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David
Gilman Romano, Senior Research Scientist in the
Mediterranean Section of The University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology
and Anthropology is also Adjunct Professor of Classical Studies at the University
of Pennsylvania. He received an A.B. in Art and Archaeology from Washington
University, St. Louis, an M.A. with Honors in Physical Education from the
University of Oregon and a Ph.D. in Classical Archaeology from the University
of Pennsylvania. The title of his dissertation (1981) was “The Stadia
of the Peloponnesos,” an architectural study of the ancient Greek stadium
in southern Greece. Since 1982 he has been teaching Classical Archaeology
and Classical Studies classes at the University of Pennsylvania including
‘Ancient
Athletics’. His research interests include Greek athletics and
the ancient Olympic Games, ancient Greek and Roman architecture and city
planning, and computer applications in archaeology. He has participated
in archaeological fieldwork in Greece at Athens, Corinth, Gournia, Nemea
and Mt. Lykaion. Since 1987 he has been the Director of the Corinth
Computer Project, a long-term study of the city and landscape planning
of the Roman city of Corinth. In 2004 Dr. Romano will begin a new survey
and excavation at the Sanctuary of Zeus at Mt. Lykaion in Arcadia. This
sanctuary was the site of the Pan-Arkadian Lykaion Games and includes a
stadium and the only visible hippodrome in the entire Greek world. The Sanctuary
of Zeus is located high on a mountain and is only 15 miles from the Sanctuary
of Zeus at Olympia. Learn more at the Mt.
Lykaion project website.