Corinne Bonnet is Professor of Greek History at the

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. She is known for her work on ancient Mediterranean history and religion. She is currently the Principal Investigator of the ERC Advanced Grant project ''Mapping Ancient Polytheisms''.

Education

Bonnet completed a degree in ancient history at the

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in 1981. Her PhD, supervised by Jean Servais and Claude Baurain, was titled "''Melqart. Cultes et mythes de l'Héraclès tyrien en Méditerranée''" (Melquart. Cults and Myths of Tyrian Heracles in the Mediterranean) was awarded in 1987.

Career

Bonnet taught at University of Namur (Notre-Dame de la Paix) from 1981 until 1991. In 1990–91, she was a

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at the

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. Subsequently, she held positions at the

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, the

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and

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( it, Università degli Studi Roma Tre) is an Italian In 2002, she completed her ''habilitation'' at

Pierre Mendès-France University Pierre Mendès-France University (UPMF, french: Université Pierre Mendès France, also known as Grenoble II) was a French university, based in Grenoble, focused on social sciences. It was named after the late French politician Pierre Mendès-Fr ...

under the direction of Colette Jourdain Annequin with the project "''Le « grand atelier de la science ». Franz Cumont et l'Altertumswissenschaft. Héritage et émancipations. Des études universitaires à la première guerre mondiale (1888-1923).''"' Since 2003, Bonnet has been Professor of Greek History at the

. She is deputy director of Labex SMS (Structuration des Mondes Sociaux), a social science research centre at the university which studies the structure of interpersonal and inter-organisational relationships. From October 2017 until September 2022, she is the Principal Investigator of the ERC project ''Mapping Ancient Polytheisms: Cult Epithets as an interface between religious systems and human agency.''

Awards

Bonnet has received several prizes from the

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: the E. Fagnan prize for Semitic Studies (1988), the H. Pirenne prize for her research on the archives of

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(1998), and the F. Cumont prize for the history of religion (2014) for her book ''Les Enfants de Cadmos. Le paysage religieux de la Phénicie hellénistique''. In 2011, she was elected a member of the

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. In 2016, she was elected to the Academy of Europe, and in the same year received an honorary doctorate from the

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. In July 2019, Bonnet was a keynote speaker at the XVth Congress of

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and the

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annual conference.

Selected publications

* 1988, ''Melqart. Cultes et mythes de l'Héraclès tyrien en Méditerranée'' (Studia Phoenicia VIII = Bibliothèque de la Faculté de Philosophie et Lettres de Namur, 69), Leuven-Namur. * 1991, with Cl. Baurain and V. Krings, ''Phoinikeia Grammata. Lire et écrire en Méditerranée.'' (Les Etudes Classiques), Namur-Liège. * 1996, ''Astarté. Dossier documentaire et perspectives historiques'' (Contributi alla Storia della Religione Fenicio-Punica II), Rome: Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche. * 1997, ''La correspondance scientifique de Franz Cumont conservée à l'Academia Belgica de Rome'' (Études de philologie, d'archéologie et d'histoire ancienne de l'Institut historique belge de Rome), Bruxelles-Rome. * 2004. ''I Fenici'', Rome: Carocci Editore. * 2005, ''Le «grand atelier de la science». Franz Cumont et l'Altertumswissenschaft. Héritages et émancipations. Des études universitaires à la fin de la Ie Guerre mondiale, 1918-1923'', 2 volumes (Études de philologie, d'archéologie et d'histoire anciennes de l'Institut historique belge de Rome XLI/1-2), Bruxelles-Rome. * 2011, "On Gods and Earth: The Tophet and the Construction of a New identity in Punic Carthage", in E. Gruen (éd.), ''Cultural Identity in the Ancient Mediterranean'', Los Angeles, p. 373-387. * 2014, ''Les enfants de Cadmos. Les paysages religieux de la Phénicie hellénistique'', Paris: De Boccard. * 2014, "Greeks and Phoenicians in the Western Mediterranean", in J. McInerney (éd.), ''A Companion to Ethnicity in the Ancient Mediterranean'', Oxford: Wiley Blackwell, p. 327-340.

References

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