Nancy Felson is a Professor of Classics at the

University of Georgia , mottoeng = "To teach, to serve, and to inquire into the nature of things.""To serve" was later added to the motto without changing the seal; the Latin motto directly translates as "To teach and to inquire into the nature of things." , establ ...

. She is the author of ''Regarding Penelope: From Character to Poetics'' (). She is the author of nearly three dozenhttp://www.classics.uga.edu/new/faculty/felson.html Faculty page at the University of Georgia scholarly articles discussing Greek and Latin literature.

Education

Felson received a

BA degree Bachelor of arts (BA or AB; from the Latin ', ', or ') is a bachelor's degree awarded for an undergraduate program in the arts, or, in some cases, other disciplines. A Bachelor of Arts degree course is generally completed in three or four years ...

from the

University of Cincinnati The University of Cincinnati (UC or Cincinnati) is a public research university in Cincinnati, Ohio. Founded in 1819 as Cincinnati College, it is the oldest institution of higher education in Cincinnati and has an annual enrollment of over 44,0 ...

in 1964 with high honors, and an

MA degree A Master of Arts ( la, Magister Artium or ''Artium Magister''; abbreviated MA, M.A., AM, or A.M.) is the holder of a master's degree awarded by universities in many countries. The degree is usually contrasted with that of Master of Science. Tho ...

from

Columbia University Columbia University (also known as Columbia, and officially as Columbia University in the City of New York) is a private research university in New York City. Established in 1754 as King's College on the grounds of Trinity Church in Manhatt ...

in 1965. Her

Ph.D. A Doctor of Philosophy (PhD, Ph.D., or DPhil; Latin: or ') is the most common degree at the highest academic level awarded following a course of study. PhDs are awarded for programs across the whole breadth of academic fields. Because it is ...

, also from Columbia, was based on the thesis ''Thematic Structure and Figures of Speech in

Pindar Pindar (; grc-gre, Πίνδαρος , ; la, Pindarus; ) was an Ancient Greek lyric poet from Thebes. Of the canonical nine lyric poets of ancient Greece, his work is the best preserved. Quintilian wrote, "Of the nine lyric poets, Pindar ...

.'' Complete CV at http://www.seltzerbooks.com/felson/cv.html

Publications

*''Regarding Penelope: From Character to Poetics in Homer's Odyssey'', Princeton University Press (1994); paperback edition, University of Oklahoma Press (1997) *''Contextualizing Classics: Ideology, Performance, Dialogue'' (Rowman and Littlefield: 2000) (co-editor with Thomas Falkner and David Konstan) *''Semiotics and Classical Studies'', Arethusa 16.1/2 (1983), 1-275 (guest-editor) *''Symbols in Ancient Greek Poetry and Myth, Classical World'' 74.2 (October 1980), 1-144 (guest-editor) *''The Poetics of Deixis in Alcman, Pindar, and Other Lyric'', Arethusa 47.3 (2004), 253-472 (guest-editor) *Links to selected articles by Nancy Felson http://www.seltzerbooks.com/felson/index.html

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