 Stylianos Spyridakis
Professor
E: svspyridakis@ucdavis.edu
T: 530-752-2104
O: 4205 SSH
| Academic Biography | | Prof. Spyridakis was born in Crete and educated in Greece (Univ. of Athens Law School),
Germany (Walter Lowey Fellow, Heidelberg) and the United States where he earned a Ph.D. in ancient history at
UCLA under the guidance of Truesdell Brown. He taught at UCSB and Nebraska,
Lincoln (one year) before coming to UC Davis in 1967. In 1979 he was invited by the
Greek Ministry of Education to head and organize the History Dept. at the
newly established University of Crete. He returned to UC Davis but
continued to serve the University of Crete as member of the Board of
Electors responsible for academic appointments. A recipient of the Academic
Senate's Distinguished Teaching Award, the Excellence in Education Award and Outstanding Faculty Advisor Award, he has taught literally tens of thousands of
students, written six books and numerous scholarly articles in Greek,
French, German, Italian and American scholarly journals. Since 1988 Prof.
Spyridakis has served as Trustee of the "Vryonis Center for the Study of
Hellenism," and member of its Academic Committee and Editorial Board. The
Center has sponsored and organized several international conferences at
UCLA, UCB, Greece, Australia, and has published 30 volumes of
scholarly books on Hellenism through the millennia. He is currently a member of the Scientific Council of the Centre International de Recherches Helleniques. Prof. Spyridakis and
his wife, Klea Bertakis, M.D., M.P.H., chair of UCD's School of Medicine
Dept. of Family and Community Medicine have two sons, Vasilios and
Demetrios and spend summers in their ancestral island of Crete.
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| Research Interests | | The Ancient World, Crete and the Aegean from Minoan times to the Present |
| Selected Publications | The Voice of the People: Mantinades of Crete. Modern Greek Research Series, vol. 12, 2004. Mantinades: Selected Love Distichs of Crete, Series, Hellenism - Ancient - Medieval - Modern, vol. 23, 1997. Ancient Greece: Documentary Perspectives with B. Nystrom, Second Edition, Kendall-Hunt, 1997 Ancient Rome: Documentary Perspectives (with B. Nystrom) Kendall-Hunt, Second Edition 1995 Cretica: Studies on Ancient Crete. Series Hellenism - Ancient, Medieval, Modern vol. 10, 1992 |
| Courses Taught | | 111A: The Ancient Near East, 111B: Ancient Greece, 111C:
Rome, 102A: Undergraduate Seminar, 201A: Ancient History Graduate Seminar, 299: Readings. |
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