Dr EMILY KNEEBONE's Outputs (5)

The Politics of Place in Colluthus' Abduction of Helen (2024)
Book Chapter
Kneebone, E. (2025). The Politics of Place in Colluthus' Abduction of Helen. In M. Cariou, & N. Zito (Eds.), Μάρτυρι μύθῳ Poésie, histoire et société aux époques impériale et tardive: Actes du colloque international Paris, Sorbonne Université, 8-10 septembre 2022 (103-132). Edizioni dell’Orso

Colluthus’ 'Abduction of Helen' depicts Paris as a shepherd who leaves his native Trojan mountains on an audacious sea-journey, touring the monuments of Sparta and bearing back to his homeland a Helen who fantasises about seeing the spectacular walls... Read More about The Politics of Place in Colluthus' Abduction of Helen.

In Praise of the Fly (2024)
Book Chapter
Kneebone, E. (2024). In Praise of the Fly. In S. Goldhill (Ed.), The Cambridge Companion to Lucian (163-185). Cambridge University Press. https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009170406.008

Lucian’s 'In Praise of the Fly' offers a delightfully wry encomium of the humble house fly. While the speech engages wittily with sophistic traditions by praising this troublesome insect, it also raises important questions about social marginality an... Read More about In Praise of the Fly.

Didactic (and) Epic (2024)
Book Chapter
Kneebone, E. (2024). Didactic (and) Epic. In E. Greensmith (Ed.), The Cambridge Companion to Ancient Greek Epic (58-78). Cambridge University Press. https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009086585.005

This chapter examines the interplay and boundaries between ancient heroic and didactic epic poetry, particularly in the Hellenistic and imperial periods, treating didactic poets such as Aratus, Nicander, Dionysius the Periegete, Oppian, ps.-Oppian, a... Read More about Didactic (and) Epic.

Oppian's "Halieutica": Charting a Didactic Epic (2020)
Book
Kneebone, E. (2020). Oppian's "Halieutica": Charting a Didactic Epic. Cambridge University Press. https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108892728

Oppian's Halieutica is a dazzling five-book Greek didactic poem about the sea and its wily, chaotic inhabitants. This book offers the first sustained reading of the poem as a didactic epic that meditates on the place of human beings within the cosmos... Read More about Oppian's "Halieutica": Charting a Didactic Epic.

The limits of enquiry in imperial Greek didactic poetry (2017)
Book Chapter
Kneebone, E. (2017). The limits of enquiry in imperial Greek didactic poetry. In J. König, & G. Woolf (Eds.), Authority and Expertise in Ancient Scientific Culture. Cambridge University Press. https://doi.org/10.1017/9781107446724