Staff profile

I am a Leverhulme Early Career Fellow working on the relationship between Christians and the theatre in Classical antiquity. My current project has a particular focus on the place of the three tragedians – Aeschylus, Sophocles and Euripides – in early Christian thought, but I work across the landscape of drama and performance in the Greco-Roman world.Before joining the department at Durham I completed my PhD in Classics at King's College London. My thesis focused on the writings of Clement of Alexandria, a late second-century Christian author who took a particular interest in the riches of Classical culture. I explored his use of dramatic themes and material, and the impact this had on his articulation and understanding of Christian doctrine.I continue to maintain an interest in Clement, and have a number of published or forthcoming pieces exploring his relationship with Greco-Roman culture in the second century.

• Early Christianity
• Theatre in antiquity
• Clement of Alexandria
• The second century
• Christians and contemporary culture

Book review

• Creedy, E. J. (online). EUSEBIUS AND THE GOSPELS - (J.) Coogan Eusebius the Evangelist. Rewriting the Fourfold Gospel in Late Antiquity. Pp. xvi + 234, ills. New York: Oxford University Press, 2023. Cased, £47.99, US$99. ISBN: 978-0-19-758004-2. Classical Review, https://doi.org/10.1017/s0009840x2400091x
• Creedy, E. (2024). Courtney J. P. Friesen, Acting gods, playing heroes, and the interaction between Judaism, Christianity, and Greek drama in the early common era. Abingdon; New York: Routledge, 2023. Pp. 180. ISBN 9781032491028. Bryn Mawr Classical Review,
• Creedy, E. (2023). H. Clifton Ward Clement and Scriptural Exegesis: The Making of a Commentarial Theologian Oxford Early Christian Studies Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2022. Pp. xiv + 233. Hardcover. $115.00. ISBN 9780192863362. Review of Biblical Literature,
• Creedy, E. (2022). Clement of Alexandria and the Shaping of Christian Literary Practice: by Jane Heath, Cambridge, CUP Cambridge, 2020, 428 pp. International Journal for the Study of the Christian Church, 22(2), 180-182. https://doi.org/10.1080/1474225x.2022.2061136

Chapter in book

• Creedy, E. (in press). The Family of Faith: Church and Believer in Book One of the Paedagogus. In Clement of Alexandria's Paedagogus. Brill Academic Publishers

Journal Article

• Creedy, E. (in press). “Assuming the Mask of Humanity.” Clement of Alexandria’s Dramatic Understanding of the Two Natures of Christ. The Journal of Theological Studies,
• Creedy, E. (online). Plato, Locri and 'the Flower of Italy': Revaluating an 'Ancient' Epiphet. Mnemosyne: A Journal of Classical Studies, 1-10. https://doi.org/10.1163/1568525X-BJA10288
• Creedy, E. (2024). Redemption through Divine Harmony: Clement of Alexandria’s True ‘Gnostic’ as Editor of Early Christian Writings. Gnosis (Leiden. Print), 9(1), 1-34. https://doi.org/10.1163/2451859X-00901001