Maria Mavroudi is a history

History

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 professor

Professor

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 at University of California, Berkeley

University of California, Berkeley

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Fluent in classical Greek and Arabic, she also understands Coptic

Coptic language

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, Latin

Latin

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, and Syriac, and speaks modern Greek and English fluently. She formerly taught as Princeton University

Princeton University

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She graduated from Anatolia College

Anatolia College

Anatolia College , or sometimes the American College , is a private, non-profit, educational institution located in Pylaia, a suburb of Thessaloniki, Greece...

 in Thessaloniki, Greece, from the University of Thessaloniki with a Philology

Philology

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 degree, and from Harvard University

Harvard University

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 with a PhD in Byzantine Studies

Byzantine studies

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She researches the recycling of the ancient tradition between Byzantium

Byzantium

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 and Islam

Islam

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; Byzantine intellectual history; survival and transformation of Byzantine culture after 1453, along with other various topics.

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