Annemarie Ambühl

Annemarie Ambühl is a German classical philologist . She teaches at the Institute for Classical Studies / Classical Philology at Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz .

Scientific career

She completed her studies (1989–1997) in Greek Philology, Latin Philology and Ancient History at the University of Basel and the University of Michigan with a licentiate . From 1997 to 2001 she was a research assistant at the University of Basel, where she received her doctorate in 2002 . From 2001 to 2005 she was a research assistant and post-doctoral candidate in the research project A Man-Made Disaster as Collective Trauma. His processing in Roman poetry using the example of Lucan's Bellum Civile at the University of Basel at Christine Waldes' SNSF professorship and at the same time lecturer at the University of Basel. At the Rijksuniversiteit Groningen she was a lecturer and habilitation scholarship holder from 2005 to 2009 (2005/2006). From 2010 to 2011 she was a research assistant and teacher for special tasks at the Justus Liebig University in Giessen and a lecturer at the Johannes Gutenberg University in Mainz . In December 2010, the habilitation process was opened at the Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz. After the habilitation colloquium, she was awarded the Venia legendi for Classical Philology on January 25, 2012. In the 2011/2012 winter semester and 2012 summer semester, she represented the professorship for Latin Studies (W3) at the University of Cologne . In the winter semester 2011/2012 and winter semester 2012/2013 she was a lecturer at the Johannes-Gutenberg University Mainz. From September 2012 to March 2014 she was a lecturer in Latin studies at the University of Leiden . Since 2013 she has been teaching as a private lecturer for classical philology at the Johannes-Gutenberg University Mainz. Since winter semester 2014/2015 she has been a research assistant and teacher for special tasks (unlimited) at the Institute for Classical Studies / Classical Philology at Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz.

Her research interests are Roman epic and tragedy, Greek tragedy, Hellenistic poetry, reception of Greek literature in Rome, tradition and reception of ancient literature up to the present day, war and civil war in literature, and the interaction between ancient poetic and (natural) scientific discourses .

In addition to her book publications, she has published several articles on Hellenistic and Latin poetry in international handbooks ( Brill's Companion to Hellenistic Epigram , ed. P. Bing / JS Bruss, Leiden: Brill 2007; A Companion to Hellenistic Literature , ed. JJ Clauss / M. Cuypers, Malden, Mass .: Blackwell 2010). and is co-editor of the scientific journal thersites. Journal for Transcultural Presences and Diachronic Identities from Antiquity to Date .

Fonts (selection)

• Children and young heroes. Innovative aspects of dealing with the literary tradition of Callimachos (= Hellenistica Groningana. Volume 9). Peeters, Leuven et al. 2005, ISBN 90-429-1551-X (revised version of the dissertation, Basel 2002).
• The perception of the new in antiquity and the Renaissance (= Colloquia Raurica , Volume 8) . De Gruyter, Berlin 2004, ISBN 3-598-77419-2 .
• Lucan in the 21st Century , with Christine Walde , De Gruyter, Berlin 2005 (Reprint 2011), ISBN 3-598-73026-8 .
• Lucan and Greek Literature. For the representation of war and civil war in the Bellum civile and in the Attic Comedy. De Gruyter Saur, Berlin 2008, ISBN 3-598-77837-6 .
• War and civil war in Lucan and in Greek literature. Studies on the reception of Attic tragedy and Hellenistic poetry in the Bellum civile (= contributions to antiquity. Volume 225). de Gruyter, Berlin 2015, ISBN 978-3-11-022207-4 (revised version of the habilitation thesis, Mainz 2012).

Editing

• War of the Senses - The Senses in War. Interactions and Tensions between Representations of War in Classical and Modern Culture. thersites. Journal for Transcultural Presences and Diachronic Identities from Antiquity to Date, Vol. 4 (2016), ISSN 2364-7612 ( table of contents )

Web links

• Literature by and about Annemarie Ambühl in the catalog of the German National Library
• Literature by and about Annemarie Ambühl in the bibliographic database WorldCat
• academia.edu

Individual evidence

1. ^ Annemarie Ambühl on the website of Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz
2. ^ The Literary Dictionary
3. ↑ Reviewed by Thomas Gärtner, Institute for Classical Studies, University of Cologne , in: Bryn Mawr Classical Review 02.10.2016