Antigoni Zournatzi is Director of Research in the Section of Greek and Roman Antiquity, Institute of Historical Research, at the National Hellenic Research Foundation. Her main areas of research are the interconnections of the ancient Greek world with the Near East, cross-cultural phenomena in archaic and classical Cyprus, and the Achaemenid Empire. She has authored a monograph on Persian Rule in Cyprus (2005) and a number of articles on subjects of ancient Greek, Achaemenid, Thracian and Cypriot history, historiography, archaeology, epigraphy and numismatics. She has co-edited Inscriptiones antiquae partis Thraciae quae ad ora maris Aegaei sita est (2005) and Ancient Greece and Ancient Iran: Cross-Cultural Encounters (2008 – “World Prize for the Book of the Year of the I.R. Iran,” 2010). The project Mapping Ancient Cultural Encounters: Greeks in Iran ca. 550 BC – ca. AD 650, which she presently coordinates, seeks to promote an integration of varied insights into ancient Iranian-Greek interactions in Iran emanating from the study of different types of source material, sites and periods.
Affiliation as of June 2025: Director of Research in the Section of Greek and Roman Antiquity of the Institute of Historical Research, National Hellenic Research Foundation.
Email: azourna@eie.gr
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