Christos Zafeiropoulos is Associate Professor of Classical Philology in the Department of History -Archaeology at the University of Patras. He studied at the University of Crete and the University of Exeter and has taught, in addition to the University of Patras, at the University of Thessaly, the University of Ioannina, the Hellenic Open University, the Open University of Cyprus, and Sichuan University. His research interests focus on ancient Greek literature, particularly the Aesopic corpus, Platonic dialogues, mythology, ancient drama, the history of ideas—with particular emphasis on the concept of time—and the reception of antiquity. His published and ongoing work examines, among other topics, the political context surrounding the emergence of the intellectual in Classical Athens, leisure, philosophical therapy in the Platonic dialogues, as well as questions of orality and literacy. He also works on the modern reception of antiquity, with particular emphasis on Greek film productions during the period of the dictatorship and on representations of antiquity in comics.