Virginia Lewis

Virginia Lewis (PhD UC Berkeley) is an Assistant Professor of Classics at Florida State University. Her research focuses on Greek literature, with particular interests in archaic and classical Greek poetry, Pindar, tragedy, Greek Sicily, and theories of space and place. She has published on tragedy and has articles in progress on Pindar’s Sicilian odes. At the CHS, she will be completing a manuscript of her current book project, Myth, Locality, and Identity in Pindar’s Sicilian Odes, which examines the role played by local places, myths, and religious cults in epinician poetry for victors from Sicily and considers how these elements shape identity.