Ahuvia Kahane is a British academic working in Ireland, specializing in the study of Greek and Roman antiquity, its traditions and the relations between the ancient world and modern culture and thought.
Kahane's work addresses questions of form and content, continuity and change, authority and the ethics of literary reflection.
Ahuvia Kahane was born on an agricultural commune (kibbutz), Ramat Yohanan in the north of Israel to Reuven Kahane (1931-2003), a professor of sociology, Fellow of the Harry S. Truman Research Institute for the Advancement of Peace and Saul Robinson Chair at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem and Orna, née Smirin,[3] an artist and editor who, following a divorce, married Magnum Photos photographer Micha Bar-Am.
[7] Kahane studied Greek and Latin in the Department of Classics at the University of Tel-Aviv, working with linguist H. B. Rosen [he], John Glucker and other scholars and obtaining a B.A.
He co-founded (1998, with S. Sara Monoson) the Classical Traditions Initiative[8] at Northwestern and worked closely with the Alice Kaplan Institute for the Humanities.