Dr Emma Gee
Lecturer in Latin & Classical Studies
On research leave 2011-13
Phone: 01334 462621
Room: S12
Research Interests
- Latin Literature
- Greek Literature
- Ancient Astronomy
- Reception of ancient astronomy and literature in the Renaissance
- Ideas of the Afterlife in philosophy and epic
Current research projects
- Book (in press with OUP New York): Aratus and the Astronomical Tradition.
- Book (in progress, under contract with CUP): Mapping the Underworld in Greece and Rome.
Publications
Ovid, Aratus and Augustus
Gee, E. R. G.
2000
Cambridge University Press
.
Research output
:
Book/Report
›
Book
Borrowed Plumage: Literary Metamorphosis in George Buchanan's
De Sphaera
Gee, E. R. G.
2009
In:
George Buchanan: Poet and Dramatist.
Ford, P. & Green, R. P. H. (eds.).
Classical Press of Wales
,
p. 35-58.
23 p.
Research output
:
Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding
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Chapter
Astronomy and Philosophical Orientation in Classical and Renaissance Didactic Poetry
Gee, E. R. G.
2008
In:
What Nature Does Not Teach: Didactic Literature in the Medieval and Early-Modern Period.
Ruys, J. (ed.).
Brepols
,
p. 473-496.
Research output
:
Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding
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Chapter
Vaga Signa: Orion and Sirius in Ovid's 'Fasti'
Gee, E. R. G.
2002
In:
Ovid's 'Fasti': Historical Readings at its Bimillennium.
Herbert-Brown, G. & ~Missing Data, . M. D. (eds.).
Oxford University Press
,
p. 47-70.
Research output
:
Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding
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Chapter
Quintus Cicero's Astronomy?
Gee, E. R. G.
Dec-2007
In :
The Classical Quarterly
.
57
,
2
,
p. 565-585.
21 p.
Research output
:
Contribution to journal
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Article
Cicero's Astronomy
Gee, E. R. G.
Dec-2001
In :
The Classical Quarterly
.
51
,
02
,
p. 520-536.
17 p.
Research output
:
Contribution to journal
›
Article
'Lydus' and 'Firmicus Maternus'
Gee, E. R. G.
Nov-2008
Research output
:
Non-textual form
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Data set/Database
For further information on publications, please view my profile on the university's research portal.
Teaching
- Latin Language and Literature
- Greek Language and Literature
- Classical Civilisation (eg. Greek Mythology, Genres in Classical Literature)
- Specialist Courses in the original languages or in translation
Academic Career
Dr Emma Gee studied at the Universities of Sydney and Cambridge. After graduating with a Ph.D. from Cambridge, for which she was awarded the thesis prize, she became Lecturer in Classics at the University of Exeter, UK (1997-2002). Her book on astronomy and the Roman calendar, 'Ovid, Aratus and Augustus', was published by Cambridge University Press in 2000. She has just completed the manuscript of a book on the Hellenistic astronomical poet Aratus and Latin translations of his work from the first century BC to the fourth AD and beyond. She is at present completing a book, intended for Cambridge University Press, on cosmology and the afterlife in Greece and Rome.
