Publications

Books

1. 2024 Evangelidis, V., Tsiafaki, D., Mourthos, Y., & Karta, M. (Eds.). Mapping the past, plotting the future: GIS in archaeology, maturity, and implementation. Proceedings of the workshop organised by the AeGIS Athena Lab, at the British School at Athens, Thursday 30 March 2023. Journal of Greek Archaeology, 9. [pdf]

2. 2022 The Archaeology of Roman Macedonia: urban and rural environments. Oxbow publications ISBN: 9781789258011  [pdf]

3. 2018 (Proceedings). What's new in Roman Greece. Recent Work on the Greek Mainland and the Islands in the Roman Period. Proceedings of a conference held at Athens, 8-10 October 2015, V. di Napoli, F. Camia, V. Evangelidis, D. Grigoropoulos, D. Rogers, S. Vlizos, Mελετήματα 80, National Hellenic Research Foundation, Institute of Historical Research.  [pdf]

4. 2010. Η Αγορά των πόλεων της Ελλάδας από τη ρωμαϊκή κατάκτηση ως τον 3ο αι. μ.Χ. Θεσσαλονίκη 2010, University studio press (ISBN 978–960- 12-1939-4). [The Agoras of the Cities of Greece from the Roman Conquest to the 3rd Century AD].  [pdf]

Articles – Chapters

5. 2025 Evangelidis, V. Shaping the ancient urban landscape: Monumentality in the cities of Roman Greece and modern echoes. In A. Loukaki (Ed.), The Monumental, Routledge.

6. 2025 Ευαγγελίδης, Β. «Ρωμαϊκή Κομοτηνή: Ένα τοπίο αλλαγής και συνέχειας.» Στο Η Κομοτηνή και η περιοχή της: Από την αρχαιότητα έως την εγκατάσταση των προσφύγων της Μικρασιατικής Καταστροφής. Πρακτικά Διεθνούς Συνεδρίου για τα 100 χρόνια ελεύθερης Κομοτηνής, Κομοτηνή, 6–8 Μαΐου 2022, επιμέλεια Τζένη Κατσαρή-Βαφειάδη, Νεκτάριος Μουρδικούδης και Ελπίδα Περδίκη, 158–183. 

7.   2024 Evangelidis V., An archaeology of Catastrophe and Resilience in Aegean Thrace: environmental risks and human inflicted hazards in RaLaTh 4th, Proceedings of the Fourth International Roman and Late Antique Thrace Conference "Conflicts and Catastrophes in Roman and Late Antique Thrace" (Burgas, 12th – 16th October 2020), 11- 22.

8. 2024 Evangelidis V., “Macedonia” in B. Burrell (ed.) Wiley - Blackwell Companion to Roman Archaeology, 322 – 345.  [pdf] 

9. 2022 Evangelidis, Vassilis, and Mourthos, Yiannis. 2022. “Landscapes of Identities and the Identities of Landscapes: The Case of Aegean Thrace in the Roman Empire”. In Experiencing the Landscape in Antiquity 2. IL Convegno Internazionale Di Antichità Classiche, Univrsità Degli Studi Diroma ‘Tor Vergata’ 22-25 Novmbre 2021 (BAR S3107), edited by Armando Cristilli, Fabio. De Luca, Giokonda DiLuca and Alessia Gonfloni, 59-67. Oxford: BAR Publishing. [pdf]

10. 2022 Tsiafakis, D, Εvangelidis, V. Exploring rivers and ancient settlement in Aegean Thrace through spatial technology. in: Kefalidou, E. (Ed.), The Riverlands of Aegean Thrace: production, consumption and exploitation of the natural and cultural landscapes. River valleys and regional economies, Panel 2.4 / 2.7, Archaeology and Economy in the Ancient World 6, Heidelberg Propylaeum,pp. 45–61 doi.org/10.11588/propylaeum.871.c11424 (https://books.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/propylaeum/reader/download/871/871-29-98980-2-10-20220712.pdf )

11. 2021 Evangelidis, Vassilis.“The Impact of Rome on the Landscape of Aegean Thrace: an Archaeological Approach.” In Local Responses to the Roman Impact on the Greek Landscape, edited by Emeri Farinetti, 503-516. Athens: Annuario Suppl. 99.1. [pdf]

12. 2020 Evangelidis V., Building the Cityscapes of Roman Greece: Urban Armatures, THIASOS Rivista di archeologia e architettura antica, Supplementum IV – In solo provinciali. Sull’architettura delle province, da Augusto ai Severi, tra inerzie locali e romanizzazione 9, 301 – 320. Rome. [pdf]

13. 2020 Evangelidis V., Thracian” Identities in the time of Rome: Bessi and others. in Studia academica Šumenensia 7  (ed. I. Topalilov and S. Nedelcheva ), 38 – 67. Sofia.  [pdf]

14. 2019 Evangelidis V., Macellum and Makellos: specialized food markets of the Roman period in the cities of Greece, Hesperia 88.2, 283 - 318. [pdf]

15. 2018 Ευαγγελίδης Βασίλειος, Tο βάθρο των Αργεαδών στο βόρειο άνδηρο της Αγοράς: μία περίπτωση κατασκευασμένης συλλογικής μνήμης στη Ρωμαϊκή Θεσσαλονίκη» (The Argead’s pedestal at the North terrace of the agora at Thessaloniki: a case of inscribed memory) in Bonae Gratiae, Essays on Roman Sculpture in honour of professor Th. Stefanidou – Tiveriou, E. Voutiras, E. Papagianni, N. Kazakidi (eds.), 419 – 426. Θεσσαλονίκη  [pdf]

16. 2016 Dimitris Grigoropoulos, Valentina Di Napoli, Vasilis Evangelidis, Francesco Camia, Dylan Rogers, Stavros Vlizos 2016, Roman Greece and the 'mnemonic turn': Some critical remarks in M. Moser, D. Weidgennant, T. Dijkstra and I. Kuin (eds) Strategies of Remembrance in Greece under Rome, Proceedings of the International Conference held at the Netherlands Institute at Athens 19 – 21 Oct. 2016, 21 – 36.  [pdf]

17. 2014 Evangelidis V., Agoras and Fora: Developments in the central public space of the cities of Greece during the Roman period, The Annual of the British School at Athens 109, 335 – 356.  [pdf]

18. 2008 Evangelidis V., The Architecture of the Imperial Cult in the Agoras of the Greek cities, Εγνατία 12, 125 – 144.  [pdf]

Under publication

17. Twilight of the Gods: Greek Cult Places and the Transition to Late Antiquity, Proceedings of an International conference, held in  Swedish Institute Athens October 15-16 2021, eds. V, D. Grigoropoulos, . Evangelidis, J. Wallensten (forthcoming Opuscula).

18. Evangelidis V. “The Impact of the via Egnatia on the Settlement Patterns of Aegean Thrace: Orthodoxies and Considerations.” In Proceedings of the Third International Roman and Late Antique Thrace Conference “Roads, Communication and Mobility”, Komotini, 18 – 21st October 2018, edited by Chryssa Karadima, Domna Terzopoulou, Marina Tasaklaki, Maria Chryssaphi.

19. Evangelidis V. Greek cities in a Roman world: features, trends and changes of the urban landscape in Roman Greece στο Congress on Romanization 15 – 17/12/2017, Institut fur Klassische Archaologie, Heidelberg (υπό έκδοση Propylaeum publications.).

20. V. Evangelidis, Spaces of Economic Activities in the Markets of Greek Cities," in I. Zachilli, K. Panagopoulou (eds.), Exchanges – Transactions in Antiquity, Yearbook of the Faculty of Philosophy, University of Crete, Rethymno, Publications of the Faculty of Philosophy, University of Crete (2017)

Digital Archaeology, Culture & Education

23. 2024 Evangelidis, V., Theodoropoulou, H. G., Katsouros, V., & Kiourt, C.. AI-enabled art education: Unleashing creative potential and exploring co-creation frontiers. In Proceedings of the 16th International Conference on Computer Supported Education (CSEDU 2024) (Vol. 2, pp. 294–301). SCITEPRESS. https://doi.org/10.5220/0012747300003693 [pdf]

24. 2024 Evangelidis, V., & Tsiafaki, D. From GIS to game engines: Case studies in archaeology from North Greece. University Review of Archaeology, 7, 85–97. http://dx.doi.org/10.26247/aura7.3 [pdf]

25. 2024. Michailidou, N., Evangelidis, V., & Tsiafaki, D. ARENA EDU: Creating digital educational content for twenty-first-century archaeological visits. In K. Kalogirou & F. C. Dalziel (Eds.), Education via culture: Exploring cultural heritage applications in European educational contexts (pp. 121–132). Sidestone Press.

26. 2021 Kiourt C., Evangelidis V., AnCoins: Image-Based Automated Identification of Ancient Coins Through Transfer Learning Approaches. In: Del Bimbo A. et al. (eds) Pattern Recognition. ICPR International Workshops and Challenges. ICPR 2021. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 12667. Springer, Cham.  https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-68787-8_4 [https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-030-68787-8_4 ] [pdf]

27. 2017 Vasilis Evangelidis, Jeff Jones, Nikolaos Dourvas, Michail-Antisthenis Tsompanas, Georgios Ch. Sirakoulis, and Andrew Adamatzky, Physarum machines imitating a Roman road network: the 3D approach, Nature Scientific Reports  Article number: 010 doi:10.1038/s41598-017-06961-y.  [https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-017-06961-y ]  

28. 2016 Evangelidis, V., M.A. Tsompanas, G.Ch. Sirakoulis, and A. I. Adamatzky “Application of Slime Mould Computing on Archaeological Research,” in Α. Admatzky (ed.) Advances in Slime Mould Computing: Sensing and Computing with Slime Mould Springer 2016, pp.349 – 372. [pdf]

29. 2015 Evangelidis, V., Tsompanas, M.A., Sirakoulis, G., Adamatzky, A. (2015) “Slime mould imitates development of Roman roads in the Balkans” Journal of Archaeological Science Reports vol. 2, pp. 264 – 281. Slime Molds and Roman Roads - Archaeology Magazine  [pdf]

30. 2006 D. Tsiafakis and V. Evangelidis "GIS as an Interpretative Tool in Greek Archaeological Research" in Proceedings of the GIS Research UK 14th Annual Conference, GISRUK 2006, 5th-7th April, 2006, School of Geography, University of Nottingham, Great Britain, eds. G. Priestnall & P. Aplin, The University of Nottingham, 328-333. [pdf]

31. 2006. Tsiafakis, D., Tsompanopoulos, A., Pavlidis, G., Tsirliganis, N., Evangelidis, V. and Chamzas, C. (2006) Archiving Cultural Objects in the 21st century: Pottery from Karabournaki. Mattusch, C., Donohue, A.A. and Brauer, A.(eds.) Common Ground: archaeology, Art, Science, and Humanities, Proceedings of the XVI International Congress of Classical archaeology, Boston August 23-26, 2003, Oxford, 419-423.

32. 2004 D. Tsiafakis, V. Evangelidis, N. Tsirliganis, G. Pavlidis, C. Chamzas,"Karabournaki - Recording the past: The digitization of an Archaeological Site" in International Conference on Electronic Imaging &the Visual Arts EVA2004, 29 March - 2 April 2004, Florence, Italy, eds. V.Cappellini, J. Hemsley, Bologna 2004, 232-237.

33. 2004 D. Tsiafakis, V. Evangelidis, G. Pavlidis, N. Tsirrliganis, C. Chamzas "Digitization and Archiving of Archaeological Sites: The KARABOURNAKI CASE" Workshop on Novel Technologies for DigitalPreservation, Information Processing and Access to Cultural HeritageCollections, 21-22 Μαΐου 2004, Ορμύλια-Χαλκιδική.

34. 2002 – 2003 Ευαγγελίδης Β «Τρισδιάστατες απεικονίσεις – αποκαταστάσεις και εικονική πραγματικότητα στην αρχαιολογία», Εγνατία 7, 243 – 258. [pdf]

35. 2003 F. Arnaoutoglou, V. Evangelidis, G. Pavlidis, N. Tsirliganis, C. Chamzas "3D-GIS: New Ways In Digitization And Visualization Of Cultural Objects" in Proc. Workshop on Digitization of Cultural Content, Corfu, Greece, June 27-28, 2003.

Non published essays

36. 2019 Εvangelidis, V. – Tsirliganis N. “Gastronomy and Food choices in the multivariate/diverse landscapes of Xanthi: an overview through time”, A’ International Business Conference “Xanthi: Alternative Perspectives –from Gastronomic experiments to a sustainable and just growth”

37. 2015 Evangelidis V., Aspects of Monumentalization in the Agoras and Fora of Roman Greece: a brief overview. στο Funktionale Ausdifferenzierung öffentlicher Räume in antiken Städten (ΤΟPOI October 16-17 2015 Berlin).

38. 2014. Evangelidis V., “The metamorphosis of Lucius: an archaeological perspective of a donkey’s adventure in Roman Macedonia. (άρθρο στο Archaeology for the People by Joukowsky Institute September 2014).

39. 1998. Oι κυκλικοί πύργοι στις οχυρώσεις του ελλαδικού χώρου. Αδημοσίευτη Μεταπτυχιακή εργασία ΑΠΘ [The Circular Towers in the Fortifications of Greece. Unpublished Master's Thesis, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki."]

Lectures – Conferences

1)       11/2024 Agent-Based Simulation of Crowd Movements in Uneven Terrains: archaeological case studies Chairi Kiourt, Vassilis Evangelidis , Dimitris Grigoropoulos, Archaeo-Informatics 2024: Use and Challenges of AI in Archaeology

2)      11/2024 Mechanisms and Manifestations of memory and remembrance in Roman Macedonia in To Embrace and to Reject: Cultural Memories in Roman Macedonia (ca. 1st Century BC – 3rd Century AD) International Workshop https://www.sia.gr/en/articles.php?tid=1040

3)      9/2024 Vassilis Evangelidis (ATHENA Research Center), Lecture 1“Digital Archaeology on a Budget: Mapping and Analyzing Sites with Affordable Tools.”

Lecture 2 Connectivity, Identity, and the Built Environment in Roman Macedonia: A Critical Approach? in Macedonia in the Mediterranean Context: Ports, Connections, and Culture A Conference Held at Indiana University, Bloomington on September 6-7, 2024 Macedonia in the Mediterranean Context — Lindsey A. Mazurek

4)  1/2024 V. Evangelidis, New Research on Roman Greece (Colloquium) AIA 2024 Chicago. Τίτλος: The Architecture of the Roman Province of Macedonia: Unique Characteristics and the Impact of the Empire Wide Architecture, https://www.archaeological.org/programs/professionals/annual-meeting/prelim-program/

5)      5/9/2023. Grigoropoulos, D. & V. Evangelidis, Modelling regional dynamics and Roman pottery supply using network analysis and GIS: the sanctuary of Kalapodi in central Greece as a case study in 7th European Conference on Social Networks (EUSN 2023)  Centre for Methodology and Statistics of Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Ljubljana, 4-8 September 2023 (Session CfP: Networks in history and archaeology) https://zenodo.org/records/10160144 [pdf]  

6)      Evangelidis, V. (2023, Νovember 3). City and Cult in Roman Macedonia: Exploring the religious landscape of Macedonian cities through archaeological insights. Fall 2023 Langford Conference: City & Cult in Roman Greece, Florida State University. Department of Classics, Florida State University. https://zenodo.org/records/10199781

7)      Evangelidis, V. (2023, Νοvember 11) ".ες τήν Εύρώπην εκ της 'Ασίας τήν γνώριμον όδόν": Τhe archaeology of Via Egnatia. Roman Komotini: sarcophagus and miliaria, Archaeological Museum of Komotini. Ephorate of Antiquities of Rhodope. https://zenodo.org/records/10169139

8)      03/2023 V. Evangelidis, I. Mourthos, M, Karta, From Intra site to Macro Scale GIS analysis. The work of AeGIS Lab στο Mapping the Past, Plotting the Future. GIS in Archaeology, maturity & implementation. International Workshop, 30th of March, Athens, British School at Athens

9)      02/2023 V. Evangelidis, Modelling the flow of goods in Roman Lokris στο LCP-Schulung Cluster 8

10)   10/2022 V. Evangelidis, I. Mourthos, “Aspects of reuse and monumentality in early imperial Macedonia: Evidence and methodological considerations”, Reframing antique sculptures in Roman Greece, International workshop, Danish Institute at Athens, October 20th– 21st, 2022

11)   05/2022 Ρωμαϊκή Κομοτηνή, ένα τοπίο αλλαγής και συνέχειας, στο «Η Κομοτηνή και η περιοχή της: Από την αρχαιότητα έως την εγκατάσταση των προσφύγων της μικρασιατικής καταστροφής»

12)   11/2021 Landscapes of identities and the identities of landscapes: the case of Aegean Thrace in the Roman Empire (μαζί με Γ. Μούρθο) στο "Experiencing the Landscape in Antiquity" 22 – 24 Νοεμβρίου ‘Antichità Classiche eLoro Fortuna’ University of Rome 'Tor Vergata'.

13)  10/2021 Rural Sanctuaries in Macedonia during Late Roman Times στο Twilight of the Gods (15 – 16/10) συνέδριο στο οποίο είμαι μέλος τη οργανωτικής επιτροπής.

14)   05/2021 Aegean Thrace in the Hellenistic and Roman Periods. Lecture within the framework of the postgraduate program of the Department of Balkan Studies at the Democritus University of Thrace

15)  12/2020 ARENA EDU: creating digital educational content for twenty-first-century archaeological visits στο Education VIA Culture: An International Conference on the applications of Cultural Heritage in Education (Θεσσαλονίκη, Βυζαντινό Μουσείο Δεκ. 2020 with N. Michailidou and D. Tsiafaki).

16)   10/2019 The Impact of Rome on the landscape of Aegean Thrace: an archaeological approach in Local responses to the Roman impact on the Greek landscape, International Workshop SAIA (org. E. Farinnetti).

17)    6/2019 Gastronomy and Food choices in the multivariate/diverse landscapes of Xanthi:an overview through time (μαζί με Ν. Τσιρλιγκάνη) στο A’ Διεθνές επαγγελματικό συνέδριο «Ξάνθη: Εναλλακτικές Προοπτικές –από τις γαστρονομικές αναζητήσεις στη βιώσιμη και ηθική ανάπτυξη» American Farm School & Rutgers University.

18)   4/2019 Shaping the ancient urban landscape: monumentality in the cities of Roman Greece and modern echoes στο Διεθνές Συνέδριο On Monumentality Athens, Μουσείο Ακροπόλεως, 4-6 Απριλίου 2019.

19)   10/2018 Evaluating the impact of via Egnatia on Aegean Thrace during the imperial period: orthodoxies and considerations στο Roman and Late Antique Thrace Conference (Κομοτηνή 17 – 22 Oct 2018).

20)  5/2018 (with D. Tsiafaki). Exploring rivers and ancient settlement in Aegean Thrace through spatial technology στο 19th International Congress of Classical Archaeology Cologne/Bonn 22 – 26 May 2018.

21)   12/2017. Greek cities in a Roman world: features, trends and changes of the urban landscape in Roman Greece στο Congress on Romanization 15 – 17/12/2017, Institut fur Klassische Archaologie, Heidelberg.

22)  11/2017. Macellum and Makellos: specialized food markets of the Roman period in the cities of Greece, ομιλία στο μεταπτυχιακό πρόγραμμα του ΕΚΠΑ (Χ. Κανελλόπουλος).

23)  21/10/2016. Roman Greece and the 'mnemonic turn': Some critical remarks στο NIA Strategies of Remembrance in Greece under Rome International Conference που διοργανώθηκε από το Ολλανδικό Ινστιτούτο Netherlands Institute at Athens 19 – 21 Οκτ. 2016.  

24)  02/2016. Agoras and Fora. Developments in the central public space of the cities of Greece during the imperial period in Greece during the Roman period, 34th Seminar organized by the Association of Licensed Tourist Guides 18- 20/02/2016.  

25)  3.10/2015. Aspects of Monumentalization in the Agoras and Fora of Roman Greece στο Funktionale Ausdifferenzierung öffentlicher Räume in antiken Städten (ΤΟPOI October 16-17 2015 Berlin). 

26)  05/2011. The ancient Agora of Thessaloniki, ομιλία στο πρόγραμμα Τhe Art of Rome in the Provinces (Joukowsky Institute -Getty Institute) που οργανώθηκε από την S. Alcock.

27)   4.12/2010. The Roman planned city and its basic features, Archaeological Society of Athens in the series of lectures School of Art. Roman art and Architecture.