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

Authored book

• Clement of Alexandria, Early Christian Instruction and the ‘Catechetical School’
  
  Creedy, E. (2026). Clement of Alexandria, Early Christian Instruction and the ‘Catechetical School’. Cambridge University Press. https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009764940

Book review

• 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.
  
  Creedy, E. J. (2024). 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. The Classical Review, 74(2), 455-457. https://doi.org/10.1017/s0009840x2400091x
• 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.
  
  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.
• 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.
  
  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.
• Clement of Alexandria and the Shaping of Christian Literary Practice: by Jane Heath, Cambridge, CUP Cambridge, 2020, 428 pp.
  
  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

• The Family of Faith: Church and Believer in Book One of the Paedagogus
  
  Creedy, E. (in press). The Family of Faith: Church and Believer in Book One of the Paedagogus. In Clement of Alexandria’s Paedagogus. Brill.
• Something Solid among the Shadows: Clement of Alexandria, Christ, and the Demonic Fraud of the “Gods”
  
  Creedy, E. (in press). Something Solid among the Shadows: Clement of Alexandria, Christ, and the Demonic Fraud of the “Gods”. In N. List & J. S. Wendel (Eds.), Philosophy, Theology and Jesus in Early Christianity. Routledge.

Journal Article

• "Why does Clement call Callimachus “the Cretan”? Engaging the Audience in Protrepticus 2.37"
  
  Creedy, E. (2025). "Why does Clement call Callimachus “the Cretan”? Engaging the Audience in Protrepticus 2.37". Vigiliae Christianae: A Review of Early Christian Life and Language, 79(5), 455–474. https://doi.org/10.1163/15700720-bja10109
• ‘Taking up the Mask of Humanity’: Clement of Alexandria’s Dramatic Understanding of the Two Natures of Christ
  
  Creedy, E. (2025). ‘Taking up the Mask of Humanity’: Clement of Alexandria’s Dramatic Understanding of the Two Natures of Christ. The Journal of Theological Studies, 76(1), 178–196. https://doi.org/10.1093/jts/flae087
• RETHINKING CLEMENT’S EURIPIDES: SOURCE AND SPECTACLE
  
  Creedy, E. J. (2025). RETHINKING CLEMENT’S EURIPIDES: SOURCE AND SPECTACLE. The Classical Quarterly, 75(1), 454-470. https://doi.org/10.1017/s0009838824001034
• Redemption through Divine Harmony: Clement of Alexandria’s True ‘Gnostic’ as Editor of Early Christian Writings
  
  Creedy, E. (2024). Redemption through Divine Harmony: Clement of Alexandria’s True ‘Gnostic’ as Editor of Early Christian Writings. Gnosis: Journal of Gnostic Studies, 9(1), Article 1. https://doi.org/10.1163/2451859X-00901001
• Plato, Locri and 'the Flower of Italy': Revaluating an 'Ancient' Epiphet
  
  Creedy, E. (2024). Plato, Locri and ’the Flower of Italy’: Revaluating an ’Ancient’ Epiphet. Mnemosyne: A Journal of Classical Studies, 78, 920-929. https://doi.org/10.1163/1568525X-BJA10288