Annetta Alexandridis

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Annetta Alexandridis (* 1968 ) is a German classical archaeologist .

Annetta Alexandridis first studied French language and French music at the Sorbonne in Paris in 1986/87 , then classical archeology, ancient history and art history at the École du Louvre in Paris (1987/88), the University of Munich (1989/90, 1991–1994 ) and the University of Perugia (1990/91). At the University of Munich she obtained her Magister Artium degree with her thesis “Statuary representation of Roman empresses using the example of Faustina maior and Faustina minor” , followed by a doctorate with Paul Zanker with the grade summa cum laude in 1997 with the thesis “Die Frauen des Roman imperial house from Livia to Iulia Domna in statuary, epigraphic and numismatic tradition ”. The dissertation was awarded the university's sponsorship award. For a short time she was a trainee at the Commission for Research into Ancient Urbanism of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences . Subsequently, Alexandridis traveled in 1997/98 as holder of the travel grant of the German Archaeological Institute in the Mediterranean area. This was followed by an internship at the Berlin Collection of Antiquities in 1998/99 . In 1999 she moved to Rostock University as a research assistant . From 2005–2006 Alexandridis was a Junior Fellow at the Center for Hellenic Studies in Washington, DC. Since 2006, she has taught first as an assistant professor and now as an associate professor of ancient art history and archeology at Cornell University .

Alexandridis researches in particular the iconography of Greek myths , animals and people, Roman sculpture and the relationship between archeology and photography. She is a member of the German Archaeological Association and was a member of the association's board from 2004 to 2006. She is also a member of the Archaeological Institute of America . In 1987 she took part in excavations in Archanes , from 1990 to 1992 in the excavations in Olympia led by Ulrich Sinn , in 1997 and 1999 in the excavations in the region of the Macellum of Ostia Antica led by Valentin Kockel and since 2007 in those of Crawford H. Greenewalt , Jr. directed excavations in Sardis .

Fonts

  • with Christine Kühn: Italian photographs from the John Henry Parker Collection 1806–1884 , Art Library, Berlin 2000 ISBN 3-88609-009-4
  • Miletus. An ancient metropolis , Friends of Antiquity on Museum Island Berlin, Berlin 2001
  • The women of the Roman imperial family. An investigation of their visual representation from Livia to Iulia Domna , Philipp von Zabern, Mainz 2004 ISBN 3-8053-3304-8
  • with Wolf-Dieter Heilmeyer : Archeology of Photography. Pictures from the photo library of the Berlin Collection of Antiquities , Philipp von Zabern, Mainz 2004 ISBN 3-8053-3329-3
  • Editor with Markus Wild and Lorenz Winkler-Horaček : Humans and animals in antiquity. Boundary drawing and border crossing , Reichert, Wiesbaden 2008 ISBN 978-3-89500-583-1

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SURNAME Alexandridis, Annetta
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German classical archaeologist
DATE OF BIRTH 1968