As. Prof. Elias K. Petropoulos

EDUCATION:

19/06/1999

Ph. D. in History from the Department of the Ancient World, faculty of History, State University of Moscow named by M.V. Lomonosov

1996 – 1999

Designed Doctoral dissertation on ‘The Greek Colonisation of the North Black Sea Between the 7^th century and first quarter of the 6^th century BC: Problems and Discussions’

1994 – 1995

Master’s Degree. Department of the Ancient World, Faculty of History, State University of Moscow named by M.V. Lomonosov

Attained Master’s with scholarship from the Centre for Pontic Studies and the Foreign Ministry of Greece

MASTER’S THEME: ‘Small towns of the Kimmerian Bosporus and Attica: a Comparative Study’

Attended course on Ancient Epigraphic by Prof. Yu.G. Vinogradov. Department of the Ancient World, Faculty of History, State University of Moscow named by M.V. Lomonosov.

1990 – 1994

Bachelor’s Degree in History Department of the Ancient World, Faculty of History, State University of Moscow named by M.V. Lomonosov, with scholarship from the Centre for Pontic Studies and the Foreign Ministry of Greece.

1990 – 1993

Post-graduate studies specializing in translating from Greek to Russian and from Russian to Greek. State University of Moscow named by M.V. Lomonosov.

1989 – 1990

Completed preparatory course on the Russian language at the State University of Moscow named by M.V. Lomonosov, with a scholarship from the Centre of Pontic Studies and the Foreign Ministry of Greece.

ARCHAEOLOGICAL PROJECTS – LECTURES IN UNIVERSITIES ABROAD:

1^st of March 2007 – May 2008

Member of the Scientific Committee of the Project lunched by the Greek Ministry of Culture: ‘Intercultural contacts in sea, lake and river corridors of the Southeast Europe.

25^th – 30^th of April 2007

Participated the delegation of the Greek Ministry of Culture to Uzbekistan.

21^st of June 2007

Invited by the University of Oxford, Faculty of Classics, The Ioannou Centre for Classical and Byzantine Studies, 66 St. Gilles', Oxford, to read a lecture on: "Greek Colonization in the Black Sea".

3-22 July 2006

Joined excavations at Maroneia with Students of the Department

20-30 July 2004

Joined excavations at Maroneia with Students of the Department

7-14 Sept. 2003

Participated as representative of the Archaeological Institute of Northern Greece in the Delegation of the Greek Ministry of Culture in Odessa, Ukraine, for the inauguration of the local Archaeological Museum.

April-May 1998

Participated in the excavation project of Gonour (Ancient Margiane) in Turkmenistan. Head of Project: Prof. V.I. Sariannidi of the Archaeological Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences.

July-Aug 1997

Participated in the excavation of Panticapaeum (Kertch, Eastern Crimea). Head of Project: Dr. V.P. Tolstikov.

Aug-Sept 1996

Was part of the archaeological delegation of the Greek Ministry of Culture in Crimea.

1990 – 1995

Participated in the excavation of the ancient Greek city of Kimmerikon on the Black Sea as part of the excavation team of the Archaeological Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences. Head: Prof. G.A. Koshelenko.

FOREIGN LANGUAGES:

Russian – fluent French – (Sorbonne I) English – (Cam. Advanced)

Arabic – high level Italian – high level German – reading level

Turkish – reading level Bulgarian – reading level Roumanian – reading level

Department of Languages, Literature and Civilization of the Countries around the Black Sea. Democritus University of Thrace, Greece.

Address of the Department: P. Tsaldari 1, Building B, Komotini, 69100, Greece.

Tel.: (0030)-2531039420

Fax: (0030)-2531039413

Full academic stuff: since spring 2001.

Taught the course of ‘Russian Language’ from 2001 till 2005.

Was elected Lecturer in Ancient History of the Black Sea in the May 2004 for the position at the Department of Languages, Literature and Culture of the Black Sea Countries, Democritus University of Thrace, Greece.

Was elected Assistant Professor in Ancient History of the Black Sea in March 2010 for the position at the same Department.

Responsible for teaching the courses:

The above mentioned courses are claimed by the Department of History and Ethnology of the same University to be taught to its students as well.

Since 2006 responsible for teaching the course ‘Special Issues in History: Philosophy of History and Methodology of Historiography’, in the Master’s Program of the same Department (semester A).

CONFERENCES – MEETINGS – EXHIBITIONS:

2009

Invited to the State Historical Museum of the Kremlin in Moscow to read a lecture on ‘Alexander the Great and the Hellenistic era in Central Asia’. A Conference dedicated to the 80^th Anniversary of Victor I. Sarianidi.

2007

Invited to participate at the ‘Symposium on Greek Colonization Across the Mediterranean", 25-29 of March 2007, Faculty of Classics, Fidgwilliam College, University of Cambridge. Contribution read: ‘Issues on Greek Colonization: Greek Settlers and Native Population in Northern Euxeinos Pontos’.

Invited by the Greek Ministry of Culture at the Conference ‘Greek Culture without Frontiers’ at the 1^st February 2007. The Conference took place at the National Research Foundation. Was a member of the Presidium.

2005

‘On the traces of the Argonauts: A historical and archaeological periplous in the cities of the ancient Greeks in the Black Sea Littoral’, Lecture at the Literary Society of Komotini in 31-10-2005.

‘Ancient Greek Colonies in the Black Sea -2’, Presentation of the new project. Celebration of the 30th Anniversary of Ikiztepe Excavations, September 1-4 2005, Under the Auspices of Istanbul University - Samsun Governership - Bafra Municipality.

‘The early stage of the Greek Colonization in the Black Sea Area: Chronology and colonial policy’ – International Scientific Congress on “Russia and the Mediterranean” at Athens University, 19-22 of May 2005. Also member of the Organizing Committee.

2004

International Conference on the Phenomenon of the Bosporan Kingdom: the problems of dating. St. Petersburg, Russia. March, 2004. Petropoulos, E.K : ‘Colonial Encounters in the Black Sea Region: Dating Problems of the earliest Kimmerian Bosporos Greek Cities’.

‘Apollonia Pontica in the system of the first Greek settlements In the Black Sea’ – In the Bulgarian-Greek Scientific Symposium: ‘Apollonia – Argilos: The Western Pontic and the Northern Aegean Area in the Antiquity’, Sozopol, September 28- October 1, 2004.

2003

International Symposium THRACIA PONTICA VIII, Sozopol, Bulgaria. 13 – 19 September, 2003. Program: The Ancient Cultures of the Pontic Area and their Association to the Sea. Petropoulos, E.K: ‘Early Greek pottery on the Northern Black Sea and in the Italian Campania: Parallels in creating the colonial ‘Middle Ground’’.

1^st Panhellenic Celebration of the Pontian Youth & Greeks in a Foreign Country/Fellow Greeks, organized by the ‘Panaghia Soumela’ Association Thermi, Thessaloniki, Greece. 6 July, 2003. Petropoulos, E.K: ‘Historical and Archaeological Report on the Presence of the ancient Greeks in the Northern Black Sea Area’.

Scientific advisor for the archaeological Exhibition of Kavala on Ancient Apollonia Pontica (Sozopolis), Archaeological Museum of Kavala, Greece. 24 May 2003.

Cultural Association of Pontians in Alexandroupolis for the Memorial of the Genocide of the Greek Pontians, Alexandroupolis, Greece. 18 May 2003. Petropoulos, E.K: ‘The Presence of the Ancient Greeks in the Black Sea Region throughout Antiquity’.

2002

Scientific Conference in honour of the 80^th Anniversary of Dr. Liuba Ognenova-Marinova, Archaeological Institute of the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Sofia, Bulgaria. 11 December, 2002. Petropoulos, E.K : ‘Emporion on the Black Sea Littoral: A Problem in the Modern Historiography of the Greek Colonization’.

2^nd International Symposium ‘2075 years of Spartacus’ Revolt. Thraco-Roman Heritage. 2000 years of Christianity’, Sandanski, Bulgaria. 1-4 October 2002. Petropoulos, E.K: ‘Greeks and Thracians: The Greeks by the Black Sea’.

10^th International Symposium on the ancient history and archaeology of the Black Sea area ‘Urbanism in the Black Sea area in the Archaic and Classical Periods: Polis Hellenis and Polis Barbaron’, Vani. 23-26 September 2002. Petropoulos, E.K: ‘Emporion and Apoikia-Polis in the Northeast Black Sea Area during the 6^th and 5^th centuries BC: an urbanistic view’.

2000

1^st International Conference ‘Greeks and Natives in the Kimmerian Bosporus’, Taman, South Russia. 8-15 October, 2000. Petropoulos, E.K: ‘The ‘small cities’ of the Bosporan Kingdom and Attica: some new aspects of the problem’.

1999

1^st Panhellenic Conference of Epigraphic, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Faculty of Philosophy, Thessaloniki, Greece. 22-23 October 1999. Petropoulos, E.K: ‘From the epigraphic and archaeological research of the Greek colonization of the North Black Sea’.

1997

Meeting organized by the Pontian Association of Serres Prefecture ‘Euxeinus Pontus Club’, Serres, Greece. 12 May, 1997. Petropoulos, E.K: ‘The Greek City in the Northwest Pontus during the 6^th Century BC’.

International Conference on Hellenism in the Former Soviet Union ‘Beyond the Sympligades’, Antoniadios School of Letters and Art, Municipal Council of Veria, Greece. 9-11 May, 1997. Petropoulos, E.K: ‘The Mass Migration of the Ancient Greeks on the Coast of the Kimmerian Bosporus (6^th-5^th Century BC)’.

1996

International Scientific Conference, The Ukraine – Greece: friendly relations and prospects of cooperation, Marioupol, the Ukraine. 24-26 May, 1997. Petropoulos, E.K: ‘Small cities of Attica and the European Bosporus: categories and historical-archaeological parallels’.

Participation in Encyclopedias:

Author of 11 entries for the ‘Digital Encyclopedia of the Hellenic World’, of the Foundation of the Hellenic World (web: http://www.ehw.gr/ehw/forms/Default.aspx)

Author of 2 entries for the ‘Encyclopedia of Ancient World’ edited by Roger Bagnall, Kai Brodersen, Craige Champion, Andrew Erskine & Sabine Huebner. By Wiley Blackwell (web: http://www.encyclopediaancienthistory.com/default.asp)

PUBLICATIONS:

Conference Proceedings:

Petropoulos, E.K. (2005), ‘Issues on Greek Colonization: Greek Settlers and Native Population in Northern Euxeinos Pontos’, read at the ‘Symposium on Greek Colonization Across the Mediterranean", 25-29 of March 2007, Faculty of Classics, Fidgwilliam College, University of Cambridge (forthcoming).

Petropoulos, E.K. (2005), ‘The Greek Colonization of the Black Sea Area: the early stage’ – International Scientific Congress on ‘Russia and the Mediterranean’ at Athens University, 19-22 of May 2005. Also member of the Organizing Committee (forthcoming).

Petropoulos, E.K. (2004) “Colonial Encounters in the Black Sea Region: Dating Problems of the earliest Kimmerian Bosporos Greek Cities”, proceedings: International conference on the “Bosporskiy Fenomen” (Phenomenon of the Bosporan kingdom): the problems of dating, St. Petersburg, Russia, March 2004.

Petropoulos, E.K. (in press) “Early Greek pottery on the Northern Black Sea and in Italian Campania: Parallels in Creating the Colonial ‘Middle Ground’”, proceedings: “The Ancient Cultures of the Pontic Area and their Association to the Sea”, 8^th International Symposium THRACIA PONTICA, in Sozopol, Bulgaria, 13-19 September 2003.

Petropoulos, E.K. (in press) “Emporion on the Black Sea Littoral: a problem in the modern historiography of the Greek colonization”, Proceedings: Scientific Conference in honour of the 80^th Anniversary of Dr. Liuba Ognenova-Marinova, Archaeological Institute of the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Sofia 11 December, 2002.

Petropoulos, E.K. (in press) “Greeks and Thracians. The Greeks by the Black Sea”. Proceedings: 2^nd International Symposium “2075 years of Spartacus’ Revolt”. Thraco-Roman Heritage. 2000 years of Christianity. Sandanski, Bulgaria, 1-4 October 2002.

Petropoulos, E.K. (in press) “The ‘Small cities’ of the Bosporan Kingdom and Attica: some new aspects of the problem”, Proceedings: 1^st International Conference “Greeks and Natives in the Kimmerian Bosporus”, Taman, South Russia. 8-15 October 2000. British Archaeological Reports (Oxford).

Petropoulos, E.K (in press) “Mass Migration of the Ancient Greeks to the Coast of the Kimmerian Bosporos (6^th-5^th centuries BC)”, proceedings: International Conference on The Hellenism of the former Soviet Union “Beyond the Sympligades”. Antoniadios School of Letters and Art, Municipal Council of Veria, Greece. 9-11 May 1997, in Greek.

Petropoulos, E.K. (in press) “Emporion and Apoikia-Polis in the Northeast Black Sea Area during the 6^th and 5^th centuries BC: an urbanistic view”, proceedings: 10^th International Symposium on the ancient history and archaeology of the Black Sea area. “Urbanism in the Black Sea Area in the Archaic and Classical Periods: Polis Hellenis and polis Barbaron”. Vani, Georgia, 23-26 September 2002.

Petropoulos, E.K. (2001) “From the Epigraphic and Archaeological Research of the Hellenic Colonization of the Black Sea”, proceedings: 1^st Panhellenic Conference on Epigraphic. 22-23 October, 1999. Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Faculty of Philosophy, pp. 125-135, in Greek with summary in English.

Petropoulos, E.K. (1996) “The ‘small cities’ of Attica and the European Bosporus: Categories and historical – archaeological parallels”, proceedings: International Scientific Conference, ‘The Ukraine –Greece: friendly relations and the prospect of cooperation’ Marioupol, the Ukraine, 24-26 May, 1996, pp. 29-30, in Russian with summary in English.

Journal Publications:

Petropoulos, E.K. (2001) The Taurus Peninsula: history of the research of the early settlement. Archaeology and Arts, 81.

Petropoulos, E.K. (2001) The Greek city in the Northeast Black Sea during the 6th and 5th centuries BC: the urbanistic formation of the Bosporus Kingdom. Makednon, 9. (Journal of the Pedagogic Faculty in Florina, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece).

Petropoulos, E.K. (2000) A few aspects of the early history of the Black Sea: the arrival and the first permanent settlement of the Greeks. Archaeology and Arts, 76.

Petropoulos, E.K. (1997) Greek colonies of the Black Sea. Archaeology and Arts.

Book Publications-Editions:

Petropoulos, E.K. (just published) “Hellenic Colonization in Euxeinos Pontos: Penetration, Early Establishment, and the Problem of “emporion” Reconsidered”, In British Archaeological Reports International Series 1394. Oxford, 2005.

Grammenos, Dimitrios V. & Petropoulos, Elias K. (eds.) (2003) Ancient Greek Colonies in the Black Sea. 2 volumes. Published by the Archaeological Institute of Northern Greece and the Archaeological Receipts Fund (Greek Ministry of Culture). Thessaloniki.

Petropoulos, E.K. (2003) Problems in the history and archaeology of the Greek colonization of the Black Sea, in Grammenos Dimitrios V. & Petropoulos Elias K., (eds.), Ancient Greek Colonies in the Black Sea, 17-92. Published by the Archaeological Institute of Northern Greece and the Archaeological Receipts Fund (Greek Ministry of Culture), Thessaloniki, 2003, volume 1.

Grammenos Dimitrios V. & Petropoulos Elias K., (eds.), Ancient Greek Colonies in the Black Sea – II. 2-volume edition. Published by the British Archaeological Reports International Series 1675. Oxford 2007.

Petropoulos Elias K. & Alexander A. Maslennikov, (eds.), Sacral Monuments in the Black Sea Area (forthcoming in 2010).

Petropoulos Elias K., The cult of Apollo in the Black Sea Greek Cities, in Petropoulos Elias K. & Alexander A. Maslennikov, (eds.), Sacral Monuments in the Black Sea Area (forthcoming in 2010).

Book Reviews:

1) Bryn Mawr Classical Review (BMCR, internet), 18/12/2005. David Braund (ed.), Scythians and Greeks: Cultural Interactions in Scythia, Athens and the Early Roman Empire (sixth century BC - first century AD). Exeter: University of Exeter Press, 2005. Web: http://ccat.sas.upenn.edu/bmcr/2005/2005-12-19.html

2) Bryn Mawr Classical Review (BMCR, internet), 20/02/2006. Irad Malkin (ed.), Mediterranean Paradigms and Classical Antiquity. London and New York: Routledge, 2005. Web: http://ccat.sas.upenn.edu/bmcr/2006/2006-02-41.html

3) Bryn Mawr Classical Review (BMCR, internet), 06/03/2007. Octavian Bounegru, Trafiquants et navigateurs sur le Bas-Danube et dans le Pont Gauche à l'époque romaine. PHILIPPIKA. Marburger Altertumskundliche Abhandlungen 9. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, 2006. Web: http://ccat.sas.upenn.edu/bmcr/2007/2007-03-17.html

4) Bryn Mawr Classical Review (BMCR, internet), 03/05/2007. Pia Guldager Bilde, Vladimir F. Stolba, Surveying the Greek Chora: The Black Sea Region in a Comparative Perspective. Black Sea Studies, 4. Denmark: Aarhus University Press, 2006. Web: http://ccat.sas.upenn.edu/bmcr/2007/2007-05-06.html

5) American Journal of Archaeology, 111.4 (October, 2007), p. 811-2. Rome and the Black Sea Region: Domination, Romanisation, Resistance. Proceedings of the Fifth International Conference, University of Southern Denmark, Esbjerg, January 23-26, 2005. Edited by T. Bekker-Nielsen.

Web: http://www.ajaonline.org/index.php?ptype=toc

6) Elias K. Petropoulos, Bryn Mawr Classical Review (BMCR, internet). I. A. Oltean, Dacia: Landscape, Colonization, Romanization. Routledge Monographs in Classical Studies. Routledge Taylor & Francis Group. London/New York: Routledge, 2007.

Web: http://ccat.sas.upenn.edu/bmcr/2008/2008-09-10.html

7) Elias K. Petropoulos, Bryn Mawr Classical Review (BMCR, internet). Tsetskhladze, Gocha R. (ed.). Greek colonisation: an account of Greek colonies and other settlements overseas, Volume Two. Mnemosyne, Supplementa 193. Leiden; Boston: Brill, 2006.

Web: http://ccat.sas.upenn.edu/bmcr/2009/2009-03-14.html

8) Elias K. Petropoulos, American Journal of Archaeology. Docter, Roald, Kristina Panayotova, Jan de Boer, Lieve Donnellan, Winfred van de Put, Babette Bechtold. Apollonia Pontica 2007. Department of Archaeology, Ghent University, Gent 2008. (forthcoming in 2010).

Further Scientific Interests:

Cuneiform writing of the Hittites of Anatolia and the Hittite language (Old Kingdom-New Kingdom).

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