He was born in Thessaloniki, the son of the philologist and surrealist poet Georgios Themelis and the brother of the violinist and director of the State Conservatory of Thessaloniki Dimitrios Themelis.
One of the most important Greek archaeologists, Petros Themelis, passed away at the age of 87.
He was born in Thessaloniki, the son of the philologist and surrealist poet Georgios Themelis and the brother of the violinist and director of the State Conservatory of Thessaloniki Dimitrios Themelis.
He completed elementary and high school at the Experimental School of the University of Thessaloniki.
He first started studying Philology.
He received a degree in History and Archeology from the Faculty of Philosophy of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki in 1959, as well as a PhD from the University of Munich in 1972.
In 1962, he was hired as a scientific assistant at the Archaeological Service of Thessaloniki.
During the period 1963-1980 he was Curator and Superintendent of Antiquities in the Archaeological Regions of Ilia-Messinia, Attica, Evia, Phokides-Lokris and Aitoloakarnania, while during the period 1977-1980 he was Director of the Archaeological Museum of Delphi.
From 1980 to 1984, he was Head of the Tax Office of Paleoanthropology and Speleology, while from 1984 to 2004 he was a professor of Classical Archeology at the Department of History and Archeology of the University of Crete in Rethymnon.
As a professor at the University of Crete, he directed the university excavation of Sector I at the ancient Eleftherna of Mylopotamos Rethymnon for which he wrote and edited a significant number of scientific publications.
Since 1987, he has been the director of the Excavation and Restoration Program of ancient Messina, for which he has written monographs and numerous scientific articles. The excavations in the ancient city of Messina have revealed many of the monuments that describe the 2nd c. A.D. the traveler Pausanias.
He has taken part in and directed excavations at Vergina, Pella, Olympia, Delphi, Eretria, and Kallio.
On January 18, 2005, he received the Brigadier General of the Order of the Phoenix from the President of the Hellenic Republic, Konstantinos Stephanopoulos.
On October 27, 2023, he died at the age of 87, it should be noted that for the last 24 hours he was fighting for his life in the ICU of the Kalamata Hospital, since even in his last moments he did not want to leave his beloved Messinia, where he ended up.
Source: Skai
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