Curriculum Vitae

Myrina Kalaitzi, Assistant Researcher
Northern Greece Programme

Address
National Hellenic Research Foundation (NHRF)
Institute for Greek and Roman Antiquity (KERA)
48 Vassileos Constantinou Ave., Athens, 11635, Greece
Tel. +30 210-7273682
email: mkalaitzi

M. Kalaitzi was born in Athens in 1974. She graduated from the Department of History and Archaeology, School of Philosophy, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens (specialization: Archaeology and History of Art) in 1999. She obtained her MPhil in Classical Archaeology (2002) and DPhil in Classical Archaeology (2008) from the University of Oxford, as a scholar of the British Academy (Arts and Humanities Research Council), with the additional financial support of the I.F. Kostopoulos Foundation, the A.G. Leventis Foundation and the Archaeological Society at Athens. From 2003 until 2005 she held the Craven University Fellowship (Craven Committee, Faculty of Classics, University of Oxford) to work on her thesis as a visiting student at KERA. Since February 2009 she is a member of the Northern Greece Programme of KERA/NHRF.

Research interests

Ancient Greek sculpture and painting: modes of (self-) representation, especially in the Classical and Hellenistic periods, in relation to contemporary social history, funerary archaeology and iconography, epigraphy, focusing on ancient Macedonia.

Major ongoing projects

• Ancient Macedonia/Corpus of the inscriptions of the Second Meris (the area between the Axios and the Strymon rivers) (KERA/NHRF)
• Figured Tombstones from Macedonia, fifth - first century BC: to be published in the series of the Oxford Monographs on Classical Archaeology (OUP)

 Publications

In press 'The Theme of the Banqueter on Hellenistic Macedonian Tombstones', in Draycott, C.M. and Stamatopoulou, M. (eds.), Dining and Death: Interdisciplinary perspectives on the 'funerary banquet' in ancient art, burial and belief. Colloquia Antiqua (monograph supplement of the journal Ancient West & East): Proceedings of the International Conference held at the Ioannou Centre for Classical and Byzantine Studies, St. Giles', Oxford, 25 and 26 September 2010, University of Oxford.

2010 'The Representation of Children on Classical and Hellenistic Tombstones from Ancient Macedonia', in A.-M. Guimier-Sorbets and Y. Morizot (eds.), L'enfant et la mort dans l'antiquite I. Nouvelles recherches dans les necropoles grecques. Le signalement des tombes d'enfants. Actes de la table ronde internationale organisee a Athenes, Ecole francaise d'Athenes, 29-30 mai 2008. Travaux de la Maison Rene Ginouves 12 (Paris) 327-46.

2003 Authorship of the entry on ancient Greek funerary customs (Prehistory - Hellenistic period) for the Greek encyclopaedia Εγκυκλοπαίδεια Δομή (Αthens, 2002-2004)