Currently: Collegium Fellow at the Turku Institute for Advanced Studies, University of Turku, since January 2025 - Senior Academic Librarian at the Nordic…
Institute co-organises thematic courses and excursions to Greece with other institutions and university departments. Focus of offered courses falls into the scope of the institute’s scholarly profile.
His parents were Antti Parikka and Erika Juhontytär. Parikka studied at the Helsinki University of Art and Design (1911–1913) and at the Drawing School of the Finnish Art Association (1915).
Prevalent among classicists today is the notion that Greeks, Romans, and Jews enhanced their own self-perception by contrasting themselves with the so-called Other--Egyptians, Phoenicians, Ethiopians, Gauls, and other foreigners--frequently…