» Jenny Strauss Clay

At the top of her biography page at UVA, she has this wonderful quote by Nietzsche:

Philology is that venerable art which requires of those who honor her one thing above all: to turn aside, to take one's time, to become still and slow. . . . Precisely for this reason, she is more necessary today than ever, precisely on this account, she attracts and enchants us most powerfully, in an age of "work," which is to say, haste, the unseemly and sweating hurry that wants to be "done" with everything right away, even with every old and new book. She herself will not so easily be done with anything, she instructs reading well, that means, slowly, deeply, carefully, regardfully, looking forward and backward, with second thoughts, with doors left open, with delicate fingers and eyes. . . .

F. Nietzsche, Moregenrote

• her bio at University of Virginia
• her NY Times article on her father, "The Real Leo Strauss."
  
• her books:
• Hesiod's Cosmos
• Wrath of Athena: Gods and Men in the Odyssey
  
• Politics of Olympus: Form and Meaning in the Major Homeric Hymns