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Miriam Leonard

University College London
Classics Department

Miriam Leonard teaches Classics at University College London. Her research explores the intellectual history of classics in modern European thought from Hegel to Derrida. She is author of Athens in Paris (OUP, 2005) and co-editor of Laughing with Medusa: classical myth and feminist thought (OUP, 2006).

Project Summary

Greeks, Jews and the Enlightenment investigates how an opposition between Hebraism and Hellenism was central to the engagement with the past in post-Enlightenment Europe. With a specific focus on Germany, it argues that this antithesis played a crucial role in the development of Classics as a discipline and reveals how the figures of the ‘Greek’ and the ‘Jew’ have been integral to the construction of modernity.