About Dimitri Nakassis
Born 1975. Dimitri Nakassis is an archaeologist and university teacher.
Dimitri Nakassis (born 1975) is an American classicist and archaeologist, and is a professor at the University of Colorado Boulder. He is also co-director of the Western Argolid Regional Project. He was awarded a MacArthur fellowship in 2015.
Life He graduated from the University of Michigan with a B.A., and from the University of Texas with a Ph.D.
Work Nakassis's work focuses on the archaeology and scripts of Mycenaean Greece, in particular the administrative practices of the state. His findings challenge assumptions that the palace economy of Mycenaean Greece had little in common with the democratic city-states of Ancient Greece.
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