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Biography
I completed my undergraduate and graduate degrees at the University of Cambridge, after which I held a Research Fellowship at Trinity Hall, Cambridge, and a Lectureship at the University of Edinburgh. Before coming to Nottingham in 2018 I was Co-Investigator of an AHRC-funded project exploring the cultural history of imperial Greek epic, and College Lecturer and Director of Studies in Classics at Newnham College, Cambridge.
Expertise Summary
I am Director of Undergraduate Admissions for the School of Humanities, and Admissions Tutor for the Department of Classics and Archaeology, and always welcome enquiries from potential applicants about any of our courses.
Teaching Summary
I enjoy teaching a wide range of topics in Greek and Latin literature, language, and culture. My recent teaching has included Interpreting Ancient Literature; Intermediate and Advanced Greek modules… read more
Research Summary
I work primarily on Greek literature written under the Roman empire, with a particular focus on Greek epic poetry of the 1st-6th centuries AD. I have recently published a monograph on Oppian's… read more
Recent Publications
EMILY KNEEBONE, 2020. Oppian's 'Halieutica': Charting a Didactic Epic. Cambridge University Press.
EMILY KNEEBONE, 2020. Oppian and Aelian in dialogue. Philologia Antiqua. 13, 85-97
EMILY KNEEBONE, 2017. The limits of enquiry in imperial Greek didactic poetry. In: J. KÖNIG and G. WOOLF, eds., Authority and Expertise in Ancient Scientific Culture. Cambridge University Press. 203-230
EMILY KNEEBONE, 2013. Josephus’ Esther and diaspora Judaism. In: T. WHITMARSH and S. THOMSON, eds., The Romance Between Greece and the East. Cambridge University Press. 165-182
I enjoy teaching a wide range of topics in Greek and Latin literature, language, and culture. My recent teaching has included Interpreting Ancient Literature; Intermediate and Advanced Greek modules on Homer, Greek tragedy and Plato; Latin language and literature modules; and a module on the representation of animals in the ancient world.
Current Research
I work primarily on Greek literature written under the Roman empire, with a particular focus on Greek epic poetry of the 1st-6th centuries AD. I have recently published a monograph on Oppian's Halieutica, a second-century Greek didactic epic on the sea and the wily, hostile fish that inhabit it; I have also written articles on heroic ethics in posthomeric Greek epic; diaspora Jewish identity in Josephus' adaptation of the Hebrew Bible for a Greco-Roman audience; the representation of mortal expertise in didactic poetry; and animals in later Greek poetry and prose. I am currently editing a volume of translations of imperial Greek epic poems. My current research explores new ways of reading imperial Greek epic poetry as a literary corpus, examining the role of space, place, and ecology in these extraordinary texts.