Emmanuel Voutiras, studied classical archaeology, classical philology and ancient history at the Universities of Thessaloniki and Bonn and obtained his PhD from the University of Bonn in 1979. In 1984 he was appointed lecturer of classical archaeology at the University of Thessalo­niki where he became successively assistant professor, associate professor and full professor (in 2000). The main subjects of his teaching and research are ancient Greek sculpture, ancient Greek religion and Greek epigraphy. He taught as a visiting professor at the University of Perugia in 1997 and at the École Pratique des Hautes Études (IVe section) in 2017. He was a junior fellow at the Center of Hellenic Studies in Washington, D.C. in 1990-91, a fellow of the Alexander von Humboldt Stiftung and a member of the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, NJ in 2014. He is a member of the Academia Europaea, of the Society for the Promotion of Hellenic Studies in London, of the Centre International d'Étude de la Religion Grecque Antique (CIERGA) in Brussels (president since 2009) and a corresponding member of the German Archaeological Institute in Berlin.