Emily Jane Malaika Greenwood

Emily Greenwood

Emily Jane Malaika Greenwood (born February 1976 in the Cayman Islands ) is a British ancient historian .

Life

Greenwood won a merit scholarship to boarding school, Sevenoaks School . She received her BA, MPhil and PhD in Classics from the University of Cambridge . Her dissertation, which was completed in 2001 and supervised by Paul Cartledge , was entitled The Invention of the Critic. The Writer as Critic from Herodotus to Aristotle . Greenwood was a lecturer in Greek at the University of St. Andrews from 2002 to 2008 and moved to the Classics Department at Yale University in 2009 .

Her main research interests are ancient Greek historiography, especially Thucydides and Herodotus, as well as the development of history as a genre and a modern critical discipline. It also examines the appropriation and reinvention of Greco-Roman antiquity from the late nineteenth century to the present day.

Fonts (selection)

• Thucydides and the shaping of history . London 2006, ISBN 0-7156-3283-3 .
• as editor with Barbara Graziosi : Homer in the twentieth century. Between world literature and the western canon. Conference held in Durham from 20 to 23 July 2004 . Oxford 2007, ISBN 978-0-19-929826-6 .
• as editor with Elizabeth Irwin: Reading Herodotus. A study of the Logoi in Book 5 of Herodotus' Histories . Cambridge 2007, ISBN 0-521-87630-3 .
• Afro-Greeks. Dialogues between Anglophone Caribbean literature and classics in the twentieth century . Oxford 2010, ISBN 0-19-957524-X .

Web links

• Emily Greenwood - Yale Department of Classics