Werner Riess

Werner Rieß (born August 8, 1970 in Altötting ) is a German ancient historian .

After graduating from the König-Karlmann-Gymnasium in Altötting, Werner Rieß studied history, German and Romance languages ​​at the universities of Augsburg and Tours from 1990 to 1996 . In 1996 he passed the first state examination. He then studied at the University of Heidelberg , where he was also a research assistant at the Department of Ancient History and Epigraphy from 1999 to 2003. In 2000 he was in Heidelberg with a dissertation on Apuleius and the robbers supervised by Géza Alföldy . A PhD contribution to historical crime research. The dissertation was awarded the Ruprecht Karls Prize of Heidelberg University.

In 2002/03 he researched and taught at Emory University in Atlanta on a Feodor Lynen Research Fellowship from the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation . From 2004 to 2007 Rieß taught as Assistant Professor at the Department of Classics at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill , from 2007 to 2011 he was Associate Professor there . From 2007 to 2008 he spent a research fellowship at the Center for Hellenic Studies in Washington, DC In 2008 he completed his habilitation at the University of Augsburg with a thesis on The Social Drama of Violence supervised by Gregor Weber . A Cultural History of Interpersonal Violence in Fourth-Century BC Athens .

Since the winter semester 2011/2012 he has been teaching as W2 professor for ancient history at the University of Hamburg as the successor to Christoph Schäfer . In 2012, Rieß rejected an offer from the Catholic University of Eichstätt for a W3 professorship for Ancient History. Rieß was appointed W3 Professor for Ancient History in Hamburg in 2012.

His research interests include the cultural and mental history of Classical Athens, the social history of the Roman Empire, the Second Sophistics (especially Apuleius) as well as forms of conflict, violence and crime in Greco-Roman antiquity.

Fonts

Monographs

• Apuleius and the robbers. A contribution to historical crime research (= Heidelberg ancient historical contributions and epigraphic studies. Vol. 35). Steiner, Stuttgart 2001, ISBN 3-515-07826-6 .
• Performing Interpersonal Violence. Court, Curse and Comedy in Fourth-Century BCE Athens. de Gruyter, Berlin 2012, ISBN 978-3-1102-4559-2 . ( Review )

Editorships

• Paideia at Play: Learning and Wit in Apuleius (= Ancient Narrative. Supplementum 11). Barkhuis Publisher, Groningen 2008, ISBN 978-90-77922-41-5 .
• with Garrett G. Fagan : Topography of violence in the greco-roman world. University of Michigan Press, Ann Arbor 2016, ISBN 0-472-11982-6 .

Web links

• Literature by and about Werner Rieß in the catalog of the German National Library
• Page from Werner Rieß at the University of Hamburg