Manolis Manoledakis is Professor of Classical Archaeology at the International Hellenic University in Thessaloniki. His research concentrates on the archaeology and ancient history of the Black Sea as well as central Macedonia, the ancient topography and geography of these areas, ancient Greek religion, Greek mythology in its historical context, and ancient Greek painting and vase-painting. He is the director of two post-graduate programmes of the International Hellenic University’s School of Humanities, the MA in Black Sea and Eastern Mediterranean Studies and the MA in the Classical Archaeology and the Ancient History of Macedonia, as well as the director of the university’s excavation in Neo Rysio, near Thessaloniki.