"No one has approached the universal problem of advancing from youth to old age, or the dialogue between the two within a lifetime and across generations, more insightfully, delightfully, and with richer nuance than the great classics scholar and linguist Jane Ellen Harrison (1850-1928) . whose work revolutionized the modern understanding of Ancient Greek culture by upending millennia of patriarchal revisionism with [her] discovery of an entire class of 'matriarchal, husbandless goddesses' central to community life and ritual." --Maria Popova, The Marginalian "Jane Ellen Harrison, the maverick Cambridge classicist and celebrity public intellectual . cultivated a distinctive brand of quirky and memorable outspokenness . with her sparky wit and refusal to be silenced . She remains my hero . She has remained the iron in my soul." --Mary Beard, London Review of Books "When I compare .

Jane Grey with Jane Harrison, the advance in intellectual power seems to me not only sensible but immense; the comparison with men not in the least one that inclines me to suicide; and the effects of education and liberty scarcely to be overrated." --Virginia Woolf, The New Statesman "She wrote with a pathos and engagement rare among her academic peers, and her whole approach to the classics . seemed to open up new worlds of thought and feeling . One [has] to admire the passion and restless originality of her mind and the fructifying influence of her work on other writers." --Roger Kimball, The New Criterion.