With admirable erudition, Lopez-Ruiz brings to life intimacies and exchanges between the ancient Greeks and their Northwest Semitic neighbors, portraying the ancient Mediterranean as a fluid, dynamic contact zone. She shows networks of circulation, creative uses of traditional material by peoples in motion, and radically transforms our understanding of ancient cosmogonies. -- Page duBois, author of Out of Athens: The New Ancient Greeks
Carolina López-Ruiz is Professor of the History of Religions, Comparative Mythology, and the Ancient Mediterranean World at the University of Chicago Divinity School and the Department of Classics. She is the author of When the Gods Were Born and Phoenicians and the Making of the Mediterranean. Her work focuses on cross-cultural interactions in the ancient Mediterranean world.
With admirable erudition, López-Ruiz brings to life intimacies and
exchanges between the ancient Greeks and their Northwest Semitic
neighbors, portraying the ancient Mediterranean as a fluid, dynamic
contact zone. She shows networks of circulation, creative uses of
traditional material by peoples in motion, and radically transforms
our understanding of ancient cosmogonies.
*Page duBois, author of Out of Athens: The New Ancient
Greeks*
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