Jenny Strauss Clay is the William R. Kenan, Jr. Professor of Classics at the

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. After completing studies at

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and the

University of Chicago The University of Chicago (UChicago, Chicago, U of C, or UChi) is a private research university in Chicago, Illinois. Its main campus is located in Chicago's Hyde Park neighborhood. The University of Chicago is consistently ranked among the b ...

, Strauss Clay completed her doctorate at the

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. She taught at the

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and

Johns Hopkins University Johns Hopkins University (Johns Hopkins, Hopkins, or JHU) is a private research university in Baltimore, Maryland. Founded in 1876, Johns Hopkins is the oldest research university in the United States and in the western hemisphere. It consi ...

. She is currently a member of the Nominating Committee of the Society for Classical Studies (formerly the

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), until 2018.

Family

Strauss Clay is the daughter of Eliezer Paul Kraus and Bettina Strauss, adopted by her uncle

Leo Strauss Leo Strauss (, ; September 20, 1899 – October 18, 1973) was a German-American political philosopher who specialized in classical political philosophy. Born in Germany to Jewish parents, Strauss later emigrated from Germany to the United States. ...

Selected publications

*''The Politics of Olympus: Form and Meaning in the Major Homeric Hymns.'' (1989); *''Mega Nepios: Il destinatorio nell'epos didascalico. The addressee in Didactic Epic.'' Co-edited by Alessandro Schiesaro and P. Mitsis. (1993) *''The wrath of Athena: gods and men in the Odyssey.'' (1997); *''Hesiod's Cosmos.'' (2003); *''Homer's Trojan theater: space, vision, and memory in the Iliad.'' (2011); *''Panhellenes at Methone: graphê in Late Geometric and Protoarchaic Methone. Trends in classics – Supplementary Volumes, 44.'' Co-editor with Irad Malkin and Yannis Z. Tzifopoulos. (2017); Review of Panhellenes at Methone: graphê in Late Geometric and Protoarchaic Methone. Trends in classics – supplementary volumes, 44 from BMCR
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References

Eugene R. Sheppard, Leo Strauss and the Politics of Exile (Brandeis Univ. Pr., 2006), 82

External links

Strauss Clay's Academia Site
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