Christiane Sourvinou-Inwood

Christiane Sourvinou-Inwood (February 26, 1945 - May 19, 2007) was a scholar in the field of Ancient Greek religion and one of the most influential Hellenists.

She was born in Volos, Greece, in 1945, but grew up in Corfu. Sourvinou-Inwood studied at the University of Athens, and began research in the field of Mycenology in Rome and later in Athens. She graduated from Oxford in 1973 with a doctorate on Minoan civilization and Mycenaean beliefs in the afterlife. She was a lecturer at Liverpool (1976-78), and a senior research Fellow at University College, Oxford (1990-95). Also she worked as Reader in Classical Literature at the University of Reading (1995-98). According to the Reading's Classics Department, Sourvinou-Inwood's acknowledged supremacy in the area of Greek religion studies made a lasting contribution to the Department's research, and this field continues to be one of its strongholds in the twenty-first century.^[1]

Notes

1. https://www.reading.ac.uk/classics/about/class-history.aspx A Short History of Reading's Classics Department

External links

• Obituary - The Telegraph
• Obituary - The Guardian: Christiane Sourvinou-Inwood Influential decoder of the culture of ancient Greece