Background
She was born in Volos, Greece, in 1945, but grew up in Corfu.
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Christiane Sourvinou-Inwood
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Sourvinou-Inwood studied at the University of Athens, and began research in the field of Mycenology in Rome and later in Athens.
Career
She graduated from Oxford in 1973 with a doctorate on Minoan civilization and Mycenaean beliefs in the afterlife. She was a lecturer at Liverpool (1976-1978), and a senior research Fellow at University College, Oxford (1990-1995). Also she worked as Reader in Classical Literature at the University of Reading (1995-1998).
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.
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Greek