Boston College teaching record
Hanne Eisenfeld
Associate Professor
Biography
Hanne Eisenfeld studies mythology, poetry, and religion in the ancient Greek world, and her work emphasizes that these fields are not fully separable from each other at all. Her current research deals with wisdom literature: traditions that ask big questions about human life (how can we be happy? what does it mean to be mortal? why do we suffer?). She is interested especially in how Greek poetry takes up these problems and how it participates in broader wisdom conversations that were taking place around the Mediterranean and in the ancient Near East.
Official evaluation summary
4.67 / 5
Courses taught
- CLAS2230 Classical Mythology
- CLAS1056 Intermediate Latin I
- CLAS2240 Dangerous Women in Classical Literature
- CLAS1701 Death in Ancient Greece: Achilles to Alexander the Great
- CLAS1011 Elementary Latin II
- CLAS4252 Sex, Power, Gods: Ancient Wisdom Literature
- CLAS3301 Greek Tragedy
- CLAS3315 Death and Burial in Homer's Iliad (and beyond)
- CLAS1053 Intermediate Ancient Greek II
- CLAS3330 Aphrodite
- CLAS3388 Sophokles' Philoktetes: Frauds, Friends, and the Fall of Troy
- CLAS1052 Intermediate Ancient Greek I
- CLAS2290 Death in Ancient Greece
- ENGL2220 Classical Mythology