Nikolaos Stampolidis - Curriculum Vitae#

STUDIES

• 1970 - 1974 Studies in the Philosophical School of the Aristotelian University of Thessaloniki, Dept. of Archaeology and History. During my four years study I have received the scholarship of the Greek government (I.K.Y.). Diploma with 10 (A+).
  
• 1975 - 1977 Post-graduate studies in Bonn (Germany). Scholarship by the German government (DAAD). Research and writing of my dissertation.
  
• 1978 - 1979 Athens, Greece. Finishing and publishing my dissertation (Magna cum laude) by the Aristotelian University of Salonica. Scholarship by the Greek government.
  
• 1980 - 1981 Military service (Cavalry)

PROFESSIONAL AND ACADEMIC DEVELOPMENT

• 1981 - 1984 Field Archaeology. Excavations in Vergina with my teacher, Prof. Manolis Andronikos. Research and writing of my first articles. Teaching Archaeology in the National Tourist Organization at Athens
  
• 1984 - 1987 Lecturer at the University of Crete
  
• 1987 - 1991 Assistant Professor of Classical Archaeology, University of Crete
  
• 1991 - 1994 Associate Professor of Classical Archaeology, University of Greece
  
• 1994 onwards Professor of Classical Archaeology, University of Crete
• June 2021 Director-General of the Acropolis Museum

OTHER PROFESSIONAL & ACADEMIC POSITIONS & ACTIVITIES

• 1991 - 2005 Co-director of the Post-graduation program in Classical Archaeology, University of Crete
  
• 2005 onwards Director the Post-graduation program in Classical Archaeology, University of Crete
  
• 1994 - 2004 President of the Educational Committee of the Guide Schools of Greece
  
• 1998 onwards Member of the Committee of the Archaeological Films and Documentary Productions in Greece
  
• 1997 onwards President and/or Member of the Scientific and Organizing Committees of International Archaeological Conferences.
  
• 1991 - 1993 Head of the Dept. of History and Archaeology, University of Crete
  
• 1994 - 1997 Dean of the Faculty of Letter and Art, University of Crete
  
• 1996 onwards Also Director of the Museum of Cycladic Art (N.P. Goulandris Foundation)
  
• 2001 - 2007 Alternate Member of the Central Archaeological Council (CAC)
  
• 2008 onwards Member of the Central Archaeological Council

EXCAVATIONS

a. Philippi, Kavala. Early Christian – Byzantine period city (1973–1974)
b. Akanthus, Chalkidike. Archaic – classical cemetery, under the auspices of the 16th Ephorate of Classical and Prehistoric Antiquities (1979)
c. Vergina. The cemetery of the Royal Tombs. The Theater. With my teacher, Prof. Manolis Andronikos (1982).
d. Glass factory in Rhodes. My own. Under the auspices of the 22nd Ephorate of Classical and Prehistoric Antiquities for the University of Columbia-Missouri (1984)
e. Survey at the area of Gallos, Rethymnon Crete (1984 – 1985)
f. Rhodes. City of Rhodes, Hellenistic city (1987 until this day, from time to time)
g. Ashqelon (participation 1996)
h. Ornè, Crete. Survey 1998. Excavation from 2009 onwards
i. Eleutherna, district of Rethymnon, Crete (1985 onwards). Prehistoric site and quarry. Geometric – Archaic cemetery, early Archaic city, Hellenistic and Roman city

TEACHING

During 1983, 1984 and 1985 he was lecturing both in the University of Crete and the School of National Tourist Organization at Athens, mostly about sculpture, architecture and ceramic of the Classical period.
From 1984 onwards, he teaches as a Full time Professor at the University of Crete various subjects both in undergraduate and postgraduate students as following:

1. Introduction to Classical Archaeology
2. Greek Epigraphy. An Introduction
3. Architecture of the Geometric and Archaic periods in Greece
4. Architecture of the Classical period in Greece
5. Architecture of the Hellenistic period
6. Sculpture of the Daedalic and Archaic period
7. Sculpture of the Classical period
8. Sculpture of the Hellenistic period
9. Ceramic from the Late Minoan period to the end of the Geometric period
10. Black – and Red-figured Attic Vases
11. Hellenistic pottery
12. Space and time on the scenes of Black-figured and Red-figured pottery
13. Seals and sealing in Greek Antiquity
14. Interconnections between Greece and the Near East, 1200 - 500 BC
15. Customs and Ideology in Geometric and Archaic Greece.
16. Eastern Mediterranean: 1600 - 600 BC
17. Questions on unpublished archaeological material
18. Interconnections in the Mediterranean during the Early Iron Age
19. The Phoenicians
20. Eleutherna. A site under investigation, conservation and elevation
21. Archaeology and sculpture of the Classical period.

WORKS

I. Books (As author and/or editor)

1. The Dionysos Altar on Cos. Contribution to the study of Hellenistic sculpture and architecture, 1981. Diss. (in Greek; summary in Engl. - Germ.).

1a. The previous in an enlarged edition (1987), published by the Greek Ministry of Culture (in Greek; summary in Engl. - Germ.).

2. The Hellenistic Seals of Delos. Volume II.1. The Erotic circle, 1992. Études Francohelleniques (in Greek).

3. Eleutherna III.1. Geometric – Archaic period, Publications of the University of Crete, Rethymnon 1993 (in Greek).

4. Eleutherna III.2 The Geometric – Archaic Necropolis at Orthi Petra, Publications of the University of Crete, Rethymnon 1994 (in Greek).

5–5a. Eleutherna III.3 Reprisals. Contribution to the study of the customs of the geometric-archaic period in Greece, Publications of the University of Crete, Rethymnon 1996 (in Greek and in Engl.).

6-6a-6b. Eastern Mediterranean Cyprus, Dodecanese, Crete 16th – 6th cent. B.C., 1998 (ed.)(in Greek, in English and in Italian).

7. Eastern Mediterranean: Cyprus, Dodecanese, Crete, 16th-6th cent. BC., Proceedings of the Intern. Symp. held at Rethymnon-Crete in May 1997, Athens 1998. (co-ed. and contribution).

8. FOS KYKLADIKON in memory of Nicholaos Zapheiropoulos, Athens 1999 (ed.) (in various languages).

9. Escultura de las isles cicladas, Coll. N.P. Goulandris, Madrid 1999 (co-ed).

10. Pablo Picasso, Studies on the Guernica. Museum of Cycladic Art, Athens 1999 (co-ed.).

11-11a. The City beneath the City. Antiquities from the excavations for the Metropolitan Railway of Athens, Athens 2000 (co-ed. with L. Parlama and writer of different chapters) (in Greek and in English).

12-12a. Aegean Olympic Victors in Antiquity, Athens 2001 (in Greek and in English) (with Yorgos Tassoulas).

13. Cremations in Bronze Age and Early Iron Age. Proceedings of the Internat. Conference held at Rhodes 29/04-02/05/1999. Athens 2001 (in Greek).

14-14a. Ploes. Sea Routes From Sidon to Huelva. Interconnections in the Mediterranean, 16th – 6th c. BC., Catalogue of the exhibition, Athens 2003 (in Greek and in English).

15. Interconnections in the Mediterranean, 16th – 6th c. BC., Proceedings of the International Symposium held at Rethymnon Crete, 29/9/ - 2/10/2002, Athens 2003 (in English) (with Vassos Karageorghis and contribution).

16-16a-16b. Magna Graecia. Athletics and the Olympic Spirit on the Periphery of the Hellenic World, Athens 2004 (in Greek, in English and in French).

17. Olympic Victors in Antiquity, Athens 2004 (in Greek) (with Yorgos Tassoulas).

18. The Aegean during the Bronze and Early Iron Age. Proceedings of the International Symposium held on Rhodes, 1 – 4/11/2002, Athens 2004 (contributions in Greek, English and Italian).

19-19a. Eleutherna: polis – acropolis – necropolis, Catalogue of the Exhibition, Athens 2004 (in Greek and in English).

20. The Anthropology of Tomb A1K1 of Orthi Petra in Eleutherna. A narrative of the bones: Aspects of the Human Condition in Geometric-Archaic Eleutherna” by A. Agelarakis (publisher N. Chr. Stampolidis), Athens 2005 (in English).

21. Aegean Waves. Artworks of the Early Cycladic Culture in the Museum of Cycladic Art, Skira editions 2007 (in English) (with Peggy Sotirakopoulou).

22. Cyclades. Masterpieces of an Aegean Culture from the Museum of Cycladic Art and the National Archaeological Museum at Athens, Catalogue of the Exhibition held in the Art Museum of the Imperial City, Beijing, 3 April – 15 May 2008 (in English and Chinese).

23. From Titian to Pietro da Cortona. Myth, Poetry, and the Sacred …, Exhibition Catalogue edited by G. Morello and N. Stampolidis, Athens 2008 (in Greek, English and Italian).

24-24a. Eros; From Hesiod’s Thegony to the Late Antiquity, Exhibition Catalogue, Athens 2009 (with Yorgos Tassoulas and contribution) (in Greek & English).

25-25a. Islands off the Beaten Track. An Archaeological Journey to the Greek Islands of Kastellorizo, Symi, Halki, Tilos and Nisyros, Exhibition Catalogue, Athens 2011(with Yorgos Tassoulas and contribution) (in Greek & English).

26-26a-26b. Princesses pf the Mediterranean in the Dawn of History, Exhibition Catalogue, Athens 2012 (with contribution) (in Greek, English and Italian).

27. “Figures Loved and Idealised…” Illustrating poems by C.P. Cavafy, Exhibition Catalogue, Athens 2013 (with contribution) (in Greek).

28-28a. Hygieia. Health, Illness, Treatment from Homer to Hesiod, Exhibition Catalogue, Athens 2014 (with Yorgos Tassoulas and contribution) (in Greek & English).

29-29a. Beyond. Death and Afterlife in Ancient Greece, Exhibition Catalogue, Athens 2014 (with Stavroula Economou and contribution) (in Greek & English).

30. Kypriaka in Crete: From the Bronze Age to the End of the Archaic Period, Nicosia 2014 (edited by Karageorghis, V., Kanta, A., Stampolidis N. Chr. & Sakellarakis, Y.) (in English).

31. NOSTOI: Indigenous Culture, Migration and Integration in the Aegean Islands and W. Anatolia during the LB and EI Ages, Istanbul 2014/2015 (edited by N. Chr. Stampolidis – C. Manez – K. Kopanias) (in English).

32. Το ορατό μέρος της Ιστορίας : σχέσεις Κύπρου, Κρήτης και Αιγαίου στην Πρώιμη Εποχή του Σιδήρου : 23η Ετήσια διάλεξη, 31 Οκτωβρίου 2014 : μνήμη Κωνσταντίνου Λεβέντη, Λευκωσία 2015 (in Greek).

33-33a. Οδηγός Μουσείου αρχαίας Ελεύθερνας / Guide to the Museum of ancient Eleutherna, Rethymnon 2016 (in Greek).

34-34a. Cycladic Society 5000 years ago, Exhibition Catalogue, Athens 2016 (with contribution) (in Greek & English).

35-35a. Divine Dialogues, Exhibition Catalogue, Athens 2016 (with contribution) (in Greek & English).

36. Το Αγγείο Φρανσουά, Αthens 2017, (in Greek).

37-37a. Money. Tangible Symbols in ancient Greece, Exhibition Catalogue, Athens 2017 (with Yorgos Tassoulas, Dimitra Tsangari and contribution) (in Greek & English).

38-38a. Cycladica in Crete: Cycladic and Cycladizing Figurines within their Archaeological Context, Athens, 1-2, October 2015, Athens/Rethymnon 2017 (with Peggy Sotirakopoulou and contribution) (in Greek & English).

II. Articles

1. “Skirtos: Observations on the Sicilian Crater 9341”, AAA XV.1 (1982) (in Greek).
2. “Kallimachus Alexandreus agnothetisas. An Inscribed Basalt Base on Cos”, Intern. Congr. of Greek and Latin Epigraphy 1982, (1984) {see also Arch. Reports 1984/85) (in Greek).
3. “The Altar of the Nymphe in Cnidus and Theon from Antiocheia”, AA 1984 {see also Arch. Reports 1984/85} (in Germ.).
4. “II-shaped Altars during the Classical Period”, Intern. Congr. 1983 (1984) (in Greek).
5. “The Statue Nr. 257 in the National Museum at Athens and the Sileni of Plato”, Archaeognosia 3 (1982-84) (1978) (in Greek).
6. “….ocles son of Melanippus from Iasus” HOROS 4 (1986) (in Greek).
7. “A new Fragment of the Mausoleum”, Ametos in honour of M. Andronikos, 1987 (in Greek).
8. “The Cos Fragment and the Genoese Slab from the Mausoleum”, Intern. Coll. Archaeology in the Dodecanese, Copenhagen 1986 (1988) (in Engl.)
9. “Altar-Thrones”, AAA XVIII (1985), (1988) (in Greek).
10. “A Geometric Pyre at Eleutherna”, 6th Intern. Cretological Congr. 1986 (1990) (in Greek).
11. “Artists from and in the Near East during the Hellenistic Period”, Intern. Congr. Delphoi 1986 (1991) (in Greek).
12. “Some More News on the Dionysus Altar on Cos”, Arch. Delt. 40 (1985) (1990) (in Greek).
13. “On the Provence of the Marble of the Mausoleum Amazonomachy Freeze”, Proc. of the Uppsala Intern. Symp. 1987, Boreas 17 (1989) (in Engl.).
14. “Altar, Krateutes and Acroteria. A Contribution to the Study of the Π-shaped Altars”, Intern. Coll. Lyon 1988, Lyon 1991, 291-296 (in Engl.).
15. “The Origin of the Archetype of the Mausoleum”, Coll. Polytechnical School at Athens 1988 (in Greek).
16. “Hermogenes; His Work and School from the end of the 3rd c. BC to the beginning of the 1st c. BC.”, XIII Intern. Congr. 1988 (1990) (in Germ.).
17. “Eleutherna on Crete. An Interim Report on the Geometric – Archaic Cemetery”, BSA 95 (1990) (in Engl.).
18. “A Funerary Cippus at Eleutherna Evidence of Phoenician Presence?”, BICS 1990 (in Engl.).
19. “Four Ivory Heads from the Cemetery of Orthi Petra at Eleutherna”, XIV Intern. Coll. of the British Museum 1990 (in Engl.).
20. “The Statue Nr. 268 from the Agora of Cos. Emperor or Hellenistic Ruler?”, Arch. Ephem. 1992 (in Greek).
21. “The Study of the Seals of the Erotic Circle from Delos: An Example”, Acta of the Intern. Cont. Archives in the Hellenistic World. Torino 1993 (in Engl.).
22. “Five years of Excavation Activity at Eleutherna Crete”, Ariadne 7 (1994) (in Greek).
23. “Greek Artists” Signatures from and to Egypt during the Hellenistic Period”. Acta of the Intern. Conf. on the Relations among Greece, Egypt and the Near East. Cairo/Alexandria 1993 (in Engl.).
24. “Homer and the Funerary Pyres at Eleutherna”. Acta of the Intern. Coll. of the Netherlands Archaeol. Inst. At Athens on Homeric Questions, Athens 1993 (Amsterdam 1995), 289-308 (in Engl.).
25. “Eleutherna”, Enciclopedia dell’ Arte Antica (in Ital.).
26. “Ptolemy against Artemis”, Acta of the Intern. Coll. of the British Museum on Sculpture and Sculptors from the Dodecanese and Caria, London 1994 (in Engl.).
27. “Omero e i cremazioni di Eleutherna”, Acta of the 2nd Intern. Conf. Of Mycenology, Roma 1991 (1996) vol. C. pp. 1485-1488 (in Ital.).
28. “Decapitated through Iron: The New Findings at Eleutherna”, Acta of the 7th Intern. Cretological Conf., Rethymnon 1991 (1995) (in Greek).
29. “Eleutherna on Crete. The Recent Discoveries”, Intern. Coll. of Post-Minoan Crete, London 1995 (forthcoming; in Engl.).
30. “Kavafis and Kaisarion: The Poet and the stutues”, Acta of the 5th Intern. Coll. on Kavafis, Cairo/Alexandria 1995 (forthcoming; in Engl.).
31. “Cypriaca and Cretocypriaca of the Geometric – Archaic Period at Eleutherna”, Acta of the Intern. Conf. Cyprus and the Aegean, Nicosia 1995 (presentation; in Engl.).
32. “Misinterpretations of the Alexander’s Heritage; Two Cases of Study and a Methological Question”, Acta of the 1st Intern. Symp. On the heritage of Alexander the Great, Cairo/Alexandria 1995 (forthcoming; in Engl.).
33. “Eleutherna and the Eastern Mediterranean during the 8th and 7th cent. B.C.”, Acta of the Intern. Symp. On the Interconnections in the Mediterranean 2500-500 B.C., Athens 1996 (forthcoming; in Engl.).
34. “The Heritage that Alexander the Great found: Interconnections between Egypt and Crete”, Acta of the 2nd Intern. Symp. On the Heritage of Alexander the Great, Cairo/Alexandria 1996 (forthcoming; in Engl.)
35. “A Working Hypothesis”, Ariadne 8 (1996).
36. “À propos d’une amphore géométrique pansue du type à trois métopes de cercles concentriques” with N. Kourou, BCH 130 (1996), 705 – 719.
37. “The Museum of the 21st Century”, Acta of the Intern. Symp. on Museology, Thessaloniki 1997 , (2001) (in Greek).
38. “Imports and Amalgamata: The Eleutherna Experience”, Acta of the Intern. Symp. Eastern Mediterranean: Cyprus-Dodecanese-Crete, Rethymnon 1997 (Athens 1998) (in Greek).
39. “Glass and Faience Objects from the Geometric – Archaic Eleutherna”, Acta of the Symp. On Glass in Antiquity and Glassworkshops. Rethymnon 1997 (forthcoming; in Greek).
40. “The Orne Aipy”, Acta of the Intern. Symp. On the Refuge Settlement, Dublin 1999, 2002 (with A. Kanta; in Engl.).
41. “The Funeral Pyres at Eleutherna: A Reexamination”, Proceedings of the Intern. Symp. On Cremations in Bronze Age and Early Iron Age, Rhodes 1999, Athens 2001 (in Greek).
42. “The Museum of Tomorrow”, Acta of the Intern. Symp. on Museology, Lesvos 1999.
43. “Between Two Worlds? A Headless Dead in the Necropolis of Eleutherna, Crete”, Acta of the Intern. Seminar Anthropology and Archaeology in Dialogue. The Issue of Comparison, Athens 1999 (in Engl.).
44. “Funeral practices on Crete; the Eleutherna cemetery”, Acta of the Intern. Conf. on Funeral Practices in the Mediterranean from 1100 B.C. to 400 A.D., Rhodes 2000 (forthcoming; in Greek).
45. “Connections of the Near East with Eleutherna and Crete during the Geometric and Archaic Periods”, V Intern. Conf. of Studi Fenici e Punici, Marsala 2000 (forthcoming, in Engl.).
46. “From the Geometric and Archaic Necropolis at Eleutherna”, Proceedings of the Int. Conference Recent Excavations in Greece held in Oxford 23-27 March 2001, BAR IntS 1032 (2002) (in Engl.).
47. “Phoenicians in the Aegean”, Proceedings of the Int. Symposium Interconnections in the Mediterranean, 16th – 6th c. BC., Rethymnon 29 Sept – 3 Oct. 2002 , Athens 2003 (in Engl.).
48. “Eleutherna during the Early Iron Age”, Proceedings of the Int. Conference The Aegean during the Early Iron Age, Rhodes 1-4 November 2002 (in press, in Greek).
49. “Herodotean locus and Eleuthernian locus”, Proceedings of the Conference “The Mylopotamos district from the Antiquity to the present days” held at Panormo October 24th -30th 2003, Rethymnon 2006, Vol. 2, 54-69 (in Engl.).
49. “Siegel aus Eleutherna” in I. Pini (ed.) Corpus minoischen und mykenischen Siegel, Band V., Suppl. 3.2, Mainz 2004, 447, 490-491 (in German).
50. “Archaeological Sites and Protection. The Case of the Orthi Petra / Eleutherna necropolis”, Proceedings of the International Conference on Cultural Heritage, Cos 2005 (forthcoming, in Greek).
51. “ ‘Questiones Daedalicae’ from the necropolis of Orthi Petra at Eleutherna”, Proceedings of the International Conference “Kreta in der geometrischen und archaischen Zeit”, Athens, January 27th – 29th, 2006 (forthcoming in Engl.).
52. “Eleutherna and the Idaean Cave”, Proceedings of the International Conference for the Completion of 100 years of the Excavations at Prinias “Identità, Etnicità, Processi di trasformazione a Creta fra Dark Ages e Arcaismo”, Athens, November 9th – 12th, 2006, Catania 2009, 1-27.
53. “From Eleutherna and Idaean Cave. An attempt of interpretation for lost
rituals”, Ευλιμένη 2006-2006, 157-167 (in Greek).
54. “The ‘Shields’; an Eleuhernian View of the Idaean Cave”, in Krinoi kai Limenes, Honorary Volume for Joseph and Maria Shaw, 2007, pp. 297-311.
55. “Protoarchaic Sculpture from Eleutherna; first approach”, in Proceedings of the International Archaeological Symposium Archaic Sculpture from Greek Sanctuaries and Necropoleis: New Discoveries, Athens 2-3/11/2007 (forthcoming in Greek).
56. “Covering Warriors and Heroes at Eleutherna – Orthi Petra Cemetery”, in Proceedings of the Pan-Hellenic Symposium on Protection of the Archaeological Areas and Monuments, Rhodes 30/11–2/12/2007 (forthcoming in Greek).
57. “The excavations, protection, and development of the Orthi Petra necropolis”, in Proceedings of the Symposium of the Hellenic Ministry of Culture for the Universities and their contribution in the archaeological research, Athens 6-7 December 2007 (forthcoming in Greek).
58. “Cypriot Finds of the EIA in the Necropolis of Orthi Petra/Eleutherna”, in Proceedings of the 4th International Congress of Cypriot Studies, Nicosia 29/4 – 3/5/2008 (forthcoming in Engl.).
59. “Menschen am Grab. Ehrengabe für die Toten”, Zeit der Helden, die “dunken Jarhunderte” Griehenlands 1200-700 v. Chr., Badisches Landesmuseum, Karlsruhe 2008, 175-179.
60. “Can Crete be excluded?”, in Proceedings of the International Archaeological Symposium Cyprus and East Greece 3000 – 500 BC, Samos 16-18 October 2008, Nicosia 2009, 94-102.
61. “Permanent exhibition from the collections of the MCA, Scenes from the daily life in antiquity”, Τέχνες & Αρχαιολογία 112 (2009), 109-114 (in Greek).
62. “Traveling in the archipelagos”, Conference Coins and Aegean, Lesbos 2005 (forthcoming in Greek).
63. “Three stone inscribed fragments from Eleutherna” with Niki Oikonomaki in Ubi dubium ibi Libertas, Τιμητικός τόμος για τον καθηγητή Νικόλα Φαράκλα, Rethymnon 2009, 293-320 (in Greek).
64. “The Enigmatic Hunt Phiale from Eleutherna and the Imagery of Interaction: A preliminary look”, in Bombardieri L. et al. (eds.), SOMA 2012: Identity and Connectivity, vol. I, (BAR International Series 2581(I) Oxford), 379-388.
65. “Near Eastern Imports and Imagery on Crete during the Early Iron Age”, in Assyria to Iberia: At the Dawn of the Classical Age, New York 2014, 282-292.
66. “Slewn by the Iron”, in International Symposium on Human Sacrifices in Antiquity, Pasiphae, Milano 2014, 149-154.
67. “A ‘Homeric’ Glass Object from the Necropolis of Eleutherna, Crete”, in Annales Congrés de l’ Association International pour l’ Histoire du Verre, Piran 2012, Thessaloniki 2015, 75-80.
68. “Eleutherna on Crete: The Wider Horizon”, in Assyria to Iberia: Art and Culture in the Iron Age, New York 2016, 283-295.
69. “Cycladic Figurines from Eleutherna”, in Cycladica in Crete: Cycladic and Cycladizing Figurines within their Arcaheological Context, Athens, 1-2, October 2015, Athens/Rethymnon 2017.
70. Stampolidis, N. Chr., “Eleutherna and Experimental Archaeology”, in Making, Understanding, Storytelling; A Workshop on Experimental Archaeology, Athens 14-15 October, 2017 (forthcoming).
71. Stampolidis, N. Chr., “The early grave stelae from the Necropolis of Eleutherna”, in the International Conference, GrabDenkMal, Tübingen 17-19 November, 2017 (forthcoming).

INTERNATIONAL CONGRESSES, SYMPOSIA AND COLLOQUIA

I have participated in more than 50 Congresses; in most of them with a paper (article).

1. 1st Intern. Conf. on Mycenology (1980).
2. 8th Intern. Conf. on Greek and Latin Epigraphy (Athens, 1982). Article.
3. 12th Intern. Conf. on Classical Archaeology (Athens, 1983). Article.
4. Intern. Conf. on the Dodecanese (Copenhagen 1986). Article.
5. British School at Athens. Centenary Commemoration (Athens 1986).
6. 6th Intern. Cretological Conference (Chania, Crete 1986). Article.
7. Intern. Conf. on the Near East (Dephoi 1986). Article.
8. Symposium on the Hellenistic Ceramic (University of Ioannina 1986).
9. Intern. Symposium on Architecture and Society in Hecatomnid Caria (Uppsala 1987). Article.
10. Intern. Conf. on Sacrificial Space in the Antiquity (Lyon 1988). Article.
11. 13th Intern. Conf. on Classical Archaeology (Berlin 1988). Article.
12. Intern. Symposium on the Greek Presence in Ancient Egypt (Delphoi 1988).
13. Symposium on Ancient Epidauros (Athens 1988).
14. Intern. Conf. on Archaic Greek Architectural Terracottas (Athens 1988).
15. 5th Intern. Conf. on Ancient Macedonia (1989).
16. 14th Intern. Coll. Of the British Museum (London 1990). Article.
17. 7th Intern. Cretological Conference (Crete 1991). Article.
18. 3rd Symposium on the Hellenistic Ceramic (Thessaloniki 1991).
19. 2nd Intern. Conf. on Mycenology (Roma – Napoli 1991). Article.
20. Intern. Symp. on Arcadia and Laconia (Athens 1992).
21. Intern. Symp. on the Paul Getty Kouros (Athens 1992).
22. Intern. Conf. on Rhodes Ancient City (Rhodes 1993).
23. Intern. Symp. on the Interconnections between Greece and Egypt (Cairo – Alexandria 1993). Article.
24. Intern. Symp. on the Homeric Questions (Athens 1993). Article.
25. Intern. Conf. on Archives in the Antiquity (Torino 1993). Article.
26. Intern. Coll. on Plastik in Caria and the Dodecanese (London 1994). Article.
27. 1st Intern. Symp. on the Heritage of Alexander the Great (Cairo – Alexandria 1995). Article.
28. Intern. Coll. on Post-Minoan Crete (London 1995). Article.
29. Intern. Symp. on Constantinos Kavafis (Cairo – Alexandria 1995). Article.
30. Intern. Conf. on Cyprus and the Aegean (Nicosia 1995). Article.
31. Intern. Symp. on the Interconnections in the Mediterranean 2500 – 500 BC. (Athens 1996).
32. 2nd Intern. Symp. on the Heritage of Alexander the Great (Cairo – Alexandria 1995). Article.
33. Intern. Symp. on Eastern Mediterranean: Cyprus – Dodecanese – Crete, 16th – 6th c. BC. (Rethymnon 1997). Organizing Committee and Editor. Article.
34. Symposium on Ancient Glass (Rethymnon 1997). Article.
35. Intern. Conf. on Museology: The Museums in the 21st century (Thessaloniki 1997). Article.
36. Intern. Symp. on Cremations in Bronze Age and Early Iron Age (Rhodes 1999). Organizing Committee and Editor. Article.
37. Intern. Symp. on Refugee Settlements (Dublin 1999). Article.
38. Symposium on Museology (Lesvos 1999). Article.
39. Intern. Seminar: Anthropology and Archaeology in Dialogue. The Issue of Comparison (Athens 1999). Organizing Committee and Editor. Article.
40. 5th Intern. Conf. on Phoenician and Punic Studies (Palermo 2000). Article.
41. Intern. Symp. on Excavating Classical Culture. Recent Discoveries in Greece (Oxford 2001). Article.
42. Intern. Symp. on Eastern Mediterranean. 4.000 years of Policy and Culture (Rhodes 2001). Article.
43. Intern. Symp. on Glass and Conservation of Glass and Glass Products in the Hellenistic World (Rhodes 2001). Article.
44. Intern. Symp. on the Interconnections in the Mediterranean, 16th – 6th c. BC. (Rethymnon, 2002). Organizing Committee and Editor. Article.
45. Intern. Symp. on the Aegean during the Early Iron Age (Rhodes 2002). Organizing Committee and Editor. Article.
46. Conference The Mylopotamos district from the Antiquity to the present days, (Panormo Crete, October 24th -30th 2003). Article.
47. International Conference on Cultural Heritage, organized by CICOP (Cos, October 2005). Article.
48. Member of the Scientific Committee of the International Conference Archilohos and his Age, (Paros, October 2005).
49. International Conference Kreta in der geometrischen und archaischen Zeit, (Athens, January 27th – 29th, 2006). Article.
50. International Conference for the Completion of 100 years of the Excavations at Prinias Identità, Etnicità, Processi di trasformazione a Creta fra Dark Ages e Arcaismo, (Athens, November 9th – 12th, 2006). Article.
51. International Symposium on New Discoveries of Archaic Sculpture from Greek Sanctuaries and Necropoleis, (Athens, 2-3/11/2007). Article.
52. Panhellenic Symposium “Protection and Covers on Archaeological Areas and Monuments”, (Rhodes, 30/11 – 2/12/2007). Member of the Organizing Committee and speaker. Article.
53. Conference on the Archaeological Work of the Universities in Greece from the Paleolithic Period to the Late Antiquity, organized by the Hellenic Ministry of Culture (Athens, 6-7/12/2007). Article.
54. 4th International Congress of Cypriot Studies (Nicosia, 29/4 – 3/5/2008). Article.
55. International Conference on ATHANASIA. Ο άνω, ο υπεράνω και ο κάτω κόσμος στη Μεσόγειο της ΥΕΧ και της ΠΕΣ [The Earthly, the Celestial and the Underworld in the Mediterranean from the Late Bronze and the Early Iron Age]] (Rhodes, May 2009). Organizing Commitee and Speaker. Article.
56. Assyria to Iberia: Art and Culture in the Iron Age, The Metropolitan Museum of Arts Symposia, (New York 2014, New York 2016). Articles.
57. International Conference on Cycladica in Crete: Cycladic and Cycladizing Figurines within their Archaeological Context, (Athens, October 1st – 2nd , 2015). Organizing Committee and Speaker. Editor and Article.
58. International Conference on Making, Understanding, Storytelling; A Workshop on Experimental Archaeology (Athens, October 14th – 15th, 2017). Article.
59. International Conference on GrabDenkMal, (Tübingen, November 17th – 19th, 2017). Article.

EXHIBITIONS (Idea-Concept, Organizer-Curator)

1. 1993 «Eleutherna. From the Geometric and Archaic necropolis», Rethymnon Archaeological Museum

2. 1994 «Ancient Eleutherna. Funerary pyres and Homeric epics»
Athens, Museum of Cycladic Art

3. 1998 «Eastern Mediterranean. Cyprus - Dodecanese - Crete. 16th - 6th c. BC»
Herakleion Archaeological Museum (the exhibition was inaugurated by H.E. the President of the Hellenic Republic Mr Constantinos Stephanopoulos)

4. 1999 «Pablo Picasso. Studies on Guernica»
Athens, Museum of Cycladic Art

5. 1999 «Escultura de las islas cicladas»
Madrid (Spain), Museo de Arte Reina Sofia (the exhibition was inaugurated by H.M. The Queen of Spain Sofia)

6. 2000 «The City Beneath the City. Findings from the Excavations for the Metropolitan Railway of Athens»
Athens, Museum of Cycladic Art. (the exhibition was inaugurated by H.E. the President of the Hellenic Republic Mr Constantinos Stephanopoulos)

7. 2001 «Le Rotte di Omero»
Rome (Italy), Musei Capitolini, Palazzo Cafarelli. (the exhibition was inaugurated by H.E. the President of the Hellenic Republic Mr Constantinos Stephanopoulos)

8. 2002 «Salvador Dali – Myth and Singularity»
Athens, Museum of Cycladic Art

9. 2003 «Sea Routes… From Sidon to Huelva. Interrelations in the Mediterranean, 16th – 6th c. BC»
Athens, Museum of Cycladic Art. (the exhibition was inaugurated by H.E. the President of the Hellenic Republic Mr Constantinos Stephanopoulos)

10. 2004 «Cypriot Antiquities from the Thanos Zintilis Collection»
Athens, Museum of Cycladic Art. (the exhibition was inaugurated by H.E. the President of the Hellenic Republic Mr Constantinos Stephanopoulos and the Minister of Education and Culture of the Cypriot Republic)

11. 2004 «Magna Grecia: Athletics and Olympic Spirit on the Periphery of the Hellenic World»
Athens, Museum of Cycladic Art. (the exhibition was inaugurated by the President of the ATHENS 2004 Mrs Gianna Angelopoulos-Daskalaki)

12. 2004 «Eleutherna: polis – acropolis – necropolis»
Athens, Museum of Cycladic Art. (the exhibition was inaugurated by H.E. the President of the Hellenic Republic Mr Constantinos Stephanopoulos)

13. 2006 «Cicladi: capolavori di una civiltà egea»
Rome (Italy), Musei Capitolini, (the exhibition was inaugurated by H.E. the President of the Hellenic Republic Mr Karolos Papoulias)

14. 2006 “Caravaggio and the Seicento”
Athens, Museum of Cycladic Art. (the exhibition was inaugurated by H.E. the President of the Hellenic Republic Mr Karolos Papoulias)

15. 2006 “Shaping the beginning. Modern artists and the ancient Eastern Mediterranean”
Athens, Museum of Cycladic Art. (the exhibition was inaugurated by the Prime Minister of the Hellenic Republic Mr Konstantinos Karamanlis)

16. 2008 “Cyclades: Masterpieces of an Aegean Culture from the Museum of Cycladic Art and the National Archaeological Museum at Athens”
Beijing, Art Museum of the Imperial City

17. 2008 “From Titian to Pietro da Cortona. Myth, Poetry, and the Sacred …”
Athens, Museum of Cycladic Art. (the exhibition was inaugurated by H.E. the President of the Hellenic Republic Mr Karolos Papoulias and H.E. the President of the Italian Republic Mr Giorgio Napolitano)

18. 2008 “Scenes from Daily Life in Antiquity”
Permanent exhibition in the 4th floor of the Museum of Cycladic Art

19. 2009 “Eros. From Hesiod’s Theogony to the Late Antiquity”,
Athens, Museum of Cycladic Art

20. 2011 “ACROSS. The Cyclades and Western Anatolia during the 3rd Millennium BC”
Istanbu, Sabanci University Sakip Sabanci Museum

21. 2011 “Islands off the Beaten Track. An Archaeological Journey to the Greek Islands of Kastellorizo, Symi, Halki, Tilos and Nisyros”
Athens, Museum of Cycladic Art

22. 2012 “Princesses pf the Mediterranean in the Dawn of History”
Athens, Museum of Cycladic Art

23. 2013 “Figures Loved and Idealised…” Illustrating poems by C.P. Cavafy,
Athens, Museum of Cycladic Art

24. 2014 “Hygieia. Health, Illness, Treatment from Homer to Hesiod”
Athens, Museum of Cycladic Art

25. 2014 “Beyond. Death and Afterlife in Ancient Greece”
Athens, Museum of Cycladic Art

26. 2015 “Assyria to Iberia at the Dawn of the Classical Age”
New York (Sept. 2014 – January 2015) organized by the Metropolitan Museum of Art (J. Aruz et al.).

27. 2016 “Cycladic Society 5000 years ago”
Athens, Museum of Cycladic Art (the exhibition was inaugurated by H.E. the President of the Hellenic Republic Mr Prokopios Pavlopoulos )

28. 2017 “Divine Dialogues”
Athens, Museum of Cycladic Art

29. 2017 “Money. Tangible Symbols in ancient Greece”
Athens, Museum of Cycladic Art

PROJECTS UNDERTAKEN

1. Hellenistic sculpture from Rhodes and Cos (about 2.000 pieces of small scale). The program has started since 1980.

2. Sculptors’ signatures of the Hellenistic Period. Mainland Greece – Aegean – Asia Minor. The program is almost finished after 15 years of research and study.

3. The study of about 16.000 Hellenistic seal-impressions from Delos. A volume of this study has been published in France, Etudes Francohelleniques, Editions De Boccard (see BOOKS nr. 2).

4. Eleutherna on Crete, 1985 onwards. Excavations, Restorations and publications on Eleutherna in the special series of the Publications by the University of Crete (see BOOKS, nos. 3, 4, 5-5a, 19-19a, 20). Work sponsored by the University of Crete and by INSTAP.

5. Ploes. Sea Routes. A project focusing on the interconnections in the Mediterranean and especially during the EIA (12th to 6th c. BC). 2002 onwards (see BOOKS, nos. 14-14a)

6. Athletic and Olympic Spirit on the Periphery of the Hellenic World. The case of Magna Graecia. A project for the Athens 2004 Olympiad (see BOOKS, nos. 12-12a, 17).

7. Protection and Development of the Archaeological Area of Eleutherna. 3rd European Community Program (2000 – 2006, resp. 2002 – 2008).

8. Publishing Results of the Eleutherna Excavations. A project on publications of the entire archaeological work undertaken by different authors (archaeologists, anthropologists, architects, paleobotanologists etc). 2004 onwards.

9. Orne Aipy (with A. Kanta). A new scheduled program on a remote peak (refuge settlement) LBA – EIA on Crete, Ayios Vassilios area. Survey.

All the above-mentioned projects and research programs have been financially supported by i) UNESCO, ii) the University of Crete iii) the Institute of Mediterranean Studies, iv) the Mediterranean Archaeological Society, v) Ministries (Culture, Aegean, National Works & Environment), vi) the INSTAP, vii) individuals, Companies, Foundations and other, viii) 3rd European Community Support Framework, ix) INTERREG IIIA.

HONORARY DISTINCTIONS

• 1992 Member of the DAI (Germany)
  
• 1994 Silver Medal of the University of Crete for his scientific work
  
• 1995 Honorary Citizen of Eleutherna
  
• 2003 Premio Teocle, Sicily. Prize of Letters and Arts, Giardini Naxos
  
• 2005 1st Prize of the Regional Government fro his achievements at Eleutherna
  
• 2008 Grand Commander of the Order the Honours from H.E. The President of the Italian Republic
  
• 2015 Tourism Award for his contribution to the tourism’s development in Crete
  
• 2016 Grand Commander of the Order of Phoenix from H.E The President of the Hellenic Republic for his Academic activity, the creation of the archaeological site and the museum of Eleutherna and his general contribution to the Greek culture.
  
• 2017 Exquisite University Teaching Award. University of Crete.
  
• 2018 First Price for Culture and Civilization “Marianna Vardinoyannis” by H.E. President of the Hellenic Republic.