Clara Millicent Knight (died 31 July 1950) was a British classicist and academic, specialising in comparative philology and classical literature.

Knight studied classics at King's College, London, graduating with a second class honours Bachelor of Arts (BA) degree in 1909.^[1] She taught at the University of London from 1910, rising to become Reader in Classics (1929–1945) at her alma mater King's College, London. In addition to her teaching, she was a Member of Council of the Hellenic Society and of the Council of the Classical Association.^[2]

Selected works

• Knight, Clara M. (1914). "The Importance of the Veronese Palimpsest in the First Decade of Livy". The Classical Quarterly. 8 (3): 166–180. ISSN 0009-8388.
• Knight, Clara M. (1918). "The TO- Participle with the Accusative in Latin". The American Journal of Philology. 39 (2): 184–192. doi:10.2307/289531. ISSN 0002-9475.
• T. Macci Plauti (1919). Knight, Clara M. (ed.). Menaechmi. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
• Knight, Clara M. (1921). "The Time-Meaning of the To-Participle in Vergil". The American Journal of Philology. 42 (3): 260–264. doi:10.2307/289584. ISSN 0002-9475.
• Knight, Clara M. (1921). Greek and Latin adverbs and their value in the reconstruction of the prehistoric declensions. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

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