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Department of
Classical and Mediterranean Studies

David Neal Greenwood

Lecturer of Classical and Mediterranean Studies

David Neal Greenwood is a lecturer in the Department of Classics and Mediterranean Studies at Vanderbilt University. After taking his Ph.D. from the University of Edinburgh, Scotland, he has authored books with Cornell, Cambridge, and Routledge, numerous articles in theology, philosophy, and history, and was elected a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society in 2021.

Specializations

The Emperor Julian; Porphyry of Tyre; social and religious conflict in Late Antiquity.


Representative Publications

Studies in Late Antiquity. Variorum Collected Studies Series (London and New York: Routledge, 2024).

Steely-Eyed Athena: Wilmer Cave Wright and the Advent of Women Classicists (Cambridge: The Cambridge Philological Society, 2022).

Julian and Christianity: Revisiting the Constantinian Revolution (Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press, 2021).

“Porphyry, Eusebius, and Epistemology: Revisiting Praeparatio Evangelica i 2.2-5,” Ancient Philosophy 43 (2023), 517-537.

“Homer and the Wrath of Julian,” Classical Quarterly NS 69 (2019), 887-895.