Born June 22, 1942, Goshen, Indiana
Married October 17, 1999, Effie Davlantes
Contact sgmnemea@socrates.berkeley.edu or www.nemea.org
[May-August: 011-30-27460-23118 or 6944-391788]
[August-April: 001-510-642-5924 or 527-2962]
Education
1964 A.B., Greek, Wabash College
1967 A.M., Classical Archaeology, Princeton University
1970 Ph.D., Classical Archaeology, Princeton University
Awards/Honors
1975-7; 1977-9; 1979-81 Principal Investigator, NEH Research Grants for Excavations at Nemea
1976/7, 1980/81 Humanities Research Fellowship, University of California
1979 Corresponding Member, Deutsches Archäologisches Institut
1981 Honorary Citizen, Archaia Nemea, Greece
1991 Governor's Medal for Distinguished Service to the Korinthia
1992 Active Member Academia Scientiarum et Artium Europaeae
1992/3 Phi Beta Kappa Visiting Scholar
1994/5 President's Research Fellow, University of California
1995 Honorary Citizen, Leontion, Greece
1995 Honorary President, Society for the Revival of the Nemean Games
1996 Honorary Doctorate, University of Athens
1996 Taxiarches tou Tagmatos tes Times decorated by President K. Stephanopoulos of the Hellenic Republic
1997 Honorary Member, Idruma Korinthiakon Meleton
1998 Honorary Member, H en Athenais Archaiologike Etaireia
2001 Alphi Phi International Professor of the Year
2004 Person of the Week, ABC World News Tonight, August 20
Positions
1972/3 Research Assistant, The Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton
1973- Director, Nemea Excavations
1973-5 Assistant Professor, Department of Classics, University of California at Berkeley
1975-81 Associate Professor, University of California at Berkeley
1981- Professor, University of California at Berkeley
1982-7 Director, American School of Classical Studies at Athens
1982-7 Board of Directors, Fulbright Foundation in Greece
1995- Board of Advisors for the repatriation of the Parthenon Marbles to Minister of Culture, Greece
Excavation Experience
1967,68 Morgantina (Sicily)
1969 Olympia
1969-72 Athenian Agora
1970 Amphipolis
1973- Nemea
Non-academic activities
1975-1984 Constructed Archaeological Museum, Nemea, Greece
1991 Constructed Shelter over Ancient Baths, Nemea
1994 Dedicated Stadium as Archaeological Park, Nemea
1995 Founded Society for the Revival of the Nemean Games
1996 Staged first modern Nemean Games
1999 Staged inauguration of Temple of Zeus reconstruction with President of the Hellenic Republic and 1600 guests.
2002 Completed two new columns in the reconstruction of the Temple of Nemean Zeus
Scholarly Publications and Popular Articles/Videos
"Old Discoveries from Old Athens," Hesperia 39 (1970) 223-231.
"An Ancient Site near Menidi," Athens Annals of Archaeology 3 (1970)
435-9.
"A Tombstone from Ithaka," AAA 4 (1971) 201 (with Stella G. Miller).
"The Prytaneion at Olympia," Athenische Mitteilungen 86 (1971) 79-107.
"I.G. II2, 1477 and 3046 Rediscovered," Hesperia 40 (1971) 448-458
(with S.N. Koumanoudes).
"Round Pegs in Square Holes," American Journal of Archaeology 76
(1972) 78-9.
"A Roman Monument in the Athenian Agora," Hesperia 41 (1972) 50-95.
"Mortgage Horoi from the Athenian Agora," Hesperia 41 (1972) 274-281.
"The Colossus of Porto Raphti Reconsidered," Hesperia 41(1972) 192-
197.
"Addendum to 'A Roman Monument in the Athenian Agora,'"Hesperia 41
(1972) 475-6.
"The Date of the West Building at the Argive Heraion," AJA 77 (1973) 9-
18.
"Hestia and Symmachos," Opuscula Romana IX:19 (1973) 167-172.
"Architectural Blocks from the Strymon," Arch. Delt. 28 (1973) 140-169
(with Stella G. Miller).
"The Altar of the Six Goddesses at Thessalian Pherai," California Studies
in Classical Antiquity 7 (1974) 231-256.
"A Family of Halikarnassians in North-Central Greece," AJA 78 (1974)
151-2.
"Excavations at Nemea, 1973-4," Hesperia 44 (1975) 143-172.
"The Date of Olympic Festivals," AthMitt 90 (1975) 215-231.
review of J.-P. Michaud, Le Tresor de Thebes, in AJA 79 (1975) 297.
"The Pentathlon for Boys at Nemea," CSCA 8 (1975) 199-201.
"New Problems at Nemea," Neue Forschungen in griechischen
Heiligtumern (Tubingen 1976) 63-75.
"Excavations at Nemea, 1975," Hesperia 45 (1976) 174-202.
review of W.W. Wurster, Alt-Agina I,1. Der Apollontempel, in AJA 80
(1976) 310-1.
"Excavations at Nemea, 1976," Hesperia 46 (1977) 1-26.
"Excavations at Nemea, 1977," Hesperia 47 (1978) 58-88.
The Prytaneion: Its Function and Architectural Form (Berkeley and Los
Angeles 1978) pp. xiv + 258, pls. 16.
preface to the American edition of E. N. Gardiner, Athletics of the Ancient
World (Chicago 1978) pp. v-xii.
"The Date of the First Pythiad," CSCA 11 (1978) 127-158.
"Excavations at Nemea, 1978," Hesperia 48 (1979) 73-103.
"Drinking Uncut Wine ... to Death," The Ancient World 2 (1979) 29-30.
review of W. Heyder and A. Mallwitz, Das Kabirenheiligtum bei ThebenII, inAJA 83 (1979) 357.
Arete: Ancient Writers, Papyri, and Inscriptions on the History and Ideals
of Greek Athletics and Games (Chicago 1979) pp. iii + 114.
"Turns and Lanes in the Ancient Stadium," AJA 84 (1980) 159-166.
"Moscow and Nemea," American School of Classical Studies Newsletter(Spring 1980) 1, 8-9.
"Tunnel Vision: The Nemean Games," Archaeology 33 (1980) 54-56.
"Excavations at Nemea, 1979," Hesperia 49 (1980) 178-205.
review of W. B. Dinsmoor, Jr., The Propylaia to the Athenian Akropolis I,
The Predecessors, in Journal of Architectural Historians 40 (1981) 151-3.
"Excavations at Nemea, 1980," Hesperia 50 (1981) 45-67.
review of "The Search for Alexander the Great," in Archaeology 34 (1981) 64-5 (with Stella G. Miller).
review of P. Aupert, Fouilles de Delphes II, Le Stade, in AJA 85 (1981) 504-6.
"Excavations at Nemea, 1981," Hesperia 51 (1982) 19-40.
"Kleonai, the Nemean Games, and the Lamian War," Hesperia, Suppl.
XX (1982) 100-108.
editor,The Temple of Zeus at Nemea: Perspectives and Prospects (Guides to the Exhibition at the Benaki Museum, English and
Greek versions, Athens 1983), and author of "The Archaeologists",
pp. 40-49.
Nemea, A Preliminary Guide (Athens 1984) pp. 20.
The Contribution of the American School of Classical Studies to Athens, Cultural Capital of Europe, 1985 (Athens 1985) pp. 92.
"Poseidon at Nemea," Philia Epe I (Festschrift G.E. Mylonas, Athens
1986) 261-271.
"Excavations at Nemea, 1984-1986," Hesperia 57 (1988) 1-20.
"The Theorodokoi of the Nemean Games, Hesperia 57 (1988) 147-63.
"Circular Roofing Systems and the Athenian Tholos," PRAKTIKA tou XII
Diethnous Sunedriou Klasikes Archaiologias , Athens, 4-10
Septembriou 1983, IV (Athens 1988) 134-39.
"Nemea and the Nemean Games," Mind and Body: Athletic Contests in
Ancient Greece (ed. O. Alexandri, Athens 1989) 87-95.
translator (from Greek) of P. A. Pantos, "Echedemos, 'The Second Attic
Phoibos'," Hesperia 58 (1989) 277-288.
editor, Nemea: A Guide to the Site and Museum (Berkeley 1990) pp. xv +
214 (author of about 60% of text).
"The Bath at Nemea and its Place in the Development of Hellenistic
Building Types," Akten des XIII. Internationalen Kongresses für
klassische Archaologie (Mainz 1990) 253-258.
"Nemea," Megale Ellhnike Egkuklopaideia Britannikka (Athens
1991) 415-417.
"Opheltes," ibid. 302-303.
Arete: Greek Sports from Ancient Sources (Berkeley 1991) pp. xiii + 227.
"Mouseio Nemeas" Archaiologia 40 (1991) 88-89 (with F. Pachyianne).
editor, Nemea I: The Sacred Square, the Xenon, and the Bath (Berkeley 1992) pp. xxx + 319 (author of Chapter 3: The Bath, pp. 188- 261, and of the Catalogue, pp. 263-304).
"Olympic Flashback": 24 one-minute historical recreations of the ancient games narrated by Bob Costas and aired on NBC radio in North America during the 1992 Olympics in Barcelona on behalf of the Greek National Tourist Organization.
"The Stadium at Nemea and the Nemean Games," Proceedings of an
International Symposium on the Olympic Games, 5-9 September
1988 (Athens 1992) 81-86.
"Pambotadai Found?" BCH 117 (1993) 225-231.
"Nemea and the Hysplex": 45-minute video of reconstruction of ancient
starting mechanism - producer and director (1994).
"Nemea in the Public Eye": 25-minute video of history of public TV
presentations of Nemea - producer and director (1994).
The Ancient Stadium of Nemea: A Self-Guided Tour (Athens 1994) pp. 36.
review of M. E. Voyatzis, The Early Sanctuary of Athena Alea at Tegea
and Other Archaic Sanctuaries in Arcadia in Gnomon 66 (1994) 375-378.
"Sosikles and the Fourth-Century Building Program in the Sanctuary of Zeus at Nemea," Hesperia, Suppl. 27 (1994) 85-98.
"Moschos the Beautiful: An Athletic Graffito in Nemea," (B. R. Baker and J. E. Fischer, edd.) Exegisti Monumentum Aere Perennius (Festschrift J. Charles, Indianapolis 1994) 89-98.
"The New Nemean Games": 20-minute video of the first modern Nemean Games in 1994, and the call for more in 1996 - producer and director (1995).
Nemea, A Brief Guide (Athens 1995), pp. 20.
"Old Metroon and Old Bouleuterion in the Classical Agora of Athens," Historia Einzelschriften 95 (1995) 133-156.
"Architecture as Evidence for the Identity of a Polis," Acts of the Copenhagen Polis Centre II (1995) 201-244.
"Nemea," Enciclopedia dell'Arte Antica, Suppl. II (Rome 1995) 891-893.
"A Day at the Races: Living the Olympic Idea," California Monthly 107 (1996) 19-23.
"Nemea," An Encyclopedia of the History of Classical Archaeology (Westport 1996) 779-800.
"Prytaneion," The Dictionary of Art 25 (New York 1996) 674-675.
"Stadiums," The Oxford Encyclopedia of Archaeology in the NearEast 5 (Oxford 1997) 74-75
"There's No Place Like Home for Our Heritage," Mycenaean Treasures of the Aegean Bronze Age Repatriated (ed. R. Howland, Washington, 1997) 33-49.
"Original Sin: Money & Politics in the Olympics," Odyssey (1999) 44-46
translator (from Greek) of P. Valavanis, Hysplex: The Starting Mechanism in Ancient Stadia (University of California Publications: Classical Studies, vol. 36, Berkeley and Los Angeles, 1999) pp. xviii + 183.
"Appendix: The Rebirth of the Hysplex at Nemea, " ibid. 145-173.
"The Athenian Century," The Destiny of the Parthenon Marbles (ed. R. Howland, Washington, 2000) 81-104
"Naked Democracy," Polis & Politics (Festschrift M.H. Hansen, edd. P. Flensted-Jensen, T.H. Nielsen, L. Rubinstein, Copenhagen 2000) 277-296.
Modern Surfaces on Ancient Temples (Nemea 2001) pp. 18
"The Temple of Nemean Zeus, A California Landmark," Chronicle of the University of California 4 (2000) 127-137
"Organisation et fonctionnement des jeux Olympiques," Olympie: Cycle de huit conferences organise au musee du Louvre (Paris 2001) 75-125
"Cult Tables from Nemea," KALLISTEUMA: Meletes pros timen tes Olgas Tzachou-Alexandre (Athens 2001) 461-468
Nemea II: The Early Hellenistic Stadium (Berkeley and Los Angeles 2001) pp. xxx + 386.
"O Aionas tes Athenas," Anthemion 9 (2002) 14-19
editor, Plaster Casts at Berkeley (Berkeley 2003) pp. 52 - author of Introduction, 1-3.
"A Platonic Relationship," California Monthly 113, 6 (2003) 14-16
"The Shrine of Opheltes and the Earliest Stadium of Nemea," Olympia 1875-2000. 125 Jahre Deutsche Ausgrabungen (ed. H. Kyrieleis, Berlin 2003) 239-250
"The Organization and Functioning of the Olympic Games," in David Phillips and David Pritchard (eds.), Sport and Festival in the Ancient Greek World (Swansea 2003) 1-40.
"A Step Into History" 13-minute video of the first modern Nemean Games in 1994, 1996, and 2000, and the call for more in 2004 - producer and director (2004).
Review of M. Golden, Sport in the Ancient World from A to Z, in The Classical Review 54 (2004) 529-532.
"Anabionontas tous Agones tes Nemeas," Deltion Idumatos Korinthiakon Meleton 35 (2004) 9-20.
"The Other Games: When Greeks Flocked to Nemea," Archaeology Odyssey 7.4 (2004) 34-41 and 55.
"Bringing Zeus back: the progress and the arguments," Athens News, August 19, 2004, xx-yy
Arete: Greek Sports from Ancient Sources 3rd ed. (Berkeley 2004) pp. xiii + 233.
Nemea: A Brief Guide (2nd ed. Athens 2004) pp. 34
Ancient Greek Athletics (Yale University Press 2004) pp. ix + 288.
in press/preparation
Nemea guide, 2nd ed. (Ministry of Culture, Republic of Greece, Summer2004)
Nemea iii, editor (University of California Press, December 2004)
"Plato at Berkeley"
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