Birgitta Eder
Curriculum Vitae
Education:
1980-1986: University of Vienna (Ancient History and Classical Archaeology).
1986: MA Graduation (University of Vienna).
1988-1989: Postgraduate Studies University College London (with J.N. Coldstream).
1995: PhD University of Vienna
2018: Habilitation at the TU Darmstadt
Professional appointments:
1989-1994: Research Fellow at the Mykenische Kommission of the Austrian Academy of Sciences in Vienna
1997: Research Associate of the German Archaeological Institute (Olympia: EIA Pelopion).
1998-2000: APART-Fellowship of the Austrian Academy of Sciences.
2001-2007: Senior Research Fellow at the Mykenische Kommission of the Austrian Academy of Sciences in Vienna
2007-2013: Lecturer in Aegean Archaeology at the University of Freiburg.
2013-2019: Senior Research Fellow at the Institute of Oriental and European Archaeology of the Austrian Academy of Sciences
from 2019 head of the Athens Branch of the Austrian Archaeological Institute
Excavations and research in Kakovatos (Triphylia) of an Early Mycenaean site and its environs from 2009 onward.
Address: Austrian Academy of Sciences
Austrian Archaeological Institute
Athens Branch
Leoforos Alexandras 26
10683 Athens
Greece
Education:
1980-1986: University of Vienna (Ancient History and Classical Archaeology).
1986: MA Graduation (University of Vienna).
1988-1989: Postgraduate Studies University College London (with J.N. Coldstream).
1995: PhD University of Vienna
2018: Habilitation at the TU Darmstadt
Professional appointments:
1989-1994: Research Fellow at the Mykenische Kommission of the Austrian Academy of Sciences in Vienna
1997: Research Associate of the German Archaeological Institute (Olympia: EIA Pelopion).
1998-2000: APART-Fellowship of the Austrian Academy of Sciences.
2001-2007: Senior Research Fellow at the Mykenische Kommission of the Austrian Academy of Sciences in Vienna
2007-2013: Lecturer in Aegean Archaeology at the University of Freiburg.
2013-2019: Senior Research Fellow at the Institute of Oriental and European Archaeology of the Austrian Academy of Sciences
from 2019 head of the Athens Branch of the Austrian Archaeological Institute
Excavations and research in Kakovatos (Triphylia) of an Early Mycenaean site and its environs from 2009 onward.
Address: Austrian Academy of Sciences
Austrian Archaeological Institute
Athens Branch
Leoforos Alexandras 26
10683 Athens
Greece
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Die Testimonien erscheinen in Text und Übersetzung, mit philologisch-historischem Kommentar und Überlieferungsgeschichte. Es ergeben sich die antiken Vorstellungen von Entstehung, Ablauf, politischem Zweck und moralischem Wert der schon damals umstrittenen Einrichtung, die ursprünglich vor allem als Waffe der demokratischen Gleichheit gegen überheblich erscheinende Aristokraten diente."
B.Eder's contributions T 18-21. [Andokides] 4, gegen Alkibiades. Vorbemerkungen: Verfasserschaft und Abfassungszeit der Rede, 277-301. (zusammen mit H. Heftner) T 34. Aristoteles, Pol. 3, 1284 a 17-37 (ca. 347-335 v. Chr.): Ostrakismos dient zur Wiederherstellung demokratischer Gleichheit,421-427. T 27. Demosthenes 23, 204 f. (352/1 v. Chr.): Die Ostrakisierung des Themistokles wegen Überheblichkeit (470 v. Chr.),368-372. T 13. Aristophanes fr. 661 PCG III2 (ca. 416 v. Chr.?): Ostrakisierung eines Dummkopfs, vielleicht des Hyperbolos (416 v. Chr.),240-242. T 10. Aristophanes in Schol. Aristoph. Vesp. 947 a (427-414 v. Chr.): Die Ostrakisierung des Thukydides Melesiou (443 v. Chr.?),220-222."
Triphylia: Kakovatos and Kleidi-Samikon by Birgitta Eder
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and Messenia was defined by the river Alpheios in the north and the Neda River in the south, and was part of the territory of the Elean state in the Classical period. The study of finds and
sites of the Early Mycenaean period (LH I‒IIA) reveals that the region of Triphylia was connected to Messenia in the south on the level of cultural exchanges. This is the case for the distribution of Early Mycenaean pottery and tholos tombs as well as for the prestige items found in the tholos tombs of Kakovatos which is the most prominent Triphylian site during this period. Amber spacer plates, oriental star disk pendants of blue glass and gold jewelry in the shape of owls illustrate the connections among the elite burials of the early Mycenaean period of Messenia and the southern Greek Mainland.
Relations with Messenia appear to have been strong in the early Mycenaean period, and the palace of Pylos in Messenia may well have exercised some influence on the region of Triphylia
during the periods of LH IIIA‒B. The question of the northern boundary of the Pylos polity in respect to its administrative territory has been a matter of controversy. J. Chadwick and
J. Bennet suggested a boundary line along the Neda River or even further south, while others have argued for a larger area including part or all of Triphylia. Arguments depend on the interpretation of topographical names, and in fact a group of place names and ethnics in the Linear B-texts from Pylos appears to point to the geographical region of the Alpheios valley and its neighborhood. An analysis of the assessments of the nine districts of the Hither Province of Pylos may in fact suggest that the polity of Pylos was possibly larger and included at least parts of Triphylia. Rather than the Neda River the mountain ange of the Lapithos appears to have created something like a visible barrier.
LBA studies by Birgitta Eder