Dr. Deborah Steiner

Biography

Deborah Steiner is the John Jay Professor in the Department of Classics at Columbia University. She received her undergraduate and graduate degrees from Harvard, Oxford, and the University of California at Berkeley. Since joining Columbia in 1994, Steiner has focused on research interests that encompass Homeric poetry, early symposium, choral dancing in art poetry, and archaic fable. Her publications include significant works such as 'The Tyrant's Writ' (Princeton, 1994), which discusses representations of writing in archaic classical Greece, and 'Images and Mind' (Princeton, 2001), which investigates the place of statues in Greek literature, philosophy, and religion. She has also contributed commentary on the 17th and 18th books of the 'Odyssey' (Cambridge, 2010). Additionally, her articles delve into Aeschylus' 'Agamemnon', the readings of Greek iambic poets, and interactions between Greek ritual and early poetry, as well as analyses of images on early Greek vases.

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