Alexia Petsalis-Diomidis

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  • 2007. "Landscape, Transformation, and Divine Epiphany", in Swain, S., Harrison, S. & Elsner, J. (eds.) Severan Culture. Cambridge University Press: 250-289 40.
  • 2010. Truly Beyond Wonders: Aelius Aristides and the cult of Asklepios: Ancient Culture and Representation Series. Oxford University Press.
  • 2016. "Between the Body and the Divine: Healing Votives from Classical and Hellenistic Greece", in Weinryb, I. (ed.). Ex-Voto. Votive Giving Across Cultures. Bard Graduate Center: 49-75.
  • 2018. "Engagements with ancient Greek vases in Ottoman and revolutionary Greece c.1800-1833", in Richardson, E. (ed) Classics in Extremis: The Edges of Classical Reception. Bloomsbury Academic.
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    Alexia Petsalis-Diomidis

    FSA
    OccupationClassical scholar
    Academic background
    Alma mater University of London
    Thesis  (2001)