Dimitrios Yatromanolakis

Dimitrios Yatromanolakis (Greek Δημήτριος Γιατρομανωλάκης) is a cultural historian and Graecist who has specialized in ancient Greek art and archeology (especially vase painting and vase inscriptions). He also specializes in Historical and Comparative Anthropology. He is Associate Professor in the Department of Classics, Department of Anthropology and The Humanities Center at Johns Hopkins University , Baltimore , Maryland , USA .

Life

After studying Greek and Roman Classical Archeology at the Universities of Athens and Oxford and papyrology with Peter J. Parsons (University of Oxford), which he received with a Ph.D. Yatromanolakis was initially a junior fellow of the Society of Fellows at Harvard University . During his postgraduate degree, his studies extended to Cultural Anthropology, with a focus on Historical and Comparative Anthropology. Yatromanolakis is now an Associate Professor in the Department of Anthropology and The Humanities Center . He has been awarded numerous international prestigious fellowships, including the Berlin Prize .

Research priorities

Yatromanolakis works in the fields of archaic, classical and Hellenistic performance cultures from an anthropological perspective, vase painting and vase inscriptions, Greek papyrology and epigraphy as well as historical and comparative anthropology , especially ritual poetics . Further interests concern the ancient Greek dialectology , the language and culture of the Lydians , the pre-Socratic and the Platonic philosophy.

Fonts (selection)

as an author

• Greek Mythologies . 2012.
• (Author): Sappho in the Making: An Anthropology of Reception . 2007.
• (Co-author): Towards a Ritual Poetics . 2003.
  • Greek edition: transl. by Emmanuel Skoura, with a foreword by Marcel Detienne under the title For an Anthropological Approach , 2005.
  • Italian edition: Verso una poetica rituale , transl. by Chiara Rizzelli Martella, with a foreword by Marcel Detienne under the title Per un approccio antropologico , 2014.
• Margaret Alexiou : The Ritual Lament in Greek Tradition . Cambridge University Press, 1974. Second Revised Edition: Dimitrios Yatromanolakis and Panagiotis Roilos (Lanham / Oxford, 2002), ISBN 0-7425-0757-2 .
  • Google books: books.google.de ; Greek edition: 2002

as editor

• Ancient Greek Vase-Inscriptions . In the show.
• Music and Cultural Politics in Greek and Chinese Societies . In three volumes. Volume I: 2011.
• An Archeology of Representations: Ancient Greek Vase-Painting and Contemporary Methodologies . 2009.

Web links

• Personal Page ( Memento from March 31, 2013 on the Internet Archive ) at Johns Hopkins University (Biobibliography)