Recent Research at Mt. Lykaion and the Creation of the Parrhasian Heritage Park of the Peloponnesos

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Recent research at Mt. Lykaion, both at the southern summit of the mountain at the Sanctuary of Zeus and in the lower mountain meadow at the Sanctuary of Pan , is leading to new understandings about cult practices at this ancient site.  Work towards the creation of the Parrhasian Heritage Park of the Peloponnesos, Greece’s first large scale national heritage park, continues in order to unify and protect aspects of western Arcadia, northern Messenia and western Elis, around the Neda River valley.

David Gilman Romano, Ph.D., is Nicholas and Athena Karabots Professor of Greek Archaeology in the School of Anthropology at the University of Arizona where he directs the Archaeological Mapping Lab.  His interests include Greek and Roman cities and sanctuaries, Greek and Roman athletics, Roman centuriation and land planning and computer applications in archaeology. Dr. Romano has been a pioneer in computerized mapping, digital cartography, remote sensing and GIS in the study of ancient Greek and Romano cities and sanctuaries.  Since 2004 he has been Co-Director and Field Director of the Mt. Lykaion Excavation and Survey Project in Arcadia, Greece, and the Director of the Initiative for the creation of the Parrhasian Heritage Park of the Peloponnesos, Greece’s first large scale national heritage park. He is also the Director of Digital Augustan Rome. His publications include Athletics and Mathematics in Archaic Corinth: The Origins of the Greek Stadion (1993), The Catalogue of the Classical Collection of the Glencairn Museum, Bryn Athyn (1998) with Irene Bald Romano, Mapping Augustan Rome (2002) in collaboration with Lothar Haselberger, as well as a series of publications on the city and landscape planning of the Roman colony of Corinth and, with Mary Voyatzis, on the results of the excavations at the Sanctuary of Zeus at Mt. Lykaion.  Dr. Romano is the Co-Editor of the projected four-volume series on the results of the excavations at the Sanctuary of Zeus at Mt. Lykaion to be published through the American School of Classical Studies at Athens.