Alexander Mazarakis Ainian

Alexander Mazarakis Ainian (also: Alexandros Mazarakes Ainian , Greek Αλέξανδρος Μαζαράκης-Αινιάν Alexandros Mazarakis-Enian ); (* 1959 in Athens ) is professor of classical archeology at the University of Thessaly in Volos and head of the university's archaeological laboratory, which he founded in 2000. He specializes in the archeology of the early Greek Iron Age and in researching the early Greek house forms , sanctuaries and temples in the Aegean region .

Life

Mazarakis Ainian is related to a traditional family of officers. He studied art history and archeology at the Université libre de Bruxelles . He graduated with honors in 1983 and continued at University College London , where he received his doctorate in 1987.

From 1991 to 1996 he worked for the Greek Archaeological Service, where he evaluated the material from rescue excavations and carried out rescue excavations himself. Since 1992 he has taught at the History Department of the Ionian University of Corfu . In 1999 he became Assistant Professor at the University of Thessaly in Volos and in 2005 Professor of Classical Archeology at this university. From 1989 to 2006 he also taught in Athens and as a visiting lecturer and professor at eight US universities.

Since 2007 he has been visiting professor at the Sorbonne , the École Pratique des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales and in 2016 at the Université catholique de Louvain .

Mazarikis Ainian is a member of the German Archaeological Institute . He was or is scientific director of several research programs of the European Union and published over 30 excavation reports u. a. about Skala Oropou near Oropos (Attica) , which he identified with Homer's Graia , about Kythnos , Kephala on Skiathos and near Soros in Thessaly, where remnants of the ancient Amphanai or Pagasai were found, and about excavations on the grounds of the Platonic Academy . Recently, he has also been working on underwater archeology .

Fonts (selection)

• From Rulers' Dwellings to Temples. Architecture, Religion and Society in Early Iron Age Greece (1100-700 BC) (= Studies in Mediterranean Archeology 122.) Jonsered 1997.
• Όμηρος και Αρχαιολογία (German: "Homer and the archeology"). Editions M. Kardamitsa: Athens 2000.
• (Ed. With M. Mouliou): Αρχαιολογικές Αναζητήσεις: Ανασκαφές στην Ομηρική Γραία. Volos 2008. English edition: Archaeological Quests: Excavations at Homeric Graia. Volos 2008.
• (with Antonia Livieratu): The Academy of Plato in the Early Iron Age. In: Hans Lohmann (Hrsg.): Attika: Archeology of a "central" cultural landscape: files from the international conference from 18.-20. May 2007 in Marburg. Wiesbaden 2010, pp. 87-100.
• (Ed.): Les sanctuaires archaïques des Cyclades. Research récentes. Presses universitaires de Rennes , 2016.

Web links

• Biography on the website of the University of Thessaly

Individual evidence

1. ^ Albert Schachter : Boiotia in Antiquity: Selected Papers. Cambridge University Press, 2016, p. 84.