Monographs in print

The Art of Painting in Ancient Greece (Atlanta USA and Athens 2018: Lockwood Press and Kapon Editions)
This innovative, fresh look on Greek painting combines a standard, comprehensive survey of the material record – wall-paintings, painted panels, or slabs – with an in-depth exploration of the ways in which the Greeks themselves appreciated this demanding art. Also available in Greek.
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The Story of Lemnos. Myth – History – Heritage
(Athens 2022: Kapon Editions)
In the Story of Lemnos, the age-long history of a relatively unknown and somewhat ignored until recently Aegean Island turns into a fascinating narrative, a real chronicle of the place and its people. Also available in Greek.
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Greek Art and Archaeology
(Atlanta USA and Athens 2016: Lockwood Press and Kapon Editions) 

A new textbook on ancient Greek art. A survey of Greek archaeology from the collapse of the Mycenaean palaces to the subordination of the last Hellenistic kingdoms to Rome. Through concise, systematic covering of the main categories of classical monuments, the reader is taken to a tour of ancient Greece along the most spectacular period in its history, the 1st millennium BC. Architecture and city planning, sculpture, painting, pottery, metallurgy, jewelry, and numismatics are some of the areas covered. Also available in Greek.
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Οι αρχαιολογίες του κλασικού. Αναθεωρώντας τον εμπειρικό κανόνα (Αθήνα 2014: Εκδόσεις του Εικοστού Πρώτου)
A thorough theoretical account of classical archaeology as an academic discipline. In Greek.
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Το Πρόσφατο Μέλλον. Η κλασική αρχαιότητα ως βιοπολιτικό εργαλείο
  (Αθήνα 2016: Νεφέλη)
On the biopolitical uses of the classical past in contemporary Greece. In Greek.
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Αρχαιοπολιτική
(Αθήνα 2023: Εκδόσεις του Εικοστού Πρώτου)
A short study of Greek archaeopolitics. In Greek.
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