CHRYSANTHOS S. CHRYSANTHOU

ΧΡΥΣΑΝΘΟΣ Σ. ΧΡΥΣΑΝΘΟΥ

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Chrysanthos S. Chrysanthou received his B.A. (2011) in Classics from the University of Athens (class valedictorian with overall grade 9.67/10), his MSt (2012) in Greek and/or Latin Languages and Literature (with Distinction) and his DPhil (2016) in Classical Languages and Literature (with no corrections) from the University of Oxford, U.K. His DPhil thesis was on “Narrative, Interpretation, and Moral Judgement in Plutarch’s Lives", and it was supervised by Chris Pelling, Emeritus Regius Professor of Greek at the University of Oxford.

During his undergraduate, postgraduate, and doctoral studies he received scholarships and grants from the Onassis Foundation, the A.G. Leventis Foundation, the State Scholarships Foundation of Greece, the State Scholarship Foundations of Cyprus, and the DAAD. After the completion of his doctorate, he worked as Assistant Professor in Greek Literature at the Faculty of Classics of the University of Heidelberg (2016–2019). He was also the principal investigator of a research project funded by the National German Research Foundation (DFG) at the University of Heidelberg (total amount of funding awarded: € 309.827) from 2019 until 2023. During the academic year 2020–2021 he worked as a Visiting Lecturer in Ancient Greek Literature at the Department of Classics and Philosophy of the University of Cyprus, where he was elected and appointed to the rank of Assistant Professor in January 2024. In July 2023 he was awarded research funding of 1,49 million euros from the European Research Council (Starting Grants) for his project “Group Minds in Ancient Narrative” (https://www.cbn.com.cy/article/2023/9/5/730608/erc-awards-ucy-professor-with-research-funding-of-eur149m/). In April 2024, he was unanimously elected member of the Young Academy of Europe (https://yacadeuro.org/).

His main area of scholarly interest is the literary techniques that Greek prose authors employ to construct their narratives, and the ways in which these techniques intersect with broader issues of historical, political, and socio-cultural analysis. His other research interests include the relationship between ‘fictional’ and factual’ narratives and the concept of ‘genre’ in the ancient world. He is also working on cognitive classics, adopting approaches implied by contemporary cognitive sciences – psychology, philosophy, neuroscience – in order to examine how ancient narratives and the cultures producing them are construed. With his ERC group (https://www.ucy.ac.cy/groupminds/), he examines socially distributed and group cognitiion in ancient Greek and Latin narratives, thus offering the first study of the representation and function of collective consciousness and intersubjectivity in pre-modern cultures. He is also interested in digital humanities. He has recently been awarded funding of 20.000 euros from the University of Cyprus to employ Virtual Reality (VR) practices as a tool to develop an interactive environment for exploring social and group cognition in the ancient world.

He is available to supervise graduate and postdoctoral projects on any aspects of his aforementioned expertise. He is currently supervising the following projects:

1) "Group Minds in Stoicism: Harmony in Diversity", Postdoc, Dr Rovertos Heller.

2) "Thinking as One: The Importance of Reciprocal Cognition for Social Cohesion in the Philosophy of Plato", Postdoc, Dr Stephan Stephanides.

3) "Intersubjective Phenomena in Early Christianity", Postdoc, Dr Kyriakoula Tzortzopoulou.

4) "Group Minds in Latin Political Narratives", Postdoc, Dr Byron Waldron.

5) "Choral Minds: Dialogical Thinking and Storytelling in Drama and Choral Lyric", Postdoc, Dr Xavier Buxton.

6) "Envy and Jealousy in Ancient Greek Tragedy", PhD, Eva Hadjistephanou.

He is the author of three monographs and numerous articles and chapters on ancient Greek historiography and biography, narratology, and cognitive classics. At present he is writting a book-length, cross-generic study of the representation and functioning of group minds in ancient Greek narrative, including case studies from Homeric epic, oratory and philosophy, historiography, biography, and the novel.

Since arriving in Cyprus he has taught undergraduate courses on Greek historiography, Plutarch and ancient biography, and classes on Greek prose composition. He has also developed a strong interest in outreach activities. He regularly gives talks at schools, participates as evaluator or reviewer in multiple competitions and exams organized by the Ministry of Education in Cyprus, and takes an active part in several training courses and seminars, which the Cyprus Pedagogical Institute and the Ministry of Education design for secondary school teachers.

Ancient Greek Literature; modern literary theory and ancient texts; cognitive classics; digital classics

MONOGRAPHS

1. Plutarch’s Parallel Lives: Narrative Technique and Moral Judgement (Walter de Gruyter, Berlin/Boston: 2018).

2. Reconfiguring the Imperial Past: Narrative Patterns and Historical Interpretation in Herodian’s History of the Empire (Brill, Leiden/Boston: 2022).

3. Septimius Severus and Herodian: A Literary Commentary on Books 2.9.2–3.15.8 of Herodian’s History of the Empire after Marcus (C. H. Beck, Munich: 2025).

EDITED VOLUMES

1. Generic Enrichment in Plutarch’s Lives (Routledge, London: 2025). Co-edited with Prof. Timothy Duff, University of Reading.

JOURNAL ARTICLES

1. “Zur Terminologie des Sterbens. Ausdrucksweisen über Tod und Sterben in den griechischen dokumentarischen Papyri”, Tyche 25 (2010) 1–21 (with Prof. A. Papathomas).

2. “P. OXY. LXXI 4808: Bios, Character, and Literary Criticism”, Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik 193 (2015) 25–38.

3. “5280. Themistius VI 71d–72a, 72d–73a”, The Oxyrhynchus Papyri LXXXI (2016) 94–97.

4. “The Proems of Plutarch’s Lives and Historiography”, Histos 11 (2017) 128–153.

5. “Plutarch’s Rhetoric of Periautologia: Demosthenes 1–3”, The Classical Journal 113.3 (2018) 281–301.

6. “Orator-politician vs. Philosopher: Plutarch’s Demosthenes 1–3 and Plato’s Theaetetus”, Classical World 112.2 (2019) 39–55.

7. “Laughter in Plutarch’s Lives”, Rivista di cultura classica e medioevale 61.1 (2019) 43–56.

8. “Reading History Ethically: Plutarch on Alexander’s Murder of Cleitus (Alex. 50-52.2)”, Ploutarchos: Scholarly Journal of the International Plutarch Society 16 (2019) 45–56.

9. “Plutarch and the Malicious Historian”, Illinois Classical Studies 45.1 (2020) 49–79.

10. “Herodian and Cassius Dio: A Study of Herodian’s Compositional Devices”, Greek, Roman, and Byzantine Studies 60.4 (2020) 621–651.

11. “Sex and Power in Cassius Dio’s Roman History: The Case of Elagabalus”, Mnemosyne 74 (2021) 598–625.

12. “Herodian’s Septimius Severus: Literary Portrait and Historiography”, Classica et Mediaevalia 70 (2022) 149–178.

13. “Plutarch on Cato the Younger and the Annexation of Cyprus”, L’Antiquité Classique 91 (2022) 27–45.

14. “Kaiserliche Erscheinungsbilder in Herodians Geschichte des Kaisertums nach Marc Aurel: Die Kaiser Commodus und Caracalla”, Gymnasium 129 (2022) 45–74.

15. “Φήμη in Herodian’s Roman History”, Philologus 167.2 (2023) 191–213.

16. “Group Minds in the Ancient Greek Historiography and the Ancient Greek Novel: Herodian’s History and Chariton’s Callirhoe”, Classical Quarterly 73.2 (2023) 872–887.

17. “Group Minds in Ancient Narrative: Herodian’s History of the Roman Empire as a Case Study”, Mnemosyne 77.3 (2024) 482–512.

18. “Cognitive Mapping and Social Cognition in Ancient Greek Narrative: Novelistic Couples”, Journal of Hellenic Studies 146 (accepted and forthcoming, 2026).

19. “Concordia and Social Cognition in Latin Literature”, Mnemosyne (accepted and forthcoming, 2026). (Together with Dr K. Tzortzopoulou and Dr B. Waldron).

20. "Speaking Groups in Attic Oratory", American Journal of Philology (accepted and forthcoming in 2026).

CHAPTERS IN EDITED VOLUMES

1. “Generic and Intertextual Enrichment: Plutarch’s Alexander 30”, in R. Hirsch-Luipold, M. Vamvouri & T. Schmidt (eds.) (2020), The Dynamics of Intertextuality in Plutarch (Leiden/Boston: Brill) 330–340.

2. “Dreams and Moral Reflection in Plutarch’s Lives”, in G. Karla & al. (eds.) (2020), Ἤματα πάντα (Athens: Kardamitsa) 399–408.

3. “Digressions in Herodian’s History of the Empire”, in M. Baumann & V. Liotsakis (eds.) (2024), Digressions in Classical Historiography (Berlin & Boston) 271–305.

4. “A Compiled Compilation: The Epitome of Athenaeus’ Deipnosophistae”, in C. Mallan (ed.) (forthcoming), A Companion to Byzantine Epitome (Leiden) (accepted ~ 10.409 words).

5. “News and Messages in Herodian’s History of the Roman Empire”, in M. Baumann, A. Kemezis & M. E. Zacharioudaki (eds.) (forthcoming), Herodian: Historiography and Literature at the End of the High Empire (accepted ~ 8.382 words).