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Classics professor to study mysterious Greek words

By David Gonnerman '90
February 10, 2004

Congratulations to Associate Professor of Classics Steve Reece, who has received one of three 2003-04 McIntosh Fellowships awarded to recently tenured faculty by the Woodrow Wilson Foundation.

The $15,000 stipend will enable Reece to complete his research into 50 Homeric Greek words of mysterious origin. He believes that they were created by accident -- through mishearing of word boundaries -- during the period when the epic poems were being composed and transmitted orally.

Contact David Gonnerman at 507-646-3315 or gonnermd@stolaf.edu.