# Mary Lefkowitz
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Mary R. Lefkowitz (born April 30, 1935) is an American scholar of Classics. She is the Professor Emerita of Classical Studies at Wellesley College in Wellesley, Massachusetts, where she previously worked from 1959 to 2005. She has published ten books over the course of her career.
Everything is Eclipsed By the Shape of Destiny, Sophocles’ Antigone (Part 3)
In part three of Sophocles' Antigone, Kreon speaks with his son who was set to marry Antigone, and Antigone is finally sentenced to her death. Help keep LTAMB going by subscribing to Liv's Patreon for bonus content!
CW/TW: far too many Greek myths involve assault. Given it's fiction, and typically …
Thebes, the City of Tragedy, Sophocles’ Antigone Part 4
Continuing with Sophocles' Antigone... There's nothing but tragedy in the city of Thebes. Help keep LTAMB going by subscribing to Liv's Patreon for bonus content!
CW/TW: far too many Greek myths involve assault. Given it's fiction, and typically involves gods and/or monsters, I'm not as deferential…
RE-AIR: We Love a Complex Woman Living Through the Trojan War, Euripides' Helen
With Iphigenia Among the Taurians so fresh in our minds, I want to revisit another odd, foreign, mistaken identity, escape plan play... What if Helen of Sparta was never taken by Paris, never brought to Troy at all? Euripides' Helen explores a "ghost theory" of Helen, an eidolon theory. This is all…
Apo Mechanis Theos; Deus Ex Machina; Gods in the Machine (Euripides Part 3)
Like most things Euripides wrote, his treatment of the Olympian gods and what they were capable of (and best of all, how that's received by mortals) is absolutely ripe for interpretation. Euripides walked the line of impiety and seemed to have a ball.
CW/TW: far too many Greek myths involve assault…
I Would Gladly Fight in Battle Three Times Over, Than Give Birth Once… Women in Euripides
Some of the most realistic, sympathetic, complex, and villainous women of the ancient world are found in the works of Euripides. He seemed to have had an interest in the people on the margins, women, foreign "barbarians", and enslaved people. Today we're looking at them, and Euripides through them.…
Seconds Count: Secondary Literature in the Study of the Classics, Part I (Ad Navseam, Episode 167)
After a short hiatus the guys are back, dipping into their personal libraries to present some of the secondary literature that has been influential in shaping their thinking as Classicists. As Jeff and Dave get a little wonky, longtime listeners may not be all that surprised at some of the choices …
The Great Debate on Black Athena
Dr. John Henrik Clarke, Dr. Martin Bernal, Dr. Mary Lefkowitz, and Professor Guy MacLean Rogers, focusing on the origins and foundations of Western civilization. The central conflict is between the perspective that Western civilization has distinct African or Afro-Asiatic roots (championed by Clar…
Villain, Victim... Double Agent? The Many Lives of Helen of Troy pt 3
What happened to Helen after the Trojan War? Mary and Charlotte pick up the trail of mythology’s most famous femme fatale as she makes the long journey home from Troy. The big question at the end of the previous episode was whether her husband Menelaus would kill her as revenge for betraying him wi…
The White Man's Library: Not Out Of Africa
With controversy surrounding a black Helen of Troy and a non-white Athena in Nolan's "Odyssey," Paul Kersey and Sam Dickson cover Mary Lefkowitz's "Not Out Of Africa: How 'Afrocentrism' Became An Excuse To Teach Myth As History."
Justice for Helen... Revisiting Euripides' Helen (Parts 1-4)
Having seen Christopher Nolan's Odyssey we are so disturbed by his violation of Lupita Nyong'o's Helen that we must revisit another ancient Helen... one who gets her due.
This episode originally aired as a four part series in July 2022. What if Helen of Sparta was never taken by Paris, never broug…
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