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Helene Peet Foley
Professor of Classics
Helene Peet Foley, professor of classics, joined the faculty of Barnard College in 1979 after teaching at Stanford University. She has also taught as a visiting professor at Dartmouth, New York University, and University of California, Berkeley.
In addition to her teaching duties for Barnard's department of classics, Professor Foley is affiliated with the College's comparative literature program.
Professor Foley is a past president of the American Philological Association.
During the spring 2008 semester, she will be Sather Professor of Classics at University of California, Berkeley.
Selected Publications
Visualizing the Tragic, co-editor (Oxford University Press, 2007)
Female Acts in Greek Tragedy. The Martin Classical Lectures of 1995 (Princeton University Press, 2001)
The Homeric Hymn to Demeter (Princeton University Press, 1994)
Women in the Classical World: Image and Text, with E. Fantham, et al. (Oxford University Press, 1994)
Ritual Irony: Poetry and Sacrifice in Euripides (Cornell University Press, 1985)
Reflections of Women in Antiquity, editor (Gordon and Breach, 1981)
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EDUCATION:
B.A., Swarthmore College
M.A.T., M.A., Yale University
Ph.D., Harvard University
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SPECIALIZATIONS:
Greek literature
Women and gender in Antiquity
Classical drama and its later reception