Mary Lefkowitz

Mary R. Lefkowitz ( born April 30, 1935 in New York City ) is an American classical philologist.

Mary Lefkowitz studied at Wellesley College in Massachusetts where he acquired in 1957 the BA degree. At Radcliffe College she received her doctorate in 1961. Later, she was a professor at Wellesley College, which she remained until her retirement. Lefkowitz is mainly concerned with the mythology and the history of ancient women. In their major works she combined both strands. A wider audience, she was known primarily as a critic of the Greek mythology cooptational Afrocentrism. In its 1996 written in conjunction with Guy MacLean Rogers book Black Athena Revisited, she sits down with Martin Bernal in his book Black Athena representing ideas apart that Greek mythology is rooted in Semitic and African models.

Lefkowitz was married from 1982 until his death in 2009, the Oxford Professor Sir Hugh Lloyd -Jones.

Works

• The daughters of Zeus. Women in ancient Greece, C. H. Beck, Munich 1992 ( Original: Women in Greek myth, 1986) ISBN 3-406-36768-2