Carolina López-Ruiz

Carolina López-Ruiz is a Spanish classicist specializing in comparative mythology, Ancient Mediterranean religions, Greek language and literature, North-West Semitic languages and literatures, and cultural exchange.[1][2] She has authored several works on the Phoenician civilization, and contacts between Greek and Near Eastern cultures.

López-Ruiz received her BA and MA in classical philology from the Autonomous University of Madrid in 1995, attended the Hebrew University of Jerusalem from 1995 to 1996, and completed her PhD at the University of Chicago in the Committee on the Ancient Mediterranean World, between 1996 and 2005.[1][3]

Between 2005 and 2022, López-Ruiz was a professor in the Department of Classics and the Ohio State University.[1] Since 2022 she is a Professor of Ancient Mediterranean Religions and Mythologies at the University of Chicago Divinity School and in the Department of Classics.

Selected publications
  • López-Ruiz, Carolina; Dietler, Michael (2009). Colonial Encounters in Ancient Iberia: Phoenician, Greek, and Indigenous Relations. University of Chicago Press. ISBN 978-0-226-14848-9.
  • López-Ruiz, Carolina (2010). When the Gods Were Born: Greek Cosmogonies and the Near East. Harvard University Press. ISBN 978-0-674-04946-8.
  • Celestino, Sebastián; López-Ruiz, Carolina (2016). Tartessos and the Phoenicians in Iberia. Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-165337-7.
  • López-Ruiz, Carolina (2018). Gods, Heroes, and Monsters: A Sourcebook of Greek, Roman, and Near Eastern Myths in Translation. Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-064481-9.
  • López-Ruiz, Carolina (2020). Tarteso y los fenicios de occidente. ISBN 9788418578540. Retrieved 2022-03-15. {{cite book}}: |website= ignored (help)
  • López-Ruiz, Carolina; Doak, Brian R. (2019). The Oxford Handbook of the Phoenician and Punic Mediterranean. Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-049934-1.
  • López-Ruiz, Carolina (2021). Phoenicians and the Making of the Mediterranean. Harvard University Press. ISBN 978-0-674-98818-7.

References
  1. "Carolina López-Ruiz | Ohio State University - Academia.edu". osu.academia.edu. Retrieved 2022-03-15.
  2. "Carolina López-Ruiz". classics.osu.edu. Retrieved 2022-03-15.
  3. Tarteso, Congreso. "Carolina López Ruiz". Congreso Tarteso. Retrieved 2022-03-15.


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