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Professor Mary Voyatzis

Department Head


Department of Classics
Learning Services Building, Room 202
1512 E. First St.
PO Box 210105
Tucson, AZ 85721-0105


Telephone: 520-621-3446

Fax: 520-621-3678

mev@email.arizona.edu

Classes taught by Dr.Voyatzis:

  • Archaic Greek Sanctuaries: Classics 481/581
  • Greek Architecture: Classics/Art History 457/557
  • Greek Pottery: Classics/Art History 461/561
  • Greek Art and Archaeology: Classics/Art History/Anthropology 340A
  • Gods and Goddesses of the Ancient Mediterranean: Classics 360 (Tier II)
  • Elementary Modern Greek: Greek 103
  • Elementary Modern Greek: Greek 104
  • Intermediate Modern Greek: Greek 203
  • Intermediate Modern Greek: Greek 204
  • The Tectonic Foundations of the Geoarchaeology of Greece (co-taught with George Davis): Classics 596h

Research Interests:

  • Archaeology of Religion (especially in Greece, early Iron Age through Archaic period)
  • Greek art, architecture, history and society in the Protogeometric, Geometric, Orientalizing and Archaic periods particularly
  • Archaeology in Arcadia
  • Excavations/surveys in Tegea
  • Excavations/surveys at Mt. Lykaion in Greece (2004-2010): http://corinth.sas.upenn.edu/lykaion/lykaion.html
Tegea Sanctuary from the southwest
Tegea Sanctuary from the west
Queen Sonya of Norway visits site at Tegea
Dr. Voyatzis showing small finds to Queen Sonya

Publications

Scholarly Books:

  • The Early Sanctuary of Athena Alea at Tegea and Other Archaic Sanctuaries in Arcadia. Published in Studies in Mediterranean Archaeology, Pocketbook 97 (Goteborg, Sweden, 1990).
  • Tegea I: Investigations in the Temple of Athena Alea, 1991-1994 by G. Nordquist and M. Voyatzis. Monographs from the Norwegian Institute at Athens, no. 3, E. Ostby ed. (c. 700 pages total; 50% by Voyatzis, including Chapters on Pottery and Small Finds, Illustrations and Catalogues; Conclusions (with Nordquist), and Appendix on Ceramic Analysis (with Fenn and Ponting). Expected publication: 2005.
  • Tegea II: Investigations in the Northern Sector by E. Ostby, M. Voyatzis, C. Tarditi, J.-M. Luce, K. Odegard, M. Iozzo. Monographs from the Norwegian Institute at Athens, no. 4, E. Ostby ed. (c. 850 pages; c. 20% by Voyatzis, including Chapter on Small Finds, Catalogue, and Illustrations). Expected publication: 2005.

Chapters:

  • "Geometric Arcadia." in eds. A. Peatfield and C. Morris, Klados: Essays in Honour of J.N. Coldstream (Bulletin of the Institute of Classical Studies Supplement, London 1995) 271-283.
  • "From Athena to Zeus: An A-Z Guide to the Origins of Greek Goddesses" in eds. L. Goodison and C. Morris, Ancient Goddesses: Myths and Evidence (British Museum Press, London, 1998) 133-147.
  • "The Role of Temple Building in Consolidating Arkadian Communities," in Defining Ancient Arkadia. Acts of the Copenhagen Polis Centre 6 (Copenhagen 1999) 130-168.

Refereed Articles:

  • "Pottery at the Crossroads: Ceramic Trends in Southeast Arcadia," in Ancient Arcadia (Papers from the Norwegian Institute at Athens). In press.
  • "The Cult of Athena Alea at Tegea and its Transformation over Time," in Celebrations. Sanctuaries and Vestiges of Cult Activity (Papers from the Norwegian Institute in Athens, vol. 6) 1-15 and figures 1-7. In press.
  • "An Analysis of Votive Types Recently Found at Tegea," in Peloponnesian Sanctuaries and Cults (Acts of the Swedish School Symposium Athens 4 - June 1994).
  • "Excavations at the Sanctuary of Athena Alea at Tegea, 1990-1992: First Preliminary Report," Opuscula Atheniensia 1994 (with sections by Ostby, Nordquist, Tarditi and Luce) 89-141.
  • "Current Fieldwork at the Sanctuary of Athena Alea at Tegea," Archaeological News 17(1992) 22-31 (invited article).
  • "Votive Riders Seated Side-Saddle at Early Greek Sanctuary Sites," The Annual of the British School of Archaeology at Athens 87(1992) 259-279, figs. 1-14.
  • "Arcadia and Cyprus: Aspects of the Interrelationship between the Twelfth and Eighth Centuries, B.C.," Report of the Department of Antiquities of Cyprus 1985, 166-163, pls XIX-XX.

Reviews:

  • Book Review of Art and the Early Greek State by M. Shanks in Religious Studies Review 26 (2000) 269.
  • Book Review of The Proceedings of the Danish Institute in Athens 2 by S. Dietz and S. Isager (eds.) in Opuscula Atheniensia 24 (2000) 141-144.
  • Book review of Pilgrims and Pilgrimmage in Ancient Greece by M. Dillon in Religious Studies Review (forthcoming).
  • Published commentaryon an article by E. Stone, "Chariots of the Gods in Old Babylonian Mesopotamia," in Cambridge Archaeological Journal, April 1993, 103-104.
  • Book review of Greek Gods and Figurines. Aspects of Anthropomorphic Dedications by B. Alroth (Uppsala, 1989), in Gnomon 16 (1991) 241-244.
  • Book review of Feminism in Greece between the Wars (in Greek) by E. Avdela and A. Psara (Athens, 1985) in Gender and History, vol.2 (1990) 122-123.

 

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