Maria Stamatopoulou


Maria Stamatopoulou is a Greek classical archaeologist specialising in Central Greece and Thessaly in particular. She is Associate Professor of Classical Archaeology at the University of Oxford, and a Fellow of Lincoln College, Oxford.

Education

Stamatopoulou completed her BA in History, Archaeology and History of Art at the National Capodistrian University of Athens. She completed her DPhil at the University of Oxford in 1999 entitled 'Burial customs in Thessaly in the classical and Hellenistic periods'.
In 2002 Stamatopoulou joined Lincoln College as an Early Career Fellow, and was later appointed as aN Associate Professor in Classical Archaeology and Tutorial Fellow in 2006.

Selected publications

M. Stamtopoulou 2014. The Pasikrata Sanctuary at Demetrias and the alleged funerary sanctuaries of Thessaly. Kernos 27: 207 - 255.
‘The ‘banquet’ motif on the funerary stelai from Demetrias’, in C.M. Draycott and M. Stamatopoulou, Dining & Death. Interdisciplinary perspectives on the 'Funerary Banquet' in ancient art, burial and belief. 405-479
‘Demetrias: The Archaeology of a Cosmopolitan Macedonian Harbour’, in M. Kalaitzi, P. Paschidis, C. Antonetti and A.-M. Guimier-Sorbets, Βορειοελλαδικ?. Tales from the lands of the ethne. Essays in honour of Miltiades B. Hatzopoulos / Histoires du monde des ethné. Études en l’honneur de Miltiade B. Hatzopoulos 343-376