Strauss Clay, Jenny

Jenny Strauss Clay is the William R. Kenan, Jr, Professor of Classics at the University of Virginia and the author of The Wrath of Athena: Gods and Men in the Odyssey (1983), an influential study of the Odyssey, The Politics of Olympus (1989), a groundbreaking study of the Homeric Hymns, as well as numerous articles on Greek and Roman poetry. Her book Hesiod's Cosmos (2003) offers a new and coherent synthesis of the Theogony and the Works and Days.