National Lecture Program

AIA Lecturer: Dimitris Plantzos

Affiliation: National & Kapodistrian University of Athens

Dimitris Plantzos is a Professor of Classical Archaeology at the National& Kapodistrian University of Athens, as well as the co-director of the Argos Orestikon Excavation Project (Kastoria, Greece). He holds degrees from Athens and Oxford (MPhil and DPhil), and his fields of specialization are Greek art and archaeology, archaeological theory, classical reception in the modern age. Professor Plantzos has authored many publications on classical Greek archaeology, ancient Greek art and visual culture, as well as the history of the archaeological discipline. He is one of the AIA Norton lecturers for the 2024/2025 National Lecture Program season.

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