Angelos Chaniotis

Angelos Chaniotis
Born	(1959-11-08) 8 November 1959 Athens
Known for	Contributions to ancient Mediterranean history
Awards	Order of the Phoenix (2014)
Academic background
Alma mater	Heidelberg University
Academic work
Discipline	Historian, Classical philology
Institutions	Institute for Advanced Study

Angelos Chaniotis (Greek: Άγγελος Χανιώτης; born November 8, 1959) is a Greek historian and Classics scholar, known for original and wide-ranging research in the cultural, religious, legal and economic history of the Hellenistic period and the Byzantine Empire. His research interests also include the history of Crete and Greek epigraphy. Chaniotis is a Professor in the School of Historical Studies at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton.

He is a member of the German Archaeological Institute and was a member of the Editorial Board of the Classical Studies journal Mnemosyne.

Education and career

Chaniotis got his B.A. at the University of Athens in 1982. He got his Ph.D. at Heidelberg University in 1984 and received habilitation at that same institution in 1992. He was a visiting professor at New York University in 1993–1998. He was a visiting professor at Oxford University from 2010 to 2013 and senior research fellow at All Souls College, Oxford, from 2006 to 2010. He taught at Heidelberg University from 1987 to 2006 and was the chair of that school's Department of Ancient History from 1998 to 2006. In 2008 he joined the faculty as an ancient history and classics professor in the School of Historical Studies at the Institute for Advanced Study.

Chaniotis is the co-director of the Lyktos Archaeological Project.

Awards

In 2000 the German state of Baden-Württemberg awarded Chaniotis one of its State Research Prizes. In 2015 the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation awarded him one of eleven Anneliese Maier Research Awards. In 2014 the government of Greece awarded him the Commander's Cross of the Order of the Phoenix.

Works

• Age of Conquests: The Greek World from Alexander to Hadrian, London: Profile Books and Cambridge MA: Harvard University Press, 2018,
• War in the Hellenistic World : a Social and Cultural History, Malden, MA : Oxford (Eng.) 2005,
• Die Verträge zwischen kretischen Poleis in der hellenistischen Zeit, Stuttgart : Steiner, 1996 (habilitation thesis)
• Das antike Kreta, München : Beck, 2004, (In German)
• Historie und Historiker in den griechischen Inschriften : epigraphische Beiträge zur griechischen Historiographie, Steiner, Stuttgart, 1988, (doctoral dissertation) (In German)
• Heidelberger Althistorische posts and Epigraphic Studies. Vol. 24, Steiner, Stuttgart 1996,

Books edited

• Unveiling emotions. Vol. I: Sources and methods for the study of emotions in the Greek world, Stuttgart : F. Steiner, 2012,
• Unveiling emotions. Vol. II: Sources and methods for the study of emotions in Greece and Rome: texts, images, material culture, Stuttgart : F. Steiner, 2012,
• From Minoan farmers to Roman traders: sidelights on the economy of ancient Crete, Stuttgart : F. Steiner, 1999,

External links

• Home page of Angelos Chaniotis at the Institute for Advanced Study Archived 2016-03-08 at the Wayback Machine
• Home page of Angelos Chaniotis at All Souls College, Oxford
• Papers of Angelos Chaniotis in Propylaeum-DOK A Digital Repository of Classical Studies maintained Heidelberg University Library
• Curriculum vitae of Angelos Chaniotis at the Institute for Advanced Study Archived 2016-03-08 at the Wayback Machine