Polymnia Athanassiadi

Polymnia Athanassiadi
Academic background
Alma materUniversity of Athens
Somerville College, Oxford
ThesisAn Emperor and Hellenism: Studies in the Thought and Action of the Emperor Julian (1976)
Academic work
DisciplineHistory
Sub-disciplineLate antiquity, religion and culture
InstitutionsUniversity 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 and Middle East (from Turkey to Iran) and recorded her journey from Anatolian Turkey to Northern Syria.[3]

  1. ^ Stroumsa, Guy G. (2016). "Review of: Mutations of Hellenism in Late Antiquity. Variorum collected studies series, CS 1052". Bryn Mawr Classical Review. ISSN 1055-7660.
  2. ^ Karl-und-Gertrud-Abel Stiftung. Tagung (17th : 2014 : Zurich, Switzerland) (2017). Philosophia in der Konkurrenz von Schulen, Wissenschaften und Religionen zur Pluralisierung des Philosophiebegriffs in Kaiserzeit und Spätantike : Akten der 17. Tagung der Karl und Gertrud Abel-Stiftung vom 16.-17. Oktober 2014 in Zürich. Riedweg, Christoph. Boston. pp. ix. ISBN 9781501514296. OCLC 1010583316.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link) CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
  3. ^ Athanassiadi, P. (1985). Στο Σύνορο του Ευφράτη. Athens: Domos.