Kytherian Valerios Stais is widely recognised for his efforts as a curator of the National Archaeological Museum in Athens and as the first excavator of the temple of Poseidon at Sounio, Attica, Greece. Even though there are two published biographies of Stais, one appearing after his death 1923 and the other in 1992, the rest of his work on the Antikythera mechanism and the prehistory of Thessaly is largely forgotten today. In this paper, the lifelong achievements of Valerios Stais are presented and a special focus has been given on the importance of his pioneering work on the acropoleis of Sesklo and Dimini and the recognition of the unique technological achievement represented by the Antikythera mechanism. In evaluating Stais’s achievements, we meet a persona with a unique influence on the formation of modern Greek archaeology.

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被遗忘的先驱：Valerios Stais 和他在 Kythera、Antikythera 和 Thessaly 的研究

Kytherian Valerios Stais 因其作为雅典国家考古博物馆馆长和希腊阿提卡苏尼奥波塞冬神庙的第一位挖掘者而广受认可。尽管有两本已出版的斯泰斯传记，一本出现在他 1923 年去世后，另一本出现在 1992 年，但他关于安提凯希拉机制和色萨利史前史的其余工作今天基本上被遗忘了。在本文中，介绍了 Valerios Stais 的毕生成就，并特别关注了他对 Sesklo 和 Dimini 卫城的开创性工作的重要性以及对以 Antikythera 机制为代表的独特技术成就的认可。在评估 Stais 的成就时，我们遇到了一个对现代希腊考古学的形成具有独特影响的人物。