Current and Upcoming Research Projects
a) Senior Researchers and Collaborations:
Homer
Bakker, Egbert:
A Commentary on Book 9 of the Odyssey (Greek and Roman Classics, CUP)
Affiliation: University of Yale
Link: http://classics.yale.edu/people/egbert-bakker
Bierl, Anton / Latacz, Joachim:
Basler Homer-Kommentar (SNF)
Affiliation: Universität Basel
Link: https://klaphil.unibas.ch/graezistik/griech/bk/
Bowie, Angus:
Homer, Iliad 3 (Cambridge Greek and Latin Classics: Cambridge University Press)
Homer, Iliad 21-24 (Greek and Latin Writers Series: Fondazione Lorenzo Valla and Arnoldo Mondadori Editore)
Affiliation: University of Oxford
Link: http://www.classics.ox.ac.uk/angusbowie.html
Nagy, Gregory / Sutton, Dana:
Homer and the Papyri Database
Affiliation: Harvard University
http://chs.harvard.edu/CHS/article/display/1168
Pulleyn, Simon:
Homer, Odyssey Book I edited with a translation, introduction, vocabulary and commentary.
Affiliation: Independent Scholar, Oxford University Press
Strauss Clay, Jenny:
A Commentary on Book 23 of the Iliad
Affiliation: University of Virginia
Link: http://classics.virginia.edu/people/profile/jsc2t
Hesiod
Currie, Bruno:
Hesiod and Myth
Affiliation: University of Oxford
Link: http://www.oriel.ox.ac.uk/content/dr-bruno-currie
Fernández
Delgado, José Antonio:
Hesíodo. Fragmentos. Edición bilingüe griego-español, introducciones y notas
Affiliation: University of Salamanca
Link: http://facultadfilologia.usal.es/la-facultad/profesores/jose-antonio-fernandez-delgado
Strauss Clay, Jenny / Vergados, Athanassios:
A Commentary on Hesiod’s Theogony (Cambridge Greek and Latin Classics Series).
Affiliation: University of Virginia and University of Heidelberg
Link: http://classics.virginia.edu/people/profile/jsc2t
Vergados, Athanassios:
Hesiod's Intellectual World
Affiliation: Seminar für Klassische Philologie, Universität Heidelberg
Apollonius Rhodius
Murray, Jackie:
Read in the Stars: Apollonius’ Argonautica and Ptolemy III Euergetes’ New Era
Affiliation: University of Kentucky
Link: https://mcl.as.uky.edu/users/jmu245
Murray, Jackie / Clauss, James J. / Harder, M. Anette:
The Text and Commentary of Book 1 of Apollonius’ Argonautica
Affiliation: University of Kentucky
Link: https://mcl.as.uky.edu/users/jmu245
Early Latin Epic
Biggs, Thomas:
Naevius’ Bellum Punicum
Affiliation: University of Georgia
Link: http://www.classics.uga.edu/directory/thomas-biggs
Catullus
Trimble, Gail:
Catullus. Poem 64: Edited with an Introduction and Commentary (Cambridge Classical Texts and Commentaries, CUP)
Affiliation: University of Oxford
Link: http://www.classics.ox.ac.uk/
Vergil
Armstrong, Rebecca:
The Poetic and Cultural Significance of Plants and Trees in the Eclogues, Georgics and Aeneid of Vergil.
Affiliation: University of Oxford
Link: http://www.classics.ox.ac.uk/rebeccaarmstrong.html
Keith, Alison M.:
Understanding Vergil. Understanding Classics Series. London.
Affiliation: University of Toronto
Link: http://classics.chass.utoronto.ca/index.php/faculty/faculty-list/38
Lovatt, Helen:
The Power of Sadness: Trauma and Resilience in Virgil's Aeneid
Affiliation: University of Nottingham
Link: http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/classics/people/helen.lovatt
Rogerson, Anne:
A Commentary on Virgil, Aeneid 8
Affiliation: University of Sydney
Ovid
Keith, Alison M.:
A Commentary on the Fourth Book of Ovid’s Metamorphoses (CUP)
Ovidian Itineraries in Flavian Epic (SSHRC)
Affiliation: University of Toronto
Link: http://classics.chass.utoronto.ca/index.php/faculty/faculty-list/38
Lucan
Dreyling, Henning:
A Commentary on Lucan, De Bello Civili II
Affiliation: Independent Researcher
Link: https://www.ulb.uni-muenster.de/share/fachcluster1.html
Roche, Paul:
A Commentary on Lucan, De Bello Civili VII
Affiliation: University of Sydney
Link: http://sydney.edu.au/arts/classics_ancient_history/staff/profiles/paul.roche.php
Flavian Epic
Augoustakis, Antony:
Death and Ritual in Flavian Epic
Affiliation: University of Illinois
Link: http://www.classics.illinois.edu/people/aaugoust
Augoustakis, Antony / Littlewood, Joy:
A Commentary on Book 3 of Silius Italicus’ Punica
Affiliation: University of Illinois and University of Oxford
Link: http://www.classics.illinois.edu/people/aaugoust
Augoustakis, Antony / Littlewood, Joy:
Flavian Campania
Affiliation: University of Illinois and University of Oxford
Link: http://www.classics.illinois.edu/people/aaugoust
Augoustakis, Antony / Buckley, Emma /Stocks, Claire:
Fides in Latin Literature
Affiliation: Universities of Illinois, Nijmegen, and St Andrews
Link: http://www.classics.illinois.edu/people/aaugoust
Bernstein, Neil W.:
Silius Italicus, Punica 9. Edited with an Introduction, Translation, and Commentary
Link: https://author.oit.ohio.edu/
Brief Description:
A philological commentary on Silius Italicus, Punica 9, under contract with Oxford University Press.
Chinn, Christopher:
Vision and Visuality in the Poetry of Statius
Affiliation: Pomona College
Link: https://www.pomona.edu/directory/people/christopher-m-chinn
Davis, Peter:
A Commentary on Valerius Flaccus Book 7
Affiliation: University of Adelaide / University of Tasmania
Fratantuono, Lee, M. / Stark, Caroline:
A Companion to Latin Epic, 14–96 C.E. (Wiley-Blackwell)
Affiliation: Ohio Wesleyan University
Link: https://www.owu.edu/academics/departments-programs/department-of-classics/program-director/lee-m-fratantuono
Ginsberg, L. D. / Krasne, Darcy A.:
After 69 C.E.: Civil War in Flavian Literature
Affiliation Universities of Missouri and Cincinnati
Link: http://www.ed.ac.uk/files/imports/fileManager/69ce-18june-panel.pdf
Keith, Alison M.:
Ovidian Itineraries in Flavian Epic (SSHRC)
Affiliation: University of Toronto
Link: http://classics.chass.utoronto.ca/index.php/faculty/faculty-list/38
Krasne, Darcy A.:
War of the World: Cosmos and Civil War in Valerius Flaccus’ Argonautica
Affiliation: University of Missouri
Link: http://classics.missouri.edu/people/krasne.shtml
Nelis, Damien:
Intertextuality in Flavian Epic Poetry (SNF)
Affiliation: Université de Genève
Link: http://p3.snf.ch/Project-146976
Stover, Tim:
Civil War and the Argonautic Program of Statius' Thebaid.
Affiliation: Florida State University
Link: http://classics.fsu.edu/faculty/stover_tim.php
Imperial Greek and Late Antique Epic
Agosti, Gianfranco:
Affiliation: Sapienza University of Rome
Greek Poetry and Rhetoric in Late Antique Egypt
Gärtner, Thomas:
Affiliation: Universität zu Köln / Universität Osnabrück
Lateinisch-deutsche Ausgabe zu Coripp
Whitmarsh, Tim:
Greek Epic of the Roman Empire: A Cultural History (AHRC)
A New English Translation of Nonnus' Dionysiaca
Affiliation: University of Cambridge
Link: http://www.classics.cam.ac.uk/Research/projects/greek-epic-of-the-roman-empire-a-cultural-history
Neo-Latin Epic
Haskell, Yasmin:
Poets and Heroes: Latin Writing and Resilience under the Jesuit Suppression
Affiliation: Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence for the History of Emotions: Europe 1100-1800
Cassamarca Foundation Chair in Latin Humanism, University of Western Australia
Collaborators: Florian Schaffenrath
Link: http://www.historyofemotions.
Brief Description:
An exploration of Latin writing by Jesuits during the period of the Suppression of the Society of Jesus (eighteenth century). Schaffenrath is preparing an edition of an allegorical epic poem about the Suppression by Nicodemus Musnicki, De christi reditu ab inferis. Haskell is preparing a monograph on the Portuguese Jesuit poet, Emanuel de Azevedo, who wrote among other things a four-book epic on the exile of the American Jesuits.
Huss, Bernhard:
Epische Modellierung ideologischer Konflikte in der Frühen Neuzeit (DFG-Projekt)
Affiliation: Institut für Romanische Philologie, Freie Universität Berlin
Collaborators: Gerd König, Alexander Winkler
Link: http://www.geisteswissenschaften.fu-berlin.de/we05/forschung/drittmittelprojekte/Einzelprojekte/DFG-projekt-epik/index.html
Brief Description:
Wars or, more generally, conflicts have always represented the crucial and distinguishing element of epic poetry. Conflicts arise as a consequence of opposing power-political interests and usually
represent the clashing of divergent ideologies therefore in disagreement with one another. Based on a corpus of early modern epic texts in Latin and vernacular language, the DFG project "Epische
Modellierung ideologischer Konflikte in der Frühen Neuzeit/Epic modelling of ideological conflicts in the early modern period" focuses on how ideological conflicts are depicted within the epic text
and how, at the same time, they frame its structure. Further object of analysis will be the examination of how changes within the ideological environment over the centuries have led to reformulation
of the epic code itself. Special attention will be also paid to the analysis of the textual configuration of time and space through a new reflection of Bachtin’s concept of 'chronotope' and Lotman’s
'semiosphere'.
Huss, Bernhard:
Die Pistole des Mars. Zeithistorische Novität und episches Formularium im Frankreich der Frühen Neuzeit (DFG-Projekt)
Affiliation: Institut für Romanische Philologie, Freie Universität Berlin
Collaborators: DFG-Forschergruppe 2305 "Diskursivierungen von Neuem. Tradition und Novation in Texten des Mittelalters und der Frühen Neuzeit"
Links: http://gepris.dfg.de/gepris/projekt/289579900, http://gepris.dfg.de/gepris/projekt/265293505
Schaffenrath, Florian:
A Survey of Neo-Latin Epic Poems of the Habsburg Empire
Affiliation: University of Innsbruck
Link: http://neolatin.lbg.ac.at/team/florian-schaffenrath
Werle, Dirk:
Epische Versdichtungen im deutschen Kulturraum des 17. Jahrhunderts (Forschungsprojekt, vorbereitet durch eine Anschubförderung des Innovationsfonds FRONTIER der Universität Heidelberg, Projektbeginn: Frühjahr 2016)
Affiliation: Universität Heidelberg
Collaborators: Uwe Maximilian Korn, Katharina Worms
Link: https://www.gs.uni-heidelberg.de/ndl/werle/forschung.html
Brief Description:
Im Projekt wird die Geschichte epischer Versdichtungen im deutschen Kulturraum des ‚langen‘ 17. Jahrhunderts erforscht. Die Textgattung des carmen heroicum gilt in den poetologischen Selbstbeschreibungstexten der frühen Neuzeit als das wichtigste dichterische Genre; gleichwohl ist über seine Entwicklung im deutschen Kulturraum in dieser Periode noch relativ wenig bekannt. Das Projekt widmet sich der Schließung einer Forschungslücke, die einen zentralen Bereich der deutschen Literaturgeschichte betrifft. Es kann das Bild der Geschichte literarischer Gattungen in der frühen Neuzeit grundlegend korrigieren und in seiner Komplexität plastischer hervortreten lassen. Den Kern der Projekttätigkeiten bilden die Vorarbeiten zur Erstellung eines literaturhistorischen Repertoriums epischer Versdichtungen im ‚langen‘ 17. Jahrhundert (ca.1570-1740).
Varia
Allen, Nick:
Indo-European Cultural Comparison, with Special Reference to Epic Narrative and Related Genres
Affiliation: University of Oxford
Link: http://www.anthro.ox.ac.uk/?
Brief Description:
Provided Dumezil's trifunctional schema is expanded to a pentadic model, his general approach to Indo-European cultural comparison still offers exciting possibilities, such as I have been exploring
for twenty-five years.
Biggs, Thomas / Blum, Jessica:
Home and Away: The Epic Journey in Greek and Roman Literature.
Affiliation: Universities of Georgia and Yale
http://www.classics.uga.edu/directory/thomas-biggs
Gärtner, Ursula / Blaschka, Karen:
Datenbank zum Gleichnis in der antiken epischen Dichtung
Affiliation: Universität Potsdam
Link: http://www.uni-potsdam.de/klassphil/personalia/blaschka.html
Reitz, Christiane / Finkmann, Simone:
Epische Bauformen - Structural Elements and Narrative Patterns in Ancient Epic (DFG)
Affiliation: Universität Rostock
Link: www.epische-bauformen.uni-rostock.de
b) Early Career Researchers:
Homer
Chesi, Giulia M.
Das Subjekt der Odyssee
Affiliation: Humboldt-Universität Berlin
Wesselmann, Katharina
Kommentar zum 7. Gesang der Ilias
Affiliation: Universität Basel
Apollonius Rhodius
Finkmann, Simone
The Women in the Argonautica of Apollonius Rhodius and Valerius Flaccus
Affiliation: University of Rostock
Vergil
Adema, Suzanne
Words of Warriors. Speech and Thought in Latin War Narratives
(Bellum Gallicum, Book 1 and 7; Vergil's Aeneid Book 11 and 12)
Affiliation: Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
McCallum, Sarah L.
Taking Love Seriously: Elegiac Love and Death in Aeneid 7-12.
Affiliation: Harvard University
Wang, Chengjiao
Virgilian Studies
Affiliation: Boya College, Sun Yat-sen University
Zogg, Fabian
Die Publikationslisten antiker Klassiker: Vergil und die Vergiliana
Affiliation: Universität Zürich
Flavian Epic
Finkmann, Simone
The Women in the Argonautica of Apollonius Rhodius and Valerius Flaccus
Affiliation: University of Rostock
Schirner, Rebekka
Epic Fear. Affekt und Emotion bei Valerius Flaccus
Affiliation: Johannes-Gutenberg Universität Mainz
Stürner, Ferdinand
Monographie zur epischen Technik des Silius Italicus
Affiliation: Universität Würzburg
Late Antique Epic
Falcone, Maria J.
Fate, Destiny, Prognostication and Dream Divination across Pagan and Christian Cultures: The Case of Dracontius
Affiliation: Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore - Milano
Brief Description:
The research seeks to list and analyse words and expressions related to the themes of fate, destiny, prognostication and dream divination in both pagan and Christian works of the poet Dracontius (5th century AD). The author seems particularly suitable for this approach: on the one hand, his pagan works traditionally refer to the ancient concepts of paganism; on the other hand, he seems to have taken into account many aspects of Christian theology in his religious works. No less importantly, his works show a remarkable cultural continuity during the Medieval period (for instance in the works of Eugenius Toletanus). Particular attention will be paid to identifying the differences in context and use of these themes within the two types of works. A complete analysis of every occurrence will be provided, and all contexts will be broadly discussed.
Kröll, Nicole
Poetik, Character design und Erzähltechnik in den Dionysiaka des Nonnos von Panopolis
Affiliation: Universität Wien, Institut für Klassische Philologie, Mittel- und Neulatein
Link: http://list.fwf.ac.at/de/
Brief Description:
Nonnus of Panopolis in Upper Egypt (today Akhmim) is the author of the last large-scale epic poem of antiquity, the voluminous 48 books of the Dionysiaca. In it the wine-god Dionysus successfully accomplishes his expedition to India and his entry into Athens and Greece in order to teach mankind the cultivation of the vine. Furthermore, Nonnus is the author of an epic Paraphrasis of the Gospel of St John, thus being both a pagan and a Christian writer. In his poetry he combines traditional pagan literature with modern forms of story-telling applied by poets in antiquity since the times of Homer. The objective of the project is to describe and to analyse significant passages by means of a close literary interpretation in order to perceive the plan and the structure of the epic, and to unveil the poet’s technique in constructing the storyline and in creating the characters of his narrative. The analysis of mythological figures, development of personas and stylistic elements of the poetry displays Nonnus’ connection with classical literature and the mythic past of the world of Homer’s epic as well as a close affiliation with “Hellenic” intellectuals in the cities of the eastern Roman empire in late antiquity.
Verhelst, Berenice
Reinventing Epic poetry. Creativity and Tradition in Late Antique Epyllia.
Affiliation: Ghent University
Brief Description:
The modern term “epyllion” commonly refers to a narrative poem in hexameters, which is shorter than a full epic. Literary overviews tend to focus on Hellenistic Greek
epyllia, considered pioneers of the genre, and the classical Latin tradition, chiefly represented by Catullus’ Poem 64. Late antique epyllia, however, have received much less attention, both as
individual poems and as exponents of a period of revival for hexameter poetry in general. This project proposes a first comprehensive study of Greek and Latin epyllia from Late Antiquity (3rd-6th
AD). The primary focus lies on the generic self-presentation of these poems. Is their shortness thematized? By which means (generic topoi and intertextuality, explicit references, selfpresentation of
the narrator, characterization of the heroes) do these miniature epics define themselves within the epic/epyllic tradition? The late antique context complicates the already problematic delineation of
what can be regarded as an epyllion. The period is characterized by a remarkable prolificacy of hexameter poetry (didactic, ecphrastic, panegyric epic) as well as the emergence of the first high-brow
Christian poetry, which led to genre experiments. By focussing on how these texts present themselves to their audience, this project aims to lay bare the mechanisms of tradition and innovation that
allowed these learned poets constantly to reinvent the essentially "epic" genre of hexameter narrative.
Neo-Latin Epic
Río Torres-Murciano, Antonio
De la épica romana a la épica de Indias. La pervivencia de los modelos clásicos en las epopeyas sobre la conquista de México.
Affiliation: Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México
Brief Description: The project is aimed at studying the classical tradition in 16th and 17th century epics on the conquest of Mexico.
Varia
Adema, Suzanne
Words of Warriors. Speech and Thought in Latin War Narratives
(Bellum Gallicum, Book 1 and 7; Vergil's Aeneid Book 11 and 12)
Affiliation: Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
Finkmann, Simone
Speech and Silence in Ancient Epic Poetry
Affiliation: Universität Rostock
Link: www.epische-bauformen.uni-rostock.de
Lämmle, Rebecca
Poets and Philosophers in the Underworld
Affiliation: Universität Basel
Link: https://klaphil.unibas.ch/graezistik/personen/rebecca-laemmle
Manioti, Nikoletta
View from Above: Aerial Perspectives in Latin Epic (Leverhulme Trust)
Affiliation: University of St Andrews
Paprocki, Maciej
Between Power and Vulnerability: Depictions of Political Tensions between Families of Zeus and Hyperion in Ancient Greek Literature
Affiliation: Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Graduate School Distant Worlds
Link: http://www.mzaw.uni-muenchen.
Brief Description:
My research project concerns depictions of the divine court politics in Ancient Greek epics. Celebrating and asserting Zeus’ victories over other gods, epic texts marginalise perspectives of deities
who can potentially threaten Zeus’ rule, such as Hyperionides (Selene, Eos, Helios, Circe, Pasiphaë, Medea, Aeëtes). I argue that depictions of Hyperionides reflect submerged political tensions
between them and Zeus, incongruously accentuating their raw power or vulnerability.
Perale, Marco
Adespota Papyracea Hexametra Graeca
Affiliation: University of Liverpool
Schultheiß, Jochen
Entscheidungsszenen im römischen Epos
Affiliation: Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg
Walter, Anke
Ever Since Then: Time in Ancient Aetiology
Affiliation: Universität Rostock
Link: http://www.altertum.uni-rostock.de/mitarbeiter/details/walter/
c) Doctoral Candidates:
Early Greek and Akkadian Epic
Gardner, Melissa
A Song of Death in Strange New Strain: Collective Responses to Trauma in Ancient Greek and Akkadian Epic
Affiliation: Durham University
Helle, Sophus
The Songs of Babylon
Affiliation: Aarhus University
Link: http://pure.au.dk/portal/en/
Brief Description:
My main field of research are the Akkadian epics, such as Gilgamesh, Atra-hasis, and Enuma Elish. I have worked on a number of aspects of
these epics, including prosody, affect, narrative structure, and the depiction of time and space. In the future, I want to explore how this group fits into the cross-cultural genre of epics more
broadly. The Akkadian epics are particularly interesting in that regard: not only are they among the earliest epics known to us, but they are also a rather large and heterogenous group of texts. As
such, they are an ideal testing ground for more general proposals about the epic genre. Besides, their enduring fascination is a remarkable fact of literary history: Gilgamesh in particular continues
to be widely read more than three millennia after its composition. Few texts have achieved that degree of longevity.
Homer
Borio, Caroline
Le caractère symbolique de la chevelure d’homère à callimaque.
Affiliation: Université Toulouse-Jean Jaurès
Brouillet, Manon
Des hommes et des dieux: approche du polythéisme grec à travers le prisme de l’épopée homérique.
Affiliation: EHESS, Ecole des hautes études en sciences sociales, Paris
Cesca, Ombretta
Le messager et le poète. Étude sur la représentation de la communication à distance dans l’Iliade.
Affiliation: Université de Lausanne
Link: https://www.unil.ch/iasa/fr/
Brief Description:
Je mène actuellement une enquête sur la façon dont le poète de l’Iliade met en scène la communication à distance entre les personnages mortels ou divins. Je concentre ainsi mes recherches sur les
intermédiaires qui transmettent les déclarations d’un individu à un autre et plus particulièrement sur la manière dont ces messagers expriment l’information qui leur a été communiquée.
Afin de mener à bien cette étude, j’ai choisi de développer mon propos en trois axes principaux:
1. La première examine la mise en scène de la communication à distance dans le monde mortel et humain. Si la communication entre mortel et mortel et entre dieu et dieu s’avère efficace et
transparente, celle qui s’instaure entre dieux et mortels est souvent ambiguë et trompeuse. L’expérience de cette interaction impose aux humains de se méfier des discours des dieux. Elle contribue en
cela à nourrir la réflexion sur la condition humaine qui est menée dans l’Iliade.
2. La deuxième partie de ma recherche est consacrée à la composition du poème iliadique. Elle interroge l’exploitation par le poète de schémas narratifs récurrents, notamment lorsque le messager
transmet à son destinataire le discours qu’on lui a confié (voir « buts de la recherche » 2.2.2 : Implications narratologiques de la communication via messagers).
3. Enfin, la dernière partie de mon étude questionne la symétrie des postures du messager et du poète. Tous deux transmettent en effet un récit soit inspiré par un émetteur identifié au sein de
l’Iliade — pour le messager — soit inspiré par les Muses — pour le poète. C’est alors la relation entre le poète et sa source d’information que j’interroge par l’intermédiaire du messager.
Hinzer-AlHasan, Bianca
Die Katabasis des Odysseus in Homers Odyssee im Vergleich zu weiteren Unterweltsgängen in römischen, griechischen und altorientalischen Quellen
Affiliation: Goethe-Universität Frankfurt a.M.
Hodgkinson, David
The Concept of Man in the Odyssey and Ramayana
Affiliation: Balliol College, Oxford
Brief Description:
The project will explore what can be learned about the idea of 'man' in the Odyssey and Ramayana. It is based on the notion that the idea of 'man' is central to both epics, and that by comparing the
two traditions there will be ways to look at the differing natures of the two epic traditions, as well as some of the common ground based on both the analysis of the 'plots' and philological analysis
of the poems. Behind the project is the notion that there are common Indoeuropean ideas and links which have yet to be discovered.
Lambrou, Ioannis
Homer and the Epic Cycle: Dialogue and Challenge
Affiliation: University College, University of London
Privitera, Siobhan
The Body in the Mind in Homeric Poetry
Affiliation: University of Edinburgh
Sistac, Sandya
Athèna dans l’épopée homérique. Étude sur une puissance divine et ses réseaux relationnels.
Affiliation: Université Toulouse-Jean Jaurès
Zitzmann, Leonie
Metaleptisches Erzählen in Homers Ilias
Affiliation: Georg-August-Universität Göttingen
Link: https://www.uni-goettingen.de/de/531101.html
Brief Description:
In 2009 Irene de Jong demonstrated that metalepsis as a narrative technique (meaning transgression of boundaries between narrative levels, G. Genette) is already attested in ancient Greek literature. Her main theoretical hypothesis is that metaleptic devices in Homeric poetry are not only compatible with aesthetic illusion, but even increase it (unlike their paradoxical effects in modern literature). Examining this hypothesis, I will investigate the whole range of metaleptic phenomena in the older Homeric epic, both theoretically and through text-based analysis. I will focus on the relation between the extradiegetic and the intradiegetic narrative level (as there is no metadiegesis in the Iliad), that is to say on the relation between the narrative situation (the aoidos’s presentation) and the narrated world. In particular, the phenomenon of metaleptic mirroring (cf. mise en abyme, W. Wolf) between these two narrative levels will be analysed, including passages in which a character’s emotion (such as θάμβος – amazement, cf. Il. 24,480–4) is mirrored (doubled) on the extradiegetic level of telling. By use of a so-called “homerischer Modelladressat” (homeric model addressee; cf. “Modell-Leser”, U. Eco and F. Jannidis), the level of reception will play a central role in this narratological study.
Hesiod
Herren, Xenja
Ressourcen in Hesiods Erga kai Hemerai
Affiliation: Universität Tübingen
Apollonius Rhodius
Cassidy, Sarah
Scientific ideas in Apollonius Rhodius' Argonautica
Affiliation: University of Edinburgh
Hulse, Peter
Apollonius of Rhodes, Book 4: A Commentary
Affiliation: University of Nottingham
Kenny, Timothy M.
Apollonius of Rhodes, Argonautica Book 1.609-1077: An interpretative and intertextual commentary
Affiliation: University of Manchester
Wolff, Nadège
Lumière et obscurité dans les Argonautiques d’Apollonios de Rhodes
Affiliation: ENS de Lyon
Vergil
Graziano, Maria Rita
Studies on the Bellum Civile's Fifth Book. Ovidian Innovation and Virgilian "Tradition" in Lucan's Epic
Affiliation: University of Pisa
Kenworthy-Browne, Laurence
The significance of the similes in Virgil's Aeneid and the place they occupy in the poem as a whole
Affiliation: King's College, University of London (KCL)
Nash, Calypso
Philosophical Readings in Virgil's Aeneid
Affiliation: University of Oxford
Pokorny, Arthur
Klangspiele im dritten Buch der Aeneis Vergils und deren strukturelle Bedeutung
Affiliation: Universität Wien
Powell, David J.
Between the commemorative games and the descent to the Underworld in Books 5 and 6 of Vergil's Aeneid: a study of structure and narrative technique in the transition
Affiliation: Birkbeck College, University of London
Sanborn, Katherine
Ille regit animos dictis: Models of Authority in Vergil's Aeneid
Affiliation: Trinity College Dublin
Ovid
Bach, Sarah
Espace, temps et structure dans les Métamorphoses d’Ovide
Affiliation: Université Paris-Sorbonne (Paris 4)
Behm, Torben
Die Stadt als Handlungsort und literarische Landschaft in Ovids Metamorphosen
Affiliation: Universität Rostock
Link: http://uni-rostock.academia.edu/TorbenBehm
Graziano, Maria Rita
Studies on the Bellum Civile's Fifth Book. Ovidian Innovation and Virgilian "Tradition" in Lucan's Epic
Affiliation: University of Pisa
Karger, Yasmin
Ovids Epos und die Tradition des Lehrgedichts. Mythos und Elementenlehre in den Metamorphosen
Affiliation: Goethe-Universität Frankfurt a.M.
Kelly, Peter
The Formation of an Intertextual Universe in Ovid's Metamorphoses
Affiliation: National University of Ireland Galway
Lücht, Wilko
Die Gleichnisse in Ovids Metamorphosen
Affiliation: Georg-August-Universität Göttingen
Moser, Marianne
L’écriture des rerum primordia dans les Métamorphoses d’Ovide: un renouvellement de la représentation de l’origine? Étude des enjeux esthétiques, symboliques et philosophiques d’un texte et de ses précédents dans la littérature antique.
Affiliation: Université Paris-Sorbonne (Paris 4)
Parmentier-Courreau, Juliette
Voluptés du corps et de l’esprit. Les Métamorphoses d’Ovide chez les manieristes nordiques (1580–1620)
Affiliation: Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne
Turquety, Hélène
La représentation de l’espace dans les Métamorphoses d’Ovide.
Affiliation: Université Paris Ouest Nanterre La Défense
Winnacker, Julia
Die Konzeption von Kindheit, Jugend und Adoleszenz in Ovids Metamorphosen
Affiliation: Universität Hamburg
Lucan
Caltot, Pierre-Alain
Voix du poète, vois du prophète. Poétique et métapoétique de la prophétie chez Lucain et dans les tragédies de Sénéque
Affiliation: Université Paris-Sorbonne (Paris 4)
Cataldi, Jonathan
Persona auctoriale et discours scientifique dans la Pharsale de Lucain.
Affiliation: Université Charles-de-Gaulle (Lille 3)
Ducomet, Margaux
L’intertextualité dans le Bellum Civile de Lucain
Affiliation: Lyon 3
Goldhahn, Tobias
Der Erzähler bei Lukan
Affiliation: Katholische Universität Eichstätt-Ingolstadt
Graziano, Maria Rita
Studies on the Bellum Civile's Fifth Book. Ovidian Innovation and Virgilian "Tradition" in Lucan's Epic
Affiliation: University of Pisa
Kappacher, Patrick
Narrativity, Repetition and Reader Empowerment in Lucan's Bellum Civile
Affiliation: Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
Kersten, Markus
Zur Rezeption der Georgica Vergils in Lucans Bellum Civile
Affiliation: Universität Rostock
Link: http://uni-rostock.academia.edu/MarkusKersten
Meyer, Anne-Sophie
Natur und Krieg: Lucans Bellum Civile kontextualisiert
Affiliation: Universität Basel
Link: https://daw.philhist.unibas.
Nill, Hans-Peter
Gewalt und Dekonstruktion in Lucans Bellum Civile
Affiliation: Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen
Tisseau des Escotais, Aleth
Édition, traduction et commentaire du livre 4 de la Pharsale de Lucain
Affiliation: Université Paris-Sorbonne (Paris 4)
Flavian Epic
Abad del Vecchio, Julene
Statius' Achilleid and its literary tradition
Affiliation: University of Manchester
Cole, Joscelyn
A psychogeographical reading of Statius' Thebaid
Affiliation: Royal Holloway, University of London
Dalton, Helen E.
Banquet of Death: alimentary imagery in Statius' Thebaid
Affiliation: University of Manchester
Delac, Claire
La représentation de la ville dans la littérature latine de l’époque flavienne
Affiliation: Université Paris-Sorbonne (Paris 4)
Dubrana, Marie
Rois, tyrans et chefs dans les Argonautiques de Válerius Flaccus: les enjeux de la représentation du pouvoir monarchique
Affiliation: Université Paris-Sorbonne (Paris 4)
Haselmann, Henning
Raum bei Silius Italicus
Affiliation: Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster
Hemar, Virginie
Images et imaginaires des lieux sacrés dans l’épopée et les arts figurés de la Rome flavienne
Affiliation: Université Paris-Sorbonne (Paris 4)
Kortmann, Jan
Hannibal ad portas - Silius Italicus' Punica 12, 507-732. Übersetzung, Kommentar, Interpretation
Affiliation: Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster
Kraft, Anne
Publius Papinius Statius, Thebais: Kommentar zu Buch VIII 1-341
Affiliation: Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena
Noens, Tim
"I can't go on. I'll go on". Silence as a Multifunctional Concept in Latin Domitianic Literature (ca.81-105)
Affiliation: Ghent University
Link: http://research.flw.ugent.be/
Brief Description:
This project seeks to examine the functions of silence in Latin literature written during and just after the reign of the Roman emperor
Domitian (ca.81-105). The uses of silence(s) in texts will be explored as a narrative phenomenon; as a possible commentary on generic hierarchies; and as a way for authors to create a self- image in
an imperial culture.
Methodologically, this project seeks to interpret the appearances of silence in Domitianic texts by reading these texts through modern literature and art. Departing from the concept of reading as a
dialogical process that blurs the borders of historical periods and scholarly categories, it explicitly explores the meaningful interaction between ancient and modern texts. The interpretation of
Statius’ epics or Quintilian’s Institutio by a 21-centurieth reader, for example, will be as much determined by (scholarly conventional) ancient models (e.g. Vergil, Cicero) as by the novels of
Samuel Beckett, the poetry of Arthur Rimbaud, the short stories of Jorge Luis Borges, etc. In this way, the project aims to offer an answer to the question how we can read and re-create ancient
literature today, in our (post)modern culture.
Roumpou, Angeliki
A Commentary on Silius Italicus 17.341-664
Affiliation: University of Nottingham
Syré, Evelyn
Gewalt und soziale Bindung in den Punica des Silius Italicus
Affiliation: Universität Rostock
Tuttle Mackay, Anne
The Representation and Function of Animals in Valerius Flaccus' Argonautica
Affiliation: University College, University of London (UCL)
Vignes, Julia Marie
Le poète et le palais, descriptions architecturales dans la poésie latine à l’époque flavienne
Affiliation: Aix-Marseille Université
Wissel, Franziska
Silius Italicus, Punica: Buch V, Einleitung und Kommentar
Affiliation: Martin-Luther Universität Halle-Wittenberg
Imperial Greek and Late Antique Epic
Boshoff, Lynton
The Mythological Epics of Dracontius in their Socio-Political Context
Affiliation: University of Oxford
Fischer, Monika
Die „unfreie Welt“ in den Dionysiaka des Nonnos aus Panopolis
Affiliation: Universität Trier
Lobato-Beneyto, Tamara
Claudius Claudianus' De Bello Gildonico
Affiliation: University of Salamanca
Brief Description: Study of Claudian's deployment of the epic code in his work De Bello Gildonico.
McKenna, Paul
A Study into Orpheus' Argonautica
Affiliation: King's College London
Meunier, Delphine
L’écriture épique chez Claudien: sauver l’épopée au 4ème siecle
Affiliation: Université Paris-Sorbonne (Paris 4)
Renker, Stephan
A Commentary on Quintus of Smyrna Posthomerica XIII
Affiliation: Universität Hamburg
Brief Description:
Among the late Greek epic poets Quintus is by far the worst.“[1] As one can see, even through the 1960’s Quintus of Smyrna (Quintus Smyrnaeus) was seen as an inferior poet and thus neglected by
Classical scholarship. Moreover, since he wrote in a strongly Homeric style, he was considered a mere epigone of the great Homer. [2] However, recent publications have begun to reconsider such
subjective verdicts and have helped to establish a more nuanced view on his sole surving work, the Posthomerica. In this epic Quintus, who most scholars believe lived in the third century CE,
describes in 14 books the events occurring between Homer’s Iliad and Odyssey and thus covers famous events such as the death of Achilles and the sack of the city by means of the Trojan Horse. In
order to lay the foundation for further resarch on Quintus Smyrnaeus, I deem it necessary to provide each individual book with detailed commentaries. Book 13 is especially in need of such a
commentary due to its description of the actual capture of Troy, one of the most important scenes of the epic cycle.
This is why in my research project I want to write the first full-scale commentary on book 13 of Quintus Smynraeus’ Posthomerica. By doing this I intend to fill a big gap both in scholarship on Greek epic in general and on the Posthomerica in particular.
[1] Lloyd-Jones, H.: Rez. von Combellack, Frederick M.: The War at Troy. What Homer Didn’t Tell. By Quintus of Smyrna (Norman 1968) in: CR 19 (1969) 101.
[2] Für eine Auflistung der Negativurteile, cf. Bär, S.: Quintus Smyrnaeus Posthomerica 1. Die Wiedergeburt des Epos aus dem Geiste der Amazonomachie. Mit einem Kommentar zu den Versen 1-219 (Göttingen 2009) [Hypomnemata 183] 33f.
Renker, Stephan
Pseudo-Oppian. Kynegetika. Über die Jagd. Griechisch und deutsch. Eingeleitet, übersetzt und kommentiert von Stephan Renker
Affiliation: Universität Hamburg
Ryser, Gabriele
Unterweltszenen bei Claudian
Affiliation: Georg-August-Universität Göttingen
Schmerbauch, Stefanie
Studien zu Quintus Smyrnaeus' Posthomerica IV.
Affiliation: Universität Salzburg
Wartena, Gerben
Christian Epic at the Crossroads of Cultures: Sedulius' Carmen Paschale, Book 5
Affiliation: Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
Link: https://vu-nl.academia.edu/
Brief Description:
The project involves writing an interdisciplinary commentary with introduction and conclusion on Sedulius' Carmen Paschale 5.164-438. Literary and linguistic approaches are combined with a
cultural-historical analysis.
Medieval and Neo-Latin Epic
Auty, Tara
The Fall of Constantinople in Quattrocento Literary Culture: Community Emotions and the Genre of Neo-Latin Epic in Fifteenth-Century Italy
Affiliation: The University of Western Australia
Bieritz, Carl-Friedrich
Die Dichtung des Louis Petremol. Diodor-Rezeption im französischen Humanismus. / The Poetry of Louis Petremol. Reception of Diodor of Sicily in the Period of French Humanism.
Affiliation: Universität Göttingen, Abteilung für Lateinische Philologie des Mittelalters und der Neuzeit
Link: https://www.uni-goettingen.de/
Brief Description:
The thesis aims at providing an edition of two books of narrative poetry in hexameters about the ancient rulers Ninus and Semiramis, preserved in a sixteenth-century manuscript from France and purportedly written by one Louis Petremol. The work is interesting for three reasons: First for its epic elements and its language which borrows heavily from both Virgil and later epic poets (Lucan, Statius, Silius). Secondly for the challenge it poses to generic boundaries: Much like other specimens of narrative poetry written in France during this period, it seems to imitate Virgil's Aeneis, Lucan's Pharsalia und Flavian epics, but is lacking the size, the intricate structure and the completeness of a "full-blown" epic which many of its neo-Latin counterparts exhibit. Thirdly, the author has drawn his material from the second book of the Historical Library written by Diodor of Sicily, which he read in a translation made by Poggio Bracciolini.
D’Orfond Gueranger, Manuela
L’espace dans des épopées de la Conquête du XVIe et XVIe siècles.
Affiliation: Université D’Angers et du Maine
Hasenhütl, Franz
Die Mohammed-Epen des Embricho von Mainz und Walters von Compiègne und der Einfluß der lateinischen Koranübersetzung des Petrus Venerabilis
Affiliation: Universität Wien
Hein, Heidi
Girolamo Fracastoros Joseph-Epos. Edition, Übersetzung und Kommentar
Affiliation: Universität Trier
König, Gerd
Varianz und Konstanz der Modellierung ideologischer Konflikte in der Columbusepik der zweiten Häfte des 18. Jahrhunderts
Affiliation: Freie Universität Berlin
Link: http://www.geisteswissenschaften.fu-berlin.de/we05/institut/mitarbeiter/koenig/index.html
Lenz, Andreas
Miles Christianus und poeta ludens - Experimentelle Transformationsprozesse epischer Heldenbilder im Waltharius und im Ruodlieb
Affiliation: Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz
Ries, Sabrina
Metamorphosen des Todes im Martinellus: Das Beispiel des Gregor von Tours
Affiliation: Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena
Rigaux, Maxim
The Art of Assimilation: Identity and Otherness in the Epic Poetry of Lepanto
Affiliation: Ghent University
Link: http://research.flw.ugent.be/en/maxim.rigaux
Brief description: This research project examines a series of 'Spanish' epic poems written in the wake of the battle of Lepanto (1571). It explores the representation of the cultural 'Other' in these poems and the way in which they enter into dialogue with the Classical and Christian traditions.
Verot, Fanny
Les personnages féminins dans l’epopée tardive
Affiliation: Université Lumière Lyon 2.
Wieser, Gudrun
Die Gestalt der Polyxena in den antiken und mittelalterlichen lateinischen und nationalsprachigen Behandlungen des Troja-Stoffes
Affiliation: Universität Wien
Winkler, Alexander
Pietro Angeli da Bargas Syrias in ihrem politischen, literarischen und kulturellen Kontext
Affiliation: Freie Universität Berlin
Link: http://www.
Varia
Ameis, Konstantin
Verdeckte Operationen im römischen Epos
Affiliation: Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster
Balandraud, Charlotte
L’interlocution dans l’épopée et la satire latines: le mélange des genres au service de la liberté de parole
Affiliation: Université Lille 3
Borowski, Susanne
Kriegerische Frauen im Heldenepos
Affiliation: Universiteit van Amsterdam
Brief Description: Die Arbeit untersucht die Funktion kriegerischer Frauen als Baustein des Heldenepos.
Boshoff, Lynton
The Mythological Epics of Blossius Aemilius Dracontius in their Socio-Political Context
Affiliation: University of Oxford
Dorangeon, Emeline
Aristophane et l’épopée
Affiliation: Université de Lyon
Doukas, Ioannis
A Digital Representation of Intertextuality in Greek Imperial Epic
Affiliation: National University of Ireland Galway
Lakshmanan-Minet, Nicolas
Le temps dans l’épopée (de Iliade au Roland).
Affiliation: Université de Rouen
Little, Wendy
Studies in Roman Epic
Affiliation: University College, University of London (UCL)
Mougeolle, Pascale
L’Épopée: étude de la forme littéraire d’Homère à Hugo
Affiliation: Univeristé de Lorraine
Nicoletséa, Marthe
Les personnages féminins subversifs de l’épopée à la tragédie
Affiliation: Université Paul-Valéry Montpellier 3
Roy, Clémence
Réécritures des grandes épopées antiques selon le point de vue d’un personnage féminin
Affiliation: Université de Poitiers
Schmidt, Eike
Jugendliche Helden im römischen Epos
Affiliation: Universität Hamburg
Silverblank, Hannah
Monstrous Voices: Representations of Sound, Gender and Monstrosity in Greek Epic, Lyric, and Drama
Affiliation: University of Oxford
Soupizet, Emmanuelle
Le genre épique et sa transposition sur la scène lyrique.
Affiliation: Université de Nantes
Tournier, Charlotte
L'interlocution dans l'épopée et la satire latine: le mélange des genres au service de la liberté de parole
Affiliation: Université Charles-de-Gaulle (Lille 3)
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