Mary Lefkowitz

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Mary R. Lefkowitz (born 1935) is a Professor Emerita of Classical Studies at Wellesley College in Massachusetts, United States.

She earned her B.A. from Wellesley College in 1957 and received her Ph.D. in classical philology from Radcliffe College (Harvard University) in 1961.

She has published on subjects including mythology, women in antiquity, Pindar, and fiction in ancient biography. She has come to the attention of a wider audience through her criticism of the claims of Afrocentrism, particularly in Not Out of Africa: How Afrocentrism Became an Excuse to Teach Myth As History, in which Lefkowitz laid out the scholarly case against the the kind of black history found in Martin Bernal's "Black Athena: The Afroasiatic Roots of Classical Civilization." In Black Athena Revisited (1996), which she edited with her Wellesley colleague, Guy MacLean Rogers, the ideas of Martin Bernal are further scrutinized.

In 2008, Lefkowitz published History Lesson an account of of what she experienced as a result of questioning the veracity of Afrocentrism. [1]

She is married to Sir Hugh Lloyd-Jones, one-time Regius Professor of Greek at Oxford University.

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  • The Victory Ode : An Introduction (1976)
  • Heroines and Hysterics (1981)
  • The Lives of the Greek Poets (1981)
  • Women's Life in Greece and Rome (1982) editor, with Maureen Fant
  • Women in Greek Myth (1986)
  • First-person Fictions : Pindar's Poetic "I" (1991)
  • Not Out of Africa: How Afrocentrism Became an Excuse to Teach Myth As History (1996)
  • Black Athena Revisited (1996) editor, with Guy Maclean Rogers
  • Greek Gods, Human Lives: What We Can Learn From Myths (2003)
  • History Lesson (2008)

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  1. ^ The Hazards of Telling the Truth, By JOHN LEO, Wall Street Journal, April 15, 2008 [1]
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