Troels Myrup Kristensen

I am an Associate Professor of Classical Art and Archaeology in the Department of History and Classical Studies at Aarhus University. My research interests lie broadly within the study of visual culture in the ancient world, the material culture of ancient pilgrimage, late antique art and archaeology, as well as the contemporary "consumption" of classical heritage.

My first monograph, Making and Breaking the Gods. Christian Responses to Pagan Sculpture in Late Antiquity, was published in 2013. A second monograph, Classical Heritage and European Identities: The Imagined Geographies of Danish Classicism (co-authored with Lærke Maria Andersen Funder and Vinnie Nørskov), appeared in 2019. I have recently finished another monograph, Ancient Mediterranean Pilgrimage: An Archaeological History,  forthcoming in 2026.

I am currently engaged with understanding the uses of visual media in scholarship on classical sculpture, including those afforded by the introduction of digital tools. On this issue, I work specifically with the publication of both old and new material from excavations at Kalydon in Greece (as part of Danish-Greek-Norwegian fieldwork) and Sagalassos in Türkiye (as member of the Sagalassos Archaeological Research Project).

Contact

Email: tmk@cas.au.dk