Dimitris Plantzos

Dimitris Plantzos has published articles on a wide variety of topics, including the study of Greek gems and seal-impressions, Greek painting, nationalist uses of classical antiquity in contemporary Greece, archaeology in literature and cinema, and the use of archaeology as a biopolitical instrument in modern societies.

Archaeology and Hellenic Identity in Twentieth-Century Greece (with Dimitris Damaskos; Benaki Museum: Athens 2008); and A Companion to Greek Art (with Tyler J. Smith; Wiley-Blackwell: Malden and Oxford 20182).

Since 2019 he is joint lead (with Gheorghe Alexandru Niculescu) of the Project The Construction of Knowledge in Archaeology and Art History in Southeastern Europe, hosted by the Centre for Advanced Study, Sofia (Bulgaria) and funded by the Getty Foundation as part of the Connecting Art Histories Initiative.

[11] During the 2020-21 COVID-19 pandemic, Plantzos co-hosted a series of Webinars on Ancient Greek Painting organized by the American School of Classical Studies at Athens, which was attended globally by thousands of academics, scholars, and ancient-art enthusiasts.

[12] In recent years, Plantzos has been actively participating in public discussions regarding the role of archaeology in contemporary societies, as well as the uses of the classical past in nationalism, post-colonial thinking, and modern and post-modern governmentality.