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Name Debbie Felton
Position Professor
Institutional Affiliation University of Massachusetts Amherst
Latitude 42.3911569
Longitude -72.5289008
Research Interests

Folklore in classical literature, Deformity and monstrosity in classical literature, Classical tradition

Websites https://www.umass.edu/classics/member/debbie-felton; https://umass.academia.edu/DebbieFelton
Publications

"PUBLICATIONS

“The Undead and Eternal.” Chapter 8 in A Cultural History of Death in Antiquity (500 BCE-800 CE), ed. Mario Erasmo. Forthcoming from Bloomsbury Press.
Miller, James D. and D. Felton. “The Fermi Paradox, Bayes’ Rule, and Existential Risk Management.” Futures 86 (2017): 44-57. http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0016328715300665.
“Witches, Disgust, and Anti-Abortion Propaganda in Imperial Rome.” Chapter 9 in The Ancient Emotion of Disgust, eds. Dimos Spatharas and Donald Lateiner (Oxford University Press, 2016). Pp. 189-201.
“Thigh Wounds in Homer and Vergil: Cultural Reality and Literary Metaphor.” Chapter 14 in Resemblance, Reality, and Tradition in Greek Thought, ed. Arum Park (Routledge, 2016). Pp. 239-258.
“The Motif of the ‘Mutilated Hero’ in Herodotus.” Phoenix 68.1-2 (2014): 47-61.
“Apuleius’ Cupid Considered as a Lamia (Metamorphoses 5.17-18).” Illinois Classical Studies 38 (2013): 229-244.
“Were Vergil’s Harpies Menstruating?” The Classical Journal 108.4 (2013): 405-18.
“Monstrosity or Disability? Ancient Accounts of Accelerated Ageing.” Folklore 123.3 (2012): 355-61.
“Rejecting and Embracing the Monstrous in Ancient Greece and Rome.” In The Ashgate Research Companion to Monsters and the Monstrous, edited by Asa Simon Mittman and Peter J. Dendle. Ashgate Press, UK (2012): 103-31."
from https://www.umass.edu/classics/member/debbie-felton on 6-14-17.

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