Stephen Miller is a former Professor of Archaeology at UC Berkeley (1973-2004), and the former Director of the American School of Classical Studies at Athens (1982-1987). Since 1973, Professor Miller has been the Director of Excavations at the site of Ancient Nemea. In 1994, after more than 20 years of archaeological excavations, Professor Miller’s love and passion for Hellenism led to the founding of The Society For the Revival of the Nemean Games. The first contemporary Nemean games were held in 1996.

In 2009, Professor Miller was one of 374 Classical Scholars from 20 different countries who sent a letter to President Barack Obama petitioning him to help preserve the historical integrity of Alexander the Great. It asked that U.S. diplomacy be used to stop the theft of history through fabricated truths and historic figures.

“We do not understand how the modern inhabitants of ancient Paionia (today’s Skopje) who speak Slavic – a language introduced into the Balkans about a millennium after the death of Alexander – can claim him as their national hero. Alexander the Great was thoroughly and indisputably Greek. His great-great-great grandfather, Alexander I, competed in the Olympic Games where participation was limited to Greeks.”

In a letter to Archaeology Magazine, Miller examined the question of the modern use of the name “Macedonia?” He concludes, “Greece should annex Paionia … Then the modern people of this new Greek province could work on learning to speak and read and write Greek, hopefully even as well as Alexander did.”

Stephen Miller is the author of 11 academic books. His latest is titled: Indiana Miller and the Temple of Nemean Zeus.