CHRISTY CONSTANTAKOPOULOU

Christy Constantakopoulou

Researcher, National Hellenic Research Foundation

cconsta[at]eie[dot]gr

Christy Constantakopoulou is currently Researcher in the Section of Greek and Roman Antiquity, in the Institute of Historical Research of the National Hellenic Research Foundation. She was previously Professor of Ancient History and Classics in Birkbeck College. Her research focuses on the social, political, economic and cultural history of the Aegean, on religion, epigraphy, and ancient historiography. She has published The Dance of the islands. Insularity, Networks, the Athenian empire and the Aegean world , OUP 2007 και and Aegean Interactions. Delos and its networks in the third century, OUP 2017. She has edited  with Irad Malkin and Κατερίνα Παναγοπούλου, Greek and Roman networks in the Ancient Mediterranean, Routledge 2009, and with Maria Fragoulaki,  Shaping Memory in Ancient Greece: Poetry, Historiography and Epigraphy. Histos Supplements 2020. She is co-editor with Hans Beck and Jeremy McInerney of the 7 volumes project entitled Oxford History of the Classical Greek World. She is currently working on a monograph on the history of the Athenian empire and on a monograph provisionally entitled A Social History of Ancient Greek Hunting.

Main research interests

• Social and economic history of the classical period

•      Insularity

•      Ancient Religion

•      Epigraphy

•      History and archaeology of ancient sanctuaries

•      Hunting

•      The Athenian empire

•      Ancient Historiography (esp. Herodotus and Thucydides)

Recent publications

• Τα νησιά στην αρχαιότητα᾽, in Σύγχρονα Θέματα 158-159, 2023, https://www.synchronathemata.gr/ta-nisia-stin-archaiotita/
• Goats, Sheep, and Dead Bodies. Some (Un)expected Manifestations of Island Connectivity in the Cyclades’, in A. Inglese ed. Epigrammata 5: Dinamiche politiche e istituzionali nell’epigrafia delle Cicladi, Rome 2020, p. 1-43.
• With Maria Fragoulaki eds., Shaping Memory in Ancient Greece: Poetry, Historiography and Epigraphy. Histos Supplements 2020.
• ‘Networks of honour in third-century Delos’, in M. Dana and I. Savalli-Lestrade eds. La cité interconnectée: transferts et réseaux institutionnels, religieux et culturels aux époques hellénistique et imperiale, Bordeaux 2019, 83-98.
• ‘Η οικονομική διαχείρηση πολέμου μακράς διαρκείας: ο Αθηναϊκός ιμπεριαλισμός, η πληρωμή του φόρου και οι μικρές κοινότητες του Αιγαίου τον 5ο αιώνα π.Χ.’, in A. Kolia-Dermitzaki, V. Seirinidou and S. Ploumpidis eds. Histories of War in South-Eastern Europe: An Approach in the Longue Durée, Athens 2018, 81-100.
• ‘Landscape and hunting: the economy of the eschatia’, in special issue of Land 2018, 7(3), 89; doi.org/10.3390/land7030089, edited by G. Papantoniou and A. Vionis, Central Places and Un-central Landscapes: Political Economies and Natural Resources in the Longue Durée.
• ‘Cycladic Archaeology and History: Some Thoughts’, in E. Angliker and J. Tully eds. Cycladic Archaeology and Research: New Approaches and Discoveries, Oxford Archaeopress 2018, v-xii.
• Aegean Interactions. Delos and its networks in the third century, OUP 2017
• ‘The Shaping of the Past: Local History and Fourth-century Delian Reactions to Athenian Imperialism’, in A. Powell and K. Meidani eds. The Eyesore of Aigina: Anti-Athenian Attitudes in Greek, Hellenistic and Roman History, Swansea, Classical Press of Wales, 2016, 125-46.
• ‘Centrality and Peripherality: Insularity and the Appeal of the Religious Networks of Delos and Samothrace in the Classical and Hellenistic Periods’, in Reinhard von Bendemann, Annette Gerstenberg, Nikolas Jaspert and Sebastian Kolditz eds. Constructions of Mediterranean Insularities, Mittelmeerstudien, Fink and Schöningh, 2016, 75-93.
• ‘Beyond the Polis: Island Koina and Other Non-Polis Entities in the Aegean’, in C. Taylor and K. Vlassopoulos eds. Communities and Networks in the Ancient Greek World, Oxford University Press 2015, 213-36.