- Dimitris Plantzos studied classical archaeology at Athens and Oxford.
- He is the author of Hellenistic Engraved Gems (Oxford 1999) and has published a number of articles and studies on Greek art and archaeology.
- In 2006 he published a Modern-Greek translation of the Imagines by Philostratus the Elder, with introduction and commentary (Katarti Editions), and in 2011 a textbook on classical art and archaeology (Kapon Editions; 2nd edition: 2016; also available in English, and in the US through Lockwood Press). His monograph Archaeologies of the Classical appeared in 2014 (Eikostos Protos Editions). In 2016 he published To Prosfato Mellon (The Recent Future) with Nefeli, and in 2018 The Art of Painting in Ancient Greece with Kapon and Lockwood.
- He has edited a number of collections of essays, including Classicism to Neo-Classicism; Essays dedicated to Gertrud Seidmann (with Martin Henig; Oxford 1999), A Singular Antiquity; Archaeology and Hellenic Identity in Twentieth-Century Greece (with Dimitris Damaskos; Athens 2008), Globalization and National Culture (Athens 2009; in Greek), A Companion to Greek Art (with Tyler J. Smith; Oxford 2012; paperback 2018).
- His recent research focuses on theoretical approaches to Classical culture and the history of Greek archaeology in the 19th and the 20th centuries (see here for pdfs).
- He has taught classical art and archaeology at the Universities of Oxford, Peloponnese, and Ioannina, the Hellenic Open University, and the International Center for Greek and Mediterranean Studies (DI.K.E.ME.S.) and served as curator for the Museum of Cycladic Art and the Ilias Lalaounis Jewellery Museum.
- He is co-director of the Argos Orestikon Archaeological and Ethno-Archaeological Project (since 2009: see here).
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