Kyriakos N. Demetriou is Professor of the History of Political Thought at the University of Cyprus. He is the Executive Editor of Polis, The Journal for Ancient Greek Political Thought, 2002-present (UK), Overseeing Editor of Brill series “Companions to Classical Reception” and member of the advisory Board of Innovation. His research interests are in the areas of intellectual history, the history of classical reception, theories of democracy and liberalism, and the history of historiography. He is co-editor of John Stuart Mill: A British Socrates (Palgrave Macmillan, 2013) and editor of Democracy in Transition (Springer, 2013). He has published widely in international refereed journals and he is the author of, among others, Studies on the Reception of Plato and Greek Political Thought in Victorian Britain (Ashgate, 2011); Classics in the Nineteenth Century: Responses to George Grote, ed. with Introduction, 4 vols (Continuum, 2004) and George Grote on Plato and Athenian Democracy: A Study in Classical Reception (Peter Lang, 1999).