Trinity College Dublin

Post-Doc, Department of Classics

IRCHSS Postdoctoral Fellow

About

I did my B.A. in History and Archaeology at the University of Cyprus (2003) and my Ph.D. in Classics at Trinity College Dublin (2008), where I also held an Irish Research Council for the Humanities and Social Sciences (IRCHSS), Government of Ireland Postdoctoral Fellowship (2009-10). I have also temporarily worked as an archaeologist in the Department of Antiquities, Republic of Cyprus, and as a researcher and associate lecturer in the Department of History and Archaeology, University of Cyprus.

Research interests

My main agenda for research is based on interdisciplinary approaches. Bringing together archaeological, textual, epigraphic, art-historical, and anthropological evidence, I have specialised in the transition from the Cypriot city-kingdoms (Archaic and Classical periods) to the Hellenistic era, primarily in socio-cultural terms.

I have recently completed the preparation of a monograph, which represents the first extended attempt to study the transition in Cyprus from the city-kingdoms to the Hellenistic period through religion, royal ideology and local responses thereto. Particular focus is placed on the art, architecture and archaeology of the island from the Archaic to the Hellenistic/early Roman period. The main research questions of the project are approached through three lines of investigation: 1. the study of sacred landscapes and architecture; 2. the study of cult and religious art (mainly sculptures and terracotta figurines) in specific case-studies; and 3. the study of the Hellenistic ‘portrait-like’ sculptures and their epigraphic manifestation. Moving beyond the field of Cypriot history and archaeology, the monograph aims to provide a paradigm for the study of religion in relation to social power in other fields of study, and a case-study for the enrolment of other areas of the Mediterranean into the political and cultural Hellenistic oikoumene.

My broader area of interest includes the interaction of Cyprus with other Mediterranean and Near Eastern cultures, particularly mainland Greece, the Syro-Palestinian coast and Egypt from the Late Bronze Age to the Roman period. I am specifically interested in Greek sanctuaries and religion, Greek and Roman mystery cults, Greek sculpture and terracotta figurines, Hellenistic royal image on coins and statues, Alexander the Great, Hellenistic ruler cult, Ptolemaic Alexandria, ancient medicine, classical mythology, ancient imperialism, landscape archaeology and approaches to ancient art and iconography.

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