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
Current research projects
- Book: Mapping the Underworld in Greece and Rome, Cambridge University Press (under contract, signed 25/08/04)
- Reference volume: ‘Aratus’, in the series Catalogus translationum et commentariorum: Medieval and Renaissance Latin Translations and Commentaries, Virginia Brown (ed.), Catholic University of America Press, Washington
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.
& P. Ford and R. Green (edd.)
2009
Geroge Buchanan: Poet and Dramatist
.
Classical Press of Wales
p. 35-58.
23 p.
Research output
:
Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding
›
Chapter
'Astronomy and Philosophical Orientation in Classical and renaissance Didactic Poetry'
Gee, E. R. G.
2008
What Nature Does Not Teach: Didactic Literature in the Medieval and Early Modern Period
. Ruys, J. (ed.).
Brepols
p. 473-96.
Research output
:
Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding
›
Chapter
Vaga Signa: Orion and Sirius in Ovid's 'Fasti'
Gee, E. R. G.
2002
Ovid's 'Fasti': Historical Readings at its Bimillennium
. Herbert-Brown, G. & ~Missing Data, ~. D. (eds.).
Oxford University Press
p. 47-70.
Research output
:
Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding
›
Chapter
Quintus Cicero's Astronomy?
Gee, E. R. G.
Dec-2007
In :
Classical Quarterly
.
57
, 2
, p. 565-585.
21 p.
Research output
:
Contribution to journal
›
Article
Cicero's Astronomy
Gee, E. R. G.
Dec-2001
In :
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. Among other projects, she is at present completing a book for Cambridge University Press on cosmology and the afterlife in Greece and Rome, and preparing an edition of the De Sphaera of the Scottish humanist George Buchanan.
