Dimitris Matsas

Dimitris Matsas

Dimitris G. Matsas is archaeologist, Honorary Director of Antiquities of the Greek Ministry of Culture. He is a graduate and a doctor from the Department of History-Archaeology of the National Kapodistrian University of Athens; his PhD dissertation is Η Σαμοθράκη και η Νεότερη Νεολιθική στο ΒΑ Αιγαίο (Samothrace and the Late Neolithic in the NE Aegean). He served from 1980 to 2014 at ΙΘ΄ Ephorate of Prehistoric and Classical Antiquities (Komotini) and he conducted (and still conducts) research (excavation, archaeological and etho-archaeological survey, work on the preservation and presentation of archaeological sites including the Sanctuary of the Great Gods) mostly on Samothrace, specializing in the later prehistory of the island and the NE Aegean (Late Neolithic, Early and Middle Bronze Age, Early Iron Age) and in the religion at the Sanctuary of the Great Gods. He has written extensively on various archaeological, ethno-archaeological, and cult topics connected with Samothrace and the Sanctuary of the Great Gods.

"At Eleusis, one realises, if never before, that there is no salvation in becoming adapted to a world which is crazy. At Eleusis, one becomes adapted to the cosmos. Outwardly Eleusis may seem broken, disintegrated with the crumbled past; actually, Eleusis is still intact and it is we who are broken, dispersed, crumbling to dust. Eleusis lives; lives eternally in the midst of a dying world."
Henry Miller

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