Anja Bettenworth

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Anja Bettenworth (* 1973 in Gütersloh ) is a German classical philologist .

Bettenworth studied from 1992 at the University of Münster and in 1995 at the Università Ca 'Foscari (Venice). In 1998 she passed the state examination in Münster and received her doctorate there in 2002 . Then she was an assistant at the chair for Latin studies . In 2005/2006, Bettenworth went to the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor for 16 months as a Feodor Lynen Fellow of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation . In 2009 habilitated they are in professional classical philology.

From the summer semester of 2010, she held a substitute professorship (W3) at the University of Cologne and was appointed W2 professor at the University of Cologne in June 2011.

Bettenworth's research focuses on the ancient epic , the Roman elegy and the reception of antiquity, especially in cinema. She also works on Hellenistic poetry.

Fonts (selection)

  • Banquet scenes in the ancient epic from Homer to Claudian. Diachronic investigations into the typical scene. Dissertation. Vandenhoeck and Ruprecht, Göttingen 2004, ISBN 3-525-25252-8 . (Hypomnemata 153)
  • together with Ruth Scodel : Whither Quo Vadis? Henryk Sienkiewicz's Novel in Film and Television. Wiley, New York 2008, ISBN 978-1-4051-8385-7 .
  • together with Saskia Fischer u. a .: Other worlds. Files from the 2nd research day of the Young College of the North Rhine-Westphalian Academy of Sciences. Schöningh, Paderborn et al. 2009, ISBN 978-3-506-76881-0 .
  • together with Dominik Höink: The power of music: Georg Friedrich Handel's “Alexander's Feast”. Interdisciplinary Studies. V & R Unipress, Göttingen 2010, ISBN 978-3-89971-733-4 .
  • 'Hoc satis in titulo': studies on the inscriptions in the Roman elegy. Aschendorff, Münster 2016, ISBN 978-3-402-14446-6 . (Orbis antiquus 44)

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