Dr. Niki Holmes Kantzios

PhD. Classical and Near Eastern Archaeology

Bryn Mawr University, 1999

Areas of Interest:

Iron Age Aegean; Phoenicians and state formation in the early Iron Age; interactions between Aegean and Levant. Dr. Kantzios is also interested in presenting archaeology and ancient culture to lay audiences, especially children.

Excavation Experience

• Kommos, Crete (1991-95)
• Sepphoris, Israel (1994-98)

Dr. Kantzios has also done archaeological art for excavations at Sarepta, Lebanon (1994-95), The University of Pennsylvania Museum, and numerous articles.

Scholarly Publications and Talks

• “Race Relations in Antiquity”, Florida Foreign Language Association Conference, Tampa, 2003.

• “Palestine: Another Side of the Homeland” in Acts of the Fourth International Congress of Phoenician and Punic Studies, Cadiz, Spain (2000); also delivered orally at the Fourth International Congress of Phoenician and Punic Studies, Cadiz (1996).

• “ The Cretan Odysseus,” Classical Humanities Society of South Jersey, 1997.

• “Holy Whores and Temple Dogs,” Black Swan Review (an on-line journal of women’s studies), June, 1996.

• “A Levantine Image in the Royal Egyptian Repertory,” American School of Oriental Research conference, Napa Valley (1996).

• “Cypriot Origins of the Ram-bearer Image,” Yale Graduate Symposium: Mediterranean Interactions, New Haven, (1996).

• “Dionysus in ‘The Frogs’ and ‘The Bacchae,’” Classical Association of the Midwest and South (1990).

• “Naukratis and the Greek Presence in Egypt,” Phi Alpha Theta Regional Meeting (1991).

• “ Augustus‘ Religious Reforms and the Arts of Propaganda,” Phi Alpha Theta Regional Meeting (1990).

Dr. Kantzios has also delivered popular talks on ancient myth, architecture, Hellenistic Afghanistan, and Roman history, life and letters to museum audiences, ElderHostel and school groups.