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University of Pennsylvania
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Harvard University
Graduate School of Design
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New York University
Institute for the Study of the Ancient World
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University of Oxford
School of Archaeology
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The Getty
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Harvard University
Center for Hellenic Studies
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National Hellenic Research Foundation
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Universität zu Köln
Archäologisches Institut
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Princeton University
Institute for Advanced Study
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DPhil in Classical Archaeology, University of Oxford;
MSt in Classical Archaeology, University of Oxford;
MDesS in History and Theory of Architecture, Harvard University;
BA/MA in Architectural Engineering, National Technical University of Athens.
Research Fellowships:
Princeton University, Institute for Advanced Study, Member;
National Hellenic Research Foundation. Institute of Historical Research, Marie Curie Intra-European Fellow;
Harvard Center for Hellenic Studies, Research Fellow;
Getty Research Institute, Getty Scholar;
Universität zu Köln, Archäologisches Institut, Humboldt Postdoctoral Research Fellow;
NYU Institute for the Study of the Ancient World, Visiting Scholar;
Freie Universität Berlin, TOPOI Research Fellow.
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Shaping Roman Landscape: Ecocritical Approaches to Architecture and Wall Painting in Early Imperial Italy
Getty Publications
, 2023
This book focuses on Roman architecture, nature, and wall painting to shed light on the interconn...
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This book focuses on Roman architecture, nature, and wall painting to shed light on the interconnected environmental, aesthetic, social, and political changes of the late Republican and early Imperial periods that shaped ideas of landscape as a way of seeing—an active, historically-determined mode of looking. Drawing on a diverse body of archaeological, art historical, and literary evidence, this study applies an ecocritical lens that moves beyond the limits of traditional iconography. Chapters consider, for example, how garden designs and paintings appropriated the cultures and ecosystems brought under Roman control, and the ways miniature landscape paintings chronicled the transformation of the Italian shoreline through the rise of colonnaded villas, pointing to the changing relationship of humans with nature. Making a timely and original contribution to current discourses on ecology and art and architectural history, Shaping Roman Landscape reveals how Roman ideas of landscape, and the decorative strategies that gave these ideas shape, employed at imperial domus and villa complexes were richly embedded with meanings nature, culture, and labor.
Designing for Luxury on the Bay of Naples: Villas and Landscapes (c. 100 BCE – 79 CE)
Oxford University Press
, 2014
This study explores Roman luxury villa architecture and the Roman luxury villa lifestyle to shed ...
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This study explores Roman luxury villa architecture and the Roman luxury villa lifestyle to shed light on the villas’ design as a dynamic process related to cultural, social, and environmental factors. Roman villas expressed a novel architectural language which was developed by designers appropriating the existing stylistic and thematic vocabularies of Hellenistic and Roman architecture. Zarmakoupi seeks to describe and explain the ways in which this architecture accommodated the lifestyle of educated leisure and an appreciation of the Roman landscape, and how, in doing so, it became a cultural phenomenon and a crucial element in the construction of Roman cultural identity. In their effort to accommodate the Greek style, Romans created something completely unprecedented in the history of architecture. Through an analysis of five villas from around the bay of Naples (c. 100 BCE – 79 CE), the volume shows that in designing for luxury, Romans developed a sophisticated interplay between architecture and landscape, an interplay which is still seen in architectural design today.
Edited Books by Mantha Zarmakoupi
Hermogenes and Hellenistic-Roman Temple Building
University of Wisconsin Press
, 2026
Recent major excavations at a variety of sites associated with Hermogenes have refreshed, invigor...
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Recent major excavations at a variety of sites associated with Hermogenes have refreshed, invigorated, and refined our understanding of this important Hellenistic architect. Here, in the first volume dedicated to Hermogenes in more than two decades, new evidence and multivocal analysis allow for fresh contextualization, offering new insights into ancient Greek and Roman architecture and the sociopolitical factors that informed it.
Hermogenes remains one of the most influential and famous designers of the Hellenistic world, although he is known primarily via the first-century BCE Roman architect Vitruvius, who credited his Greek predecessor with major accomplishments. Despite his comparative fame, the paucity of sources has nevertheless obscured Hermogenes’ legacy. This volume updates the evidence, reevaluates this highly significant figure, and recontextualizes crucial innovations in the ancient Greek world—innovations that continue to be influential today.
The Delos Symposia and Doxiadis
Lars Müller Publishers; Evangelos Pistiolis Foundation
, 2025
The Delos Symposia (1963-75) were a groundbreaking series of events created by architect–planner ...
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The Delos Symposia (1963-75) were a groundbreaking series of events created by architect–planner Constantinos A. Doxiadis, dedicated to re-thinking and re-shaping the built environment to handle global demographic growth, environmental threats, and infrastructure demands. The Symposia took place yearly aboard a ship in the Aegean Sea and concluded at the ancient island-city of Delos, where influential figures – including Buckminster Fuller, Margaret Mead, Arnold Toynbee, Barbara Ward, and Doxiadis’ key collaborator Jaqueline Tyrwhitt – would convene in the theatre to deliberate on world issues.
The Delos Symposia and Doxiadis offers the first comprehensive appraisal of the history and legacy of these meetings. It explores their ideals, how they fed into Doxiadis’s urban planning projects, as well as their relevance for contemporary debates on ecology and design. Staying true to the multidisciplinary nature of the Symposia, the book bridges archaeology, classics, architecture, sociology, geography, psychology, anthropology, as well as postcolonial and environmental studies.
Looking at the City: Architectural and Archaeological Perspectives
Melissa Books
, 2023
This volume presents a series of articles by architects, architectural historians and archaeologi...
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This volume presents a series of articles by architects, architectural historians and archaeologists on the study of urban areas. Cities were in ancient times, as they continue to be today, hubs of economic, social and cultural development. The complexity of the ancient urban fabric as well as the factors affecting its development raise questions that concern the research fields of archaeology and architecture and demand a multidisciplinary approach between the two fields. The volume brings together architects and archaeologists in order to tackle the different yet converging ways in which the two disciplines approach and try to understand ancient and modern cities. Using case studies, architects and archaeologists address the methods that the two disciplines employ in the study of the urban environment.
The Villa of the Papyri at Herculaneum. Archaeology, Reception, and Digital Reconstruction
De Gruyter
, 2010
The Villa of the Papyri is a unique archaeological site and has been very influential in the fiel...
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The Villa of the Papyri is a unique archaeological site and has been very influential in the field of classical studies. The papyri (the only intact library to survive from Greco-Roman antiquity) and bronze sculptures found in the villa have contributed to our knowledge of the ancient world and the villa has become for us the “ideal model” of Roman luxury villa culture.
This volume brings together papers delivered by experts in various fields addressing the cultural significance of this ancient site in its contemporary Roman context as well as its cultural reception from its discovery over two hundred and fifty years ago to the most recent excavations in the late twentieth century. They also explore the ways in which digital archaeology can assist our efforts to understand and investigate ancient sites. Topics treated include the Villa’s architecture, decoration, and content (i.e., wall-paintings, sculptures, and papyri); their reception since the 18th century; and the current state of knowledge based on the recent partial excavations in the Villa, presented here in English for the first time. Furthermore, the use of digital models of the Villa that incorporate the data from the new excavations and a discussion on the ways in which such models may be used for educational and research purposes are also presented.
Edited Journals by Mantha Zarmakoupi
ΑΡΧΑΙΑ ΑΡΧΙΤΕΚΤΟΝΙΚΗ
Αρχαιολογία και Τέχνες
, 2023
Αυτό το τεύχος είναι αφιερωμένο στην αρχαία Ελληνική και Ρωμαϊκή αρχιτεκτονική.

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Αυτό το τεύχος είναι αφιερωμένο στην αρχαία Ελληνική και Ρωμαϊκή αρχιτεκτονική.
Ξεκινάμε με την Συνέντευξη του Jean-Charles Moretti, Διευθυντή Έρευνας στο Εθνικό Ίδρυμα Ερευνών στη Γαλλία (CNRS) και διευθυντή ανασκαφών στη Δήλο, ο οποίος μας αποκαλύπτει την πολύπλευρη δράση του στο χώρο της αρχαίας αρχιτεκτονικής.
Στην ενότητα Ελλάδα εκτός Ελλάδας παρουσιάζουμε τον αρχαιολογικό χώρο της Τέω της Τουρκίας, μιας Ιωνικής πόλης στα δυτικά παράλια της Μικράς Ασίας. Οι ανασκαφές τα τελευταία 13 χρόνια υπό τον Musa Kadıoğlu (Πανεπιστήμιο της Άγκυρας) έχουν προσφέρει σημαντικά στοιχεία για την αρχιτεκτονική αυτής της πόλης, συμπεριλαμβανομένου του ναού του Διονύσου τον οποίο μας λέει ο Βιτρούβιος ότι σχεδίασε ο Ερμογένης κατά την ελληνιστική περίοδο.
Στην ενότητα Αρχαιολογικός Χώρος η Μάνθα Ζαρμακούπη παρουσιάζει το διευρυμένο οικοδομικό πρόγραμμα του Αδριανού στην Αθήνα. Αναλύει τον τρόπο με τον οποίο τα Αδριανικά κτήρια οικειοποιήθηκαν το λεξιλόγιο της κλασικής αρχιτεκτονικής, από τη μια πλευρά, και μετασχημάτισαν το αθηναϊκό τοπίο, από την άλλη. Αναδεικνύονται λοιπόν οι τρόποι με τους οποίους οικειοποιήθηκε ο Αδριανός την κλασική ελληνική αρχιτεκτονική παράδοση στο κέντρο γένεσης αυτής.
Στο Πρώτο άρθρο η Βασιλεία Μανιδάκη εξετάζει την οικοδομική σύνθεση της ιωνικής ζωφόρου όπως επίσης και την δομή και οικοδόμηση του Σηκού του Παρθενώνα για να προτείνει την ύπαρξη εσωτερικής ζωφόρου, η οποία είναι πιθανόν ότι ήταν διακοσμημένη. Αναλύει την φωτεινότητα του εσωτερικού του σηκού και εξετάζει την πιθανότητα ότι ο φωτισμός των πλάγιων κλιτών μέσω δύο παραθύρων στον ανατολικό τοίχο, τα οποία βρίσκονταν πάνω από 7 μέτρα πάνω από το δάπεδο, εξυπηρετούσε την ανάδειξη των ανάγλυφων μορφών της προτεινόμενης διακοσμημένης ζωφόρου.
Στο  Δεύτερο άρθρο ο Γιάννης Κουρτζέλλης επικεντρώνεται στον ψευδοδίπτερο ιωνικό διπλό «ἐν παραστάσι» ναό στο ιερό του Μέσσου στην Μυτιλήνη—ο οποίος αποτελεί το αρχαιότερο παράδειγμα εφαρμογής της ψευδοδίπτερης κάτοψης σε ιωνικούς ναούς και το μοναδικό μνημείο με πραγματική ψευδοδίπτερη κάτοψη στον σημερινό ελλαδικό χώρο—για να αναδείξει τους τρόπους με τους οποίους τροποποιήθηκε η μορφή και ο σχεδιασμός του κλασικού ιωνικού ναού στην υστεροκλασική  περίοδο. Ο Βιτρούβιος αναφέρει ότι εφευρέτης της ψευδοδίπτερης κάτοψης υπήρξε ο Ερμογένης, ο οποίος όμως εργάστηκε στα τέλη του 3ου – αρχές του 2ου αι. π.Χ., και ο ναός του Μέσσου έχει χρονολογηθεί από τις αρχές του 4ου αι. π.Χ. έως και την εποχή του Ερμογένη.
Στο  Τρίτο άρθρο η Ιουλία Καούρα παρουσιάζει μία νέα ανασύσταση της οικοδομικής ιστορίας του Τελεστηρίου της Ελευσίνας κατά τον 6ο και 5ο αι. π.Χ.—το οποίο αποτελεί τον κύριο ναό του Ιερού της Δήμητρας και της Κόρης και στο εσωτερικό του οποίου λάμβανε χώρα κάθε χρόνο η κεντρική τελετή των περίφημων Μυστηρίων. Η νέα αυτή ανασύσταση της οικοδομικής ιστορίας του Τελεστηρίου διαλευκάνει τις κατασκευαστικές πρακτικές που εφαρμόστηκαν έτσι ώστε να εξασφαλιστεί η τέλεση της λατρείας κατά τη διάρκεια εντατικής οικοδομικής δραστηριότητας στην Ελευσίνα. Ενώ η πρακτική που διαπιστώνεται στο Τελεστήριο είναι μάλλον μία ειδική περίπτωση στο σύνολό της—οφειλόμενη στο μέγεθος του κτηρίου—η ανάλυση της Ιουλίας Καούρα προτείνει μια νέα μεθοδολογική προσέγγιση στην αρχιτεκτονική των ελληνικών ιερών με την οποία εξετάζονται οι τρόποι με τους οποίους συμβιβαζόταν η λατρευτική πράξη με την ενίοτε εντατική οικοδομική δραστηριότητα.
Στο  Τέταρτο άρθρο ο Chavdar Tzochev εξετάζει την αρχιτεκτονική του τύμβου Σταροζέλ στους πρόποδες του βουνού Σρέντνα Γκόρα, περίπου 200 χιλιόμετρα βόρεια των ακτών του Αιγαίου, στη Βουλγαρία. Ο τάφος του Σταροσέλ αποτελεί έναν από τους πολλούς που κατασκευάστηκαν στη Θράκη κατά τα τέλη του 4ου-αρχές του 3ου αιώνα π.Χ. και ενώ ανήκει σε μια ομάδα θολωτών τάφων, τυπικών στη περιοχή αυτή, είναι το πρώτο θρακικό μνημείο που προσφέρει τόσο σαφή εικόνα της διαδικασίας υβριδισμού οικοδομικών παραδόσεων, η οποία κατέληξε να καθορίσει την ελληνιστική αρχιτεκτονική.
Στο Πέμπτο άρθρο η Jeanne Capelle παρακολουθεί την ιστορία του σκηνικού χώρου στην Ιωνία μετά την κλασική περίοδο και ως και την ύστερη αρχαιότητα. Εξετάζει τους τρόπους με τους οποίους τα ελληνιστικά λίθινα θέατρα προσαρμόστηκαν κατά την αυτοκρατορική περίοδο και την ύστερη αρχαιότητα για να φιλοξενήσουν τα νέα ρωμαϊκά θεάματα.
Στο τελευταίο  Έκτο άρθρο η Στέλλα Σκαλτσά εξετάζει την παγιοποίηση της αρχιτεκτονικής του γυμνασίου στο τελευταίο τρίτο του 4ου αι. π.Χ.  και τον συσχετισμό αυτής με την αποκρυστάλλωση του περιστυλίου ως αρχιτεκτονικού τύπου και του ξυστού ως αρχιτεκτονικής μορφής.  Διαλευκαίνεται ότι η μνημειοποίηση του γυμνασίου έγκειται στο μέγεθος του συγκροτήματος, από την μία πλευρά, και στην αποκρυστάλλωση της αρχιτεκτονικής μορφής του περιστυλίου με την πλαισίωσή του από χώρους κατάλληλα διαμορφωμένους για να στεγάσουν συγκεκριμένες λειτουργίες και στην παγίωση της αρχιτεκτονικής μορφής του ξυστού ως μια επίμηκη στοά μήκους ενός σταδίου, σε άμεση γειτνίαση με την παλαίστρα, από την άλλη.
Τα άρθρα αυτά εξετάζουν την αρχιτεκτονική ως προϊόν τεχνολογικών, κοινωνικών, οικονομικών και ευρύτερα πολιτισμικών συνθηκών και αντιπροσωπεύουν τις νέες τάσεις στον χώρο μελέτης της αρχαίας Ελληνικής και Ρωμαϊκής αρχιτεκτονικής.
Μάνθα Ζαρμακούπη
Morris Russell and Josephine Chidsey Williams Assistant Professor in Roman Architecture
University of Pennsylvania, Department of the History of Art
Princeton Institute for Advanced Study, 2022-23 member, Edwin C. and Elizabeth A. Whitehead Fellow
Conferences, Workshops & Lecture Series by Mantha Zarmakoupi
Delos Network, Workshop 1: Delos Ideals
The first workshop of the Delos Network took place at the University of Birmingham on March 17, 2...
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The first workshop of the Delos Network took place at the University of Birmingham on March 17, 2018. The Delos Network is a collaborative research project funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council that brings together an international network of scholars, architects and planners to re-interrogate the history, legacy and impact of Constantinos Doxiadis and the Delos Symposia (1963-75). The aim of the first workshop was to investigate the ways which the urban and environmental ideals expressed in the context of the Delos Symposia related to contemporary understandings and interpretations of history, tradition and technology. For more details:
. The videos of four out of eight presentations can be viewed at the Delos Network's YouTube Channel:
Delos Network, Workshop 2: Delos Practices
The second workshop of the Delos Network took place in Athens (Benaki Museum, Pireos St. Annexe, ...
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The second workshop of the Delos Network took place in Athens (Benaki Museum, Pireos St. Annexe, amphitheater) on September 15th, 2018. The workshop addressed the ways in which the Delos environmental ideals were implemented in many high-profile schemes across the developed and developing world in the 1960s-70s, often involving the imposition of ostensibly global solutions on sensitive regional contexts, including lucrative private and government contracts. The aim of the workshop was to analyze the planning tools of these schemes and explore the backlash against this scale of ambition and intervention. How were such projects related to post-political and supranational discourses? The videos of the presentations can be viewed at:
The Delos Network is a collaborative research project funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council that brings together an international network of scholars, architects and planners to re-interrogate the history, legacy and impact of Constantinos Doxiadis and the Delos Symposia (1963-75). Full details of the project, including its events, organizers and contributors, can be found at:
Projects by Mantha Zarmakoupi
An Archaeology of Disability (Archaeological Museum of Thessaloniki, December 15, 2023 - June 15, 2024)
A Research Station created for the Biennale Architettura 2021, How will we live together?; and wa...
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A Research Station created for the Biennale Architettura 2021, How will we live together?; and was exhibited at the Gipsoteca di Pisa (January – April 2022) and at the Canellopoulos Museum (June 28 – November 30, 2023). It is now shown at the Archaeological Museum of Thessaloníki (December 15, 2023 - June 15, 2024).
The accessibility of historic architecture not only determines who can experience the past, but it also informs how we think about disabled people as part of history. This installation presents an experiment in the historic reconstruction of the Acropolis in Athens. Our reconstructions recover ideas about bodies and impairment at one of the most canonical, influential, and notoriously inaccessible architectural sites. We explored what it means to reconstruct lost elements of the Acropolis through the lens of human impairment. Such an approach contrasts to the pursuit of “accessible heritage” — a balance between historic authenticity of architecture and technical modifications made for accessibility. We call our alternative to accessible heritage “an archaeology of disability.”
The elements we reconstructed include an enormous 5th Century BCE ramp that once connected the Acropolis to the Agora; a gallery of paintings at the top of the ramp; and a small stone seat, described by an ancient visitor as a place to rest. The ramp’s form is reconstructed as a tactile, touch-based model that transmits vibrations like those caused by the ancient crowds, animals, and carriages. It is ringed with a frieze of braille. The paintings, known through text, are reconstructed in sign language. This reconstruction, titled “Sēmata” (signs) is performed in a film-work. The stone seat is reconstructed in three different sizes and heights. Each is decorated with braille-like patterns that communicate the optical effect of weathered stone into a tactile form. Collectively, these reconstructions demonstrate another way to consider disability and the historic past — one that moves beyond technological fixes to physical objects. Disability emerges as a form of historical inquiry, archaeology, and reconstruction — one informed by the experience of collective human difference across space and time.
An Archaeology of Disability (Canellopoulos Museum, Athens; June 28 - October 30, 2023)
A Research Station created for the Biennale Architettura 2021 and subsequently shown at the Gipso...
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A Research Station created for the Biennale Architettura 2021 and subsequently shown at the Gipsoteca di Arte Antica e Antiquarium in Pisa (January – April 2022) is now exhibited at the Canellopoulos Museum in Athens (June – October 2023).
The accessibility of historic architecture not only determines who can experience the past, but also informs how one thinks about disabled people in history. An Archaeology of Disability presents an experiment in reconstructing historical elements of the Acropolis in Athens. Our reconstructions recover ideas about bodies and impairment at one of the most canonical, influential, and notoriously inaccessible sites of historic architecture. The project explores what it means to reconstruct lost elements of the Acropolis through the lens of human impairment. This approach differs from what is traditionally called “accessible heritage,” whereby accommodations are added to a site to render it more accessible to those with specific disabilities, while not necessarily designing these inclusively. Instead, the research station balances historic authenticity of architecture with technical modifications made for contemporary accessibility. This alternative to accessible heritage, the authors name “An Archaeology of Disability.”
In the context of the exhibition, there will be guided tours with interpretation in Greek Sign Language and a theater workshop for children.
The exhibition and associated events are funded by the Pistiolis Foundation, the Williams Fund Publication of University of Pennsylvania and the SNF Agora Institute of Johns Hopkins University.
An Archaeology of Disability
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David Gissen
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Mantha Zarmakoupi
Biennale Architettura
, 2021
The accessibility of historic architecture not only determines who can experience the past, but i...
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The accessibility of historic architecture not only determines who can experience the past, but it also informs how we think about disabled people as part of history. This installation presents an experiment in the historic reconstruction of the Acropolis in Athens. Our reconstructions recover ideas about impairment at one of the most canonical, influential, and notoriously inaccessible historic architectural sites.
The elements we reconstruct include an enormous ramp from the fifth century BCE that once connected the Acropolis to the Agora below; a gallery of paintings at the top of the ramp; and a small stone seat, described by an ancient visitor to the site, that offered rest. These elements vanished long ago, and none have any precisely known physical, visual, or material quality. We use contemporary ideas about impairment, access, and disability aesthetics to reconstruct them into a variety of physical forms as valid as any other. Disability emerges as a form of historical inquiry, archaeology, and reconstruction—informed by the experience of collective human difference.
MOOC "Discovering Greek & Roman Cities"
by
Stefan Feuser
Simon Malmberg
Michael Blömer
Mantha Zarmakoupi
Rubina Raja
Christina Videbech
, and
Stephanie Renger (née Merten)
Flyer MOOC "Discovering Greek & Roman Cities"
, 2019
The Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) "Discovering Greek&Roman Cities" is aimed at people interes...
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The Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) "Discovering Greek&Roman Cities" is aimed at people interested in archaeology, art and cultural history, architecture and history. The participation does not require prerequisites such as possession of a qualification or a level of performance in earlier studies The course can be accessed online free of charge. Over a period of eight weeks, experts from five different European countries will impart basic knowledge about ancient cities and methods of urban archaeology. In this way, participants learn about the complexity of the ancient cultural heritage. The project is committed to the European idea, so the course will be available in German, English and French from 12 September 2019.
The course is divided into eight modules. After an introduction, life, religion, death, politics, infrastructure and the economy of ancient cities will be discussed. The last module focuses on the legacy of ancient cities and the role of the ancient heritage in our cities today. Each module consists of three 10-minute videos. Following these clips, the participants can work on further assignments, answer quiz questions and go deeper into the subject matter on the basis of selected literature references. An online forum is available for virtual discussions and exchange with the teachers. Once a week, one of the lecturers gives insight into their own research area in a video conference and is also available to answer questions. Once the participants have watched all the videos and completed the corresponding assignments, they can finally receive an official certificate confirming their successful participation in the course.
Programme : étude des espaces de stockage à Délos
Bulletin de correspondance hellénique
, 2010
Papers by Mantha Zarmakoupi
"An Archaeology of Disability: A Dialogic Essay"
Classical Antiquity
, 2024
The research station works with languages and forms used by contemporary disabled people to repro...
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The research station works with languages and forms used by contemporary disabled people to reproduce elements-a ramp, a seat, an art gallery-from the ancient Acropolis in Athens that vanished long ago and that have little or no extant material forms. Among the many people who contributed to the research station are two performers, Christopher Tester and Pia Hargrove, who performed, respectively, the ekphrastic film and audio description Sēmata (Signs) (2021). The following dialogic essay draws on conversations with the curators and performers led by Brooke Holmes and Pasquale Toscano. This dialogic form surfaces some of the collaborative aspects of the research station to highlight the ways in which such collaboration brings different lenses to antiquity.
History as a Framework: The Appropriation of the Classical Past in the Delos Symposia
The Delos Symposia and Doxiadis, edited by M. Zarmakoupi and S. Richards (Zürich: Lars Müller Publishers & Evangelos Pistiolis Foundation, 2025)
, 2025
"Field Notes: Athens in Flux: The Tomb of Philopappos (114–116 CE)," Architectural Histories 12(1) (2024)
Architectural Histories 12(1)
, 2024
"The Tomb of Philopappos (114–116 CE)" -- presented in the context of ""Field Notes: Athens in ...
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"The Tomb of Philopappos (114–116 CE)" -- presented in the context of ""Field Notes: Athens in Flux" by S. L. Martin, O. Touloumi, and P. Phokaides.
These Field Notes present a fragmented and diachronic portrait of Athens through the mobilities of people and cultures, which, as they clashed, intersected, and syncretized, defined different aspects of the city. Fourteen short essays and an introduction provide glimpses into an Athens continuously marked by the movement of people, labor, crafts, and capital, from the ancient city-state to the contemporary metropolis, a telling of history that is posed against ethnocentric narratives of continuity of presence. Demonstrating a multitude of historiographical approaches and voices, the essays collected here are treated as ‘field notes’ because of their brevity in treating a nascent field of study of the Athenian built environment that crosses time periods and disciplines.
An archaeology of disability: Athens, Venice, Pisa
Aree Archeologiche e accessibilità: riflessioni ed esperienze, edited by Anna Anguissola and Chiara Tarantino
, 2023
* We thank Hashim Sarkis for the invitation to create this work for Biennale Architettura 2021 an...
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* We thank Hashim Sarkis for the invitation to create this work for Biennale Architettura 2021 and Anna Anguissola and Chiara Tarantino for the invitation to bring this work to Pisa. We also thank our generous sponsors:
Ο μετασχηματισμός του αστικού ιστού της Αθήνας από τον Αδριανό (The transformation of the urban fabric of Athens by Hadrian)
Αρχαιολογία και Τέχνες
, 2023
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, 2021
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