Andreas Serafim is a Research Fellow at the Research Centre for Greek and Latin Literature

of the Academy of Athens (appointed in 2020). He is a specialist in Greek oratory/rhetoric, law

and performance, with a wide range of other research interests, including ancient Greek
religion, reception of ancient rhetoric, linguistics, gender/sexuality theories, and other
interdisciplinary theories (such as humour theories and persuasion).
He obtained a Ph.D. degree from University College London (2013; supervisor: Professor
Christopher Carey) and an M.A. from the University of Texas at Austin (2010; supervisor:
Professor Michael Gagarin). He hold several academic positions before joining the Academy
of Athens: Postdoctoral Fellow at Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (2019-2020);
Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Cyprus (2017-2019); Adjunct Lecturer at the
University of Cyprus (2014-2015 & 2016-2017); Adjunct Lecturer at the Open University of
Cyprus (2014-2017 & 2019/2020); Government of Ireland Postdoctoral Fellow at Trinity
College Dublin (2015-2016); Honorary Research Fellow (2013-2015) and Assistant Lecturer
(2012-2013) at University College London.

Ελληνική περιγραφή
Ο Ανδρέας Σεραφείμ είναι Ερευνητής στο Κέντρον Ερεύνης της Ελληνικής και Λατινικής
Γραμματείας της Ακαδημίας Αθηνών (διορίστηκε το 2020). Τόσο η δημοσιευθείσα όσο και η
τρέχουσα έρευνά του καλύπτουν ποικιλία επιστημονικών πεδίων, θεματικών περιοχών και
προσεγγίσεων: αρχαία ελληνική ρητορική στις διάφορες πτυχές της, αρχαίο δίκαιο, επιτέλεση
(performance), αρχαία θρησκεία, πρόσληψη των ρητορικών κειμένων στον μετακλασικό και
στον σύγχρονο κόσμο σε ευρύ φάσμα συμφραζομένων, καθώς επίσης και διάφορες θεωρητικές
προσεγγίσεις (π.χ. γλωσσολογικές θεωρίες, χιούμορ, θεωρίες φύλου και σεξουαλικότητας).
Ο Ανδρέας Σεραφείμ είναι αριστούχος απόφοιτος του Τμήματος Κλασικών Σπουδών και
Φιλοσοφίας του Πανεπιστημίου Κύπρου (πτυχίο 2008), κάτοχος μεταπτυχιακού τίτλου από το
University of Texas at Austin (Μ.Α. 2010) και διδακτορικού τίτλου από το University College
London (Ph.D. 2013). Έχει καταλάβει, στην πανεπιστημιακή του σταδιοδρομία, διάφορες
ερευνητικές και διδακτικές θέσεις σε πανεπιστήμια της Ελλάδας και του εξωτερικού:
Αριστοτέλειο Πανεπιστήμιο Θεσσαλονίκης, Πανεπιστήμιο Κύπρου, Ανοικτό Πανεπιστήμιο
Κύπρου, Trinity College Dublin και University College London.

Selected publications (accepted and in press only)

Books
1. Attic Oratory and Performance (New York and London: Routledge 2017)
2. A Commentary on Lysias’ Olympic Oration: Introduction, Translation, Comments
(Athens: Smili Publications 2020)
3. A Commentary on Demosthenes’ Second Olynthiac: Introduction, Translation,
Comments (Athens: Smili Publications 2020)
4. Religious Discourse in Attic Oratory and Politics (New York and London: Routledge
2021)

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Edited books & Special issues
1. Papaioannou, Sophia, Andreas Serafim and Beatrice da Vela (eds.). The Theatre of
Justice: Aspects of Performance in Greco-Roman Oratory and Rhetoric (Leiden and
Boston: Brill 2017)
2. Papaioannou, Sophia, Andreas Serafim and Kyriakos Demetriou (eds.). The Ancient
Art of Persuasion across Genres and Topics (Leiden and Boston: Brill 2019)
3. Michalopoulos, Andreas, Andreas Serafim, Alessandro Vatri and Flaminia
Beneventano della corte (eds.). The Rhetoric of Unity and Division in Ancient
Literature (Berlin and Boston: De Gruyter, Supplementary Volumes 2020) In press
4. Sophia Papaioannou and Andreas Serafim (eds.). Comic Invective in Ancient Greek
and Roman Oratory (Special issue: Trends in Classics: Journal of Classical Studies,
Volume 12, Issue 2, December 2020)
5. Papaioannou, Sophia, Andreas Serafim and Michael Edwards (eds.). Brill’s
Companion to the Reception of Ancient Rhetoric (Leiden and Boston: Brill 2021)

Articles
1. “Making the Audience: Ekphrasis and Rhetorical Strategy in Demosthenes 18 and 19”,
Classical Quarterly 65 (2015) 96-108
2. “Constructing Identities: Religious Argumentation, Sexual Identity and Social Status
in Attic Forensic Oratory”, Annals of the Faculty of Law in Belgrade 67 (2019) 233-
253
3. “Comic Invective in the Public Forensic Speeches of Attic Oratory”, Hellenica 68
(2020) 23-42
4. “Paralinguistics, Community and the Rhetoric of Division in Attic Oratory”, Roda da
Fortuna. Electronic Journal about Antiquity and Middle Ages 22 (2020) 114-143
5. “Language and Persuasion in Attic Oratory: Imperatives and Questions”, Argos:
Journal of the Argentine Association of Classical Studies 41 (2020) 1-19
6. Sophia, Papaioannou and Andreas Serafim, “A War in Words: Comic Invective in
Greek and Roman Oratory”, in Sophia Papaioannou and Andreas Serafim (eds.). Comic
Invective in Ancient Greek and Roman Oratory (Special issue: Trends in Classics:
Journal of Classical Studies, Volume 12, Issue 2, December 2020)
7. “Community, Division and the Persuasive War of Identities in Attic Oratory”, Classics
Ireland 28 (2021)

Chapters in volumes
1. Papaioannou, Sophia, Andreas Serafim and Beatrice da Vela. “Introduction”, in
Sophia Papaioannou, Andreas Serafim, and Beatrice da Vela (eds.). Theatre of Justice:
Aspects of Performance in Greco-Roman Oratory and Rhetoric (Leiden and Boston:
Brill 2017) 1-9
2. “‘Conventions’ in/as Performance: Addressing the Audience in Selected Public
Speeches of Demosthenes”, in Sophia Papaioannou, Andreas Serafim, and Beatrice da
Vela (eds.). Theatre of Justice: Aspects of Performance in Greco-Roman Oratory and
Rhetoric (Leiden and Boston: Brill 2017) 26-41

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3. “Thespians in the Law-Court: Sincerity, Community and Persuasion in Attic Forensic
Oratory”, in Andreas Markantonatos and Eleni Volonaki (eds.). Poet and Orator: A
Symbiotic Relationship in Democratic Athens (Berlin and Boston: De Gruyter 2019)
347-362
4. Papaioannou, Sophia, Andreas Serafim and Kyriakos Demetriou, “The Hermeneutic
Framework: Persuasion in Genres and Topics”, in Sophia Papaioannou, Andreas
Serafim and Kyriakos Demetriou (eds.). The Ancient Art of Persuasion across Genres
and Topics (Leiden and Boston: Brill 2019) 1-16.
5. “Feel between the Lines: Emotion, Language and Persuasion in Attic Forensic Pratory”,
in Sophia Papaioannou, Andreas Serafim and Kyriakos Demetriou (eds.). The Ancient
Art of Persuasion across Genres and Topics (Leiden and Boston: Brill 2019) 137-152
6. “Sicking Bodies: Stasis as Disease in the Human Body and the Body Politic”, in Helen
Gasti (ed.). ΔΟΣΙΣ ΑΜΦΙΛΑΦΗΣ. A Volume in Honour of Emerita Professor Katerina
Synodinou (Carpe Diem Publications: Ioannina 2020) 673-695
7. Michalopoulos, Andreas, Andreas Serafim, Flaminia Beneventano della corte and
Alessandro Vatri, “Unity and Division in Ancient Literature: Current Perspectives and
Further Research”, in Andreas Michalopoulos, Andreas Serafim, Alessandro Vatri and
Flaminia Beneventano della corte (eds.). The Rhetoric of Unity and Division in Ancient
Literature (Berlin and Boston: De Gruyter, Supplementary Volumes 2020)
8. “‘I, He, We, You, They’: Addresses to the audience as a means of unity/division in
Attic forensic oratory”, in Andreas Michalopoulos, Andreas Serafim, Alessandro Vatri
and Flaminia Beneventano della corte (eds.). The Rhetoric of Unity and Division in
Ancient Literature (Berlin and Boston: De Gruyter, Supplementary Volumes 2020)
9. Papaioannou, Sophia, Andreas Serafim and Michael Edwards, “Making the Past
Present: Ancient Rhetoric across the Ages, Cultures and Topics”, in Sophia
Papaioannou, Andreas Serafim and Michael Edwards (eds.). Brill’s Companion to the
Reception of Ancient Rhetoric (contracted with Brill/ under preparation/ publication
expected in 2021)
10. “ΕΡΩΤΗΣΟΝ ΑΥΤΟΥΣ: Questions, Rhetorical purpose and hypocrisis in Attic
forensic oratory”, in Gerhard Thür, Sima Avramovic and Andreja Katanceviic (eds.).
Recht und Magie/ Law and Magic (Belgrade: Publications of the Faculty of Law at the
University of Belgrade 2021)
11. “Comic Invective in Attic Forensic Oratory: Private Speeches”, in Michael Edwards,
Athanasios Efstathiou, Ioanna Karamanou and Eleni Volonaki (eds.). The Agōn in
Classical Literature: Essays in Honour of Professor Chris Carey (London: Bulletin of
the Institute of Classical Studies 2021) In press
12. “‘These are what we Fought for’: Classics in the Educational System of Post-
revolutionary Greece (1824-1935)”, in Theodoros Giannopoulos and Athanasios
Grammenos (eds.). The Mystery of our Future: Greek Identity and Politics in the Third
Century of Independent National Life (Athens: Epikentro Publications 2021) In press

Citations compendium
Title Cited by (no.)
Attic Oratory and Performance 47
Religious Discourse in Attic Oratory and Politics 4

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 The Theatre of Justice: 17
Aspects of Performance in Greco-Roman Oratory and Rhetoric
“Conventions” in/as Performance: Addressing the Audience in 8
Selected Public Speeches of Demosthenes
Thespians in the Law-Court: Sincerity, Community and 1
Persuasion in Attic Forensic Oratory
Feel between the Lines: Emotion, Language and Persuasion in 1
Attic Forensic Oratory
Sicking Bodies: Stasis as Disease in the Human Body and the 3
Body Politic
Making the Audience: 19
Ekphrasis and Rhetorical Strategy in Demosthenes 18 and 19
Comic Invective in the Public Forensic Speeches of Attic 5
Oratory
Language and Persuasion in Attic Oratory: Imperatives and 3
Questions
Paralinguistics, Community and the Rhetoric of Division in 1
Attic Oratory
TOTAL 109