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Greek archaeologist

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 Studie