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ARCHAEOLOGIST

Spyridon Marinatos

1901 - 1974

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Spyridon Marinatos (Greek: Σπυρίδων Μαρινάτος; 17 November [O.S. 4 November] 1901 – 1 October 1974) was a Greek archaeologist who specialised in the Bronze Age Minoan and Mycenaean civilizations. He is best known for the excavation of the Minoan site of Akrotiri on Santorini, which he conducted between 1967 and 1974. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Spyridon Marinatos has received more than 90,330 page views. His biography is available in 19 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 18 in 2019). Spyridon Marinatos is the 55th most popular archaeologist (down from 46th in 2019), the 530th most popular biography from Greece (up from 536th in 2019) and the most popular Greek Archaeologist.

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Among ARCHAEOLOGISTS

Among archaeologists, Spyridon Marinatos ranks 55 out of 104Before him are Jacques Boucher de Crèvecœur de Perthes, Louis Laurent Gabriel de Mortillet, Isdal Woman, Colin Renfrew, Hormuzd Rassam, and Peter Wilhelm Lund. After him are Giuseppe Fiorelli, Johan Gunnar Andersson, Halet Çambel, Robert Broom, Jens Jacob Asmussen Worsaae, and Margaret Murray.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1901, Spyridon Marinatos ranks 140Before him are August Schmidhuber, Werner Egk, Ebbe Schwartz, Maurice Evans, György Orth, and Frank Zamboni. After him are Antal Szerb, Mario Scelba, Henri Tomasi, Vilma Bánky, Kurt Jooss, and Nina Bari. Among people deceased in 1974, Spyridon Marinatos ranks 105Before him are Vladimir Smirnov, Jean Wahl, Cornelius Ryan, Anfilogino Guarisi, Bernard Voorhoof, and Antanas Sniečkus. After him are Earl Warren, Silvio Moser, Sergey Lebedev, Bud Abbott, Sattar Bahlulzade, and Peter Revson.

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In Greece

Among people born in Greece, Spyridon Marinatos ranks 530 out of 936Before him are Alcmenes (null), Nikos Skalkottas (1904), Demetrius of Montferrat (1205), Princess Elizabeth of Greece and Denmark (1904), Andronikos Palaiologos (1400), and George Dalaras (1949). After him are Leosthenes (-400), Philostratus of Lemnos (200), Nephon II of Constantinople (1450), Oenopides (-490), Alexandros Papadiamantis (1851), and Antiphanes (-388).

Among ARCHAEOLOGISTS In Greece

Among archaeologists born in Greece, Spyridon Marinatos ranks 1