The refoundation of Sikyon in 303 BCE by the Macedonian general and future king of Macedon Demetrios Poliorketes at a new location may have been primarily dictated by geopolitical concerns, but it also gave its founder the opportunity to materialize his ambitious urbanistic and architectural plans.

Yannis Lolos is Associate professor in Classical Archaeology at the University of Thessaly. Professor Lolos studied History of Art and Archaeology at the University of Paris (Paris IV-Sorbonne) where he obtained a B.A. (Maîtrise) in 1990 and a Master’s degree (D.E.A.) in 1992.  Lolos enrolled in doctoral studies at the Graduate Group of Ancient History and Mediterranean Archaeology of the University of California at Berkeley. He obtained his Ph.D. in 1998 with a dissertation on the topography of the territory of ancient Sikyon. During 1995-1996, he was a regular member at the American School of Classical Studies at Athens, and in 1998-1999, he served as visiting assistant professor in Classical archaeology at the University of Michigan (Ann Arbor). In 2002, Lolos joined the teaching staff of the department of History, Archaeology and Social Anthropology of the University of Thessaly. He has participated in a number of archaeological field projects in Attica, Crete, Corinth, Nemea, Stymphalos as well in the Etruscan town of Musarna in central Italy. Since 2004, Lolos has directed the Sikyon archaeological project, and from 2018 onwards he has co-directed the Greek-Dutch excavations at Magoula Plataniotiki in the plain of Almyros (Thessaly).

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