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Sub-discipline. Ancient Greek literature. Jenny Strauss Clay is the William R. Kenan, Jr. Professor of Classics at the University of Virginia. After completing studies at Reed College and the University of Chicago, Strauss Clay completed her doctorate at the University of Washington.
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The focus of my scholarly work has been on archaic Greek poetry, more specifically, what I call the theology of the early Greek poets, that is, their views on the relations between gods and men. I also dabble in other areas of Greek and Latin poetry and am interested in problems of interpreting literary texts. I believe firmly that texts can tell y...
Homer's Trojan Theater, Cambridge University Press, 2011. www.homerstrojantheater.orgHesiod's Cosmos. Cambridge University Press, 2003.The Wrath of Athena: Gods and Men in the Odyssey. Princeton University Press, 1983. Reprint, Rowman and Littlefield, 1996.The Politics of Olympus: Form and Meaning in the Major Homeric Hymns. Princeton University Press. 1989.I received my degrees from Reed College, the University of Chicago, and the University of Washington and have taught at the University of California at Irvine and at the Johns Hopkins University before coming to Virginia. I have a daughter named Andreia and like traveling, especially around the Mediterranean, and gardening.
28 mar 2021 · Clay, Jenny Strauss. Publication date. 1983. Topics. Homer. Odyssey, Odysseus, King of Ithaca (Mythological character) -- In literature, Athena (Greek deity) -- In literature, Homère Odyssée, Odysseus, King of Ithaca (Mythological character), Athena (Greek deity), Homerus ca. v8. Jh. Odyssea, Homerus.
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23 apr 2005 · In 2003, Jenny Strauss Clay (hereafter “C.”) published this monograph, in which she asserts that Hesiod “offers the first systematic presentation of the nature of the divine and human cosmos, of Being and Becoming” (2) in the two major, separate yet complementary poems — the Theogony and the Works and Days.
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23 ago 2011 · Preview. This slim volume, in which Jenny Strauss Clay synthesizes and expands her recent scholarship (e.g., TAPhA 137: 233-252), aims to demonstrate that “Homer’s vision of Troy is rational and consistent, that he renders his auditors witnesses to the events he narrates, that the sequence of actions is reactivated in each ...
Available in paperback for the first time, Jenny Strauss Clay's landmark study of the Odyssey argues that Athena's wrath is central to both the structure and the theme of the epic poem....
