I was born in Thessaloniki on 24 Deccember, 1951. I graduated from from the University of Thessaloniki with a degree in archaeology in June 1975. From October 1975 I continued my studies as a graduate student in classical archaeology, classical philology and ancient history at the University of Bonn and obtained my PhD in December 1979. My thesis super­visor was Prof. N. Him­melmann.

In 1984 I was appointed lecturer of classical archaeology at the University of Thessalo­niki; in 1988 I became assistant professor, in 1993 associate professor and in 2000 full professor at the same University; professor emeritus since 2019. From 1984 to 2019 I taught various courses in classi­cal archaeology both to under­graduate and to graduate students. The main subjects of my teaching were: ancient Greek sculpture, ancient Greek religion, Greek epigraphy and introduction to Greek and Roman archaeology. I supervised a number of PhD theses and particip­ated in the supervising boards of several others in Greece, Switzerland (Universities of Lausanne and Basel) and France (École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales and Université de Nanterre). In the spring of 1997 I was invited to teach as visiting professor at the University of Perugia. In the spring of 2017 I was a visiting professor (directeur d’études invité) at the École Pratique des Hautes Études (IVe section) in Paris.

In the academic year 1990-91 I was a junior fellow at the Center of Hellenic Studies in Washington, DC. In 1991 and in 1999 I was a fellow of the Alexander von Humboldt Stiftung in Germany (Bonn). In spring semester of 2014 I was a member of the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, NJ.

I am a member of the Academia Europaea (since 2008), of the Society for the Promotion of Hellenic Studies in London, of the Centre International d'Étude de la Religion Grecque Antique (CIERGA) in Brussels (of which I was elected president in 2009), of the Archaeological Society in Athens and a corresponding member of the German Archaeological Institute in Berlin.

MAIN PUBLICATIONS

A.    Monographs

1. Studien zur Interpretation und Stil griechischer Porträts des 5. und frühen 4. Jhs v. Chr., Bonn 1980 (Dissertation).
2. ΔΙΟΝΥΣΟΦΩΝΤΟΣ ΓΑΜΟΙ. Marital Life and Magic in Fourth-Century Pella, Amsterdam 1998.
3. (Ιn collaboration with G. Despinis and Th. Stefanidou-Tiveriou), Catalogue of Sculptures in the Archaeological Museum of Thessaloniki, vol. 1, Thessaloniki 1997; vol. 2, Thessaloniki 2003; vol. 3, Thessaloniki 2011.
4. (In collaboration with A. Goulaki-Voutira), Η αρχαία ελληνική τέχνη και η ακτινοβολία της, Thessaloniki 2011.
5. Articles, papers and various contributions (selection)
6. Εin wierdergewonnenes attisches Porträt der Spätantike, Athenische Mitteilungen 96 (1981) 201-208, Taf. 63-68.
7. Zur historischen Bedeutung des Krateros-Weihgeschenkes in Delphi, Würzburger Jahrbücher für die Altertumswissenschaft n. F. 10 (1984) 57-62.
8. Victa Macedonia: remarques sur une dédicace d'Amphipolis, Bulletin de Correspondance Hellenique 110 (1986) 347-55.
9. Περὶ τῆς Κρατητείου αἱρέσεως. Σκέψεις γύρω από το ανάγλυφο του Αρχελάου από την Πριήνη, Egnatia 1 (1989) 129-70.
10. ΗΦΑΙΣΤΙΩΝ ΗΡΩΣ, Egnatia 2 (1990) 123-73.
11. Σακκογενειοτρόφος: un portrait de philosophe d'époque helléni­stique, Antike Kunst 37 (1994) 42-51, pl. 12-16.
12. Sokrates in der Akademie: Die erste bezeugte Philosophenstatue, Mitteilungen des Deutschen Archäologischen Instituts, Athenische Abteilung 109 (1994) 133-161.
13. 37 Contributions in: P. C. Bol (éd.), Villa Albani. Katalog der antiken Bildwerke, II-V, Berlin 1990-98.
14. Opfer für Despoina: Zur Kultsatzung des Heiligtums von Lykosura IG V 2, 514, Chiron 29 (1999) 233-249.
15. H λατρεία της Aφροδίτης στην περιοχή του Θερμαίου κόλπου, Aρχαία Mακεδονία (Ancient Macedonia) VI, Thessaloniki 1999, 1329-43.
16. Le cadavre et le serpent, ou l’héroïsation manquée de Cléomène de Sparte, Héros et héroïnes dans les mythes et les cultes grecs. Actes du Colloque organisé à l’Université de Valladolid du 26 au 29 mai 1999, Liège 2000 (Kernos, Supplément 10) 377-394.
17. Individuum und Norm: Bemerkungen zum Menschenbild der frühen Klassik, Gab es das Griechische Wunder? Griechenland zwischen dem Ende des 6. und der Mitte des 5. Jahrhunderts. Tagungsbeiträge des 16. Fachsymposiums der Alexander von Humboldt-Stiftung veranstaltet vom 5. bis 9. April in Freiburg im Breisgau, Mainz 2001, 21-37, pl. 1-9.
18. La Macedonia e l’Epiro in un periodo di transizione, Alessandro il Molosso e i “codottieri” in Magna Grecia. Atti del quarantatreesimo convegno di studi sulla Magna Grecia, Tarato-Cosenza 26-30 Settembre 2003, Tatanto 2004, 217-242.
19. (In collaboration with D. Jakov, V. Fintikoglou et A. Maggiani) Chapter “Prière, gestes et actes de prière”, Thesaurus Cultus et Rituum Antiquorum (ThesCRA) III, Los Angeles 2005, 105-179, pl. 16-34.
20. Imagines virorum illustrium. Problemi di identificazione dei ritratti greci, Archeologia Classica LX – n.s. 10 (2009) 85-115.
21. La réconciliation des Dikaiopolites : une nouvelle inscription de Dikaia de Thrace, colonie d’Érétrie, CRAI 2008, 781-792.
22. Attitudes de prière dans la Grèce ancienne, in: La norme en matière religieuse en Grèce ancienne. Actes du XI^e colloque du CIERGA (Rennes, septembre 2007), Liège 2009 (Kernos supplément 21) 261-275.
23. Pan en Macédoine, in: M. Kalaitzi, P. Paschidis, C. Antonetti and A.-M. Guimier-Sorbets (eds), Βορειοελλαδικά. Tales from the lands of the ethne. Essays in honour of Miltiades B. Hatzopoulos, Athens 2018 (ΜΕΛΕΤΗΜΑΤΑ 78), 397-412.