Mantha Zarmakoupi

Mantha Zarmakoupi is the Williams Assistant Professor in Roman Architecture at the University of Pennsylvania. She has published widely on Greek and Roman architecture and art – including monographs Shaping Roman Landscape (Getty 2023) and Designing for Luxury on the Bay of Naples (Oxford 2014), edited volumes The Villa of the Papyri at Herculaneum (De Gruyter 2010) and Hermogenes and Hellenistic-Roman Temple Building in Greece and Asia Minor (Wisconsin 2026) – as well as on the urban development and harbor infrastructure of late Hellenistic Delos. She currently conducts an archaeological project in collaboration with Ankara University at the Bouleuterion of Teos in Turkey (2022-). Mantha systematically fosters conversations across the fields of architecture and archaeology on ancient urbanism, ecology and diversity – for instance, in her edited volumes Looking at the City (Melissa 2023) and The Delos Symposia and Doxiadis (Lars Müller 2025) and exhibition An Archaeology of Disability (Venice Biennale 2021, Pisa 2022, Athens 2023, Thessaloniki 2024).