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since 09.2020W2-Professor of Cultural History of the Ancient World at the Historical Seminar of the Johannes Gutenberg-University Mainz
03.2024 – 07.2024Parental Leave
03.2022 – 09.2023managing director of the Historical Seminar of the Johannes Gutenberg-University Mainz
10.2019 – 03.2020Substitute of the chair of Ancient History (Roman History) at the University of Münster
03.2019 – 08.2019Parental Leave
08.2016 – 08.2020W1-Juniorprofessor of Cultural History of the Ancient World at the Historical Seminar of the Johannes Gutenberg-University Mainz
11.2014Erasmus+ guest lectureship at the Panepistimiou Arestiotelis Thessaloniki, Greece
10.2013 – 07.2016W1-Juniorproffessor for Ancient History (Greek History) at the University of Saarland
10.2010–03.2013Research assistant at the Historical Seminar, research unit Ancient History, of the Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz
04.2010–09.2010Research assistant at the Historical Seminar, Department of Ancient History, of the Eberhard Karls University Tübingen
01.2012Doctorate (Dr. phil.) in Ancient History at the Eberhard Karls University Tübingen
Predicate: summa cum laude
11.2007State examination LAG at the Eberhard Karls University Tübingen
10.2001–11.2007Program of study in the subjects History, Latin and Greek at the Eberhard Karls University Tübingen
01.2008–03.2010graduate student scholarship from the Friedrich Ebert Foundation
01.2002–11.2007Study grant from the Friedrich Ebert Foundation

Expert opinions

  • Funding institutions: German Research Foundation (DFG), Alexander von Humboldt Foundation (AvH), German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD)
  • Publishers: Bloomsbury Academic
  • Journals: Classical Journal (0009-8583), Classical Philology (0009-837X), Elenchos (0392-7342), Journal of Ancient Civilizations (1004-9371), Polis (0142-257X), Rhetorica (0734-8584), theologie.geschichte (1862.1678)

Reviews

  • Historische Zeitschrift (HZ), Classical Review (CR), Gnomon, Bryn Mawr Classical Review (BMCRev), H-Soz-u-Kult, Sehepunkte, Gymnasium

Memberships

  • German Association of University Professors and Lecturers (DHV), Association of Historians of Germany (VHD), Mommsen-Gesellschaft e.V., International Society for Boredom Studies (ISBS), International Society for the History of Rhetoric (ISHR), Societas Isocratics (SocIsoc)

Association functions

  • International Society for the History of Rhetoric: Secretary general (since 07.2025), Member Rhetorica Prize Committee (08.2024-07.2027), Member of the Council (08.2019-07.2024), Member of the Research Grants Committee (2022), Member of the Program Committee (08.2019-07.2022, 22nd Biennial conference, Nijmegen, NL)
  • Societas Isocratica: Initiator, Founding President (since 07.2025)

Further Engagement

  • Liaison lecturer of the Friedrich Ebert Foundation (since 2015) [for information on scholarships: Please contact me!]
since 04.2023Committee for Budgetary, Structural and Capacity Issues (JGU FB07)
04.2022–09.2023managing director of the Historical Seminar (JGU FB07)
04.2021–03.2022Deputy managing director of the Historical Seminar (JGU FB07)
since 04.2017Committee for Teaching and Studies (JGU FB07)
03.2023–12.2023search committee W2-Professorship Egyptology (JGU FB07)
10.2017–11.2018search committee W2-Academy Professorship ‘Regesta Imperii’ (JGU FB07)
04.2017–09.2019examination committee B.A./M.A. History (JGU FB07)
10.2014–07.2016doctoral committee (UdS Philosophical Fak. I/II)
10.2013–07/2016examination committee B.A./M.A. (UdS Philosophical Fak. I/II)
10.2004–09.2005(University) Senate of the Eberhard Karls University Tübingen
10.2004–09.2005General Student Committee of the Eberhard Karls University Tübingen
10.2003–09.2004search committee W3-Professorship Ancient History (Eberhard Karls University Tübingen, Faculty of Philosophy and History)
10.2002–09.2004Faculty Council (of the Eberhard Karls University Tübingen, Faculty of Cultural Studies)
  • Logos and Praxis. Sparta as a political example in the writings of Isocrates (KLIO Beihefte N. R. Vol. 23), Berlin: De Gruyter 2014. Also available as a brochure reprint: Berlin 2017. [https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110342512]
  • Religious secret communication in the Middle and late Roman Republic. Separateness, social publicity and civic order (Potsdamer altertumswissenschaftliche Beiträge Vol. 82), Stuttgart: Steiner 2024.[https://doi.org/10.25162/9783515133876]
  • The symphonic sisters. Narrative constructions of ‘truth(s)’ in post-classical historiography. Stuttgart: Steiner 2018 (together with Felix K. Maier).
    [https://doi.org/10.25162/9783515118408]
  • Caesarenwahn. A topos between anti-Wilhelminism, ancient imperial image and modern popular culture (Studies on Historical Culture Vol. 41), Cologne et al.: Böhlau 2021 (in print; together with Christoph Catrein / Christine van Hoof)
    [doi.org/10.7788/9783412520922]
  • Homer’s home is poetry. Essay instead of a review of R. Schrott: Homer’s Home. Munich: Hanser 2008. In: Gymnasium 116 (2009), 469-474.
  • Isocrates on Paradoxical Discourse. An Analysis of Helen and Busiris. In: Rhetorica 31 (2013), 1-33. [https://doi.org/10.1525/rh.2013.31.1.1]
  • Philosophy as leitourgia. Sophists, Fees, and the Civic Role of paideia. In : F. Carlo / M. Gori (Hgg.): Gift-Giving and the ‚Embedded‘ Economy in the Ancient World (Akademiekonferenzen, 17), Heidelberg 2014, 377-402.
  • U-Topia. Cinematic Sparta as an Idea (Not a City). In: M. García Morcillo / P. Hanesworth / O. Lapeña Marchena (Hgg.): Imagining Ancient Cities in Film. From Babylon to Cinecittà, London 2015, 65-90. [https://doi.org/10.4324/9780203752319]
  • Meeting point, intersection, turning point. On the political and musical symbolism of the area of the Augustean Meta Sudans. In: Chiron 46 (2016), S. 285-317.
    [doi.org/10.34780/fa64-9s2y]
  • Archidamos Rhetor. Sparta’s break with tradition in Isocrates’ Archidamos. In: V. Pothou / A. Powell (Hgg.): Das antike Sparta. Stuttgart 2017, S. 181-207.
    [https://doi.org/10.25162/9783515113724]
  • Counsellor, Teacher, Friend. The apragmôn as Political Figure in Isocrates. In: A. Queyrel Bottineau / M.-R. Guelfucci (Hgg.): Conseillers et ambassadeurs dans l’antiquité (DHA Suppléments, 17). Besançon 2017, S. 263-290.
    [https://10.3917/dha.hs17.0263]
  • Introduction – the symphonic sisters, in: T. Blank / F. K. Maier (Hgg.): Die symphonischen Schwestern – narrative Konstruktionen von ‚Wahrheit‘ in der nachklassischen Geschichtsschreibung. Stuttgart 2018, S. 11-28 (zus. mit F. K. Maier).
    [https://doi.org/10.25162/9783515118408]
  • Alêtheia behind things. Epistemology and history(s) at Plutarch of Chaironeia. In: T. Blank / F. K. Maier (Hgg.): Die symphonischen Schwestern – narrative Konstruktionen von ‚Wahrheit‘ in der nachklassischen Geschichtsschreibung. Stuttgart 2018, S. 87-113.
    [https://doi.org/10.25162/9783515118408]
  • Inner critics and which environment? Intellectuals between dissidence and system stabilization in Athens of the 4th century. In: I. Jordovic / U. Walter (Hgg.): Feindbild und Vorbild. Die athenische Demokratie und ihre intellektuellen Gegner (HZ Beihefte, 74), Berlin 2018, S. 70-106.
    [https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110608380-004]
  • Restricted Spaces and the Hierarchies of Communication in Matthew. Excluding Narratees, Including Readers. In: SNTU.A 43 (2018[2019]), 5–32.
  • Political-rhetorical practice in the Polis. In: A. Burckhardt (Hg.): Handbuch Politische Rhetorik (Handbücher Rhetorik, 10), Berlin 2019, 35–58
    [https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110331516-003]
  • Introduction, in: T. Blank / C. Catrein / C. van Hoof (Hgg.): Caesarenwahn. Ein Topos zwischen Antiwilhelminismus, antikem Kaiserbild und moderner Populärkultur (Studien zur Geschichtskultur Bd. 41), Köln u.a.: Böhlau 2021, 9–22. [https://doi.org/10.7788/9783412520922.9]
  • Unruly rulers. ‘Caesarenwahn’ and ancient tyrant topoi, in: T. Blank / C. Catrein / C. van Hoof (Hgg.): Caesarenwahn. Ein Topos zwischen Antiwilhelminismus, antikem Kaiserbild und moderner Populärkultur (Studien zur Geschichtskultur Bd. 41), Köln u.a.: Böhlau 2021, 85–120.
    [https://doi.org/10.7788/9783412520922.143]
  • Methodical Remarks on the ‚Truthfulness’ of Oratorical Narrative. In: A. Kapellos (Hg.): The Orators and Their Treatment of the Recent Past, Berlin: De Gruyter 2022(Trends in Classics Supplementary Volumes), 23–45.
    [https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110791877-002]
  • ‘To Gloat Over Our Catastrophes:’ Isocrates on Commemorating the War Dead, in: Pritchard, D. M. (Hg.): The Athenian Funeral Oration. After Nicole Loraux, Cambridge: CUP 2024, 241–258.
    [https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009413053.013]
  • Rhetoric, Philosophy and Education: Isocrates, in: G. Ueding / F. Vidal (Hgg.): Handbuch Rhetorik und Pädagogik (Handbücher Rhetorik Bd. 8), Berlin: De Gruyter 2024, 55–84.
    [https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110352382-003]
  • Y. L. Too: A Commentary on Isocrates‘ Antidosis, Oxford 2008. In: Gymnasium 117 (2010), 68-71.
  • G. Martin: Divine Talk. Religious Argumentation in Demosthenes, Oxford 2009. In: Gymnasium 117 (2010), 476-478.
  • C. J. Classen: Herrscher, Bürger und Erzieher. Beobachtungen zu den Reden des Isokrates (Spudasmata, 133), Hildesheim 2010. In: Gnomon 83 (2011), 679-682.
  • D. Piovan: Memoria e oblio della guerra civile. Strategie giudiziarie e racconto del passato in Lisia (Studi e testi di storia antica, 19), Pisa 2011. In: BMCRev 2012.01.37. [URL: http://bmcr.brynmawr.edu/2012/2012-01-37.html]
  • I. Samotta: Demosthenes (utb Profile, 3407), Tübingen 2010. In: Gymnasium 119 (2012), 500-502.
  • O. Stoll: Wissen zum Wohl der Polis. Xenophons Ideal einer Führungspersönlichkeit und Athens Reiterei im Hipparchikos (Altertumswissenschaften/Archäologie, 3), Berlin 2010. In: GFA 15 (2012), 1091-1098.
  • F. Mundt: Kommunikationsräume im kaiserzeitlichen Rom (TOPOI, 6), Berlin 2012. In: Sehepunkte 13 (2013), Nr. 7/8. [URL: http://www.sehepunkte.de/2013/07/22373.html]
  • A. Macé (Hg.): Choses privées et chose publique en Grèce ancienne.Genèse et structure d’un système de classification. Grenoble 2012. In: BMCRev 2013.09.39. [URL: http://bmcr.brynmawr.edu/2013/2013-09-39.html]
  • W. Will: Demosthenes. Darmstadt 2013. In: Gymnasium 121 (2014), 508-510.
  • M. Osmers: „Wir aber sind damals und jetzt immer die Gleichen…“ Vergangenheitsbezüge in der polisübergreifenden Kommunikation der klassischen Zeit (Historia Einzelschriften, 226), Stuttgart 2013. In: BMCRev 2014.09.21. [URL: http://bmcr.brynmawr.edu/2014/2014-09-21.html]
  • B. Secher Bøgh (Hg.): Conversion and Initiation in Antiquity. Shifting Identities – Creating Change (Early Christianity in the Context of Antiquity, 16), Frankfurt a. M. u.a. 2014. In : BMCRev 2016.03.34. [URL: http://bmcr.brynmawr.edu/2016/2016-03-34.html]
  • C. Bouchet / P. Giovannelli-Jouanna (Hgg.): Isocrate. Entre jeu rhétorique et enjeux poli­ti­ques. Lyon 2015 (CEROR, 47). In: REA 118 (2016), 674-678.
  • H. Barta: Graeca non leguntur. Zu den Ursprüngen des europäischen Rechts im antiken Griechenland, Teil II: Archaische Grundlagen, 2 Bde., Wiesbaden 2012, in: MBAH 34 (2016), 217-227.
  • V. Zali: The Shape of Herodotean Rhetoric. A Study of Speeches in Herodotus’ Histories with Special Attention to Books 5-9, Leiden / Boston 2014 (International Studies in the History of Rhetoric, 6), in: Gnomon 89 (2017), S. 490-495.
  • J. H. Collins II: Exhortations to Philosophy. The Protreptics of Plato, Isocrates, and Aristotle, New York 2015, in: CR 67/2 (2017), S. 361-363.
  • B. Gray: Stasis and Stability. Exile, the Polis, and Political Culture, Oxford 2015, in: HZ 306 (2018), 505–507.
  • V. Liotsakis / S. Farrington (Hgg.): The Art of History. Literary Perspectives on Greek and Roman Historiography. Berlin / Boston 2016 (Trends in Classics Supplementary Volume, 41), In: Gnomon 90 (2018), 224-227.
  • E. Zingg: Isokrates, Archidamos. Einleitung, Text, Übersetzung und Kommentar. 2 Bde., Düsseldorf 2018 (Syssitia 2), in: HZ 309 (2019), 148f.

(in print = imprimatur granted; in preparation = manuscript accepted for publication)

  • Cultural facts (production and dissolution, participation, inclusion/exclusion, concepts of otherness)
  • History of ancient rhetoric and the cultures of public communication
  • History of the Religion of the Ancient World (especially social forms of the religious, separate religion, ‘religious’ conflicts)
  • Concepts of rule and their public representation
  • History of ancient historiography
  • Reception history (especially on the political history of ideas, Sparta and Athens)
  • Vincent A. Hupfauer: On the instrumentalization of the status of otherness before Athenian courts. From the 5th century BC to the end of the Corinthian League (working title, ongoing)
  • Otherness and Cult. Investigations into the religious landscape of Attica (UdS Saarbrücken 2016).
  • Pliny the Younger’s report on the eruption of Vesuvius against the background of senatorial self-representation (JGU Mainz 2017).
  • Political Communication in crisis – from the (University) Senate’s ultimatum to Caesar to the invasion of Rome (JGU Mainz, 2017).
  • Gnaeus Pompeius Magnus and the Lex Gabinia. An investigation into the extraordinary command against the pirates (JGU Mainz, 2018).
  • The rise of Octavian to the pro-praetorship in 43 BC (JGU Mainz, 2018)
  • ‘Crossing gender’ in selected dramas of Aristophanes and Euripides (JGU Mainz, 2022)
  • Caedes omnia tenet – Instrumental violence against collectives in the age of the Punic Wars (JGU Mainz, 2023)
  • Investigations into the problem of the autonomy of divination in the political process of the late Roman Republic (JGU Mainz, 2023)
  • Investigations into the area of conflict between exception and rule in procedures of decision-making in the Athenian ekklesia of the 5th century BC (JGU Mainz 2023)
  • Social relations and belonging in the representation and reception of the Roman empresses using the example of Publia Fulvia Plautilla Augusta (JGU Mainz 2024)
  • Ptolemaia, Basileia and other new Agones. The spread and significance of agonistics in the Ptolemaic Empire (JGU Mainz, ongoing)
  • ‘Here we bring you war and peace’. The Ebro Treaty and the causes of the Second Punic War (JGU Mainz 2013).
  • Isidore of Seville’s book on agriculture as an example of late antique knowledge transformation (JGU Mainz 2017).
  • Investigations into prominence in Velleius Paterculus. The Late Republic as a success story of the homines novi?
  • Pyrrho and the Gymnosophists. On the question of an Indian influence on Greek Philosophy (JGU Mainz 2021)
  • Between court jester and rebel: On the representation of critics of the emperor as philosophers between Nero and Domitian (JGU Mainz 2023)
  • Analysis of the image of women and sexuality in Greek literature based on Mimiambs 5 and 6 of Herodas (JGU Mainz 2023)
  • Royal cities. The representation of Seleucus I Nicator in Seleukeia and Antiocheia (JGU Mainz 2023)
  • On the role of the (University) Senate in Pliny’s Panegyricus Traiani (JGU Mainz 2023)
  • Framing the Enemy: On the influence of the fetiales in the context of declarations of war during the early and middle Roman Republic (JGU Mainz 2023)