Author: Michael B. Cosmopoulos
Michael B. Cosmopoulos is the Hellenic Government-Karakas Family Foundation Professor of Greek Studies and Professor of Archaeology at the University of Missouri-St Louis. An acclaimed archaeologist specializing in the Greek Bronze Age, he has excavated at Mycenae, Eleusis, Iklaina, and other major sites, and has published numerous books and scholarly articles. His works include Bronze Age Eleusis and the Origins of the Eleusinian Mysteries (2015, also by Cambridge University Press). He is an elected member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the Royal Society of Canada, the European Academy of Sciences and Arts, and the Academy of Athens. For his contributions to scholarship he has been decorated with the Gold Cross of the Order of Phoenix of the Hellenic Republic.