Jenny Strauss Clay

Jenny Strauss Clay is professor emerita of classics at the University of Virginia. She studies early Greek poetry, especially poets’ accounts of relations between gods and humans. Her work includes HesiodHesiodGreek poet whose major work is generally dated to the late eighth or early seventh century BCE, including the Theogony.Glossary · Click to read the explanation’s Cosmos, published in 2003. ^[1]

With Amir GilanAmir GilanTel Aviv University scholar of Hittite texts and ancient Anatolia, studying religion, ritual, literature and historiography.Glossary · Click to read the explanation she wrote a 2014 study comparing the Hittite Song of Emergence with the TheogonyHesiod’s TheogonyGreek poem on divine generations and Zeus’s kingship; its surviving form does not identify all of Hesiod’s sources.Glossary · Click to read the explanation, examining birth scenes, emergence language and a possible setting for narrative circulation. ^[2]