麻豆传媒

BA (University of King's College), MA Classics (Dalhousie), PhD (Birmingham).

My primary research interests are Greek and Roman music, especially Greek harmonic theory; instruments and their place in the development of Greek musical science; music and Graeco-Roman society; the representation of musical instruments, expertise and performance in non-technical literature; musical learning and cultural memory in the Second Sophistic; and the reception of ancient Greek musical theory in later ages. I have published articles on musical aspects of Latin poetry and Greek philosophical texts, as well as a book entitled (Cambridge, 2010). I served on the founding executive committee of , an international society for the study of Greek and Roman music and its cultural heritage.

Academic career

• 2019-20 Leverhulme Research Fellow
• 2015-18 Head of Classics & Ancient History and Deputy Head of School, 麻豆传媒
• 2011-24 Lecturer in Classics, 麻豆传媒
• 2010-11 Associate Professor of Greek and Latin Literature, University of British Columbia
• 2003-10 Assistant Professor of Greek and Latin Literature, University of British Columbia
• 2002-3 Lecturer in Classics, University of St Andrews
• 2001-2 Teaching Fellow in Humanity (Latin), University of St Andrews

Areas of specialisation

As a classicist with a consuming interest in music, my research interests centre around the ways in which music was involved in Greek intellectual life and literary culture. This set of interests has led me to pursue questions about the related roles of instruments, diagrams, proofs and experiments in the development of scientific arguments on musical subjects in Greek antiquity; about the sometimes complicated literary reception of Greek musical culture in Latin poetry; about the rhetorical uses of the technical terminology of Greek musical theory in non-technical literature; and about the literary culture of scientific writing more broadly: its modes of persuasion; its criteria of truth; the literary uses of scientific discovery, proof, fable and anecdote.

• Articles

  • Swift E, Bosworth L, Creese D, Morris G, Pudsey A, Richardson J, Stoner J, Walker F, Wright G. . Internet Archaeology 2021, 56.
  • Creese D. . Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part A 2012, 43(2), 258-269.
  • Creese D. . Ad Familiares 2012, 43, 13-15.
  • Creese D. . The Classical Quarterly 2009, 59(2), 562-577.

• Authored Book

  • Creese D. . Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2010.

• Book Chapters

  • Creese D. . In: Huffman, C.A, ed. Aristoxenus of Tarentum: Discussion. New Brunswick, New Jersey: Transaction Publishers, 2012, pp.29-63.
  • Creese D. . In: Daniela Castaldo, Donatella Restani and Cristina Tassi, ed. Il sapere musicale e i suoi contesti da Teofrasto a Claudio Tolemeo. Ravenna: Longo, 2009, pp.67-83.
  • Creese D. . In: Keyser, PT; Irby-Massie, GL, ed. Encyclopedia of Ancient Natural Scientists: The Greek Tradition and its Many Heirs. London & New York: Routledge, 2008, pp.32-33, 150-151, 230, 244-245, 263, 306-307, 369-370, 481, 607-608, 705-706.
  • Creese D. . In: Bispham, E., Harrison, T., Sparkes, B, ed. The Edinburgh Companion to Ancient Greece and Rome. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2006, pp.413-422.
  • Creese D. . In: Todd, R.B, ed. Dictionary of British Classicists, 1500-1960. Bristol: Thoemmes Continuum, 2004, pp.617-618.
  • Barker A, Creese D. . In: Ludwig Finscher, ed. Die Musik in Geschichte und Gegenwart. Kassel: Bärenreiter, 2001, pp.399-400.

• Musical Composition

  • Creese D. . . Hildenborough: Encore, 2000.

• Review

  • Creese D. . Journal of Roman Studies 2005, 95, 296-297.