The Virgin's Promise: Intimacy and Futurity in Euripides' Helen

CIVILIZATIONS OF ANCIENT GREECE AND ROME

SPEAKER: Sarah Olsen, Williams College

Sarah Olsen (associate professor of Classics, Williams College) is a scholar of ancient Greek literature, art, and culture. She is the author of Solo Dance in Archaic and Classical Greece: Representing the Unruly Body (2021) and co-editor of Queer Euripides (2022) and Imprints of Dance in Ancient Greece and Rome/Improntas de danza antigua (2024). She is currently working on a book entitled The Intimacy of Euripidean Tragedy, which explores the representation of female relationships within the plays of Euripides.