Maria Mavroudi

Maria Mavroudi (born 1967) is a history professor at University of California, Berkeley.^[1][2] Fluent in classical Greek and Arabic,^[3] she also understands Coptic, Latin, and Syriac, and speaks modern Greek and English fluently. She formerly taught as Princeton University.^[4]

She graduated from Anatolia College in Thessaloniki, Greece, from the University of Thessaloniki with a Philology degree, and from Harvard University with a PhD in Byzantine Studies.

She researches the recycling of the ancient tradition between Byzantium and Islam; Byzantine intellectual history; survival and transformation of Byzantine culture after 1453, along with other various topics.

Awards

• 2004 MacArthur Fellowship

Works

• A Byzantine Book on Dream Interpretation: The Oneirocriticon of Achmet and Its Arabic Sources,
• The occult sciences in Byzantium, Editors Paul Magdalino, Maria V. Mavroudi, La Pomme d'or, 2006, ISBN 9789548446020
• the "Oneirocriticon of Achmet" and its Arabic sources, Brill, 2002, ISBN 9789004120792
• "Theodore Hyrtakenos' Description of the Garden of St. Anna and the Ekphrasis of Gardens", Byzantine garden culture, Editors Antony Robert Littlewood, Henry Maguire, Joachim Wolschke-Bulmahn, Dumbarton Oaks, 2002, ISBN 9780884022800

References

1. ^ http://history.berkeley.edu/faculty/Mavroudi/
2. ^ http://www.berkeley.edu/news/media/releases/2004/09/28_Mavroudi.shtml
3. ^ "THE MACARTHUR GRANTS: BAY AREA PROFILES", The San Francisco Chronicle, Charles Burress, September 28, 2004
4. ^ http://www.princeton.edu/history/people/display_person.xml?netid=mavroudi

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