The Topoi of Visuality

• Literature: history & criticism
• Classical Greek literature
• Byzantine Greek literature
• Modern Greek literature
• Classical Latin literature

Afroditi Athanasopoulou is Associate Professor of Modern Greek Studies at the University of Cyprus. Her research interests include 19th- and 20th-century modern Greek literature, with particular emphasis on the work of Dionysios Solomos and Nikos Kazantzakis, as well as prosody and metrical analysis, literature teaching, and the relationship between literature and history. She is also interested in narratology and literary topoi. She has published the monograph History and Literature in Dialogue (Epikentro, 2016) and numerous articles in journals and edited volumes on authors and topics in modern Greek literature. In addition, she has extensive experience in editing scholarly volumes and has served as a translator (from Italian) and/or reader for critical editions of major works in modern Greek studies published by leading Greek publishers on the writings of Kornaros, Solomos, Kalvos, Sikelianos, Cavafy, and others.

Stavroula Constantinou is Professor of Medieval Studies at the University of Cyprus. She is the founder and director of the Centre for Medieval Arts & Rituals and the initiator and editor-in-chief of the diamond open-access journal Eventum: A Journal of Medieval Arts & Rituals. A former Humboldt Fellow, she has also received fellowships from Dumbarton Oaks and the Benaki Museum, and she coordinates major European-funded research projects and international networks. Her research interests include hagiography, the interaction between medieval arts and rituals, gender studies, and health humanities. Two of her most recent publications are Storyworlds in Short Narratives: Approaches to Late Antique and Early Byzantine Tales (Brill, 2025), co-edited with Andria Andreou, and Breastfeeding and Mothering in Antiquity and Early Byzantium (Routledge, 2024), co-edited with Aspasia Skouroumouni-Stavrinou.

George C. Paraskeviotis is an Assistant Professor of Latin Philology in the Department of Humanities at Democritus University of Thrace (Komotini, Greece). He studied Classical Philology at Democritus University of Thrace and earned an MA and PhD in Latin from the University of Leeds. He has taught Latin language and literature at the University of Leeds, the University of Patras, and the University of Cyprus. His research focuses on Latin pastoral poetry, Augustan poetry (particularly Vergil), Roman comedy, Roman satire, and the role of humour in Latin literature.

Andreas Serafim, Ph.D. (2013), is Visiting Professor at the Institute for the History of Ancient Civilisations, Northeast Normal University. A prolific scholar of classical rhetoric and culture, he has published five monographs and fifteen edited volumes. His research covers nonverbal behaviour, performance, and persuasion, with a particular focus on the intersections of gender, invective, and social identity. His most recent monograph is Body Behaviour and Identity Construction (Routledge, 2025).