E mavrofridis@geo.aegean.gr
I was born and raised in the city of Kavala, on the northern coast of the Aegean Sea. I studied Archaeology (integrated Master of Arts) at Sofia University St. Kliment Ohridski and Economics at the Technological Educational Institute of Piraeus (now University of West Attica). I also have a diploma at the beekeeping from the Institute of Agricultural Sciences in Athens.
I have been employed at the Ephorate of Underwater Antiquites of the Hellenic Ministry of Culture and have participated in more than 30 undersea archaeological excavations and researches in the Aegean, the Ionian and the Black Sea. I have also taken part in numerous excavations on land.
In the last twelve years, Ι have been studying issues relating to archaeology, ethnography, history and the geography of beekeeping. As part of my research, I have practiced experimental beekeeping with copies of ancient ceramic beehives, as well as with traditional ones. I participate (2018-2019) in a research program of the Hellenic Ministry of Rural Development and Food, where experimental beekeeping will be carried out with copies of ancient Greek, Byzantine and traditional Greek ceramic beehives.
Since October 2018, in the framework of my PhD at the Laboratory of Biogeography & Ecology, Department of Geography, University of the Aegean, I am trying to consolidate the history of beekeeping in Greece vis-à-vis the evolution of the methodologies employed through the ages.
PUBLICATIONS
Mavrofridis G. 2018. Urban beekeeping in Antiquity. Ethnoentomology 2: 52-61.
Mavrofridis G. 2018. Παραδοσιακή Μελισσοκομία (Traditional beekeeping). Αρχαιολογία & Τέχνες /Archaeology & Arts, 128: 66-79.
Mavrofridis G. 2018. Μελισσοκομία στον ελληνορωμαϊκό κόσμο – οι κυψέλες (Beekeeping in the Graeco-Roman world – Beehives). Αρχαιολογία & Τέχνες /Archaeology & Arts, 127: 100-111.
Mavrofridis G. 2018. Stone beehives on the islands of the eastern Mediterranean. In Hadjina F., Mavrofridis G., and Jones R. (eds) Beekeeping in the Mediterranean - From Antiquity to the Present, Nea Moudania, pp.126-135.
Mavrofridis G. 2017. Traditional wax and honey presses of southeastern Europe. Ethnoentomology 1: 74-83.
Mavfrofridis G. 2017. Οι παραδοσιακές κυψέλες κινητής κηρήθρας (Traditional movable-comb beehives). Πελοποννησιακά Γράμματα, 2: 299-344.
Mavrofridis G. 2017. Η παραδοσιακή μελισσοκομία της Θάσου (Traditional beekeeping of Thassos). Θασιακά, 18: 267-299.
Mavrofridis G. 2015. Petronius’s Satyricon and the bees of Attica. Bee World 92(4): 119-120.
Mavrofridis G. 2015. Dung made beehives. Bee World 92(3): 85-86.
Harissis H. V., Mavrofridis G. 2013. “Mad honey” in medicine from antiquity to the present. Archives of Hellenic Medicine, 30(6): 730-733.
Mavrofridis G. 2013. Experimental archaeology: Beekeeping with copies of ancient upright hives. Bee World, 90(4): 82-84.
Mavrofridis G. 2013. Κυψέλες κινητής κηρήθρας στην αρχαία Ελλάδα (Movable-comb beehives in ancient Greece). Αρχαιολογική Εφημερίς / Archaiologikē Ephēmeris, 152: 15-27.
Harissis H.V., Mavrofridis G. 2012. A 17th century testimony on the use of ceramic top-bar hives. Bee World, 89(3): 56-58.
Mavrofridis G., Anagnostopoulos I.T. 2012. The first top bar hive with fully interchangeable combs. American Bee Journal, 152(5): 483-485.
