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Athenian Days is a service run by Andrew Farrington and Vassiliki Chryssanthopoulou, offering tailor-made lectures on Greek history and life, small group talks, conference keynote talks, personalised guided tours around sites in or near Athens and hospitality programmes for short-stay business visitors to Athens
Andrew Farrington was born in England and has lived in Greece for many years. He is a Classics graduate of Oxford University, where he also did a doctorate on Greco-Roman archaeology. Between 1984 and 1994 he taught Ancient Greek and Latin language, history, literature and archaeology at the University of Western Australia in Perth, the Australian National University in Canberra and at Victoria University of Wellington in New Zealand. In 1994, he moved with his Greek-born wife to Greece and since then he has lectured and taught on all aspects of the ancient Greek and Roman world, on American and British-based university programmes. He is currently teaching ancient history at the Greek state University of the Peloponnese in Kalamata and at the University of Thrace in Komotini. Vassiliki Chryssanthopoulou is a native of Athens. She is a graduate of Athens University, where she studied Classics. She has a doctorate in social anthropology from Oxford University on Greek migration to Australia, where she did extensive fieldwork among the Greeks of Perth and Canberra. She is currently teaching anthropology at the Athens branch of the Califormia-based University of LaVerne. She also teaches the social and cultural anthropology of Greece at the University of the Aegean on the island of Mytilini and the history of Mediterranean civilizations at the University of Ioannina in northern Greece. She has published widely on matters of ethnicity, nationalism and globalisation and has worked extensively on cultural tourism programmes. Among its previous and current clients, Athenian Days numbers International Study Tours of New York, The Smithsonian Associates, The Smithsonian Institution, Washington, the Athens Chapter of the Mediterranean Garden Society and the British Embassy at Athens.
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