Ancient Greek and Roman Numismatics // 27.06 - 07.07 2023, Athens

Thomas Faucher - visiting scholar 2023
Researcher at the Centre d'Études Alexandrines (UAR 3134 CNRS/Ifao)

Dr Thomas Faucher is a Researcher at the Centre d’Études Alexandrines. His research, focused on economic and monetary history, deals in particular with the production and circulation of money in ancient Egypt, as well as the methods of coin manufacture. Following a Master and a PhD in Archeology in the University of Paris-Sorbonne, he completed a postdoctoral fellowship within the framework of the Nomisma research project, financed by the National Research Agency. In 2011, he joined the French Institute of Oriental Archeology in Cairo as a scientific member, supervised the “Egyptian Gold” program and co-directed the excavations at the Samut site in the Eastern Desert of Egypt. In 2013 he was elected research fellow at the Orléans Archaeological Research Institute, and in 2019 he joined the Bordeaux component of the same laboratory (IRAMAT-CRP2A), continuing his work on Ancient Egyptian numismatics. Since 2018, he has been directing the French archaeological mission of the Eastern Desert (MAFDO).

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Prof. Edward M. Harris
Emeritus Professor of Ancient History, University of Durham

Edward M. Harris received a BA in Classics from Stanford University, a BA in Classics (Literae humaniores) from Oxford University, and an MA and PhD from Harvard University. He taught at Brooklyn College CUNY from 1983 to 2005 and was a member of the Graduate School (CUNY) from 1986 to 2005. In 2005 he became Professor of Ancient History at Durham University and in 2009 became Research Professor until his retirement in 2013. He is now Emeritus Professor of Ancient History at Durham University and Honorary Professor at the University of Edinburgh.

Professor Harris has published Democracy and the Rule of Law in Classical Athens: Essays on Law, Society, and Politics in Classical Athens (Cambridge 2006) and The Rule of Law in Action in Democratic Athens (Oxford 2013). Professor Harris has also co-edited seven including The Law and the Courts in Ancient Greece, Markets, Households and City-States in the Ancient Greek World (with David Lewis and Mark Woolmer), Skilled Labour and Professionalism in Ancient Greece and Rome (with Edmund Stewart and David Lewis), and The Destruction of Cities in the Ancient Greek World (with Sylvian Fachard).

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Prof. Panagiotis Iossif
Curator of Antiquities, Museum of Cycladic Art, Athens; Professor of Ancient and Medieval Numismatics, Radboud University Nijmegen

Panagiotis Iossif is a classical archaeologist, a specialist of the Hellenistic East, while his main object of study is ancient coinage and economy, religion and the methods of iconographic approach and depiction of images in antiquity. In 2017, he was elected professor of Ancient and Medieval Numismatics at the Radboud University in Nijmegen (Netherlands), while at the same time he was for several years the deputy director of the Belgian School at Athens, contributing significantly to its establishment as a research center. Since 2022, he is also curator of Classical Antiquities at the Museum of Cycladic Art, Athens.

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Dr. Sophia Kremydi
Research Director, Institute of Historical Research, National Hellenic Research Foundation

Dr. Sophia Kremydi is Research Director at the Institute of Historical Research (IHR) of the NHRF. Since 2019 she is head of the Section of Greek and Roman Antiquity of the Institute. Her research interests include: Greek coinage with emphasis on the Hellenistic and Roman periods; history, institutions and coinage of Ancient Macedonia; patterns of coin circulation and coin hoards; the function of coinage within the economic and legal framework of Greek states. She has taught numismatic courses at various institutions in Greece and abroad, has participated in congresses and directed research projects. She has published five books and over 40 articles on relevant subjects. Recent publications include “The Autonomous Coinages under the Late Antigonids” Meletemata 79, Athens 2018 (2020 Academy of Athens award) “Les Alexandres après Alexandre: histoire d’une monnaie commune”, Meletemata 81, Athens 2019, co-edited with M.-Chr. Marcellesi. In 2021 she received the Hundington Medal Award from the American Numismatic Society.

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Dr. Evangeline Markou - programme coordinator 2023
Senior Researcher, Institute of Historical Research, National Hellenic Research Foundation

Dr Evangeline Markou is a Senior Researcher at the Institute of Historical Research (IHR) of the NHRF. She has worked at the Fitzwilliam Museum of Cambridge (2004-2005) and at the Numismatic Museum of Athens (2005-2007) on the digital documentation of the numismatic collections. She also taught Undergraduate and Postgraduate courses on Ancient Numismatics, Ancient History, Epigraphy and Archaeology at the University of Cyprus, the Open University of Cyprus, the Hellenic Open University and the University of the Aegean. In 2015 she conceived and created the website “Kyprios Character”. Her research, published in two books and 36 papers, focuses on the numismatic production of the kings of Cyprus and the questions related to the history of the island in the Archaic and Classical periods.

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Prof. Aliki Moustaka
Prof. Emeritus of Classical Archaeology, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki

Aliki Moustaka is Professor Emerita of Classical archaeology at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. She participated in many excavations in Tiryns (Argolis), in the Heraion of Samos, in the ancient Molykreion (Aetolia) and mainly in Olympia, where she studied the clay sculptures of the sanctuary of Zeus and the excavation coins of the Panhellenic sanctuary. From 1987 to 2019 she has taught under and post-graduate courses on Classical archaeology and Numismatics at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. Her research, published on numerous monographs and papers, focuses on coins, sculpture of the archaic and classical period, iconography, bronze finds, cults and sanctuaries.

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Dr. Charikleia Papageorgiadou
Research Director, Institute of Historical Research, National Hellenic Research Foundation

Dr Charikleia Papageorgiadou is Research Director at the Institute of Historical Research (IHR) of the NHRF. Her research work aims to investigate the use of coinage in the broader context of economy. She has published three books and is the co-editor of two; the more recent being the digital open-access publication Reflections on the circulation of Roman Republican coinage in Greece and the Balkans.

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Prof. Selene Psoma
Professor of Ancient History, National and Κapodistrian University of Athens

Selene E. Psoma is Professor of Ancient History at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens (2018). She studied History and Archaeology at the University of Athens, Ancient Greek History, Numismatics and Epigraphy at the E?cole Pratique des Hautes E?tudes (EPHE) and the Sorbonne-Paris IV/ France, and also attended courses (Oberseminar) of Ancient Greek History at the University of Cologne/Germany. She received her PHD from Paris IV – La Sorbonne in 1996 and her Habilitation from the same university in 2006. Before joining the University of Athens, she worked for the Numismatic Museum of Athens (1997-1999), and was a member of staff of the National Hellenic Research Foundation (2000-2009).

Her monograph on the history, onomastics and prosopography of Ancient Corcyra was published in autumn 2022. She is currently preparing another monograph on the Thracian Chersonese and the so-called "coinage of the Thracian Chersonese", and on money, finances and resources in Xenophon.

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