Dr. Ismene Miliaresis received her Ph.D. in Classical Art and Archaeology from the University of Virginia and her research focuses on the sustainability of heating systems in ancient Roman baths and homes,particularly at Ostia and Pompeii, and she is the Assistant Director of the Palazzo Imperiale Project at Ostia. She has worked on numerous excavations in California, on Crete at Eleutherna, at Morgantina in Sicily, at Pollena Trocchia near Naples, at Salapia in Puglia, and for four years at Villa Magna at Anagni where she supervised the excavation of the cisterns andwater systems of the imperial Antonine villa. Miliaresis has also consulted on the bath structuresat Cosa and at Carsulae.
Today, she speaks about how her background in engineering has helped her consider many questions about the sustainability of Roman heating.