Aliki Samara - Kaoufman

Alice Samara-Kaufman studied History and Archaeology at the University of Athens and in Paris at the Sorbonne, where she completed her doctoral dissertation on the geometric ceramics of the Louvre. This work has been published in two volumes by the Academie des Inscriptions et Belles Lettres: Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum, France, fasc.25 Louvre 16, Ceramique geometrique attique (Paris 1972) and Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum, France, fasc.27 Louvre 18, Ceramique geometrique non attique (Paris 1976). In the 1970s, she served as an assistant to Professor and academic Pierre Devambez, director of the Department of Greco-Roman Antiquities at the Louvre. For two decades, she taught the History of Ancient Greek Ceramics at the Louvre School. She has participated in international archaeology conferences and has published articles and studies on vase painting and iconography in French and Greek scientific journals. She has also contributed numerous entries to the Lexicon Iconographicum Mythologiae Classicae (LIMC). Since 1986, she has been a member of the Odyssey project team conducting excavations in Ithaca, and since 1989, a member of the Archaeological Society at Athens. As a researcher at the French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS), she participates in the activities of the LIMC team and is a scientific collaborator in the Department of Greek, Roman, and Etruscan Antiquities at the Louvre.