Athanasio Papalexandrou

Athanasio Papalexandrou is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Art and Art History at the University of Texas at Austin's College of Liberal Arts. He earned his Ph.D. from Princeton University and specializes in Greek Art and Archaeology, with a focus on interconnections between Greece and the Near East, Cypriot archaeology, and the role of visual culture in preliterate societies.

• Research Interests: Early Greek Visual Culture, Greek Sanctuaries, Art as Communication
• Affiliations: MES & MELC Graduate Studies Committee

His research includes excavations at Polis tis Chysochou, Cyprus, examining Cypro-Archaic public buildings. He has published works such as The Visual Poetics of Power: Warriors, Youths, and Tripods in Early Greece (2005) and is currently working on a book about monsters in Early Greek arts and rituals.

Teaching: Courses include The Parthenon Through The Ages (UGS 302), Art and Archaeology of the Ancient Near East (ARH 325/MES 342), and graduate seminars on Early Greece and the Eastern Mediterranean (11th-6th centuries BCE).

• Awards: Research Fellow at Center for Hellenic Studies