Katharina Volk

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Katharina Volk (born August 22, 1969 in Munich ) is a German classical philologist ( Latinist ).

Life

Katharina Volk is the daughter of the art historian Peter Volk (1937–2016) and the art historian Brigitte Volk-Knüttel. After studying Classical Philology at the University of Munich , which she graduated with a Magister Artium in 1994 , Volk went to Princeton University for doctoral studies , where she received her doctorate in 1999 . Since 2002 she has been an Associate Professor at Columbia University in New York .

Since 2010, Volk has acted as editor of the Transactions of the American Philological Association .

Since May 2013 she has been married to James EG Zetzel , who also teaches at Columbia University.

Research priorities

Volk works primarily on the Latin poetry of the late republic and the early imperial period ( Lucretius , Virgil , Ovid , Manilius , Seneca ), but also on the archaic and Hellenistic literature of the Greeks, on the ancient history of science (especially on ancient astronomy and astrology, which are often poetically presented ) , on ancient poetics and the history of ideas .

Fonts

Monographs

  • The Poetics of Latin Didactic: Lucretius, Virgil, Ovid, Manilius . Oxford 2002.
  •  Manilius and his Intellectual Background . Oxford 2009.
  • Ovid. Poet of exile . Darmstadt 2012.

Editorships

  • with J. Mira Seo and Rolando Ferri (eds.): Callida Musa: Papers on Latin Literature in Honor of R. Elaine Fantham . Pisa 2009.
  • (Ed.): Oxford Readings in Classical Studies: Vergil's Eclogues . Oxford 2008.
  • (Ed.): Oxford Readings in Classical Studies: Vergil's Georgics . Oxford 2008.
  • with Gareth D. Williams (Ed.): Seeing Seneca Whole: Perspectives on Philosophy, Poetry and Politics . Leiden 2006.

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personal data
SURNAME Volk, Katharina
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German classical philologist
DATE OF BIRTH 22nd August 1969
PLACE OF BIRTH Munich