Nancy Felson

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Nancy Felson is a Professor of Classics at the University of Georgia. She is the author of Regarding Penelope: From Character to Poetics ( ISBN   978-0-8061-2961-7). She is the author of nearly three dozen [1] scholarly articles discussing Greek and Latin literature.

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Education

Felson received a BA degree from the University of Cincinnati in 1964 with high honors, and an MA degree from Columbia University in 1965. Her Ph.D., also from Columbia, was based on the thesis Thematic Structure and Figures of Speech in Pindar. Complete CV at http://www.seltzerbooks.com/felson/cv.html

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  1. http://www.classics.uga.edu/new/faculty/felson.html Faculty page at the University of Georgia