Emma Dyson

I am a sixth-year Ph.D. student and current Dolores Liebmann fellow. I work on the intersection between Greek literature and philosophy, and I have a particular interest in the literature of the Platonist tradition. My dissertation is a study of Greek philosophers’ biographies, which I treat as philosophical texts in their own right.

I have two articles forthcoming: “Socrates and the Seven Sages,” in Classical Quarterly; and “The Biographer as Philosopher in Eunapius’ Vitae Sophistarum,” in the Journal of the History of Ideas. With Emily Steiner, I have produced a transcription and translation Lewis E201, a Latin genealogy of Edward IV, peer-reviewed by the Medieval Academy of America and also forthcoming.

I received my B.A. in Classics and English from the University of Southern California in 2018 with a thesis on allegorical interpretation of Vergil in Servius, Boethius, and Fulgentius.