Dr Nicolette Pavlides
Lecturer in Greek Art and Archaeology
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- Email: npavlid2@ed.ac.uk
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School of History, Classics and Archaeology, William Robertson Wing, Old Medical School, Teviot Place
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Background
Raised in Limassol, Cyprus I studied Classics in New York and the UK. I received my PhD from the University of Edinburgh. Before joining the University of Edinburgh, I taught at King's College London and Trinity College Dublin.
Research summary
Areas of Expertise
My research focuses on the local religious tradition of Sparta, in particular hero cults, as well as, more widely, on the role of sanctuaries in the relationship between Sparta and the perioikic communities living in Laconia and Messenia. I am interested in the interplay between religion and cultural memory, local identity, warfare, and politics in the Archaic and Classical Peloponnese.
2023 The Hero Cults of Sparta: Local Religion in a Greek City. London: Bloomsbury Academic.
forthcoming 2025 ‘The Sanctuary of Apollo Hyperteleatas in Laconia: A Regional Approach’, to forthcoming to American Journal of Archaeology (accepted for publication).
forthcoming 2025. ‘“Memoryscape” at the Menelaion, Sparta’, forthcoming , forthcoming to Hesperia (accepted for publication).
2021 ‘Heroes, Politics, and the Problem of Ethnicity in Archaic Sparta’, Kernos 34, 9-53.
2020 ‘Non-Spartans in the Lakedaimonian Army: the Evidence from Laconia’, Historia 69:2, 154-84.
2018a ‘The Sanctuaries of Apollo Maleatas and Apollo Tyritas in Laconia: Religion in Spartan -Perioikic Relations’, Annual of the British School at Athens 113, 279-305.
2018b ‘Catalogue of Cult-Sites in Laconia’, Annual of the British School at Athens 113, Supplementary Material, 1-17.
2011 ‘Worshipping Heroes: Civic Identity and the Veneration of the Communal Dead in Archaic Sparta’ in H. Cavanagh, W. Cavanagh and J. Roy (eds.), Honouring the Dead in the Peloponnese. Proceedings of the Conference held in Sparta on the 23rd-25th of April 2009, 551-76 (Nottingham, 2011).