Julia Kindt (born 1975) is an academic and writer who specialises in

ancient Greek Ancient Greek includes the forms of the Greek language used in ancient Greece and the ancient world from around 1500 BC to 300 BC. It is often roughly divided into the following periods: Mycenaean Greek (), Dark Ages (), the Archaic peri ...

history and religion. She is a professor at the Department of Classics and Ancient History at the

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, Australia.

Career

Kindt graduated from the

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in 2000 with a

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in Ancient History. She then studied at the

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, where she completed a PhD in 2003. In 2005, she was selected as one of the inaugural Katharine Graham fellows at the

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; the fellowship was created by an endowment from the estate of the publisher of ''

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''. In 2012, Kindt wrote her first book, ''Rethinking Greek Religion'', in which she suggests that the scholarly consensus that the ''

polis ''Polis'' (, ; grc-gre, πόλις, ), plural ''poleis'' (, , ), literally means "city" in Greek. In Ancient Greece, it originally referred to an administrative and religious city center, as distinct from the rest of the city. Later, it also ...

'' is the central focus of ancient Greek religion needs to be re-examined. She argues that other aspects of ancient Greek religion deserve more scholarly attention than they have previously received. Kindt's second book, ''Revisiting Delphi'', was published in 2016. At the time of its publication she was an assistant professor at the

She was also a senior editor of the ''Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Religion''. In 2018, she was selected as a Future Fellow with the Australian Research Council, under their ARC Future Fellowships program. The fellowship runs until 2022. She was also elected into the

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in 2018. In 2019, she became a full professor in the Department of Classics and Ancient History at the University of Sydney. As of October 2021, she teaches courses in ancient Greek history and religion. She is a member of the Editorial Board for Journal of Ancient History.https://www.degruyter.com/journal/key/jah/html#editorial

Works

Authored

* Kindt, J. 2012. ''Rethinking Greek Religion''. Cambridge University Press. * Kindt, J. 2016. ''Revisiting Delphi: Religion and Storytelling in Ancient Greece''. Cambridge University Press.

Edited

* Eidinow, E. and J. Kindt, eds. 2015. ''The Oxford Handbook of Ancient Greek Religion''. Oxford University Press. * E. Eidinow, J. Kindt and R. Osborne, eds. 2016. ''Theologies of Ancient Greek Religion''. Cambridge University Press. * Kindt, J. (ed.) 2021. ''Animals in Ancient Greek Religion''. Routledge.

References

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