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 at 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
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
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