Nanno Marinatos

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Nanno (Ourania) Marinatos (Greek: Ναννώ (Ουρανία) Μαρινάτου; 1950-) is Professor Emerita of Classics and Ancient Mediterranean Studies at the University of Illinois Chicago, whose research focuses on the Minoan civilisation, especially Minoan religion.

Early life and education[]

Nanno Marinatos was born in Athens in 1950; her parents were Aimila Loverdos and Spyridon Marinatos, an archaeologist of the Bronze Age Aegean.[1][2] Named Ourania after her grandmother, she was nicknamed "Nanno" by her father after a woman associated by ancient sources with the poet Mimnermus.[2] Marinatos studied at the German School in Athens, from where she graduated in 1968.[3] She studied classical philology and archaeology at the University of Colorado at Boulder, receiving her PhD in 1979.[2][3][4]

Career[]

Marinatos is Professor Emerita of Classics and Ancient Mediterranean Studies at the University of Illinois Chicago, where she was previously Head of Department.[5][1][6] Prior to joining the University of Illinois Chicago in 2001, she taught at Oberlin College, Ohio, the University of Bergen, and the University of Zurich.[2][3] She has excavated at the prehistoric site of Akrotiri on Santorini and at Tell el Da'ba in Egypt.[3] She has published research on Minoan religion, particularly on the roles of iconography and symbolism;[7][8][9][10][11] on Arthur Evans' excavations at Knossos;[12] on the site of Akrotiri;[13] on the work of her father Spyridon;[14] and on ancient Greek religion more widely.[15][16] She has been described as 'a leading figure in the area of interconnections between the ancient Aegean and the wider world of the Eastern Mediterranean, the Near East, and Egypt'.[2]

References[]

  1. ^ a b "Gold and Power". National Hellenic Museum. Retrieved 2021-10-05.
  2. ^ a b c d e "Nanno Marinatos - a tribute". Journal of Ancient Egyptian Interconnections. 7:3: 1–2. 2015.
  3. ^ a b c d "ΣΥΛΛΟΓΟΣ ΑΠΟΦΟΙΤΩΝ ΓΕΡΜΑΝΙΚΗΣ ΣΧΟΛΗΣ ΑΘΗΝΩΝ - Νανώ Μαρινάτου (68)". www.ex-dsathen.gr. Retrieved 2021-10-05.
  4. ^ "Συγγραφείς - Nanno Marinatos / Mystis". www.mystis.gr. Retrieved 2021-10-05.
  5. ^ "Marinatos, Nanno Ourania | Classics and Mediterranean Studies | University of Illinois Chicago". clasmed.uic.edu. Retrieved 2021-10-05.
  6. ^ "Η Παιδεία, αντίδοτο στην κρίση". Η Εφημερίδα των Συντακτών (in Greek). Retrieved 2021-10-05.
  7. ^ Marinatos, Nanno (2010). Minoan Kingship and the Solar Goddess: A Near Eastern Koine. University of Illinois Press. ISBN 978-0-252-03392-6.
  8. ^ Marinatos, Nanno (1993). Minoan Religion: Ritual, Image, and Symbol. University of South Carolina Press. ISBN 978-0-87249-744-3.
  9. ^ Marinatos, Nanno (November 2002). Goddess and the Warrior: The Naked Goddess and Mistress of the Animals in Early Greek Religion. Routledge. ISBN 978-1-134-60148-6.
  10. ^ "Review of: Marinatos, Minoan Religion". Bryn Mawr Classical Review. ISSN 1055-7660.
  11. ^ "Review of: The Goddess and the Warrior: The Naked Goddess and Mistress of Animals in Early Greek Religion". Bryn Mawr Classical Review. ISSN 1055-7660.
  12. ^ Marinatos, Nanno (2020-12-24). Sir Arthur Evans and Minoan Crete: Creating the Vision of Knossos. Bloomsbury Academic. ISBN 978-1-350-19735-0.
  13. ^ Marinatos, Nanno (2014). Akrotiri, Biography of a Lost City (in Greek). Athens: Militos Press.
  14. ^ Matzourani, Eleni; Marinatos, Nanno, eds. (2014). Spyridon Marinatos his Life and Times. Athens: Kardamitsas.
  15. ^ Hagg, Robin; Marinatos, Nanno (November 2002). Greek Sanctuaries: New Approaches. Routledge. ISBN 978-1-134-80168-8.
  16. ^ "Review of: Marinatos and Hagg (eds.), Greek Sanctuaries". Bryn Mawr Classical Review. ISSN 1055-7660.
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