Athens and Attica: History and Archaeology (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9789602043370)

Andreas G. Vlachopoulos was born in Patras, Greece, in 1965. Undergraduate and postgraduate studies in Archaeology at the National and Capodistrian University of Athens, specializing in Aegean Prehistory. His doctoral thesis (1994) negotiates the Late Mycenaean period on Naxos, for which research he received the Michael Ventris Memorial Award for Mycenaean Studies (1997). Post-doctoral Fellow at the University of Princeton (1998-1999) and Visiting Research Fellow at the Institute of Fine Arts, New York University (2001-2002). His main research interests are the Mycenaean period in the Cyclades and the wall-paintings of Thera. Collaborator of Professor Christos Doumas in the excavation at Akrotiri, Thera. Member of the Archaeological Society at Athens. Since 2009 Assistant Professor of Prehistoric Archaeology in the Department of History and Archaeology at the University of Ioannina, he has taught also at the universities of Athens (2006-present) and of the Peloponnese (2003-2004), and has given lectures and seminars at universities in Europe, America and Canada. He is the author of a monograph on Naxos and the Aegean in the 12 th c. BC, and the scientific editor of three volumes on Greek Archaeology.