FIG.1. Stamna region (and other Protogeometric sites in Aetolia, Greece). I. Stamna Basics The Protogeometric period in Stamna, Aetolia, initially came to light through isolated rescue excavations conducted intermittently over the past thirty years. [1] However, it gained recognition as an extensive cemetery of… Read more
Project overview During my summer fellowship at CHS, I worked on my new project entitled “Fabula Technologiae: Antiquity in Soviet Animation” which examines how the appearance and transformation of the images from Ancient Greek and Roman mythology, literature, and history correlate with the changing ideology and the cultural climate in… Read more
My summer fellowship at the Center for Hellenic Studies centered on an article project which explored the state and local consequences of a gift of grain from the Numidian king Massinissa to Delos. Massinissa donated 2,796.5 medimnoi of wheat to Delos in 180 BCE whose sale the following year brought… Read more
Introduction During my stay at the CHS in Washington I worked on a collaborative project with Dr. Olga Gioulika Christakopoulou. In our joint research we investigated the impact of pottery from a Protogeometric cemetery in Aetolia upon western Greece while, in parallel, contemporary developments in the Aegean and the Mediterranean… Read more
Visiting Scholar in Comparative Cultural Studies 2023-24 Abstract The study of slavery is among the major preoccupations of ancient historians; the same applies to the study of cross-cultural interactions in the ancient Mediterranean world. Despite the voluminous scholarship of the last twenty years in both fields of research, it is… Read more
