Jenny Strauss Clay, Classics
JENNY STRAUSS CLAY, William R. Kenan, Jr. Professor of Classics, is the author of The Wrath of Athena: Gods and Men in the Odyssey, The Politics of Olympus: Form and Meaning in the Major Homeric Hymns, Hesiod's Cosmos, and, most recently, Homer's Trojan Theater, which attempts to envision the Iliad's battlefield and its meaning for Homeric poetics (http://www.homerstrojantheater.org/). She spent the 2012-13 academic year as a recipient of the Humboldt Preis. She is currently preparing a commentary on Hesiod’s Theogony and recently contributed to the Fondation Hardt Entretiens on Ancient Cosmogony, while continuing her work on “Mapping the Catalogue of Ships” in collaboration with Ben Jasnow, Coourtney Evans, and Gwen Nally. She has also published numerous articles on Greek and Roman poetry.
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