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

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, Strauss Clay completed her doctorate at the

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. She taught at the University of California at Irvine and

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. She is currently a member of the Nominating Committee of the

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(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 an American scholar of political philosophy. He spent much of his career as a professor of political science at the University of Chicago, where he taught several generations of students an ...

. She married the classicist in 1963; the marriage ended in 1977.

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);

References

External links

Strauss Clay's Academia Site
Living people American classical scholars American women classical scholars Scholars of ancient Greek history American women historians Scholars of ancient Greek literature Scholars of Ancient Greek University of Virginia people Year of birth missing (living people) University of California, Irvine faculty Johns Hopkins University faculty Jewish American historians 21st-century American Jews 21st-century American women {{academic-stub