ACADEMIC RESEARCH AND ANALYSIS

Articles by academics, authors and subject matter experts.

All articles in English unless otherwise stated.
Articles listed alphabetically by surname.
Click here to read articles by
international organizations


EMILIANO ARENA

University of Messina, Dipartimento di Scienze dell'Antichità, Faculty Member

Published in 2013
> Alessandro basileus nella documentazione epigrafica: la dedica del tempio di Atena a Priene (I.Priene 156), Historia 62, 2013,
48-80 (in Italian)

Published in 2011
> L’introduzione della leggenda ΒΑΣΙΛΕΩΣ ΑΛΕΞΑΝΔΡΟΥ nella monetazione di Alessandro Magno”, RBN 157, 2011, 135-170 (in Italian)

Published in 2004 
> Filippo II e gli Anfissei in un’iscrizione delfica fra Terza e Quarta Guerra Sacra (IG IX, 1, 2, 775), MEP 7-8, 2004, 9, 211-226 
(in Italian)

Published in 2003
> La lettera di Oleveni. Fra Filippo II e Filippo V di Macedonia, REA 105, 1, 2003, 49-82 (in Italian)

Published in 1999
> La titolatura regale nella Macedonia ellenistica: i βασιλεῖς Filippo III e Alessandro IV nelle fonti letterarie ed epigrafiche (323-317 a.C.)”, in Ancient Macedonia VI, Proceedings of VIth International Symposium on Ancient Macedonia (Thessaloniki 18-22 Oct. 1996), [Thessaloniki 1999], 77-98 (in Italian)

Published in 1998
> La cronologia della Seconda Filippica demostenica e le ambascerie di Artaserse III ad Atene, StAnt11, 1998, 41-57 (in Italian)

PIERRE BRIANT

Pierre Briant, Professor Emeritus, Collège de France, Chaire d'histoire et civilisation du monde achéménide et de l'empire d'Alexandre.

Published in 2012
> From the Indus to the Mediterranean Sea: the Administrative Organization and Logistics of the Great Roads of the Achaemenid Empire 

Published in 2009
> Alexander and the Persian Empire, between "Decline" and "Renovation". History and Historiography  
> The Empire of Darius III in Perspective

PAUL CARTLEDGE

Paul Anthony Cartledge is the first A.G. Leventis Professor of Greek Culture at Cambridge University, having previously held a personal chair in Greek History at Cambridge. He is also Hellenic Parliament Global Distinguished Professor in the History and Theory of Democracy at New York University. He written and edited over 20 books, many of which have been translated into foreign languages. He is an honorary citizen of modern Sparta and holds the Gold Cross of the Order of Honor awarded by the President of Greece.

Published in 2009
> Alexandria the Great
> An Inaugural Lecture by Paul Cartledge to Mark the Establishment of the A.G. Leventis Professorship of Greek Culture (Video)

BRAD L. COOK

Brad L. Cook is an Assistant Professor of the Department of Classics at the University of Mississippi.

Published in 2005
> The Essential Philip of Macedon: A Byzantine Epitome of his Life

PANAYIOTIS DIAMADIS

Panayiotis Diamadis is a Lecturer in Genocide Studies at the University of Technology, Sydney, Australia. Specializing in the Hellenic, Armenian and Assyrian Genocide, he has an extensive record of publications, conference papers and public lectures in Australia and Europe.

Published in 2013
> Why Macedonia Matters

DEMETRIUS A. FLOUDAS

Demetrius Andreas Floudas is Senior Associate of Hughes Hall, Cambridge.

Published in 2002
> Pardon? A Conflict for a Name? FYROM'S dispute with Greece revisited

BASIL C. GOUNARIS

Basil C. Gounaris is Professor of Modern History at the Department of History & Archaeology, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki.

Published in 2007
> National Claims, Conflicts and Developments in Macedonia, 1870-1912
>The Historiography and Cartography of the Macedonian Question

PAUL ISAAC HAGOUEL

Paul Isaac Hagouel, Ph.D, is a Researcher, Holocaust Studies and Modern Greek History.

Published in 2013
> The Anahilation of Jewish Greeks in Eastern Macedonia and Thrace During WWII: Particularities, Facts, Memories

N.G.L. HAMMOND

Nicholas Geoffrey Lemprière Hammond CBE, DSO (15 November 1907 – 24 March 2001) was a British scholar of ancient Greece of great accomplishment and an operative for the British Special Operations Executive (SOE) in occupied Greece during World War II. His scholarship focused on the history of ancient Macedonia and Epirus.

Published in 1996
> Alexander's Non-European Troops and Ptolemy I's Use of Such Troops (published in the Bulletin of the American Society of Papyrologists Volume 33, Issue 1-4, pp. 99-109)

IOANNIS K. HASSIOTIS

Ioannis K. Hassiotis is Professor Emeritus in the Department of Modern and Contemporary History, Folklore, and Social Anthropology.

Published in 2007
> Macedonia from the Beginning of the Eighteenth Century to the Foundation of the Hellenic State

LOUKIANOS I. HASSIOTIS

Loukianos I. Hassiotis is Assistant Professor of Modern and Contemporary European History, in the Aristotle University of
Thessaloniki.

Published in 2007
> Macedonia: Macedonia, 1912-1923: From the Multinational Empire to Nation State

BRIAN D. JOSEPH

Brian D. Joseph is a Professor of Linguistics at the Ohio State University.

Published in 2001
> Greek, Ancient
> Greek, Modern

IOANNIS S. KOLIOPOULOS

Ioannis S. Koliopoulos is a Greek historian, born in 1942. He is the author of Plundered loyalties : Axis occupation and civil strife in Greek West Macedonia, Brigands with a Cause and other books on Greek history, and co-author of Greece: A Modern Sequel with Thanos Veremis, Professor of Political History at Athens University and President of the board of ELIAMEP.

Published in 2007
> Macedonia: Between Two World Wars (1945-1949)
> Macedonia in the maelstrom of World War II
> The History of Macedonia
> The Shaping of the new Macedonia (1798-1870)

THEODOROS KORRES

Professor Emeritus in the Department of Ancient Greek, Roman, Byzantine, and Medieval History.

Published in 2007
> Byzantine Macedonia (324 - 1025 AD)

KOSTAS KOTSAKIS

Professor of Prehistoric Archaeology School of History and Archaeology at Aristotle University of Thessaloniki.

Published in 2007
> Prehistoric Macedonia

PHOKION KOTZAGEORGIS

Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Modern History, Faculty Member.

Published in 2007
> Ottoman Macedonia (late 14th – late 17th century)

IAKOVOS D. MICHAILIDIS

Iakovos D. Michailidis is a Faculty Member at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki in the Department of History and Archaeology.

Published in 2007
> Population Shifts in Contemporary Greek Macedonia
> The Statistical Battle for the Population of Greek Macedonia

Published in 1998
> The War of Statistics: Traditional Recipes for the Preparation of the Macedonian Salad

Published in 1996
> Minority Rights and Educational Problems in Interwar Macedonia: The Case of the Primer "Abecedar" 

PANTELIS NIGDELIS

Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Department of History and Archaeology, Faculty Member

Published in 2007
> Roman Macedonia (168 BC - AD 284) 

JOHN J. POPOVIC

John J. Popovic is an honorary member of the Order of Alexander the Great for his support of the classical arts and their ideals.

Published in 1996
> Alexander the Great of Macedon: From History to Eternity

JACEK RZEPKA

Jacek Rzepka, dr hab., is a Professor at the University of Warsaw, Department of Ancient History.

Published in 2009
> Conspirators - Companions - Bodyguards: A Note on the so-called Mercenaries' Source of Alexander's History and the Conspiracy of Bessus (Curt. 5.8.1-11)

Published in 2008
> The Units of Alexander's Army and the District Divisions of Late Argead Macedonia

Published in 2005
> Koine ekklesia in Diodorus Siculus and the General Assemblies of the Macedonians

Published in 2004
> Philip II of Macedon and 'the Garrison of Naupactus:' A re-interpretation of Theopompus FGrHist 115F 235

Published in 2002
> Ethnos, Koinon, Synmpoliteia and Greek Federal States

SPYROS SFETAS

Spyros Sfetas is Associate Professor, Department of Modern and Contemporary History, Folklore, and Social Anthropology.

Published in 2007
> The Birth of ‘Macedonianism’ in the Interwar Period

ALKMINI STAVRIDOU-ZAFRAKA

Professor Emeritus in the Department of Ancient Greek, Roman, Byzantine, and Medieval History.

Published in 2007
> Macedonia from 1025 to 1430

ROLF STROOTMAN

Rolf Strootman is a Professor at the History Department, University of Utrecht.

Published in 2012
> Alexander's Thessalian Cavalry
> Antiochos III the Great
> Hellenistic Royal Court
> The Seleucid Empire

Published in 2011
> Hellenistic Court Society: The Seleukid imperial court under Antiochos the Great, 223-187 BCE
> Kings and Cities in the Hellenistic Age

Published in 2010
> Queen of Kings: Cleopatra VII and the Donations of Alexandria

ILIAS K. SVERKOS

Ilias K. Sverkos is Assistant Professor, Department of History at the Ionian University.

Published in 2007
> Macedonia in the Classical and Hellenistic Periods

MARCUS A. TEMPLAR

Marcus A. Templar is a Cryptologic Linguist and Principal Subject Matter Expert in Intelligence Analysis. 

Published in 2013 
> Skopje's Political Efficiency: Converting a National Goal to National Policy 

Published in 2012
> Macedonia, the Lung of Greece: Fighting an Uphill Battle
> Skopje's NATO Adventure: A Conversation on Insanity and Megalomania. The FYROM: The Groupie that Bribes NATO for its Membership 

Published in 2011
> NATO is a Bona-Fide Military Alliance, Not a Socio-Political Private Club
> Swabian Germans: The Others of Communist Yugoslavia and the Case of the FYROM Slavs Against Greece

Published in 2009
> Hellenic Migrations and Katadesmos 
> What If: The Annan Plan and Turkey
> «Σχέδιο Ανάν» για το Κουρδικό; (in Greek)

Published in 2003
> Fallacies and Facts on the Macedonian Issue 

FOTINI TOLOUDI

Fotini Toloudi has a Ph.D in history from the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki.

Published in 2012
> "Finding" Europe in Bulgarian History Textbooks of the Period 2006-2007
> Thessaloniki and the Macedonian Region in the Postwar Bulgarian History Textbooks (in Greek)

Published in 2011
> Interethnic Tensions due to Economic Issues in Multicultural People's Republic of Macedonia: The British View of the Period 1944-1949 

Published in 2010
> Bulgaria as a Member of the European Union: New Educational Policy in Approaching her National History (in Greek)

Published in 2005
> Education and Foreign Policy: The Macedonian Question in the Bulgarian History Textbooks of the Period 1945-1949 (in Greek)

Published in 1998
> The Last Stage of Armed Operations in Macedonia (1907-1908). 100 Documents from the Archives of the Greek Foreign Ministry (in Greek and English on pages 41-63)

ADRIAN TRONSON

Adrian Tronson has lecturered in ancient history at the Department of Classics at the University of South Africa. 

Published in 1982
> The 'Life of Alexander' and West Africa

ARISTOTLE TZIAMPIRIS

Dr. Aristotle Tziampiris is Associate Professor of International Relations at the Department of International and European Studies of the University of Piraeus.

Published in 2011
> Greek Historiography and Slav-Macedonian National Identity

Published in 2007
> The European Union and the Macedonian Question

Published in 2000
> The Name Dispute in the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia after the Signing of the Interim Accord

R.J (BERT) VAN DER SPEK

R.J (Bert) van der Spek is a professor at VU University Amsterdam, Arts, Department of Archaeology, Classics and Ancient Near Eastern Studies.

Published in 2009
> Multi-Ethnicity and Ethnic Segregation in Hellenistic Babylon

Published in 2005
> Theopais Babylon, een multiculturele stad in de Hellenistische tijd (in Dutch)

Published in 1998
> Land Tenure in Hellenistic Anatolia and Mesopotamia

Published in 1993
> The Astronomical Diaries as a Source of Achaemenid and Seleucid History

Published in 1992
> Nippur, Sippar and Larsa in the Hellenistic Period

VLASIS VLASIDIS

Vlasis Vlasidis is an Assistant Professor for Political Communication and Mass Media Department for Balkan Studies at the University of Western Macedonia.

Published in 2010
> History in Mission Command: The Macedonian Question and the Internet (1990-2007)

Published in 2009
> Bulgarian Komitadjis and Greek Reaction: The Struggle in Western Macedonia in the Interwar Period (in Greek)

Published in 2008
> Mass Media at the Border: The Mass Media in Bitola, Prilep, Florina and Kastoria Region (in Greek)

Published in 2007
> Irredentism on the Internet 
> Macedonia and the Great Powers
> Makedonien und die Grossmächte (in German)

Published in 2005
> We and the others: Greece's image in FYROM's Press and Education System (1995-2002) 

Published in 1991
> The "Macedonian Question" on the Bulgarian Political Scene (1919-1923) 

AXEL SOTIRIS WALLDEN

Axel Sotiris Walldén has held a series of posts in the European Commission: in the Western Balkans Directorate (2005-2006), Task Force Wider Europe (2003-2004), Bulgaria team (1998-2000), Enlargement team preparing ‘Agenda 2000’
(1996-1997). In 2000-03 he served as Counsellor to the Greek Foreign Minister of Balkan Affairs, on secondment from the European Commission, and was coordinator of the Thessaloniki Balkan summit.

Previously he served, inter alia, as Secretary-General at the Hellenic Ministry of National Economy (1989-90) and as a visiting professor at the Panteion University, Athens (1990-92). He teaches postgraduate courses at the Institut d’Etudes Européennes of the Université Libre de Bruxelles.
 
He is the author of 12 books and a large number of articles in scientific reviews and journals on Balkan, EU enlargement and Greek foreign policy issues.

Published in 2009
> "Misassociated" associates: Greek Dictatorships, Communist Regimes and the Balkans, 1967-1974

Published in 2005
> Greece and the New Macedonian State

NICHOLAS L. WRIGHT

Nicholas L. Wright is a Professor in the Department of Ancient History at Macquarie University, Australia.

Published in 2012
> The Horseman and the Warrior: Paionia and Macedonia in the Fourth Century BC

Published in 2011
> The 'Royal Archer' and Apollo in the East: Greco Persian Iconography in the Seleukid Empire

Published in 2010
> Non-Greek Religious Iconography on the Coinage of Seleucid Syria

Published in 2008
> A Note on Cleopatra Thea, Antiochus Grypus and Athens
^ FYROM is the acronym for the "Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia" and is the officially recognized name of that state by the United Nations until such time as the name issue is resolved between Greece and the FYROM. The term "Republic of Macedonia" is incorrect and is not used on this site. To learn more on the Macedonian name issue please click the "Macedonian Issue" tab above.