Dr. Florence Yoon


Assistant Professor

Classical, Near Eastern, & Religious Studies

Faculty of Arts

Research Themes:  The Communicating Mind and Body

I work in ancient Greek language and literature. I'm currently working on the roles of speech, silence, and language (as potential speech) in constructing degrees of character and "mindfulness" in Greek literature, looking at the intersection of conventional and naturalistic limitations on speech for e.g. children, heralds/messengers, non-Greeks, and animals. My favourite Greek construction is the articular infinitive.

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We acknowledge that UBC’s campuses are situated within the traditional territories of the Musqueam, Squamish and Tsleil-Waututh, and in the traditional, ancestral, unceded territory of the Syilx Okanagan Nation and their peoples.


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