Panos Valavanis (; 1954 – 14 May 2025) was a Greek classical archaeologist.

Life and career

Panos Valavanis was born in 1954. He studied at the

University of Athens The National and Kapodistrian University of Athens (NKUA; , ''Ethnikó kai Kapodistriakó Panepistímio Athinón''), usually referred to simply as the University of Athens (UoA), is a public university in Athens, Greece, with various campuses alo ...

and the

University of Würzburg The Julius Maximilian University of Würzburg (also referred to as the University of Würzburg, in German ''Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg'') is a public research university in Würzburg, Germany. Founded in 1402, it is one of the ol ...

. From 1980 onwards, he worked at the University of Athens, where from 2000 he was a professor extraordinarius in classical archaeology. Valavanis did research on Greek pottery and

Greek vase painting Pottery, due to its relative durability, comprises a large part of the archaeological record of ancient Greece, and since there is so much of it (over 100,000 painted vases are recorded in the Corpus vasorum antiquorum), it has exerted a dispr ...

, on the architecture and topography of ancient Athens, on ancient technology, and on ancient sports. For his book ''Games and Sanctuaries in Ancient Greece'', a foreword was written by John Boardman. He was a corresponding member of the

Deutsches Archäologisches Institut The German Archaeological Institute (, ''DAI'') is a research institute in the field of archaeology (and other related fields). The DAI is a "federal agency" under the Federal Foreign Office of Germany. Status, tasks and goals The Institute c ...

. Valavanis died of cancer on 14 May 2025, at the age of 71.

Selected publications

* ''Hysplex. The Starting Mechanism in Ancient Stadia. A Contribution to Ancient Greek Technology'', University of California Press, Los Angeles 1999 * ''Games and Sanctuaries in Ancient Greece'', Getty Publications, Los Angeles 2004.
Review
by Paul Christesen in

Bryn Mawr Classical Review ''Bryn Mawr Classical Review'' (''BMCR''), founded in 1990, is an open access journal that as of 2008 published reviews of scholarly work in the field of classical studies including classical archaeology. The journal describes itself as the sec ...

2005.01.20

References

External links

cv of Panos Valavanis (in Greek)
at the website of

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