Dimitri Nakassis
@dimitrinakassis.bsky.social
Greek archaeologist, Professor of Classics at the University of Colorado Boulder; Michigan (BA 1997) & Texas (PhD 2006) grad
I'm compiling some statistics about the proportion of articles about Aegean prehistory in major American journals (it's about 15-20%) and every so often, you get an issue that's all Aegean all the time (ajaonline.org/toc/1183/):
September 27, 2025 at 5:17 PM
I'm compiling some statistics about the proportion of articles about Aegean prehistory in major American journals (it's about 15-20%) and every so often, you get an issue that's all Aegean all the time (ajaonline.org/toc/1183/):
There's a cool set of them at Messene, too (east end of north stoa of the agora)
August 18, 2025 at 8:18 PM
There's a cool set of them at Messene, too (east end of north stoa of the agora)
The hero we need
August 14, 2025 at 8:58 PM
The hero we need
I think that's right, although you can trace the concern back even further. For me, a touchstone is Michael Herzfeld's discussion in Anthropology through the Looking-Glass (1987, 43). When I ask people about the history of their village, they sometimes reply "there's no History here"
August 5, 2025 at 3:57 PM
I think that's right, although you can trace the concern back even further. For me, a touchstone is Michael Herzfeld's discussion in Anthropology through the Looking-Glass (1987, 43). When I ask people about the history of their village, they sometimes reply "there's no History here"
This was a fun little discovery this morning at the Melissa bookstore in Athens:
July 3, 2025 at 11:19 AM
This was a fun little discovery this morning at the Melissa bookstore in Athens:
Says the professor who teaches at a Maoist factory! Seriously, though: I spat up my coffee when I read this in the NYT (I was en route to Berkeley!), partly because "Maoist" here is just as empty a signifier (PS I went to Moe's a couple of days later and found no books by or on Mao. Sad!)
!["[Bret] Stephens: I’d say the lowest-quality institutions created since the 1990s have names like Columbia and Berkeley — these are essentially factories of Maoist cadres taught by professors whose political views ranged almost exclusively from the left to the far left."](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:qdk77335qsalp35m4cc7musv/bafkreic7ielvi7yqlnnajkfzkv4kjnyqrdyipdwsduda5nbpltuvqv5pku@jpeg)
May 1, 2025 at 2:52 PM
Says the professor who teaches at a Maoist factory! Seriously, though: I spat up my coffee when I read this in the NYT (I was en route to Berkeley!), partly because "Maoist" here is just as empty a signifier (PS I went to Moe's a couple of days later and found no books by or on Mao. Sad!)
"One couple at a voting station in Port Credit said they would rather not speak to American media. They then apologized three times." Perfect reporting from @kaleighrogers.bsky.social
April 29, 2025 at 3:46 PM
"One couple at a voting station in Port Credit said they would rather not speak to American media. They then apologized three times." Perfect reporting from @kaleighrogers.bsky.social
Theseus 2 Minotaur 4 (final score was 3-5, today outside of Chania)
March 8, 2025 at 6:45 PM
Theseus 2 Minotaur 4 (final score was 3-5, today outside of Chania)
Grace Erny and I have a chapter entitled "Gender and Power in the Practice of Mediterranean Archaeology" in this book hot off the presses, edited by Sarah Kielt Costello and Sarah Lepinski:
February 26, 2025 at 10:35 PM
Grace Erny and I have a chapter entitled "Gender and Power in the Practice of Mediterranean Archaeology" in this book hot off the presses, edited by Sarah Kielt Costello and Sarah Lepinski:
HELLAS CHINA ONE CULTURE:
February 2, 2025 at 5:01 PM
HELLAS CHINA ONE CULTURE:
I came across "The Statesman’s Yearbook" 2025 and it reads like something written in 1925:
January 28, 2025 at 4:21 AM
I came across "The Statesman’s Yearbook" 2025 and it reads like something written in 1925:
teaching the Early Bronze Age on the Greek mainland tomorrow so I get to show them this:
January 27, 2025 at 10:32 PM
teaching the Early Bronze Age on the Greek mainland tomorrow so I get to show them this:
Chautauqua Park this morning in Boulder, CO
January 19, 2025 at 6:11 PM
Chautauqua Park this morning in Boulder, CO
Back from New York and still thinking about this exhibit at the Met
January 10, 2025 at 4:17 PM
Back from New York and still thinking about this exhibit at the Met
I kind of like "Penelopese" (I mean, obviously Penelope > Pelops) but somehow I doubt it's intentional...
January 6, 2025 at 1:40 AM
I kind of like "Penelopese" (I mean, obviously Penelope > Pelops) but somehow I doubt it's intentional...
I'm excited about this, both the exhibit and the catalogue (which I have a small piece in). The exhibit is opening in Kalamata in February, Los Angeles in June, Athens in early 2026, and finally returns to Chora shop.getty.edu/products/the...
January 2, 2025 at 2:25 PM
I'm excited about this, both the exhibit and the catalogue (which I have a small piece in). The exhibit is opening in Kalamata in February, Los Angeles in June, Athens in early 2026, and finally returns to Chora shop.getty.edu/products/the...
I'm more like
December 12, 2024 at 6:21 PM
I'm more like
I think we'll be okay
November 30, 2024 at 9:48 PM
I think we'll be okay
Reminds me of my reaction to this map of Crete in a Greek history textbook:
November 19, 2024 at 11:55 PM
Reminds me of my reaction to this map of Crete in a Greek history textbook:
It's inscribed on a herm found at Delphi, not sure if a good color image is available though: www.persee.fr/doc/bch_0007...
November 12, 2024 at 5:43 PM
It's inscribed on a herm found at Delphi, not sure if a good color image is available though: www.persee.fr/doc/bch_0007...
What I'm drinking (if you know, you know)
November 6, 2024 at 1:55 AM
What I'm drinking (if you know, you know)