Faculty of Classics - University of Cambridge

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Emily Kneebone 

Schulman Research Fellow in Classics at Trinity Hall and Director of Studies in Classics at Churchill College.

Contact:

Trinity Hall, Cambridge, CB2 1TJ

Email: esk23@cam.ac.uk

Research Interests

Didactic poetry; imperial Greek literature; Greek epic (esp. later epic); ancient ‘scientific’ and natural historical texts; declamation and the Second Sophistic. My research focuses particularly on Greek didactic poetry of the imperial period, and my current project explores the didactic, moral and imperial facets of Oppian’s Halieutica, a second-century Greek didactic epic on sea-fishing.

‘The Poetics of Knowledge in Oppian’s Halieutica,’ in Signs of Life? Studies in Later Greek Poetry - Ramus 37 (2008), pp. 32-59.

‘Dilemmas of the Diaspora: the Esther Narrative in Josephus Antiquities 11.184-296,’ in Dying For Josephus - Ramus 36 (2007), pp. 51-77.

‘Fish in Battle ? Quintus of Smyrna and the Halieutica of Oppian,’ in Quintus Smyrnaeus: Transforming Homer in Second Sophistic Epic, ed. M. Baumbach & S. Bär, Berlin (2007), pp. 285-305.