Professional Service / Offices / Memberships
- Editor of the series Epicurea at Verlag Schwabe (with Michael Erler)
- Copy editor of the journal "Würzburger Jahrbücher für die Altertumswissenschaft" 2013-2015
- Reviewer for Journals etc.: Ancient Philosophy, Archiv für Geschichte der Philosophie, Cronache Ercolanesi, Philologus, Res
Rhetorica
- Collaborator in the international project ”Science and philosophical debates a new approach towards ancient Epicureanism”
(SPIDER) under the guidance of Francesca G. Masi (Venice), Francesco Verde (Rome), and Pierre-Marie Morel (Paris) 2019-2022
- Member of the University network of international academic contacts, Sapienza University of Rome, since 2020
- Elected member of the executive committee of the Mommsen Society (Association of German Speaking Classical Scholars) 2017-2019
- PR consultant of the Mommsen Society 2016
- Secretary of the Mommsen Society 2013-2015
- Executive assistant of the dept. of Classics JMU Würzburg 2007-2010; 2012; 2015/6
- Member of the Gesellschaft für antike Philosophie (Society for Ancient Philosophy)
- Member of the Gesellschaft zur Förderung der Augustinus-Forschung (Society for the Promotion of the Research on Augustine)
- Member of the Deutscher Altphilologenverband (Association for German Classical Philologists)
- Member of the Verwertungsgesellschaft Wort (Collecting society representing the copyright interests of German authors, artists and scientists)
- Member of the International Society for the History of Rhetoric
- Member of the Würzburger Zentrum für Epikureismusforschung (Würzburg Centre for Research on Epicureanism)
- Member and Initiator of the Forschungsschwerpunkt Antike Rhetorik (Research Centre for Ancient Rhetoric and Oratory) at
JMU Würzburg
- Founding member of NeuroDivers e.V. (Association advancing autism friendly environments)
Awards / Grants / Scholarships
- 2020 5.031 EUR (together with J. Stenger) from the research fund of the Faculty of Arts of JMU Würzburg, for the preparation of
the proposal for the third party funded project ‟Greek Rhetoric and Oratory in Fragments and Testimonies (GROFT)”.
- 2019 700 EUR out of the funds for internationalisation of the State of Bavaria to prepare an application for a third party funded
project with professor Mike Edwards (London), granted by the Siebold Collegium Institute of Advanced Studies (SCIAS)
of JMU Würzburg
- 2017 59.000 EUR from the German Research Foundation (DFG): Research Fellowship
- 2017 5.068 EUR from the research fund of the Faculty of Arts of JMU Würzburg, for the preparation of the proposal for the third party funded project “Fragments and Testimonies of Ancient Greek Rhetoric and Oratory. A Digital Collection of the Sources with Translation and Commentary”.
- 2016 11.500 EUR from the Fritz Thyssen Foundation: grant to support the organization of the conference “Allegiance, System, and Use of Texts. On Auctoritas of the Master and Dealing with Authoritative Texts in Platonism and Epicureanism in the Hellenistic and Imperial Age” (with M. Erler, F. Petrucci)
- 2016 1.500 EUR from the Faculty of Arts of JMU Würzburg for the conference “Allegiance etc.”
- 2015 Travel grant of the anniversary foundation of the University of Würzburg
- 2014 Research Scholarship for young researchers of the Fondation Hardt Vandœuvres
- 2013 Grant of the VG Wort (maximum amount) for publication of the dissertation
- 2009 Travel grant within the frame of the DAAD’s Vigoni program
- 2008 Travel grant within the frame of the DAAD’s Vigoni program
- 2008 Selection for the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy’s 1st summer school “Greek paleography, codicology, and edition philology”
Research stays
- Jan. 2018-June 2019 Department of Humanities, Roehampton University (London)
- September 2016 Department of Classics, Royal Holloway (University of London)
- August 2015 Admission as guest auditor at the Entretiens LXII of the Fondation Hardt
- March 2015 Fondation Hardt Vandœuvres (Switzerland)
- September 2009 Department of Classics, University of Pisa
- October 2008 Department of Classics, University of Pisa
Conferences hosted
- (with M. Erler, F. Petrucci): “Allegiance, System, and Use of Texts. On Auctoritas of the Master and Dealing with Authoritative Texts in Platonism and Epicureanism in the Hellenistic and Imperial Age” (Würzburg, Febr 16 to 18, 2017)
Conferences organized
- “Formen der Kommunikation durch Bild, Wort und Text in der Antike”. Große Mommsen-Tagung 2015 (Würzburg, April 16–18, 2015, host: M. Erler as 1st chairman of the Mommsen Society)
- “Philosophus orator. Rhetorische Strategien und Strukturen in philosophischer Literatur”. Symposium zum 60. Geburtstag von M. Erler (Würzburg, Oct 31–Nov 2, 2013, hosts: I. Männlein-Robert, S. Schorn, C. Tornau)
- “Argument und literarische Form in antiker Philosophie”. 3. Kongress der Gesellschaft für antike Philosophie (Würzburg, Sept 28– Oct 1, 2010, host: M. Erler as president of the society)
Talks
- “Griechische Rhetorik in hellenistischer Zeit. Texte, Kontexte, (Dis-) Kontinuitätsphänomene“, as contribution to the Colloquium Classicum at GU Frankfurt (November 03, 2022) (invited)
- “Epicurus and the ὁμοίωσις θεῷ in Isocrates’ Euagoras“, Paper for the final conference of the international project «Science and
philosophical debates a new approach towards ancient Epicureanism» (SPIDER)» (Venice, May 31, 2022) (invited)
- “Epikur als Philosoph, Schriftsteller und Gott auf Erden“, part of the lecture series “Themen der Philosophie der Antike“, FAU
Erlangen-Nuremberg (February 8, 2022) (invited)
- ”Sapienter dixit Terentius vs. uinum erroris. Der Umgang mit Terenz im Corpus Augustinianum“, guest lecture at CAU Kiel (July 7,
2021) (invited)
- “... ἵνα καὶ οἱ λοιποὶ προτρέπωνται πρὸς ἀρετήν (OGIS 339). Enkomien auf exemplarische Bürger und Protreptik in griechischen
Inschriften hellenistischer Zeit“, Presentation during the research colloquium of the dept. of Classics JMU Würzburg
(December 17, 2020)
- ”Rhetoric, trickery, and tyranny. Testimonies on sophists of the Hellenistic period“, Talks of the Roehampton and SW London Branch of the CA (London, January 28, 2019) (invited)
- ”Hymnoi am Staatsgrab: Einige Bemerkungen zu den Grabreden in Athen”, Paper for the 21st Biennial Conference of the International Society for the History of Rhetoric (London, July 27, 2017) (chosen via CfP)
- ”Deus ille fuit, deus (Lucr. 5,8). Gods on Earth and Orthodoxy in the School of Epicurus”, Paper for the Annual Conference of the School of Philosophy (Moscow, April 27, 2017) (invited)
- “Orthodoxie und Innovation in der Schule Epikurs. Einige Bemerkungen”, during the conference “Allegiance, System, and Use of Texts. On Auctoritas of the Master and Dealing with Authoritative Texts in Platonism and Epicureanism in the Hellenistic and Imperial Age” (Würzburg, Feb 17, 2017)
- “ἄφθαρτός μοι περιπάτει καὶ ἡμᾶς ἀφθάρτους διανοοῦ. Korrespondenz unter gottgleichen Freunden und Lehrbriefe in der Schule Epikurs”, during the conference “Adressat und Adressant: Kommunikationsstrategien im antiken Brief” (Eichstätt, June 6, 2016) (chosen via CfP)
- “Erzählen von der Vergangenheit bei griechischen Rednern”, part of the lecture series “Die Kunst des Erzählens” of the Faculty of Philosophy, JMU Würzburg (Apr 19, 2016) (invited)
- Presentation of the habilitation thesis: “‘Verfall’ und ‘Blütezeit’ der Redekunst? Praktische und literarische Rhetorik im hellenistischen und kaiserzeitlichen Griechenland. Ein Vergleich” before the habilitation committee of the Faculty of Philosophy, JMU Würzburg (Dec 16, 2015)
- “Epikur als Philosoph und Autor: Der Brief an Menoikeus” (Mannheim, Nov 4, 2014) (invited)
- “τὸν σοφὸν οὐ δοκεῖ ῥητορεύσειν καλῶς? Rhetorik in Texten Epikurs”, during the int. conference «Philosophus orator.
Rhetorische Strategien und Strukturen in philosophischer Literatur. Symposium zum 60. Geburtstag von M. Erler» (Würzburg, Oct 31–Nov 2, 2013) (invited)
- “Das Gedenken an Verstorbene in der Schule Epikurs in der Tradition der epitaphioi logoi” during the int. conference “Questioni epicuree: epistemologia, fisica, etica” (Rome, Sept 19–21, 2013) (invited)
- “Epikurs Brief an Menoikeus – Ergebnisse der kommentierten Neuausgabe” at the research colloquium of the dept. of Classics, EKUTübingen (June 7, 2013) (invited)
- “Epicurus’ Letter to Menoeceus in Diogenes Laertius X”, seminar during “Philologia Philosophica I. International Conference and Summerschool” (Würzburg, Feb 14–18, 2011)
- Presentation of the dissertation “Epikur, Menoikeusbrief. Text, Übersetzung und Kommentar” during the round table of the int. conference “Argument und literarische Form in antiker Philosophie. 3. Kongress der Gesellschaft für antike Philosophie” (Würzburg, Sept 28–Oct 1, 2010) (chosen via CfP)
- “Ergebnisse der Arbeit am Kommentar zu Epikurs Brief an Menoikeus: Ep.Men. 124,1-2”, Presentation during the research
colloquium of the dept. of Classics JMU Würzburg (July 1, 2009)
Teaching experience
WT 2023/4 2hpw Introductory lecture: History of Greek rhetoric; 2hpw Greek seminar for undergraduate students of Latin: The
impact of Greek literature upon Rome; 2 hpw Gr. prose style I (Cases);
ST 2023 2hpw Greek lecture: ; 2 hpw interdisciplinary seminar: The Victory Songs of Pindar - Greek Poetry in the
Archaeological Context (with Dr. F. Leitmeir, Chair of Classical Archeology); 2 hpw Gr. prose style II
(Moods/dependent clauses); 2 hpw Gr. prose style III (Historiography)
WT 2022/3 2 hpw Greek lecture: A short history of Greek rhetoric; 2 hpw Greek seminar for graduate
students: Philosophia medicans. The school of Epicurus in the light of well-known and lesser known texts on
teachings, methods, and principles of the philosophical community; 2 hpw Latin seminar for undergraduates:
Horace, Odes; 2 hpw Introduction into Classical Philology
ST 2022 2hpw: Gr. prose style II (Moods/dependent clauses), 2 hpw Gr. prose style III (Oratory), 2 hpw translation: Propertius, Selected Elegies, 1 hpw Extemporary Greek translation: Texts of Epicurus and his school
WT 2021/2 2hpw Greek seminar for students of Latin: The impact of Greek literature upon Rome, 2 hpw Gr. prose style II (Cases), 2 hpw Gr. prose style III (philosophy), 1 hpw tutorial: Short overview: Philosophical literature in Greco- Roman Antiquity
ST 2021 1 hpw Extemporary Greek translation: All against Demosthenes? Political forensic speeches in Late Classical Athens
WT 2020/1 2 hpw seminar: Divinized individuals in texts and images (with Dr. F. Leitmeir, Chair of Classical Archeology), 2 hpw
Gr. prose style I (Cases), 1 hpw Extemporary Greek translation: Helen of Troy in Greek Literature
ST 2020 1hpw: History of Latin Literature: Augustan Poetry, 2hpw: Gr. prose style II (Moods/dependent clauses), 2 hpw
translation: Philostratus, Lives of the Sophists
WT 2019/20 2 hpw Greek lecture: A short history of Greek rhetoric (Overview and texts), 2hpw Greek seminar for students of
Latin: The impact of Greek literature upon Rome, 2 hpw Greek seminar: Herodotus, Histories, 2 hpw Extemporary Greek translation: From Homer until Late Antiquity
WT 2017/8 2 hpw Greek seminar for students of Latin: The impact of Greek literature upon Rome, 2 hpw Gr. prose style II (Cases), 2 hpw tutorial: A short history of Greek oratory and rhetoric
WT 2017/8 2 hpw Greek seminar for students of Latin: The impact of Greek literature upon Rome, 2 hpw translation: Euripides, Medea, 1 hpw tutorial: Short overview: Philosophical literature in Greco-Roman Antiquity
ST 2017 2hpw: History of Greek Literature: Greek lyric Poetry (7th-5th cent. BC): Genres, contexts, authors; 2hpw: History of Latin Literature: Augustan Poetry
WT 2016/7 2 hpw seminar: 4th century BC. The beginning of the end of the polis? (with Dr. M. Osmers, Chair of Ancient history), 2 hpw Greek seminar for students of Latin: The impact of Greek literature upon Rome, 1 hpw tutorial: History of Greek Literature: Rhetorical texts
ST 2016 2 hpw tutorial: Genres and periods of Greek poetry, 1 hpw field trip: "Athen. Triumph der Bilder" (Liebieghaus Frankfurt a.M.), 2 hpw translation: Lucian, True stories
WT 2015/6 2 hpw Gr. prose style III (historiography), 2 hpw translation: Ovid, Metamorphoses, 2 hpw seminar: Hellenistic poetry
ST 2015 2 hpw Gr. prose style II (Moods/dependent clauses), 2 hpw Gr. prose style III (oratory)
WT 2014/15 2 hpw Gr. prose style II (Cases), 2 hpw Gr. prose style III (philosophy)
ST 2014 2 hpw Gr. prose style II (Moods/dependent clauses), 2 hpw Gr. prose style III (historiography), 2 hpw cursory translation: Herodotus
WT 2013/14 2 hpw Gr. prose style II (Cases), 2 hpw Gr. prose style III (oratory), 2 hpw translation: Plato, Meno
ST 2013 2 hpw Gr. prose style II (Moods/dependent clauses), 2 hpw Gr. prose style III (philosophy), [no hpw] field trip: Istanbul and Asia minor (responsible)
WT 2012/13 2 hpw Gr. prose style II (Cases), 2 hpw Gr. prose style III (historiography)
ST 2012 2 hpw Gr. prose style II (Moods/dependent clauses), 2 hpw Gr. prose style III (oratory), 2 hpw cursory translation: Protreptic-paraenetic texts
WT 2011/12 2 hpw Gr.prose style II (Cases), 2 hpw Gr. prose style III (philosophy)
ST 2011 2 hpw Greek prose style II (Moods/dependent clauses), 2 hpw Gr. prose style III (historiography), 2 hpw cursory translation: Herodotus
WT 2010/11 1 hpw cursory translation: Arrianus, 2 hpw Gr. prose style II (Cases), 2 hpw Gr. prose style III
ST 2010 1 hpw translation: Plutarch, De Malignitate Herodoti, 2 hpw cursory translation: Epitaphioi Logoi,
2 hpw Gr. prose style II/III
WT 2009/10 1 hpw prep course for the midterm exams, 2 hpw Gr. prose style II/III, 2 hpw translation: Isocrates, Antidosis speech
ST 2009 2 hpw translation: Nicolaus of Damascus, 2 hpw cursory translation: Hellenistic poetry,
2 hpw Gr. prose style II/III
WT 2008/09 1 hpw translation: Lysias, Against Alcibiades (or. 14); 2 hpw translation: Euripides, Hippolytus, 2 hpw translation: Diodorus, Book I
ST 2008 1 hpw cursory translation: Apollonius Rhodius; 2 hpw cursory translation: Herodotus
WT 2007/08 2 hpw translation: Plato, Symposium
Areas of Special Interest
Hellenistic philosophy, Hellenistic cult, Archaic choral lyric, Greek syntax, Greek history, Epigraphy, Greek oratory, editorial philology, thematic history, archaic lyric, digital humanities
Languages
German (native speaker)
English and Italian (spoken, read and written)
Ancient Greek and Latin (read and written)
French, Spanish, Modern Greek, Dutch, and Portuguese (read)