Curriculum Vitae

Professor RIZAKIS Athanassios, Research Director
Southern Greece Programme

Address
National Hellenic Research Foundation (N.H.R.F.)
Institute for Greek and Roman Antiquity (K.E.R.A.)
48 Vassileos Constantinou Ave., Athens 11635, Greece
Tel.+ 30 210-7273689
Fax + 30 210-7234145
email: arizak

A.D. Rizakis was born in Larissa (Greece) in 1943. He graduated from the History and Archaeology Department of the University of Thessaloniki in 1968. He studied Greek and Latin epigraphy, numismatics and Greek and Roman history at the University of Lyon II-Lumières and at the école Pratique des Hautes Études (Paris). He obtained his Ph.D (thèse d'État) in Ancient history from the University of Lyon II- Lumières in 1979. He worked as a high school teacher of Greek language and history at Athens (1970-1972). He was appointed ''ecteur'' of the Greek language and civilization at the University Jean-Moulin-Lyon III (1974-1978), "assistant associé" of Ancient history at the University of Saint-Etienne (1978-1980), and taught Ancient Greek history at the University of Crete (1980-1981). Since 1981 he is a Research fellow and then director of Research at K.E.P.A. He was visiting professor at the University Lyon II-Lumières (1986-1987), invited member at the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton (1994), invited professor at the University of Cyprus (1996). In 1998 he was elected as Professor of Ancient History at the University of Nancy 2. A. D. Rizakis is a member of the Athens Archaeological Society, the German Archaeological Institute etc. He has extensively lectured and carried out research in Europe and North America. For his work he has received the Bronze Medal of the Academy of Athens.   

Research interests
Greek and Roman history, epigraphy, Roman onomastics, settlement and landscape archaeology, economic and social history of Greece under the Romans.

Major ongoing projects

• Roman Peloponnese III: Approaches to the political, social and economic history of the peninsula under the Romans
• A selection of Greek inscriptions of the Late Hellenistic and Roman Periods (with S. Follet).
• The economy of the Greek cities under Roman rule.

Publications
Monographs
- Επιγραφές ΑνωΜακεδονίας (Athens 1985) [with I. Touratsoglou].
- Paysages d'Achaie I. Le bassin du Péiros et la plaine occidentale (Athens 1992) [with M Lacaki  and R. Dalongeville].
- Achaie I. Sources textuelles et histoire régionale (Athens 1995).
- Achaie II. La cité de Patras. épigraphie et histoire (Athens 1998).
- Roman Peloponnese I. Roman names in their social contexte (Athens 2001) [with S.  Zoumbaki and M. Kantirea]
-Roman Peloponnese II. Roman personal names in their social context (Athens 2004) [with S.  Zoumbaki and Cl. Lepenioti]
- Achaie III. Les inscriptions des cités achéennes. Epigraphie et histoire (Athens, 2008).

Edition of collective volumes

- Achaia und Elis in der Antike. Akten des Internationales Symposium uber Achaia und Elis in der Antike (Athens 1991).
-Roman Onomastics in the Greek East. Social and Politikal Aspects. Proceedings of the International Colloquium on Roman Onomastics, Athens 7-9 September 1993 (Athens 1996).
- Paysages d'Achaie II: Dymé et son territoire (Athens 2000).
-Pathways to power: civic elites in the Eastern part of the Roman Empire, Proceedings of the international workshop held at Athens (Athens 2008) [with F. Camia].

 
Selected articles of the last five years

-''Recrutement et formation des élites dans les colonies romaines de la province de Macedoine'', in M. Cebeillac-Cervasoni et Laurent Lamoine (eds.), Les élites et leurs facettes. Les élites locales dans le monde hellénistique et romain (Rome-Clermont-Ferrand 2003), 107-130.
- ''e ambizioni e i limiti della bourgoisie. La classe dirigente della colonia di Filippi '', Epigraphica 10 (2003), 151-156.
-''e collège des nomographes et le système de représentation dans le koinon achéen'', in: K. Buraselis et Kl.  Zoumboulakis (éds.), The idea of European community in history. Aspects of connecting poleis and ethne in Ancient Greece (Athens 2003), vol. II, 97-109.
-''a carrière équestre de C. Vibius Quartus'', MEFRΑ115.2 (2003), 535-548.
-''a littérature gromatique et la colonisation romaine de l'Orient'', in G. Salmeri, A. Raggi, A. Baroni (éds.), Colonie romane nel mondo greco (Pisa 2004), 69-94.
-'''emphythéose en pays grec'', in: S. Follet (éd.), L'Hellénisme d'époque romaine: nouveaux documents, nouvelles approches (Ier s. a. C.- IIIe s. p. C.) (Paris 2004), 55-76.
-''es affranchi(e)s sous l'Empire: richesse, evergétisme et promotion sociale. Le cas d'une affranchie de Gytheion (Laconie)'', in: P. Doukellis (ed.), Différerentiation culturelle-inégalité sociale dans le monde antique (Bern-Bruxelles 2005), 233-241.
- ''e territoire de la colonie romaine de Philippes: ses limites dans le nord-ouest'', in A. Gonzales et J.-Y. Guillaumin (eds.), Autour des Libri coloniarum. Colonisation et colonies dans le monde romain (Paris 2006), 123-130.
-''es Ti. Claudii et la promotion des elites péloponnésiennes'', Latomus 27 (2007), 183-195.
- ''Urban Elites in the Roman East: Enhancing regional positions and social superiority'', in G. Ruepke, Roman Religion and society, Companion to the Ancient World 9 (Blackwell, London 2007), 317-330.
- "Esclaves, 'loisirs' et education sous l'Empire", Historia antigua 25 (2007), 245-260.
-''angue et culture ou les ambiguités identitaires des notables des cités grecques sous l'Empire de Rome'', in Fr. Biville, J.-C. Decourt et G. Rougemont (eds.): Bilinguisme gréco-latin et épigraphie (Lyon, 17-19 mai 2004), Lyon 2008, 17-34.
-''Supra-civic landowning and supra-civic euergetic activities of urban elites in the Imperial Peloponnese'', in Being Peloponnesian. Cohesion and diversity through time, International conference, University of Nottingham, 31 march-1 april 2007, published (2009) in http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/csps/events/pelo09_abstracts.php