AIA Lecture: Rethinking Mycenaean Greece

Dimitri Nakassis received his B.A. in Classical Archaeology from the University of Michigan, and his M.A. in Greek and Ph.D. in Classical Archaeology from the University of Texas at Austin. His research focuses on the archaeology and scripts of the Aegean Bronze Age, in particular the administrative practices of the Mycenaean state. He has published articles on Linear A, Homer and Hesiod, archaeological survey, Greek religion and history, and Mycenaean economy, society and prosopography. He is the author of Individuals and Society in Mycenaean Pylos (Leiden 2013), and is co-director of the Western Argolid Regional Project, an archaeological field survey in southern Greece. He has taught at the University of Toronto since 2008.

Dimitri Nakassis (BA Michigan 1997 and now associate professor of Classics at the University of Toronto) was named a MacArthur Fellow yesterday for his work on Mycenaean Greece.