Margalit Finkelberg
Visiting Scholar

Margalit Finkelberg is Professor of Classics (Emerita) at Tel Aviv University. She is the author of The Birth of Literary Fiction in Ancient Greece (1998), Greeks and Pre-Greeks. Aegean Prehistory and Greek Heroic Tradition (2005, pbk 2009), Homer (2014; Hebrew) and of over eighty articles on various topics, particularly on Homer and Greek epic tradition. She is a co-editor (with G. G. Stroumsa) of Homer, the Bible, and Beyond: Literary and Religious Canons in the Ancient World (Brill 2003); and the editor of The Homer Encyclopedia (3 vols.; Wiley-Blackwell 2011). She is a member of the Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities and the recipient of the Rothschild Prize in the Humanities for 2012.