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SECTORS

The Department of History and Archaeology is composed of the following four sectors:

• Sector of Ancient and Medieval History 
• Sector of Modern History 
• Sector of Archaeology and Art History 
• Sector of Folklore Studies

 Presentation/Description of the Disciplines

1. Sector of Ancient and Medieval History (e-mail:This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.)

• Ancient Greek History: history of ancient Greece from the prehistoric period until the 3rd century AD.
• Epigraphy: study of ancient Greek inscriptions as key historical sources.
• Roman History: history of the Roman world from the founding of Rome to the Imperial times.
• Byzantine History: history of institutions, political, social, economic and intellectual history of the Byzantine state from the 4th to the 15th century AD and its relations with the Arab world.
• Balkan History: social history of the balkan people and the establishment of the Balkan States (6th-15th century). The medieval past in the Balkan states (19th-20th century).
• Medieval European History: history, economy and institutions of Medieval Europe until the 15th century AD.

2. Sector of Archaeology and Art History ( e-mail:This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.)

• Prehistoric Archaeology: theory, methodology and interdisciplinarity. Prehistory and Proto-history. Overview of Paleolithic, Neolithic and Bronze Age (Cycladic Minoan, Mycenaean cultures).
• Classical Archaeology: Early Iron Age, Archaic, Classical, Hellenistic and Roman periods.
• Byzantine Archaeology: Early Christian period, Byzantine period, Post-Byzantine Archaeology and Art.
• History of Modern Art: From the Renaissance to the present day.

3. Sector of Modern History(http://pms.hist-arch.uoi.gr/, e-mail: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.)

Research, study and teaching of modern Greek, Balkan, European and World History divided into two sections:

• Modern Greek History: political, social and economic history of Modern Hellenism, as well as the history of institutions, from the period of Venetian and Ottoman rule to the organization and operation of the modern Greek state from the early years to the modern era.
• Modern European and World History: all aspects of Europe's modern history, important events and issues of contemporary world history.

4. Sector of Folklore Studies (e-mail: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.)

• Theoretical directions of Folklore
• Social-economic structures and transformations
• Material life and culture. Pre-industrial technology and techniques
• Economic realities and collective mentalities in traditional society during the period of Ottoman rule
• Rural society and culture
• Clothing
• Musicology
• Oral history and collective memory
• Ethnic and national identities in the Balkans
• Genders and identities
• Ethical Folklore
• Popular literature

Museums

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MUSEUMS

The Folklore Museum and Archive

The Folklore Museum and Archive was founded with the Presidential Decree no. 89, issue no. 30/3-12-1977, though the roots of its foundation can be traced back to the period 1964-1969 when the first Chair of Folklore of the Faculty of Philosophy, Dimitrios Loukatos created the first collection.

The Museum belongs to the Sector of Folklore Studies of the Department of History and Archeology of the University of Ioannina and supports teaching and research. At the same time, it also attempts to open up to the local community, carrying out wider educational and cultural actions. The Museum is therefore open to the public and particularly welcomes primary and secondary school students.

The collections of the Folklore Museum are exhibited in an area of ca. 200 sq.m. at the campus of the University, in the Faculty of Philosophy, opposite the amphitheatre Sotiris Dakas.

For facilitating the relevant teaching and research, all material has been inserted since 2003 into a specially designed database.

Website:  http://folklore-museum.uoi.gr
Contact informaton: Fanis Dasoulas (+30 2651005192, email: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.)

Museum of Casts

The Museum of Casts belongs to the Department of History and Archeology of the University of Ioannina (ΠΔ 89/3.2.1977). It is located on the ground floor of the building of the Faculty of Philosophy, next to the amphitheatre Sotiris Dakas.

The creation of the Teaching Collection at the Museum of Casts intended primarily to mitigate the remote location of the epirote University from the Greek archaeological museums. Therefore, in 1967, the Emeritus Professor of Classical Archaeology Sotirios Dakaris formed the first collection of copies of representative ancient Greek statues of all periods. Lila Maragou, emeritus Professor of Classical Archaeology, succeeded into enriching the collection by purchasing casts by the Greek Ministry of Culture until 2000. New additions are made almost every year since then.

Except for copies of ancient statues, the collections of the museum also include original archaeological objects, made of clay or stone, vases and tools. The Museum of Casts thus functions as a laboratory for the processing and study of archaeological material. These objects are donations, made by the Ephorates of Antiquities of Achaia and Larisa, the Thasos Archaeological Museum, or originate from private collections.

Most of the sculptures in the collection are exact copies of their Archaic, Classical and Hellenistic prototypes, exhibited today in National Archaeological Museum, the New Acropolis Museum and the Kerameikos Museum in Athens, while one statue is a copy from the Louvre Museum in Paris. The Cycladic figurines and the sculptural work of the Mycenaean era are also represented.

The Greek sculpture of the collection is divided chronologically into:

• Archaic sculpture, represented by kouroi and korai (from cemeteries and sanctuaries), as well as grave stelai,
• Bronze statues of the Severe style (Charioteer, Poseidon/Zeus of Artemision),
• Classical sculpture, including the Spearbearer by Polykleitos, the Youth of Marathon, the head of Hermes of Praxitelis, numerous grave stelai (Hegesos, Hairedimos and Lykeas, Dexileos) as well as votive reliefs (the large Eleusinian relief). A plaque from the north side of the Parthenon frieze (horsemen) and a plaque from the thorakion of the Temple of Athena Nike are also included in the collection.
• Hellenistic sculpture represented by Aphrodite of Melos, marble heads of portraits of poets and philosophers (Sappho, Menandros, Demosthenes).

Original objects form the second assemblage of the Museum of Casts. The diversity of their material is of particular importance. Examples of paleolithic stone tools from Epirus date to the prehistoric era: nuclei, fragments, blades and tools made of stone, as well as samples of Mesolithic tools. Sherds of Neolithic and Bronze Age pottery and figurines are also present.

Sherds of clay vases extending from the Mycenaean period to the later Hellenistic era beong to the Museum. Fragments of Archaic Corinthian, Attic black-figured vases, and Hellenistic vases, as well as plain pottery are worth noting. The collection also includes other types of objects, like rooftiles, loomweights, figurines and grinding stones.

The training of the students at the Museum of Casts is absolutely necessary. In the frame of seminars and special courses, students have the opportunity to practice methods of approaching artefacts through exact copies, while being into direct contact with the material of the ancient objects. They are also trained in the classification, cataloguing, study and dating of original archaeological material, while learning archaeological photography and drawing.

Facilities

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FACILITIES

Department Secretariat

It provides to students all administrative support and necessary information during the entire period of their studies, and it executes the decisions of the Departmental General Assembly. It is housed in the Transitional Administration Building.

Office Hours: 10.00 am to 13.00 pm

 Tel. +30 2651007231,+30 2651007232,+30 2651007180

 email: gramisar@uoi.gr

  Laboratories

• Laboratory of Byzantine History (Sector of Ancient and Medieval History)
• Laboratory of Archaeology (Sector of Archaeology and History of Art)
• Laboratory of Folklore Studies (Sector of Folklore Studies)
• Laboratory of Pre-industrial Technology (Sector of Folklore Studies)
• Laboratory of Oral History and Life Stories (Sector of Modern History & Sector of Folklore Studies)
• IT Laboratory (for both professors and students)

Museums

• Museum of casts and copies of works of ancient Greek art
• Folklore Museum and Archive
• Museum Press

 All museums are housed in the building of the Faculty of Philosophy at the University Campus.

 Library

The Department of History and Archaeology has a rich collection of monographs and collective volumes in both Greek and foreign lamguages, as well as of academic periodicals in printed and electronic form. These, together with the series of rare publications, donated to the Department by a number of institutions and individuals (Metropolis of Koritsas of Eulogiou Kourila, Sofia Antoniadou, Dimokratia Iliadou, Eurydice Kontoleon, Dimitris Loule, Konstantinos Mertzios, Dimitrios Petropoulos, Christos Pratsikas, Ioannis Chanakas, Serafim Charitonidis, etc.) as well as book purchases, are housed in the University’s Library, which can be freely accessed by all members of the university community.

The Department has transferred to the Library the following archives:

• Excavation Archive “Sotiris Dakaris” (Sector of Archaeology)
• Archives of the Court of Appeal and the IoanninaMortgage Office (notarial documents, church and monastery archives, the archive of the hospital “ELPIS” in Athens, family archives, rich photographic and other printed material, including diaries, Greek and international newspapers.

 Τhe different sectors of the Department of History and Archaeology house the following archives:

 • Folklore Archive with primary, unpublished handwritten material from all over Greece and Cyprus (Sector of Folklore Studies)

 • Archive of Ethno-Local and Cultural Associations (Sector of Folklore Studies)

 • Musicological Archive (Sector of Folklore Studies)

The Department (Video)

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THE DEPARTMENT (Video)