James M. Redfield

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James M. Redfield is the Edward Olson Distinguished Service Professor of Classics at the University of Chicago. He has made numerous contributions to current scholarship on Homer and Herodotus, probably the most notable of which is his book, Nature and Culture in the Iliad: The Tragedy of Hector (University of Chicago Press, 1975), an anthropological reading of the Iliad with the stated goal of analyzing Hector's role in the work.

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Redfield is a member of the Department of Classical Languages and Literature. He took his undergraduate degree from the University of Chicago in 1954, studied at New College, Oxford from 1956 to 1958, and returned to Chicago for his Ph.D. in 1961. He was appointed as a professor at The College at the University of Chicago in 1976, a position in which he remains as of 2008.

Redfield holds the distinction of having been awarded the University's Quantrell Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching twice, once in 1965 and again in 1987.

[edit] Publications

Nature and Culture in the Iliad: The Tragedy of Hector (University of Chicago Press, 1975)

The Locrian Maidens: Love and Death in Greek Italy (University of Chicago Press, 2004)

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