Name: Maria Mikedaki Rank: Assistant Professor Field of expertise: Ancient Greek Theatre: Architecture and Scenography (Scene Painting). Research interests: Architecture of the ancient theatre, scenic space and scenography, masks and costumes, ancient Greek clothing, ancient Boeotia. Courses taught: Ancient theatre. The architecture of the ancient theatre. Scenic space and scenography of the ancient theatre. Masks and costumes (skeuê) of the ancient theatre. Ancient theatres. Theatre in ancient Greek society. Office Hours: Monday 6 8 pm (17 Argous str.). Contact details Address: 21 Vasileos Konstantinou str., Nafplio 21100 Telephone: 27520 96130 Fax: 27520 96128 e-mail: mikedaki@uop.gr, mariamikedaki@yahoo,gr Brief Résumé Maria Mikedaki was born in Piraeus. She graduated from the Faculty of History and Archaeology of the University of Athens (Department of Archaeology and History of
Art) (1995). She holds a master s degree in Classical Archaeology (1998), and a PhD in Ancient Theatre (2005) from the University of Vienna. PhD subject: Pinakes und Thyromata im antiken griechischen Theater. In the course of her post-graduate studies she worked under the supervision of Savas Gogos and Jürgen Borchhardt. As an archaeologist, she took part in various excavations in Greece and Cyprus and worked in the Hellenic Ministry of Culture (Directorate of Byzantine and Postbyzantine Monuments, Epigraphical Museum) and in the Archaeological Society at Athens. She also participated in four research programs, supervised by the Academy of Athens, the Archaeological Society at Athens, and the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens (Department of Theatre Studies). In 2009 she became a Lecturer in Ancient Greek Theatre at the Department of Theatre Studies of the University of the Peloponnese and in 2016 she became Assistant Professor at the same Department. She has previously taught at the University of Patras (Department of Theatre Studies, 2005-2006). She is a member of the Archaeological Society at Athens. She is married and has two children. Participation in research programs: 1. Academy of Athens. Title of the international research program: Tabula Imperii Romani (2008-). Aim of this international scholarly project is the preparation of a map of the Roman Empire (composed of 56 sheets in scale 1:1.000.000). Sheet J 34 Boeotia (forthcoming) is a historical-topographical catalogue about the area of ancient Boeotia under Roman rule. The chronological range is from 150 BC to 400 AD. 2. Academy of Athens. Title of the international research program: Tabula Imperii Romani (2007-2008). Sheet J 35 - Smyrna, I was issued in 2012, under the same international research program, and was accompanied by 44 maps with map keys; it examined the islands of the northeastern Aegean, Cyclades, the Dodecanese and Euboea. 3. The Archaeological Society at Athens. Title of the research project: "Digitization and disposal of the work of the Archaeological Society at Athens" (2005-2006). This research program was based on writing entries for the scientific documentation of digitized photographic and excavation material from the archives of the Archaeological Society at Athens. This material comes from all the sites that the Archaeological Society has researched, in the wider area of Attica and the Peloponnese. In each entry are briefly presented the topographical data of each area, its history over the centuries and the excavations conducted there by the Archaeological Society (with reference also to any further researches of the Archaeological Service and Foreign Archaeological Schools). 2
Finally, particular attention is paid to the special features of each site (e.g. monuments, cemeteries, significant movable finds etc.). Each entry is followed by an extensive bibliography. 4. National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Department of Theatre Studies. Title of the research program: "Bibliography - ancient sources for writing a dictionary of ancient Greek and Roman theater" (2005). Aim of the program was the writing of a dictionary that would include entries in the form of basic terms, concepts and entities of the ancient Greek and Roman theatre. The dictionary was published recently by Militos Puplications (S. Gogos - K. Petrakou, Λεξικό του αρχαίου θεάτρου. Όροι, Έννοιες, Πρόσωπα [Dictionary of the Ancient Theatre: Terms, Meanings, Persons] Athens 2012). Publications Books 1. M. Mikedaki, The Painted Backdrops of the Hellenistic Theatre, Athens: Filntisi, 2015. 2. P. Karvonis M. Mikedaki, Tabula Imperii Romani, J 35 Smyrna, I: Aegean Islands, Athens: Academy of Athens, 2012. 3. M. Mikedaki, Tabula Imperii Romani, J 34 Boeotia, Academy of Athens (forthcoming). Selected articles in Journals, Conference Proceedings, Collective Volumes and Websites 1. Review of R. Frederiksen, E.R. Gebhard, A. Sokolicek (eds.), The Architecture of the Ancient Greek Theatre. Acts of an International Conference at the Danish Institute at Athens 27-30 January 2012 (Monographs of the Danish Institute at Athens 17) Aarhus University Press, 2015, Classical Review 67.1, 2017 (forthcoming). 2. Alcestis Papadimitriou: the writer behind the archaeologist in: http://ts.uop.gr/syngrafeisargolidas-symposio/images/files/papadimitriou.pdf 3. The ancient theatres of the Argolid in: http://ts.uop.gr/tsdie/nauplio 4. Remarks regarding the term thyromata of the ancient greek theatre in: Κ. Κyriakos (ed.), Το αρχαίο ελληνικό θέατρο και η πρόσληψή του. Πρακτικά του Δ Πανελλήνιου Θεατρολογικού Συνεδρίου, Πάτρα 2015, 55-70. 3
5. Entries Thyromata, Othonai, Periaktoi, Pinakes and Charonian steps in: S. Gogos K. Petrakou, Dictionary of the Ancient Greek Theatre: Terms, Meanings, Persons, Athens: Militos, 2012, pp. 164-165, 245-246, 271-272, 272-274, 401-405. 6. Ancient scenography and scenographers, Parabasis 6, 2005, pp. 123 132. 7. The Importance of the Stage Door in Ancient Drama, Επιστημονική Επετηρίς της Φιλοσοφικής Σχολής του Πανεπιστημίου Αθηνών, vol. λς, 2004/5, Athens 2005, pp. 185-200. 8. Entries The ancient Theatre of Dionysus in Athens, The ancient Theatre of Epidaurus, Piraeus, Mounichia, Zea, Moschato, Neo Faliro, Palaio Faliro, Glyphada Alyke, Glyphada Aixone, Kalyvia Kouvara, Trachones, Psytalleia, Eleusina to be published on the official website of the Archaeological Society at Athens (www.archetai.gr, portal.archetai.gr). 9. The Empress Theophano: a Byzantine Princess in the West, Διαχρονία 2, Νovember 1997, pp. 30-43. For uploaded versions of my papers, check this website: https://uop-gr.academia.edu/mariamikedaki/papers Participations in Conferences - Lectures 1. Alcestis Papadimitriou: the writer behind the archaeologist. A lecture held in the 1 st Panhellenic Symposium for Authors from the Argolid: Argolid, the place of co-writing, Nafplion (17/4/2016). 2. The rapid spread of ancient drama outside Attica through the testimony of the theatrical architecture of the 4 th century BC, Center for Hellenic Studies, Harvard University, Events Series 2016, Cultural Center of Ligourio (6/4/2016). 3. An educational excursion to the ancient theatres of the Argolid. A lecture held in the training seminar under the title: Bridging place and time with human projects, Nafplion (7/3/2015). 4. «The ὄψις and the scenic space of the ancient theatre». A lecture held in 2-day Festival «Nafplion-Athens, one stage: theatrical studies, performance arts & education, theory & 4
practice», organized by the University of the Peloponnese, Department of Theatre Studies and the Michael Cacoyannis Foundation (2/6/2013). 5. «French excavations at the ancient theatre of Delos». A University lecture open in public as part of the initiative «Francophony and Multiculturalism» organized by the Department of Theatre Studies of the University of the Peloponnese for the international day of Francophony in Nafplion (5/4/2013). 6. «Remarks regarding the term thyromata of the ancient greek theatre» in: 4 th Panhellenic Theatre Congress (Subject: the ancient greek theatre and its reception), Patras 26-29 May 2011. 7. «Die Quellen des antiken Theaters». A lecture performed in the context of seminars undertaken in Classical Archeology by Univ.Doz.Dr. Savas Gogos, University of Vienna, Austria, 1997. 8. The Chalcolithic site Erimi. New and old research, 5 th Seminar of Cyprus Archeology, 12-13 December 1992. 5