Nanno (Ourania) Marinatos (Greek: Ναννώ (Ουρανία) Μαρινάτου; born 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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