Claire BALANDIER
Claire Balandier is professor of ancient history at the University of Avignon (France). She is the head of the french archaeological mission at Paphos that she created in 2008 under the auspices of the Department of Antiquities of Cyprus and of the French Ministry of Europe and Foreign Affairs. As an historian and an archaeologist, specialized in the study of defensive policies of ancient Greek cities (she supervised different PhD thesis on this topic and studies the defences of Argolid). She was involved in different programmes on ancient city-walls in Albania (Apollonia), in Georgia (Vani) as well as in Amathous where she started to work in 1989, collaboring to the excavations and study of the city wall (monography co- written with Pierre Aupert, in press). Her doctoral thesis (defended in 1999) was on the fortifications and the defence of Cyprus from the Archaic Period to the Early Byzantine periods. She is a former member of the Ecole Biblique et Archéologique française à Jérusalem (2002-2004). She wrote her habilitation thesis on the defensive policies of the Persians and Ptolemies in Syria-Palestine (published in 2014) defended at the University of Paris Sorbonne in 2012 and was then qualified as Professor. In 2012, she organized, in collaboration with E. Raptou from the Department of Antiquities of Cyprus, the first international conference on Nea Paphos in Avignon (proceedings published in 2016) and a second one in Paphos in 2017. Her current researches focused on Hellenistic city foundations and on the maritime policy of the Ptolemies and Antigonids. In 2022, under the auspices of te Ecole française d’Athènes, she starts a five year programme on the city wall of Nea Paphos in collaboration with the Departement of Antiquities of Cyprus and the University of Cyprus.
Address: 54 avenue de la Trillade
84 000 Avignon
France
Address: 54 avenue de la Trillade
84 000 Avignon
France
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The Action falls under the Fourth Strategic Objective of the Operational Programme (OP) 'Education and Lifelong Learning’ (EdLL), entitled 'Supporting the Human Capital in order to Promote Research and Innovation' of the National Strategic Reference Framework (NSRF) 2007-2013 which is co-funded by the European Social Fund (ESF) and National Resources.
The website, entitled: Kyprios Character. History, Archaeology & Numismatics of Ancient Cyprus is currently under construction but you can leave your email and receive information as soon as it goes live.
The website will include by July 2015 a complete numismatic bibliography, a numismatic database including at least 1.500 Cypriot coins that were given permissions for online publication, together with more than 50 scientific essays on the history and archaeology of ancient Cyprus, written by external scientific collaborators from around the world.
The website will finally propose news, a calendar of events and links related to the history, archaeology and numismatics of ancient Cyprus.
32 papers in French, English and Italian
32 papers in English, French, Italian
vol. 2 Catalogue of the fortifications with an Appendice on Jerusalem and the fortifications of Transjordania and Norther Sinaï.