Curriculum vitae

Universities/Excavations/Talks/Papers/Distinctions/Teaching experience/Languages/IT skills

Born on: October 20th, 1974 (Athens).        

Universities

1998-
# Final year Ph.D student (Classics, Cambridge). Supervisor: S. Voutsaki, adviser: A. Snodgrass.

The Production and Consumption of Valuables in the Mycenaean Palatial Domain.

Research key-words: the creation of value, production and consumption of so-called 'prestige goods', Mycenaean Thebes.

# Member of Christ's College.

1997-8
# MA on the House of Kadmos (Classics, Durham). Supervisor: O. Dickinson. Thesis: The 'House of Kadmos' at Mycenaean Thebes, Greece: a Preliminary Re-examination of the Architecture (abstract). Cf. Teiresias 28 (ISSN 1206-5730): 98.1.03.

1992-7
# BA (Archaeology and History of Art, Athens) with emphasis on Greek Prehistory. Dissertation: Circulation Patterns of  Mycenaean Palaces.
 

 

Involvement in excavations, fieldwork, museums and research projects

 

2001

# Unterburg excavations in Tiryns (Prof. Maran's excavation).

# Study of the so-called workshop material from the House of Kadmos by kind permission of the IX Ephorate of Prehistoric and Classical Antiquities (Thebes Museum).
# Launched stage 2 of the Digital Thebes project (with the Institute of Mediterranean Studies, FORTH, Crete; IX Ephorate of Prehistoric Antiquities; Town Hall of Thebes).

1998-9
# Study of unpublished pottery and other finds from the House of Kadmos by kind permission of the IX Ephorate of Prehistoric and Classical Antiquities (Thebes Museum).
# Stage 1 of the Digital Thebes project (Aerial Photography, Cambridge).

# Fieldwork at the House of Kadmos; background for MA thesis.

1997
# IX Ephorate of Prehistoric and Classical Antiquities; supervised excavation of the 'Treasury room' of the Mycenaean palace in Thebes.

1993-6
# Archivial classification of new Thebes Linear B tablets (with A. Papadaki & F. Rougemont).
# II Ephorate of Prehistoric and Classical Antiquities. Collections classification; new exhibition working group (Piraeus Museum); supervised excavation of commercial Classical and Roman  Piraeus.
# 1995 campaign at Late Cycladic settlement of Akrotiri, Thera/Santorini (Prof. C. Doumas' excavations).
# 1995 campaign at Minoan peak sanctuary of Traostalos near Zakros, E. Crete..
# 1994 campaign at Mycenaean Zominthos, Central Crete (Dr. Sakellarakis' excavations).
# 1995 study group for Neolithic Yioura, Sporades (Dr. Sampson/Prof. L. Karali excavations).
# 1995 study group for Minoan peak sanctuary of Ayios Georgios, Kythera (Dr. Sakellarakis' excavations).
 
Seminars and talks

# "Introduction to the Archaeology of Thebes", teaching seminar at the University of Southern California (B. Burns' course, 28 November 2001).

# "Thebes and the House of Kadmos" (Institute of Archaeology, University of Heidelberg, 23 January 2001).

# "Moulds and ashes: workshops in Mycenaean Thebes", in S. Voutsaki's Workshop on Workshops (Classics, Cambridge, 6 July 2000).

# "The House of Kadmos revisited", Aegean Seminar (Classics, Cambridge, 23 June 2000). Also: 5th International Boeotian Conference, 9-13 Sep 2000, in absentia.

# "Kadmos in Context: the Rediscovery of a Mythical Landscape in Boeotian Thebes", Greek Archaeology Seminar (Institute of Archaeology, Oxford; 3 February 2000). Also: Cotsen Institute of Archaeology, UCLA (13 December 2000).
# "Urbanism in Mycenaean Thebes: Aspects of Development and Organisation", 5th Round Table on Aegean Archaeology (Archaeology, Sheffield; 14-17 January 2000).
# "Space for National Identity in Archaeological Interpretation? Reflections on Kadmos and Mycenaean Thebes", Interdisciplinary Seminar (Classics, Cambridge; 5 November 1999).
# "Legend, Identity, Interpretation: Trends in the Archaeology of Mycenaean Thebes (1909-1985)", Annual  Meeting of the European Assosiation of Archaeologists (Bournemouth, Dorset; 14-19 September 1999).
# "Re-inventing Mycenaean Thebes: a Century of Archaeological Exploration" (Classics, State University of New York at Buffalo; 9 April 1999).
# "New Light on the Stratigraphy and Dating of the House of Kadmos: Assessing the Impact on Theban chronology", Third Symposium on Mediterranean Archaeology (Birmingham; 19-20 February 1999).
# "Towards a Spatial-Temporal Framework for the Study of Palatial Thebes", Seminar for  the Mphil in Archaeology (Classics, Cambridge; 4  November 1998).
# "Monumentality in LH III A2-B1 Mycenae as State Propaganda", Second Symposium on Mediterranean Archaeology (Edinburgh; 17-20 February 1998).

 
Publications

In preparation.

A Gazetteer of Mycenaean Sites in Thebes, Boeotia (1901-1983, 1993-1996).

In preparation.

Kadmeia II. The House of Kadmos in Mycenaean Thebes (The Excavations of Antonios Keramopoullos, 1906-1929).

Forthcoming.

"I Oikia tou Kadmou: mia Synoliki Epaneksetasi ton Dedomenon" (forthcoming in Epetiris Etaireias Boiotikon Meleton). 

2001a.

"Plotting fragments: a preliminary assessment of the Middle Helladic settlement in Boeotian Thebes", in K. Branigan (ed.), Urbanism in the Aegean Bronze Age, proceedings of the 5th round table on Aegean Archaeology, dept. of Archaeology, University of Sheffield, 14-17 Jan 2000, Sheffield Studies in Aegean Archaeology 5.

2001b.

"The House of Kadmos in Mycenaean Thebes reconsidered: architecture, chronology and context", Annual of the British School of Archaeology at Athens 96.

1998.

"To Provlima tis Katagogis tou Mykenaikou Tholotou Tafou", Archaiologia kai Texnes 68, 60-8.

Distinctions and awards

# Mediterranean Archaeological Trust (2001).

# Michael Ventris Award (2001).

# Levy-White Program for Archaeological Publications.

# Levi-Plumb Scholarship for Ph.D (Christ's College, Cambridge; October 1998- ).
# Offered departmental scholarship for Ph.D fees (Classics, Durham; June 1998).
# Various grants from the Levy-Plumb Fund and the Henry Arthur Thomas Fund for fieldwork on the House of Kadmos.
# Dean's Fund for fieldwork in Thebes (Durham; July 1998).
# Rosemary Cramp Fund for fieldwork in Thebes (Archaeology, Durham; April 1998).
# Departmental bursary for MA fees (Classics, Durham; October 1997).
 
Teaching experience

# Undergraduate tutorials on the Aegean Late Bronze Age (Classics, Durham; 1997-8).
# Taught Ancient Greek privately (Athens; 1992-5).
 
Languages
 
# Greek: fluent (mother language)
# English: fluent (Cambridge Proficiency)
# Italian: advanced (Superiore/ CELI Perugia IV)
# French, Spanish: reading

 
IT and other skills

# Literacy in AutoCAD/AutoCAD Map, ArcView, MapInfo, CorelDraw/Corel PhotoPaint, Adobe Photoshop, HTML etc.
# Some experience on Ahman and Pesh spatial syntax software developed by the Bartlett School of Architecture.

 

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