Polymnia Athanassiadi | |
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Academic background | |
Alma mater | University of Athens Somerville College, Oxford |
Thesis | An emperor and Hellenism : studies in the thought and action of the Emperor Julian (1976) |
Academic work | |
Discipline | History |
Sub-discipline | Late antiquity,religion and culture |
Institutions | University of Athens |
Polymnia Athanassiadi (born 23 September 1946) is a historian specialising in the religious and cultural history of Late Antiquity,in particular the transition from Neoplatonic to Islamic theology. [1] Athanassiadi was a Professor of Ancient History at the University of Athens. [2]
She traveled regularly in the near East and middle East (from Turkey to Iran) and recorded her journey from Anatolian Turkey to Northern Syria. [3]
Athanassiadi studied philology at the universities of Athens and the Sorbonne,as well as history at Somerville College Oxford,where she completed her DPhil in 1976 entitled An emperor and Hellenism:studies in the thought and action of the Emperor Julian. [4]
She was Professor of Ancient History at the University of Athens from 1986 until her retirement in 2013. She was a fellow of the Centre for Greek Studies at Harvard University (1979-1980),and has held visiting fellowships at the University of Oxford (1990–91), [5] Princeton (1995) and Moscow (1999). She was the Alexander Onassis Public Benefit Foundation Senior Fellow at the universities of Harvard,Columbia,Duke and Berkeley (2004).
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