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Page DuBois

b. 1946

Professor of Classics and Comparative Literature

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About Page DuBois

Born 1946. Page DuBois is an American classical scholar, historian, classical philologist and literary scholar.

Page duBois is professor of classics and comparative literature at the University of California, San Diego. She is known for her work in Ancient Greek literature, feminist theory and psychoanalysis. She is now professor of classics and comparative literature at the University of California, San Diego,

Publications History, Rhetorical Description and the Epic: From Homer to Spenser. Cambridge: Boydell and Brewer, 1982. Centaurs and Amazons: Women and the Prehistory of the Great Chain of Being. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1982. 'A Disturbance of Syntax at the Gates of Rome,' Stanford Literature Review, 2 (1985): 185–208. Sowing the Body: Psychoanalysis and Ancient Representations of Women. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1988. 'Inscription, the Law, and the Comic Body,' Métis: Revue d'anthropologie du monde grec ancien, 3 (1988): 69–84. Il corpo come metafora: Rappresentazioni della donna nella Grecia antica. Rome: Laterza, 1990. Torture and Truth. New York and London: Routledge, 1991. Sappho Is Burning. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1995. Trojan Horses: Saving the Classics from Conservatives. New York: New York University Press, 2001. Slaves and Other Objects. University of Chicago Press, 2003. Slavery: Antiquity and its Legacy (Ancients and Moderns). I.B.Tauris, 2009. Out of Athens: the new ancient Greeks. Harvard University Press, 2010. A Million and One Gods: The Persistence of Polytheism. Harvard University Press, 2014. Sappho (Understanding Classics). I.B.Tauris, 2015.

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Who is Page DuBois?

Professor of Classics and Comparative Literature

When was Page DuBois born?

Page DuBois was born on 7 March 1946.

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Page DuBois is a classical scholar, historian, classical philologist and literary scholar.

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