Nicola Hömke

Nicola Hömke (* 1970 ) is a German classical philologist .

Life

She completed her studies in Latin and Greek philology at the Universities of Heidelberg and Oxford ( Somerville College ) with the first state examination. In the summer semester of 2000 she was a research assistant at the chair for Greek studies with Thomas A. Schmitz at the University of Frankfurt am Main . She received her doctorate from the University of Heidelberg in 2001 . From 2000 to 2011 she was a research assistant at Christiane Reitz's chair for Latin studies at the University of Rostock , then until 2013 research assistant in the DFG project The Rhetoric of Monotheism in the Roman Empire - Monotheistic Speech in Prose and Poetry of Late Antiquity at the Free University Berlin with Therese Fuhrer . After completing his habilitation in 2012 at the University of Rostock with a thesis in the death zone. The representation and function of the terrible, gruesome and disgusting in Lucan's Bellum Civile , she has since been a private lecturer with Venia legendi for classical philology. From 2013 to the winter semester 2014/2015 she represented the chair of Latin studies at the Free University of Berlin , in the summer semester 2015 at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich and in the winter semester 2015/2016 at the University of Osnabrück . From the 2016 summer semester to the 2019 summer semester, she represented the Chair of Classical Philology at the University of Potsdam . In the 2019/20 winter semester, she accepted a call to a W3 professorship in Latin Philology at the University of Rostock.

Her work and research focus are the early imperial Roman epics (especially Lucan ), redesigns of epic structures in the Roman Epyllion , Roman rhetoric, late antique poetry (especially Ausonius and Claudian ) literary fantasy, the "aesthetics of the ugly" and its foundations in Greek and Roman literature and the Roman letters from Hadrian's Wall .

Fonts (selection)

• Suppose a ghost appears. Composition and motifs of the ps-quintilian Declamationes maiores X, XIV and XV (= Kalliope. Volume 2). Winter, Heidelberg 2002, ISBN 3-8253-1328-X (also dissertation, Heidelberg 2001).
• as editor with Manuel Baumbach : Strange Realities. Literary fantasy and ancient literature (= Kalliope. Volume 6). Winter, Heidelberg 2006, ISBN 3-8253-5266-8 .
• as editor with Christiane Reitz: Lucan's “Bellum Civile”. Between Epic Tradition and Aesthetic Innovation (= contributions to antiquity. Volume 282). De Gruyter, Berlin et al. 2010, ISBN 978-3-11-022947-9 .
• as editor with Gian Franco Chiai and Antonia Jenik : Images of the One God. The rhetoric of the image in monotheistic depictions of God in late antiquity (= Philologus . Supplement 6). de Gruyter, Berlin et al. 2016, ISBN 3-11-051673-X .

Web links

• Nicola Hömke on the website of the University of Rostock