Common Hour Speaker Bios Spring Semester Speaker:Deborah LyonsDeborah Lyons is the author of Dangerous Gifts: Gender and Exchange in Ancient Greece (Austin 2012), Gender and Immortality: Heroines in Ancient Greek Myth and Cult (Princeton 1997) and the co-editor (with K. Raaflaub) of Ex Oriente Lex: Near Eastern Influences on Greek and Roman Law, essays by Raymond Westbrook (Baltimore 2015) and (with R. Westbrook) of Women and Property in Ancient Near Eastern and Mediterranean Societies (Washington, DC 2005). Her current project is “Immortality and its Discontents,” on ancient Greek views about the eternal life of their gods. She has just been promoted to Professor of Classics at Miami University (Ohio, USA).
