rethymnon
Classical Studies and co-editor of five volumes of Ancient Narrative Supplementa. In the field
of Modern Greek he has published the following books: Re-reading Kalvos: Andreas Kalvos,
Italy and Classical Antiquity (2013) and Nikos Kazantzakis: From Homer to Shakespeare.
Studies on his Cretan Novels (2015). Forthcoming book in 2017: The Academies and Cretan
Renaissance Literature: An Encounter that did not Take Place.
[michael.paschalis@gmail.com]
MYRTO ALOUMPI (OXFORD) is an Adjunct Teaching Fellow at the University of Oxford. She
obtained her BA (Hons) in Greek Philology from the University of Crete and her MSt in Classical
Languages and Literature from the University of Oxford. She recently completed her DPhil at
the University of Oxford on the topic of The civic virtue of philotimia: rhetoric, ideology, and
politics in classical Athens. Her research interests lie in the field of Athenian democracy, its
value system and ideology, with especial emphasis on the speeches of the Attic orators.
[maloumpi@gmail.com]
NOBORU SATO (KOBE UNIVERSITY) is Associate Professor at Kobe University. He obtained his
doctorate at the University of Tokyo in 2006. Since then, he has been teaching at several
Japanese Universities. From 2008 to 09, he did research at the Department of Classics, King's
College London with the help of Canon Foundation Europe Research Fellowship (host scholar:

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Dr Hugh Bowden). In 2016, he stayed in Oxford as an academic visitor of the Faculty of Classics
(host scholar: Professor Robert Parker). His main areas of interest are the socio-political
history of classical Athens, law and oration in Democratic Athens, international
communication in classical and Hellenistic Greece, and historiography in archaic, classical and
Hellenistic Greece. [sato_noboru_01@me.com]
NICK FISHER (CARDIFF) is Professor Emeritus of Ancient History at Cardiff University. He studied
in Oxford and received his Ph.D. for the thesis The Concept of Hybris in Greece from Homer to
the Fourth Century BC. Since 1970 he has been teaching at the Cardiff School of History and
Archaeology. His research interests are political, social and cultural history of ancient Greece;
political and social practices in classical Athens and Sparta; and slavery in Greece and Rome.
His publications include: Aeschines: Against Timarchos, translated, with introduction and
commentary (2001); Slavery in Classical Greece (1993); HYBRIS. A Study in the Values of
Honour and Shame in Ancient Greece (1992). [FisherN@cardiff.ac.uk]
PAULO MARTINS (SAO PAULO) is a professor in the Department of Classics at the University of So
Paulo. His research has focused on visuality in elegiac and lyric poetry as well as on the cultural
memory of the Augustan Age and the interactions between visual arts and literature. His main
publications include: Elegia Romana. Construo e Efeito (Humanitas, 2009), Algumas Vises
da Antiguidade (7 Letras, 2009), Imagem e Poder (EDUSP, 2011), Literatura Latina (IESDE,
2011), Limites da Representao. Pictura loquens, poesis tacens (EDUSP, 2017, forthcoming)
and Augustan Poetry. New Trends and Revaluations (Humanitas & SBEC, 2017, forthcoming).
Since 2015 his research has been supported by a National Council for Scientific and
Technological Development (CNPq) Fellowship. In 2012 he was a visiting professor at Kings
College London and in 2013-14 a visiting fellow at Yale University, both on fellowships from
the So Paulo Research Foundation (FAPESP). [paulomar@usp.br]
PHILIP HARDIE (CAMBRIDGE) is a Senior Research Fellow at Trinity College, Cambridge, and
Honorary Professor of Latin in the University of Cambridge. He was formerly (2002-6) Corpus
Christi Professor of the Latin Language and Literature, University of Oxford. He is a Fellow of
the British Academy, a Member of the Academia Europaea, and an Honorary Fellow of the
Australian Academy of the Humanities. He was the Sather Professor at the University of
California at Berkeley in Spring 2016. [prh1004@cam.ac.uk]
ROBERT SING completed a Masters in ancient history at the University of Western Australia and
was awarded his PhD in Classics at Cambridge earlier this year. Currently employed with the
British Civil Service in London, he has published on the authenticity of Demosthenes 13 and
is co-editing a volume of conference proceedings on the political and cultural significance of
numbers and numeracy in Classical Greece. His research focuses on the relationship between
public wealth, performance and democracy in fourth-century Athens. [robjsing@gmail.com]
ROGER BROCK (LEEDS) is Senior Lecturer in Classics at the University of Leeds, where he has
worked since 1990. His research interests lie mainly in Greek historiography, particularly
Herodotus, and ancient Greek politics, especially citizenship and political thought. He is co-
editor, with Steven Hodkinson, of Alternatives to Athens (OUP 2000, revised paperback 2002),
and author of Greek Political Imagery from Homer to Aristotle (Bloomsbury 2013, pb. 2014)
and of articles on democratic and oligarchic ideology, as well as on wider topics in Greek
history and literature. His major research project at present is on ancient Greek citizenship,
especially non-political aspects, and the related topic of the functioning of Greek

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oligarchies. In addition, he is currently editor of the Journal of Hellenic Studies.
[r.w.brock@leeds.ac.uk]
SIMONE MOLLEA (WARWICK) graduated in Classics from the University of Turin (Italy), where he
wrote a dissertation on Senecas Epistulae Morales. He is now pursuing his doctoral studies
at the University Warwick, looking at the concept of humanitas in Latin literature. His research
project focuses on the Imperial Age, from the second until the sixth century AD. Simone has
already published on Seneca, the late Roman historian Aurelius Victor, textual criticism, and
on Latin language, and has also taken part in the DigilibLT project, the aim of which is to
produce a digital corpus of late-antique Latin literary texts. [S.Mollea@warwick.ac.uk]
STEFANO FERRUCCI (SIENA) [stefano.ferrucci@unisi.it]
STRATIS KYRIAKIDIS (THESSALONIKI) is Emeritus Professor of Latin Literature at the Aristotle
University of Thessaloniki. He is the author of Roman Sensitivity: A Contribution to the Study
of the Artistic Receptiveness and Creativity of the Romans (146-31BC) (Thessaloniki, 1986) [in
Greek]; Narrative Structure and Poetics in the Aeneid: The Frame of Book 6 (Bari, 1998); and
Catalogues of Proper Names in Latin Epic Poetry: Lucretius - Virgil - Ovid, Pierides I (Newcastle
upon Tyne, 2007). He is the editor (with Prof. Francesco De Martino) of Middles in Latin Poetry
(Bari, 2004) and of Fama Libera: an endless journey, Pierides VI (Newcastle upon Tyne, 2016).
His publications mainly focus on Latin literature of the late Republican and Augustan periods,
on Manilius Astronomica and on the Latin centos. With Philip Hardie he is the editor of the
series Pierides at Cambridge Scholars Publishing. [skyr@otenet.gr]
TZU-I LIAO (LONDON) received her PhD in Classics from University College London early 2017,
under the supervision of Professors Chris Carey and Stephen Colvin. Her Ph.D. project
investigated communication patterns in the classical Athenian assembly through a functional
linguistic study of the political speeches attributed to Demosthenes. She has just finished a
visiting scholarship at Distant Worlds, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universitaet Muenchen, working
on the agonistic in Greek rhetoric and its socio-cultural implications, aiming at a
fundamental re-alignment of the written-oral theme from a communicational perspective.
Currently she is a teaching fellow of Greek at Kings College London. Her general research
interests lie in the language of classical Greek prose, with references to modern interpretation
of ancient theories and criticism of style. [tzu-i.liao.10@ucl.ac.uk]
VASILEIOS LIOTSAKIS (HEIDELBERG) studied Greek Philology at the National and Kapodistrian
University of Athens (BA, MA) and received his Doctoral Degree at the Aristotle University of
Thessaloniki. He worked as Visiting Lecturer of Ancient Greek Language and Literature at
Boazii University of Istanbul (2015-2016) and is currently working as a Wissenschaftlicher
Mitarbeiter / Alexander-von-Humboldt Post-Doctoral Fellow at Ruprecht-Karls University of
Heidelberg, while also being a Fellow of the Centre of Hellenic Studies (Harvard University)
AUTH. His research interests include Classical historiography, the Second Sophistic, Egyptian
literature and culture and narratology. He is the author of articles on these topics and of the
monograph Redeeming Thucydides Book VIII. Narrative Artistry in the Account of the Ionian
War (Berlin/ Boston), and the co-editor of the collective volume The Art of History. Literary
Perspectives on Greek and Roman Historiography (Berlin/ Boston). He has recently completed
his second monograph entitled History and Characterization. Arrians Literary Portrait of
Alexander the Great (forthcoming, 2018), which deals with Arrians Anabasis of Alexander.
[vliotsakis@yahoo.gr]