Curriculum Vitae

Evangeline Markou, Assistant Researcher   

Address

National Hellenic Research Foundation (N.H.R.F.)
Institute of Greek and Roman Antiquity (K.E.R.A.)
48 Vas. Constantinou Ave., Athens 11635, Greece
Tel.+ 30 210-7273678
Fax + 30 210-7234145
email: emarkou

Evangeline Markou was born in Larissa in 1975. She studied History and Archaeology at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki and obtained her M.Phil and Ph.D. from the University Sorbonne - Paris IV with a postgraduate fellowship from the A.G. Leventis Foundation. She received her Ph.D. in History and Civilisation of the Antiquity in 2006. She worked at the Fitzwilliam Museum of Cambridge (2004-2005) and at the Numismatic Museum of Athens (2005-2007) as responsible for the documentation and digitalization of numismatic collections and she taught Undergraduate and Postgraduate courses on Ancient Numismatics in the University of Cyprus as an Adjunct Lecturer (2008-2009) and of Ancient History in the Open University of Cyprus. She is a researcher at KERA/NHRF as a member of the Hellenic East Programme since October 2009.

Research Interests
History, numismatics and inscriptions of Cyprus from the Archaic and Classical periods; the economic policies of the kings of Cyprus; influences between Cyprus and the East.

Major ongoing projects
• Corpus of Cypriot-syllabic Inscriptions (collaboration: Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Berlin / Université de la Sorbonne - Paris IV / Università degli Studi di Napoli, Suor Orsola Benincasa)
• The Cyprus Numismatic Project (collaboration: University of Edinburgh)

Publications

Monographs
L'or des rois de Chypre. Numismatique et Histoire a l'epoque classique, ΜΕΛΕΤΗΜΑΤΑ 64, Athens 2011.

Selection of recent articles
- "Production et politique monetaires a Chypre a l'epoque hellenistique et sous l'Empire '', Cahier du Centre d'Etudes chypriotes 39 (2009), 11-24.
- '' Le témoignage des monnaies sur l'orfèvrerie chypriote classique '', Cahier du Centre d'Etudes chypriotes 37 (2007), 411-427.
- '' L'originalité chypriote à travers l'iconographie des monnaies d'or du IVe siècle avant J.-C. '', Proceedings of the International Archaeological Conference : From Evagoras I to the Ptolemies. The transition from the Classical to the Hellenistic Period in Cyprus, Nicosia 29-30 November 2002, Nicosia (2007), 283-296.
- '' Monnaies en or chypriotes à la tête d'Athéna au droit, et au taureau ou à l'aigle au revers '', Cahier du Centre d'Etudes chypriotes 36 (2006), 43-54.
- '' Une erreur d'attribution : Monnaies de Chypre et de Cyrène '', Bulletin de la Société francaise de Numismatique 3-mars (2006), 50-54.
- '' Problèmes iconographiques du monnayage d'or des derniers rois de Salamine au IVe siècle avant J.-C. '', Proceedings of the International Conference: Identités croisées en un milieu méditerranéen : le cas de Chypre (Antiquité - Moyen Âge), Rouen 11-13 March 2004, Publications des Universités de Rouen et du Havre (2006), 135-151.