Padel, Ruth

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Padel, Ruth (1946– ), poet and classical scholar, born in London and educated at the Sorbonne, the Free University, Berlin, and Oxford University. Her volumes of poetry, which combine classical allusion with an increasingly contemporary idiom, include Alibi (1985), Summer Snow (1990, with poems invoking Crete and the ‘summer snow deep in the mountain’ of Mount Ida), Angel (1993), Fusewire (1996), Voodoo Shop (2002), and Rembrandt Would Have Loved You (1995), an intimate exploration of a love affair. Scholarly works include In and Out of the Mind: Greek Images of the Tragic Self (1992) and Whom Gods Destroy: Elements of Greek and Tragic Madness (1995).

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