Despite appearances, interpreting Plato’s Republic as abolishing the household (oikos) for the Auxiliaries and the Guardians or treating them as one big household are both perfectly legitimate and actually not mutually incompatible interpretations. [1] Either way, the oikos demonstrably plays a central part in Plato’s… Read more
Introduction During my tenure at the Center for Hellenic Studies, I carried out research related to a book project exploring the impacts of rapid climate change ( sensu Holmes et al. 2011) on Athens during the Late Bronze Age to Early Iron Age transition (ca. 1300–700 BCE). The resources of… Read more
I. New Edition of Post-403 BCE Attic Inscriptions My research project entails the preparation of a fascicle containing inscribed decrees for the third edition of post-403 BCE Attic inscriptions in the Berlin Academy’s series, Inscriptiones Graecae, volumes II and III (IG II/III3). The second edition, published by Johannes Kirchner during… Read more
Introduction to the project During my tenure of the CHS Fellowship in Hellenic Studies I worked on a monograph on the epigraphy in Macedonia in the Archaic and Classical periods, revising my PhD dissertation, which was defended in 2020 at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. This monograph aims to present… Read more
My stay at the Center for Hellenic Studies aimed at the completion of a new collection of inscriptions with full linguistic and historical commentary for the Paradeigmata collection (Nancy, Guy Vottéro dir.). This volume, the sixth in the series, fascicle fourth, provides a comprehensive exploration of the Doric-speaking islands of… Read more
