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ADDRESS:

Department of Languages, Literature and Culture

of the Black Sea Countries,

Democritus University of Thrace,

1 P. Tsaldari Str., Block B,

Komotini, 69100

Greece

Tel.: (+30) 2531039479

             E-mail: elias_p@otenet.gr  &   ipetropo@bscc.duth.gr

19/06/1999 Ph. D. in History from the Department of the Ancient World, Faculty of History, State University of Moscow named

after 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 after

M.V. Lomonosov. Attained Master's with scholarship from the Centre for Pontic Studies (KE.PO.ME) 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. Yuriy Germanovitch Vinogradov. Department of the Ancient World, Faculty of History,

State University of Moscow named after M.V. Lomonosov.

1990 - 1994 Bachelor's Degree in History Department of the Ancient World, Faculty of History, State University of Moscow named after M.V. Lomonosov, with scholarship from the Centre for Pontic Studies (KE.PO.ME) 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 after M.V. Lomonosov.

1989 - 1990 Completed preparatory course on the Russian language at the State University of Moscow named after M.V. Lomonosov,

with a scholarship from the Centre of Pontic Studies (KE.PO.ME) and the Foreign Ministry of Greece.

ARCHAEOLOGICAL PROJECTS-DELEGATIONS:

25-30 April 2007. Was part of the archaeological delegation of the Greek Ministry of Culture in Uzbekistan.

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Member of the Greek Committee for the Project "Intercultural Encounters on Maritime,River and Lake Routes of South-East Europe". Greek Ministry of Culture (till June 2008).

01 February 2007. Participation at the 1-day Congress of the Greek Ministry of Culture, "Greek Culture Without Frontiers", held at the National Fund of Research. See the fotos, click here.

03-20 July 2006. Participation at the excavations of Maroneia (ancient theatre), Thrace, with students of the Department of Languages, Literature and Civilization of the Countries around the Black Sea, Democritus University of Thrace, Komotini, Greece.

20-30 June 2004. Participation at the excavations of Maroneia, Thrace, with students of the Department of Languages, Literature and Civilization of the Countries around the Black Sea, Democritus University of Thrace, Komotini, Greece.

7-14 Sept. 2003 Participated as representative of the Archaeological Institute

of Northern Greece (A.I.B.E.) in the Delegation of the Greek Ministry of Culture

in Odessa, Ukraine, for the inauguration of the local Archaeological Museum,

as well as several other, mainly cultural activities in the region.

April-May 1998 Participated in the excavation project of Gonour (Ancient Margiane) in Turkmenistan. Head of Project: Prof. Victor I. Sarianides 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. Vladimir P. Tolstikov.

Aug-Sept 1996 Was part of the archaeological delegation of the Greek Ministry of Culture in Crimea.

Head of the excacations in Eastern Crimea Dr. Alexandr A. Maslennikov. For the Greek side: Dr. Zisis Bonias,

Director of the Archaeological Museum at Kavala.

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 Archaelogical Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences. Head: Prof. Gennadiy A. Koshelenko.

LECTURES:

1) 21-06-2007. University of Oxford, Faculty of Classics, The Ioannou Centre for Classical and Byzantine Studies, 66 St. Gilles',

FOREIGN LANGUAGES:

Russian: fluent      French: fluent       English: fluent       Arabic: high level       Italian: high level     German: reading level        

Turkish: reading level          Bulgarian: reading level          Roumanian: reading level

MEMBER of the Archaeological Institute of America (AIA) and the American Philological Association (APA).

Lecturer.

Responsible for teaching "The History of Hellenism in the Circumpontic Region throughout Antiquity";

"The Archaeological Research in the Greek Colonies of the Euxeinos Pontos";

"Russian Language"; and "Russian History".

Cuneiform writing of the Hittites of Anatolia and the Hittite language (Old Kingdom-New Kingdom). Attended course on Hittite Language by Liliya Simeonovna Bayun.

AUTHOR'S PUBLICATIONS:

Conference Proceedings:

Petropoulos E.K., "Issues on Greek Colonization: Greek Settlers and Native Population in Northern Euxeinos Pontos". 

"Symposium on Greek Colonization Across the Mediterranean", 25-29 of March 2007, Faculty of Classics, University of Cambridge.

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Petropoulos, E.K. (2005) "Emporion and Apoikia-Polis in the Northeast Black Sea Area during the 6^th and 5^th centuries BC:

an urbanistic view". - In: Kacharava D., Faudot M., Geny E. (eds), Pont-Euxin et Polis : Polis hellenis et polis barbaron : Actes du Xe

symposium de Vani [Colchide], 23-26 septembre 2002: hommage à Otar Lordkipanidzé et Pierre Lévêque,

Presses universitaires franc-comtoises. Besançon, 2005: 207-232.

Petropoulos E.K. (2005) "Ancient Greek Colonies in the Black Sea - 2". Celebration of the 30th Anniversary of Ikiztepe Excavations, September 1-4 2005, Under the Auspices of Istanbul University - Samsun Governership - Bafra Municipality.

Petropoulos E.K. (2005) "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 in the second half of May 2005.

Petropoulos, E.K. (2004) "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.

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. St. Petersburg, 2004: 33-41.

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) "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. (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,  Thessaloniki, 2001, pp. 125-135, in Greek with summary in English.

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". Antoniadeios School of Letters and Art, Municipal Council of Veria, Greece. 9-11 May 1997, in Greek.

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), "Tauric Chersonesus: history of the research of the early settlement". Archaeology and Arts, 81,

pp. 131-134, in Greek with summary in English.

Petropoulos, E.K. (2001), "The Greek city in the Northeast Black Sea during the 6^th and 5^th centuries BC: the urbanistic

formation of the Bosporus Kingdom". Makednon, 9, pp. 289-302. (Journal of the Pedagogic Faculty in Florina,

Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece). In Greek.

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, pp. 61-64, in Greek with summary in English.

Petropoulos, E.K. (1997), "Greek colonies of the Black Sea". Archaeology and Arts, 63, pp. 83-85, in Greek with summary in English.

Book Publications-Editions:

Petropoulos, E.K. "Greek Colonization in the North Black Sea from the 7^th century to the first quarter

of the 6^th century BC: problems and discussions", Ph.D. dissertation. Department of the Ancient World, Faculty of History,

State University of Moscow named after M.V. Lomonosov. Moscow 1999.

Petropoulos, E.K., Hellenic Colonization in Euxeinos Pontos: Penetration, Early Establishment, and the Problem of “emporion”

Revisited, (British Archaeological Reports International Series 1394; Oxford, 2005). Enlarged and revised edition of the

Ph.D dissertation, in English, Pp. 190.

Petropoulos, E.K. (1999) "Greek colonization in the North Black Sea between the 7^th century and first quarter of the 6^th century BC:

Problems and Discussions". Moscow, May 1999. 18 pages resume of the thesis. (Autoreferat) In Russian, Pp. 20.

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),

pp. 1431, with illustrations, Thessaloniki, 2003, Pp. 1431.

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, pp. 17-92. Published by the Archaeological Institute

of Northern Greece and the Archaeological Receipts Fund (Greek Ministry of Culture), Thessaloniki, 2003: 17-94.

Petropoulos, E.K. (2005), "The Greek Colonization in Antiquity: New Problems and Theoretic aspects", for the 2^nd Exhibition of the

Archaeological Museum of Thessaloniki, entitled "To the genesis of the poleis" (forthcoming).

Petropoulos, Elias K. &  Grammenos, Dimitrios V., (eds.), "Ancient Greek Colonies in the Black Sea - 2".

2 Volumes. British Archaeological Reports International Series 1675. Oxford, 2007 (see the details).

ENCYCLOPEDIAS:

1) Participation in the "Encyclopedia of the Hellenic World" of the Foundation of the Hellenic World (see the details) 11 entries

2) Participation in the "Wiley-Blackwell's Encyclopedia of Ancient History", 2 entries (forthcoming)

REVIEWS:

1) Bryn Mawr Classical Review (BMCR, internet), 19/12/2005. 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.  Pp. xii, 254; ills., maps.  

ISBN 0-85989-746-X. $90.00.

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.  Pp. vi, 149; ills., maps, table.  ISBN 0-415-35635-0.  $105.00.

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.  

Pp. 197; ills.  ISBN 3-447-05217-1.  €59.70.

Web: http://ccat.sas.upenn.edu/bmcr/2007/2007-03-17.html

T R A N S L A T I O N S   (from Russian into Greek):

Σαριανίδης Βίκτωρ, ΒΑΣΙΛΙΚΟΙ ΤΑΦΟΙ ΣΤΗΝ ΒΑΚΤΡΙΑΝΗ {Sarianides Victor, Royal Tombs in Bactria,

(in Greek)}, Thessaloniki, 1995, Bros Kyriakides Publishers.

Maslennikov Alexandr, ΟΙ ΑΡΧΑΙΟΙ ΕΛΛΗΝΕΣ ΣΤΟΝ ΒΟΡΕΙΟ ΕΥΞΕΙΝΟ ΠΟΝΤΟ

{The Ancient Greeks on the Northern Black Sea Littoral (in Greek)}, Thessaloniki, 2000, Bros Kyriakides Publishers (click here to see the details).

USPENSKIJ F. I.-BENESEVIC V. N., "Τα Acta της Μονής Βαζελώνος. Στοιχεία για την ιστορία της αγροτικής και μοναστηριακής έγγειας ιδιοκτησίας στο Βυζάντιο κατά τον 13ο-15ο αιώνα". Thessaloniki, 2007. (click here to see the details).

Β. Σαριαννίδης, «Ζωροαστρισμός: Η νέα πατρίδα της παλαιάς θρησκείας», Αφοι ΚΘεσσαλονίκη 2009.

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