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]

Life

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 978-954-8446-02-0
• the "Oneirocriticon of Achmet" and its Arabic sources, Brill, 2002, ISBN 978-90-04-12079-2
• "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 978-0-88402-280-0

External links

• UC Berkeley Faculty Page
• "Byzantium: Beyond the Cliché - A Conversation with Maria Mavroudi", Ideas Roadshow, 2014

References