Dimitri Nakassis

Dimitri Nakassis is an American classicist and archaeologist, and is a professor at the University of [Colorado Boulder]. He is also co-director of the Western Argolid Regional Project. He was awarded a MacArthur fellowship in 2015.

Life

He graduated from the University of Michigan with a B.A., and from the University of Texas with a Ph.D.

Work

Nakassis's work focuses on the archaeology and scripts of Mycenaean Greece, in particular the administrative practices of the state. His findings challenge assumptions that the palace economy of Mycenaean Greece had little in common with the democratic city-states of Ancient Greece. Since 2013, he has co-directed a project using Polynomial [texture mapping|Reflectance Transformation Imaging] to create detailed 3D images of the Linear B tablets found in the Palace of Nestor.