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Scholar

Anastasia Leriou

fl. 2001–2025

Scholar, active 2001–2025. Wrote with Giorgos Vavouranakis.

Life and work

  1. 2002
    Published 'Constructing an archaeological narrative: the Hellenization of Cyprus' (Stanford Journal of Archaeology 1, 1-32), a historiographical critique of the 'Hellenisation' narrative.

    Leriou & Vavouranakis 2025

  2. 2007
    Published 'The Hellenisation of Cyprus: tracing its beginnings (an updated version)' (Lyon, MOM online workshop of 29 Nov 2007); later cited by Vavouranakis & Leriou and others for the doubts about Mycenaean colonisation.

    Leriou & Vavouranakis 2025Kiely 2017

  3. 2008
    Wrote the research paper 'Demetrios Pierides and the archaeology of Cyprus'. Hardy cites it for the Pierides Foundation collection's 2008 inventory of about 4000 objects, about 800 of them added between June 1974 and 2008.

    Hardy 2014, pp. 11Recke 2018

  4. 2015
    Published 'The discovery of ancient Cyprus: archaeological sponsorship from the 19th century to the present day' in the AEGIS volume (Archaeopress), pp. 221-234.

    Leriou & Vavouranakis 2025

  5. 2025
    Co-wrote, with Giorgos Vavouranakis, chapter 21 of Empire & Excavation, on communicating archaeology in British-period Cyprus from Ohnefalsch-Richter to Dikaios.

    Leriou & Vavouranakis 2025

Connections

1 person

Scholarship

On Ancient Cyprus

5 pages

Sources

  1. 1.Anastasia Leriou, Giorgos Vavouranakis (2025). “Communicating archaeology in British-period Cyprus: from Ohnefalsch-Richter to Dikaios”. Empire & Excavation: Critical perspectives on archaeology in British-period Cyprus, 1878-1960. Sidestone Press.
  2. 2.A. Leriou (2002). “Constructing an archaeological narrative: the Hellenization of Cyprus”. Stanford Journal of Archaeology 1, 1-32.
  3. 3.A. Leriou (2007). “The hellenisation of Cyprus: tracing its beginnings (an updated version)”. Patrimoines culturels en Méditerranée orientale ... 1er atelier (29 novembre 2007): Chypre, une stratigraphie de l'identité, 1-33. Lyon.
  4. 4.A. Leriou (2008). “Demetrios Pierides and the archaeology of Cyprus”. 03ED375 Research Project. Online
  5. 5.A. Leriou (2015). “The discovery of ancient Cyprus: archaeological sponsorship from the 19th century to the present day”. AEGIS: essays in Mediterranean archaeology presented to Matti Egon by the scholars of the Greek Archaeological Committee UK, 221-234. Oxford, Archaeopress.
  6. 6.Anastasia Leriou, Giorgos Vavouranakis (2025). “Communicating archaeology in British-period Cyprus: from Ohnefalsch-Richter to Dikaios”. Empire & Excavation: Critical perspectives on archaeology in British-period Cyprus, 1878-1960. Sidestone Press.
  7. 7.Samuel Andrew Hardy (2014). “Using Open-Source Data to Identify Participation in the Illicit Antiquities Trade: A Case Study on the Cypriot Civil War”. European Journal on Criminal Policy and Research 20. Online
  8. 8.M. Recke (2018). Like Herrings in a Barrel: Max Ohnefalsch-Richter.
  9. 9.T. Kiely (2017). “Britain and the archaeology of Cyprus II: 1914 to the present day”. Cahiers du Centre d'Études Chypriotes 47, 253-310. Online