Foteini Kondyli
Associate Professor, Byzantine Art and Archaeology

The Inhabiting Byzantine Athens project seeks to reconstruct the topography and spatial layout of the city, alongside the living conditions and activities of its inhabitants, spanning from the ninth to the fifteenth centuries AD. Relying on the legacy data from the Athenian Agora Excavations, this talk sheds light on the lives and experiences of ordinary people in Byzantine Athens, exploring how they interacted, organized their built environment, and contributed to the city’s infrastructure and management. Central to this discussion is the examination of the biographies of their homes and neighborhoods, tracking changes in architecture, spatial layout, and usage patterns over time.