Polyxeni Strolonga

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She was born in Athens and studied Classics at the University of Athens. She holds a Ph.D. from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, where she completed a dissertation on “Reciprocity and the Divine: A Study of the major Homeric Hymns.”  She has taught at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, the Brigham Young University, the Franklin & Marshall College and the Hellenic Open University. She was a research fellow at the interdisciplinary Illinois Program for Research in the Humanities and she participated in the teaching program Sunoikisis at the Center for Hellenic Studies at Harvard University. Her publications and research interests focus on the study of the archaic age, especially through Homer and the Homeric Hymns, with a special emphasis on Greek religion, narratoloy, the reception of myth and the application of anthropology on the study of the archaic society.