Jonas Grethlein

Jonas Grethlein (2008)

Jonas Grethlein (born May 13, 1978 in Munich ) is a German classical philologist .

Life

Jonas GRETHLEIN, the son of the Protestant theologian Christian GRETHLEIN , studied as a fellow of studienstiftung Classical Philology and History from 1997 to 1999 at the Georg-August University Göttingen , from 1999 to 2000 at the Trinity College of the University of Oxford , from 2000 at the Albert-Ludwigs-University Freiburg . Here he received his doctorate in 2002 with the dissertation Asylum and Athens: The Construction of Collective Identity in Greek Tragedy with the title summa cum laude , for which he was awarded the Günter Wöhrle Prize by the Humanism Foundation today .

After completing his doctorate, Grethlein became a research associate at the Freiburg Collaborative Research Center “Identities / Alterities” and a scholarship holder in the Emmy Noether Program of the German Research Foundation (DGF). After his habilitation (2005) face history, historicity and narration in the Iliad , he was the Emmy-Noether program under the formation and management of a working group on historical images in Greek literature of the Archaic and Classical commissioned he held until 2009 led. In 2006 he was awarded the Heinz Maier Leibnitz Prize of the DFG for his habilitation thesis . In 2007 he went to the University of California, Santa Barbara as an Assistant Professor . In the summer semester of 2008 he accepted a call to the Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg for the chair for Greek literary studies, which had been vacant since 2001. From September 2010 to May 2011 Grethlein was a Gerda Henkel Scholar at Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island (USA). This supports his research project Futures past in ancient historiography (narrative strategies of ancient historians). In 2012, Grethlein received an ERC Starting Grant worth around 1.4 million euros , a grant from the European Research Council (ERC) for excellent young researchers. From 2013 onwards, the AncNar. Experience and Teleology in Ancient Narrative .

Publications (selection)

• Asylum and Athens. The construction of collective identity in Greek tragedy (= drama. Contributions to ancient drama and its reception. Supplement 21). Metzler, Stuttgart / Weimar 2003, ISBN 3-476-45309-9 (also dissertation, University of Freiburg im Breisgau 2002).
• The historical picture of the Iliad. An investigation from a phenomenological and narratological perspective (= hypomnemata. Investigations into antiquity and its afterlife . Volume 163). Vandenhoeck and Ruprecht, Göttingen 2006, ISBN 3-525-25262-5 (also habilitation thesis, University of Freiburg im Breisgau 2004).
• Littell's Oresty. Myth, power and morality in Les Bienveillantes (= Paradeigmata. Volume 9). Rombach, Freiburg 2009, ISBN 978-3-7930-9611-5 .
• as ed. with Antonios Rengakos: Narratology and Interpretation. The Content of Narrative Form in Ancient Literature (= Trends in Classics. Supplement-Volume 4). Walter de Gruyter, Berlin / New York 2009, ISBN 978-3-11-021452-9 .
• The Greeks and their Past. Poetry, Oratory and History in the Fifth-Century BCE. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 2010, ISBN 978-0-521-11077-8 (paperback 2013 edition).
• as edited by Christopher B. Krebs: Time and Narrative in Ancient Historiography. The "Plupast" from Herodotus to Appian. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 2012, ISBN 978-1-107-00740-6 .
• Experience and Teleology in Ancient Historiography. Futures Past from Herodotus to Augustine. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 2013, ISBN 978-1-107-04028-1 .
• The Odyssey. Homer and the art of storytelling . Beck, Munich 2017, ISBN 978-3-406-70817-6 .

Web links

• German-language works by Jonas Grethlein in the catalog of the German National Library
• Jonas Grethlein on Academia.edu
• Curriculum vitae and complete list of publications by Jonas Grethlein

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Heidelberg scientist Jonas Grethlein receives ERC Starting Grant. Press release from Heidelberg University of November 29, 2012, accessed on November 30, 2012.