Public and Private Life

Angeliki Petropoulou

Associate Professor,

in Ancient Greece and Byzantium,

School of Humanities,

Hellenic Open University

23 Sachtouri St.,

262 22, Patras

GREECE

Tel.: (0030) 210 62 12 053

Fax: (0030) 2610 36 74 27

E-mail:

Specialities:

Ancient Greek Religion, Epigraphy

Research Interests:

Divine and Heroic Cult, Social Institutions, Comparative Studies

Education:

Pierce College, Agia Paraskevi, Greece (High School Certificate)
University of Athens (B.A. in History and Archaeology)
University of Colorado, Boulder (Ph.D. in Classics)
American School of Classical Studies at Athens (Associate Member)

Dissertation:

Studies in Greek Cult and Sacrificial Ritual, University of Colorado, Boulder, 1984 (Ann Arbor Michigan Microfilms, 1985)

Scholarships-Fellowships:

State Scholarships Foundation (I.K.Y), Athens, 1966-70
Janet Ann Weinstein Memorial Graduate Student Scholarship, University of Colorado, Boulder, 1978-79

Doctoral Fellowship, University of Colorado, Boulder,1981/82
Winifred Cullis Grant Fellowship, International Federation of University Women, Geneva,1982

Awards:

Certificate of Excellence in Research/Creative Work, University of Colorado,

Boulder, 1981 (with monetary award)

Employment:

Publication Division (specialization in German), Greek National Tourism Organisation, Athens, 1973-76
Slide Librarian and Teaching Assistant, Department of Classics, University of Colorado, Boulder,1976-79
Instructor,Department of Classics, University of Colorado, Boulder, 1982/83
Faculty Member, Study in Greece(now Arcadia Center, Athens, 1983-84
Secretary of the School, American School of Classical Studies at Athens, 1983-85
Assistant, Associate and Senior Researcher, Institute for Greek and Roman Antiquity, National Hellenic Research Foundation, Athens 1985-2003
Associate Professor, Hellenic Open University, Patras,

Tutor and Module Coordinator for the undergraduate course “Public and Private Life in Greece I: From Antiquity to Post-Byzantine Times” (Greek Civilization Studies) 2003-

Other course (graduate) taught: “Orthodoxy as Heritage” (Orthodox Theology Studies) 2005-07

Administrative Experience:

Course Director, Greek Civilization Studies, Hellenic Open University, Patras, 2003-2005, 2008, 2009-2011

Research Projects:

Head, Reinforcement Programme of Human Research Manpower (1996), as part of 3rd Community Programme, Operational Programme “Competitiveness” II, Measure 4.1. Research subject: “TheNotion and Practice of Euthanasia among the Ancient Greeks and other Balkan Peoples: a Comparative Study of the Ritual of Brave and Happy death,” Institute for Greek and Roman Antiquity, National Hellenic ResearchFoundation, Athens
Participation in the Amykles Research Project under the direction of Professor Angelos Delivorrias, Director of the Benaki Museum, Athens 2006- (

Invitations:

Visiting Scholar at Fondation Hardt, Geneva, 1985
Stanley J. Seeger Visiting Research Fellow, Program in Hellenic Studies, Princeton University, 1996
Visiting Scholar, Trinity College, Cambridge University, UK, 2009

Guest Lectures:

“Xenia and the Epiphany of Asklepios,”College Year in Athens, 1984
«Η αυτοθυσία του Ηρακλή και η ινδοευρωπαϊκή πρακτική της αθανασίας με καύση» [=“Herakles’ Self-Sacrifice and the Indo-European Practice of Immortality by Fire”]V Lecture Series «Τελετές Μετάβασης» [=“Rites of Passage”] National Hellenic Research Foundation, Athens, 1996

“Herakles’ Self-Sacrifice and the Indo-European Practice of Immortality by Fire,” India International Centre, New Delhi, 2000
«Αρχαίες πρακτικές ευθανασίας: η περίπτωση της Κέας και της Μασσαλίας» [=“Ancient Practices of Euthanasia: The Case of Kea and Massalia”] Lecture Series «Ευθανασία: η σημαντική του καλού θανάτου» [=“Euthanasia: the semantics of ‘καλὸς’ θάνατος”] National Hellenic Research Foundation, Athens, 2000

Selected Publications:

“The Eparchê Documents and the Early Oracle at Oropus, Greek, Roman and Byzantine Studies 22(1981): 39-63

“The Thracian Funerary Rites (Hdt. 5.8) and Similar Greek Practices,” Talanta, Proceedings of the Dutch Archaeological Historical Society 18/19 (1986-1987): 29-47

“The Sacrifice of Eumaeus Reconsidered,” Greek, Roman and Byzantine Studies 28 (1987): 135-49
“The Interment of Patroklos (Iliad 23.252-57), American Journal of Philology 109 (1988): 482-95
“The Laphrian Holocaust at Patrai and its Celtic Parallel. A Ritual with Indo--European Components?” inJ. Dalfen, G. Petersmann and F. F. Schwartz, Religio graeco-romana,Festschrift für Walter Pötscher, Grazer Beiträge, Supplbd. 5 (1993): 313-34
«Αρχαίες πρακτικές ευθανασίας: Κέα και Μασσαλία» [=“Ancient Practices of Euthanasia: the Case of Kea and Massalia”] in Ευθανασία: Η σημαντική του ‘καλού’ θανάτου: [=Euthanasia: the semantics ofκαλὸς θάνατος]:9-29. Athens, 2000. National Hellenic Research Foundation, “Επιστήμης Κοινωνία”: Ειδικές Μορφωτικές Εκδηλώσεις [=“Knowledge Sharing”: Special Educational Lectures]
“The death of Masistios and the mourning for his loss (Hdt. 9.20-25.1)” in S. M. R. Darbandi and A. Zournatzi (eds.) Ancient Greece and Ancient Iran: Cross-Cutural Encounters, 1st International Conference, Athens, 11-13 November: 9-30. Athens, 2008. National Hellenic Research Foundation, Cultural Center of the Embassy of the Islamic Republic of Iran, and Hellenic National Commission for Unesco
«Το λιβάνι και η σμύρνα στη λατρεία της Παφίας Αφροδίτης» [=“Incense and Myrrh in the Cult of Paphian Aphrodite”] Proceedings of the IV International Cyprological Congress, Lefkosia 29 Αpril-3 Μay 2008 (in print)
“The Spartan Royal Funeral in Comparative Perspective” in Cavanagh H., Cavanagh W. and Roy, J. (eds.) Honouring the Dead in the Peloponnese, Proceedings of the conference held at Sparta 23-25 April 2009: 583-612.The University of Nottingham, Centre for Spartan and Peloponnesian Studies

University Textbooks:

«Οικογενειακοί θεσμοί» [=“Family Institutions”] in Α. Μήλιος, Ν. Μπιργάλιας, Ελ. Παπαευθυμίου and Α. Πετροπούλου, Δημόσιος και Ιδιωτικός Βίος στην Αρχαία Ελλάδα [=Public and Private Life in Ancient Greece]vol. Α, Δημόσιος και Ιδιωτικός Βίος στην Ελλάδα Ι: Από την Αρχαιότητα έως και τα Μεταβυζαντινά Χρόνια [=Public and Private Life in Greece I: From Antiquity to Post-Byzantine Times]: 279-326.Patras, 2000. Hellenic Open University
(ed.) Αθήνα και Σπάρτη, Aρχαϊκή-Kλασική περίοδος. Ανθολόγιο, κείμενα από τη σύγχρονη βιβλιογραφία [=Athens and Sparta: The Archaic and Classical Periods. An Anthology. Texts from the Current Bibliography]. Δημόσιος και Ιδιωτικός Βίος στην Ελλάδα Ι [=Public and Private Life in Ancient Greece I], Patras, 2008. Hellenic Open University

Work in progress:

Monograph on the identities and cults of Apollo Amyklaios and Hyakinthos for the series «Αμύκλες » [=“Amykles”] of the Amykles Research Project.

Distinctions:

Associate Fellow, Centre for the Study of Play and Recreation, University of Greenwhich (since 2011)