Efthymios Rizos completed his undergraduate and graduate studies at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki in 2005 and earned his doctorate from the University of Oxford in 2011. From 2011 to 2014, he was a research fellow at Koç University, and at the Netherlands Institute in Turkey. His research has focused on urbanism and cultural history in the Balkans, Greece and Anatolia during Late Antiquity. He is preparing his doctoral thesis for publication as a monograph entitled Cities, Architecture and Society in the Eastern and Central Balkans During Late Antiquity (c. AD 250-600).
Efthymios’ main role in the Cult of Saints project is to collect and process Greek textual sources, and archaeological and iconographic evidence from the Greek speaking Christian East. He is particularly interested in the development of shrines and pilgrimage centres, and in their influences upon and from the production of hagiography. He is also interested in the impact of the cult of saints upon the Greek language and in the ways its ideas and practices were codified, transforming the usage and meaning of older words, formulae and expressions.
Publications:
DPhil Thesis
- Cities, Architecture and Society in the Central and Eastern Balkans during Late Antiquity (c. AD 250-600), Oxford University 2011.
Edited Volume
- with A. Ricci (eds.) (forthcoming), New Cities in Late Antiquity: Documents and Archaeology, Proceedings of a workshop in Istanbul 2013. Bibliothèque de l’Antiquité Tardive, Turnhout.
Articles
- (forthcoming) ‘Cults, Narratives and Sacred Topography in Philippi and Patrae from Paganism to Christianity,’ in C. Kotsifou and E. Iricinschi (eds.), Coping with Change: Proceedings of a Colloquium at the Van Leer Jerusalem Institute 2013, Studien und Texte zu Antike und Christentum, Tübingen.
- (forthcoming) ‘Remarks on the logistics and infrastructure of the annona militaris in the Eastern Mediterranean and the Aegean,’ Antiquité Tardive
- (forthcoming) ‘Centres of the Late Roman military supply network in the Balkans: a survey of horrea,’ Jahrbuch des Römisch-Germanischen Zentralmuseums
- (forthcoming) ‘New Cities in the Balkans and Anatolia under the Tetrarchy and Constantine,’ in E. Rizos and A. Ricci (eds.), New Cities in Late Antiquity: Documents and Archaeology, Proceedings of a workshop in Istanbul 2013. Bibliothèque de l’Antiquité Tardive, Turnhout.
- (forthcoming) ‘Peloponnesos,’ Reallexikon für Antike und Christentum
- (forthcoming) 32 entries for the Oxford Dictionary of Late Antiquity
- (forthcoming) ‘Philoktistēs: the Emperor as Builder in the Balkan and Anatolian Provinces in the 5th and 6th Centuries,’ in Y. A. Marano (ed.), Rulers and the Patronage of Buildings in the 5th- and 6th-c. Mediterranean: Proceedings of a Workshop at Oxford University 2011, Oxford.
- (2012) ‘The making of a Christian society in the late antique civil diocese of Macedonia: archaeological evidence on Christianization from the territory of modern Greece,’ in O. Heinrich-Tamaszka, N. Krohn and S. Ristow (eds.), Christianisierung Europas: Entstehung, Entwicklung und Konsolidierung im archäologischen Befund, Regensburg, 319 – 342
- (2011) ‘The late-antique walls of Thessalonica and their place in the development of eastern military architecture,’ Journal of Roman Archaeology 24, 450 – 468
Email: efthymios.rizos@history.ox.ac.uk