#  Emily Greenwood 

James F. Rothenberg Professor of the Classics and of Comparative Literature

On leave spring 2026

 

 

 



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Research interests: ancient Greek prose literature, Greek historiography, classical reception studies, black studies, postcolonial literature and theory



 

 

 



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Greenwood, Emily. 2010. *[Afro-Greeks: Dialogues Between Anglophone Caribbean Literature and Classics in the Twentieth Century](/publication/afro-greeks-dialogues-between-anglophone-caribbean-literature-and-classics-twentieth)*. 1st ed. Oxford: Oxford University Press. doi:https://doi.org/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199575244.001.0001.



 

 

Greenwood, Emily. 2010. *[Afro-Greeks: Dialogues Between Anglophone Caribbean Literature and Classics in the Twentieth Century](/publication/afro-greeks-dialogues-between-anglophone-caribbean-literature-and-classics-twentieth)*. 1st ed. Oxford: Oxford University Press. doi:https://doi.org/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199575244.001.0001.



 

 

 

 

Graziosi, Barbara, and Emily Greenwood, eds. 2007. *[Homer in the Twentieth Century: Between World Literature and the Western Canon](/publication/homer-twentieth-century-between-world-literature-and-western-canon)*. 1st ed. Oxford: Oxford University Press. doi:https://doi.org/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199298266.001.0001.



 

 

Graziosi, Barbara, and Emily Greenwood, eds. 2007. *[Homer in the Twentieth Century: Between World Literature and the Western Canon](/publication/homer-twentieth-century-between-world-literature-and-western-canon)*. 1st ed. Oxford: Oxford University Press. doi:https://doi.org/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199298266.001.0001.



 

 

 

 

Irwin, Elizabeth, and Emily Greenwood, eds. 2007. *[Reading Herodotus: A Study of the Logoi in Book 5 of Herodotus’ Histories](/publication/reading-herodotus-study-logoi-book-5-herodotus-histories)*. Cambridge; New York: Cambridge University Press.



 

 

Irwin, Elizabeth, and Emily Greenwood, eds. 2007. *[Reading Herodotus: A Study of the Logoi in Book 5 of Herodotus’ Histories](/publication/reading-herodotus-study-logoi-book-5-herodotus-histories)*. Cambridge; New York: Cambridge University Press.



 

 

 

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Greenwood, Emily. 2006. *[Thucydides and the Shaping of History](/publication/thucydides-and-shaping-history)*. London: Duckworth.



 

 

Greenwood, Emily. 2006. *[Thucydides and the Shaping of History](/publication/thucydides-and-shaping-history)*. London: Duckworth.



 

 

 

 

 



 

 

 

 

 

 

 



 

 

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