Dr Kathrin Winter

• Latin literature (esp. 1st century BCE to 2nd century CE) and Greek literature
• literary theory
• literary cognitive theory (esp. 4E cognition) in ancient literature (space, body, and viewpoints)
• material eco-criticism
• intertextuality
• aethetics of the display of violence and cruelty

Monographs

• Artificia mali. Das Böse als Kunstwerk in Senecas Rachetragödien. Heidelberg, 2014.

Edited volumes

• Together with Martin Stöckinger and Andreas Tom Zanker (eds): Horace and Seneca. Interactions, Intertexts, Interpretations, Berlin / New York 2017.

Articles and chapters

• Together with József Krupp: ‘Inner frames in Latin lyric and elegiac poetry’, in: Tamás, Ábel / Kozák, Dániel (eds.), Framing Greek and Roman poetry. The dynamics of inside and outside in classical literature, London (forthcoming).
• ‘Die Hauptsache ist sekundär. Evident sein und evident machen in der Philologie’, in: Noller, Eva Marie / Krupp, József (eds.), Text und Evidenz. Literaturwissenschaftliche und juristische Perspektiven, Munich 2026, 26–42.
• ‘A cicada’s life: divine intervention and poetic immortality in Apollonius’s Phineus episode’, CJ 121, 2025, 49–69.
• ‘Vividness and spatial scenes. Four examples from Heraclitus’s fragments’, Mnemosyne 77, 2024, 718–741.
• ‘Seneca’s Saturnalia. The exception to the rules and the rules of exception”, Maia 76, 2024, 111–122.
• ‘Thinking (with) the body of Vitruvius’s Homo bene figuratus’, Ramus 52, 2023, 137–147.
• ‘Nicht Wissen ist auch Macht. Zur Gesprächsdynamik der Eingangsszene in Platons Kratylos’, Philologus 165, 2021, 205–224.
• ‘Speaking silence in Cicero’s Brutus and Tacitus’ Dialogus de oratoribus’, in: Tom Geue and Elena Giusti (eds.), Unspoken Rome. Absences in Latin literature and its reception, Cambridge 2021, 125–141.
• ‘Heidnische Hybris: Niobe, die lykischen Bauern’, (412–414), ‘Medea und Iason’, (401–403), ‘Theseus und Ariadne’, (453–454), in: Möller, Melanie (ed.), Ovid-Handbuch. Leben – Werk – Wirkung, Stuttgart 2021.
•  ‘Taking a stance. Two vignettes in Lucretius’s De rerum natura and Seneca’s Troades’, TAPA 149, 2019, 395–417.
•  ‘Disturbingly (dis)similar. Narcissus and Claudius in Seneca, Apocolocyntosis 13’, Mnemosyne 72, 2019, 300–313.
• Together with Martin Stöckinger and Andreas Tom Zanker: ‘Lucretian echoes in Sen. Med. 301–379 and 597–669’, MD 81, 2018, 207–213.
• ‘“Now I am Medea”: Gender, identity and the birth of revenge in Seneca’s Medea’, in: Lesel Dawson and Fiona McHardy (eds), Revenge and Gender in Classical, Medieval and Renaissance Literature, Edinburgh 2018, 97–110.
• ‘Momente des Verfehlens. Zu einem Bezug zwischen Horaz cc. 2, 13 und 2,14 und dem ersten Chorlied des senecanischen Thyestes (Thy. 122–175)’, Hermes 146, 2018, 54–75.
• Together with Martin Stöckinger and Andreas Tom Zanker: ‘Introduction’, in: Martin Stöckinger, Kathrin Winter and Tom Zanker (eds): Horace and Seneca. Interactions, Intertexts, Interpretations, Berlin / New York 2017, 1–23.
•  ‘Experience and Stimmung. Landscapes of the underworld in Seneca’s plays’, in: Jeremy McInerney and Ineke Sluiter (eds), Valuing landscape in Classical Antiquity: Natural environment and cultural imagination, Leiden 2016, 122–147.
• Together with Viktoria Adam: ‘Medea erfindet sich selbst. Aktualisierungsstrategien eines Mythos bei Seneca und Dario Fo / Franca Rame’, in: Marie Carrière (ed.), Medea nunc sum: refigurer le mythe de Médée, MuseMedusa 3, 2015.
• ‘The hidden tragedy: Medea and the daughters of Pelias in Ovid’s Metamorphoses (Ov. Met. 7, 297-651)’, MOSAÏQUE 1, 2009, 1–16.

Reviews

• Martina Russo, Flattery in Seneca the Younger: theory and practice. Oxford 2024, BMCR 2025.09.42.
• Maria Backhaus, Mord(s)bilder. Aufzählungen von Gewalt bei Seneca und Lucan. Berlin/Boston 2019, Gnomon 93, 2021, 222-224.
• Patrick Kragelund, Roman Historical Drama. The Octavia in Antiquity and Beyond, Oxford 2016, Gymnasium 125, 2018, 386-388.
• Jean Pierre Aygon, Vt Scaena, sic vita. Mise en scène et dévoilement dans les œuvres philosophiques et dramatiques de Sénèque. Paris 2016, Classical Review 67, 2017, 418-420.
• Vera Sauer, Religiöses in der politischen Argumentation der späten römischen Republik. Ciceros Erste Catilinarische Rede – Eine Fallstudie, Stuttgart 2013, Anzeiger für die Altertumswissenschaft 68, 2015, 86-89.

•  “Staunen und (Ver-)Stehen. Drei Vignetten in der lateinischen Literatur”. Departement Altertumswissenschaften, University of Basel, 7 October 2026.
• ‘Denken Sie jetzt nicht an einen rosa Elefanten’. Project presentation at the conference Rhetorik des Regelbruchs: erfolgreich gegen die Norm, University of Munich, 4–6 July 2026.
• ‘Experiences that cannot be made. Embodied descriptions in Lucretius and the Aetna’. Conference Like and unlike life. Cognitive perspectives on classical literature and art, Rijksuniversiteit Groningen, 19–20 February 2026.
• ‘Zwischen den Sternen und unter den Füßen. Kosmosschauen in der lateinischen Literatur’. Seminar für Griechische und Lateinische Philologie, University of Zurich, 17 November 2025.
• ‘Luxorius’ lifelikeness(es)’. The “Fixed Handout” Workshop on Luxorius, Faculty of Classics, Cambridge, 4–5 September 2025.
• ‘Don’t try this yourself. Negative examples in the Rhetorica ad Herennium”. Panel The rhetorics of breaking the rules – succeeding against the norms, FIEC 2025, Wroslaw, 7–11 July 2025.
• ‘ut non sit imitandum. Negativbeispiele in der Rhetorica ad Herennium'. Workshop of the network project Die Rhetorik des Regelbruchs. Erfolgreich Gegen die Norm; University of Rostock, 11–12 October 2024.
• ‘Bukolische Vignetten’. Research Seminar of the Department of Classics, University of Heidelberg, 26 June 2024.
• ‘Erst spät. Cicero über eine condicio Romana'. Research Seminar of the Department of Classics, University of Heidelberg, 15 November 2023.
• ‘The turn of the Muse. Criticism and intertextuality’. Conference Musa inversa in Graeco-Roman Antiquity. Responses to criticism in literature and literary designs in critical works, University of Heidelberg, 14–15 September 2023.
• ‘Belatedness. Cicero on a condition romaine’. Institute of Classical Studies, London, 27 February 2023.
• ‘Seneca’s Saturnalia: the exception to the rules and the rules of exception’. Conference December est mensis. I Saturnalia: temi, autori, approcci, Università degli studi di Firenze, 1–2 December 2022.
• ‘Varying suspensions of disbelief. Elements of fictional and factual narrative in Cicero’s works’. Workshop of the research network project Fictional and Factual Narratives in Antiquity, University of Heidelberg, 5 November 2022.
•  ‘Senecan landscapes and the limits of power’. Panel Seneca’s geographical boundaries: spatiality, philosophy, ideology, Conference Seneca 2022: What more can we say about Seneca?, Lisbon, 17–20 October 2022.
• ‘Inner framings in Latin lyric (and other) poetry’. Conference Framing Poetry. The Dynamics of Inside and Outside in Ancient Poetic Texts, Eötvös Loránd University Budapest, 22–24 June 2022.
• ‘Großes D/denken bei Pseudo-Longin und Lukrez’. Germanistisches Institut / Sektion Allgemeine und Vergleichende Literaturwissenschaft, Ruhr-Universität Bochum, 10 May 2022.
• ‘Die Hauptsache ist sekundär. Evident sein und evident machen in der Philologie’. Workshop of the research network project Was ist philologische Evidenz? Literaturwissenschaftliche und juristische Perspektiven, University of Heidelberg, 28–29 April 2022 and Research Seminar of the Department of Classics, University of Heidelberg, 27 April 2022.
• ‘Ein Zikadenleben. Überlegungen zu Körpern und Dichtung in Apollonios’ Phineus-Episode’. Research Seminar of the Department of Classics, University of Heidelberg, 13 January 2022.
• ‘Long-lived, blind, and hungry. Divine intervention in Phineus’ body’. Virtual Humboldt Kolleg Things have changed: Divine Interventions in Human Bodies and Land­scapes, Newcastle University & University of Virginia, 17–18 September 2021.
• ‘A bath in mud, a drenched soul and the depth of logos: Vividness in Heraclitus’ fragments’. Research Seminar of the Department of Classics, University of Heidelberg, 16 June 2021.
• ‘Was ist philologische Evidenz? Ein Verdacht’ Workshop of the research network project Was ist philologische Evidenz? Literaturwissenschaftliche und juristische Perspektiven, University of Heidelberg, 1–2 March 2021.
• ‘Vignettes in Horace’s Roman Odes’. Newcastle University, 29 January 2020.
• ‘Eadem invidia, maior gratia. Synkopierte Darstellung bei Homer und Tacitus’. Research Seminar of the Department of Classics, University of Heidelberg, 27 November 2019.
• ‘Woman without womb. Scylla’s body, identity and fluidity in the pseudo-Virgilian Ciris’. Symposium Cumanum 2019: Virgil and the Feminine, Cuma, 20–22 June 2019.
• ‘Ein Standpunkt in der Welt. Zwei Vignetten bei Lukrez und Seneca’. Research Seminar of the Department of Classics, University of Heidelberg, 14 November 2018.
• ‘Figure it out: Thinking (with) the body of Vitruvius’ Homo bene figuratus’. Workshop Vitruvius’ Homo bene figuratus inter disciplinas: Methodological Variations on a Single Passage (Vitruvius De Architectura III.1), Penn State University, 7–8 September 2018.
• ‘The world as cheese and representation. Everyday life and the meaning of the world in the pseudo-Virgilian Moretum and Carlo Ginzburg’s The Cheese and the Worms’. Eötvös Loránd University Budapest, 24 April 2018.
• ‘Dulce in immensis posito ruinis. Vignetten als literarische Technik in Senecas Troades’. Universität Potsdam, 9 January 2018.
• ‘Silent and eloquent. Absence and presence of speaking in Cicero’s Brutus and Tacitus’ Dialogus de Oratoribus’. Conference Unspeaking Volumes: Absence in Latin Texts, St. Andrews, 29 June – 1 July 2017.
• ‘Antonio sum amicus. Phänomene der Verkennung in Ciceros 1. Philippica und im Brutus’. Freie Universität Berlin, 12 July 2016.
• ‘I know that you know that I know: Misrecognition in Cicero’s Writings’. Panel Cicero Across Genres, The Celtic Conference in Classics, Dublin, 22–25 June 2016.
• ‘Inside the mirror, the mirror inside. Reflection in Representations of the Underworld’. The Fixed Handout Workshop at St. John’s College, Cambridge, 16–17 April 2016.
• ‘Introduction: Horace and Seneca’ (together with Martin Stöckinger). Conference Horace and Seneca. Interactions, Intertexts, Interpretations, Heidelberg, 27–29 July 2015.
• ‘Auf dem Weg zur Hölle. Unterweltslandschaft und Raumerfahrung in Senecas Tragödien’ . Universität Rostock, 11 December 2014.
• ‘Gift und Gabe. Strukturen der Vergeltung in Senecas Medea’. Heidelberg International Summer School in Latin Literature Reading Roman Reciprocity. Reziprozität in der römischen Literatur, Heidelberg, 29 July – 6 August 2014.
• ‘ipsaque morte peior est mortis locus. Landscapes of the Underworld in Seneca’s Plays’. Penn / Leiden Colloquium on Ancient Values VIII: Landscape of Values in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 19 – 21 June 2014.
• ‘Tantalising Tantalus. Paradox, Impact and the Display of Evil in Seneca’s Thyestes’. Universidade Federal do Espírito Santo, Vitória, Brazil, 21 March 2014, Universidade Federal de São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil, 27 March 2014, and meeting of the Grupo de Estudos do Teatro Antigo, Universidade de São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil, 28 March 2014.
• ‘(Not) Crossing Borders in Seneca’s Thyestes’. Conference Vivre et penser les frontières dans le monde méditerranéen antique. Colloque organiseé par l’association Antheia Institut National d’Histoire de l’Art in Paris, 28–29 June 2013.
• ‘The birth of revenge in Seneca’s Medea’. Conference Female Fury and the Masculine Spirit of Vengeance: Revenge and Gender from Classical to Early Modern Literature in Bristol, 5–6 September 2012.
• ‘Medea’s gifts. Presents and Retribution in Seneca’s Medea’. Classical Association Annual Conference in Exeter, UK, 11–14 April 2012.
• ‘Maß und Unmaß in Senecas Medea’. Conference Mittelrheinisches Symposion in Marburg, Germany, 20–21 January 2012.
• ‘Libet videre. Formen und Mechanismen des Zusehens in Senecas Thyestes’. Research seminar of the Department of Classics, University of Heidelberg, 13 January 2009.
• ‘The Hidden Tragedy: Medea and the Daughters of Pelias in Ovid’s Metamorphoses (Ov. Met. 7, 297-651)’. Conference Melpomène dans tous ses états. Le tragique hors de la tragédie dans la littérature latine in Lille, France, 20–21 June 2008.
• ‘Medeas Rache’. Research seminar of the Department of Classics, University of Heidelberg, 22 January 2008.

• ‘Atreus artifex. Das Böse als Kunstwerk in Senecas Thyestes’. Research seminar of the Department of Classics, University of Heidelberg, 6 June 2006.

  Outreach talks

• Podcast: ‘Negativbeispiele als Regelbrüche’. Podcast series of the research network ‘Rhetorik des Regelbruchs. Erfolgreich gegen die Norm’ (coordinators Verena Schulz and Nicola Hömke)
• ‘Die Welt als Käse und Vorstellung. Alltäglichkeit und Weltbedeutung im ps.-vergilischen Moretum und in Carlo Ginzburgs Der Käse und die Würmer’. Bundeskongress des Deutschen Altphilologenverbandes, Saarbrücken, 3–7 April 2018.
• ‘Medea – Der Mythos. Die Geburt der Rache’. Medea.Matrix. Archaischer Mythos trifft Ordnungsraster. Open Conference at Die Wolfsburg. Katho­lische Akademie in cooperation with the art festival Ruhrtriennale; 17–18 September 2016.

Seminars

• Caesar, de bello civili
• Caesar, de bello Gallico
• Catullus
• Cicero, Brutus
• Cicero, de oratore
• Cicero, de re publica
• Epyllia in Latin Literature
• Figurations of the Furor. The Representation of Madness in Latin and Ancient Greek Literature and in Contemporary Italian Literature  (together with Viktoria Adam)
• Homer, Odyssee 21–23
• Horace, Roman Odes
• Horace and Seneca (together with Martin Stöckinger)
• Horizons in Latin literature
• Lucretius, De rerum natura
• Ovid, Amores
• Ovid, Ars Amatoria
• Ovid, Heroides
• Ovid, Metamorphoses 14
• Ovid, Metamorphoses 11
• Ovid, Seneca, Valerius Flaccus: Medea in Latin Literature
• Petron, cena Trimalchionis
• Petron, Satyrica
• Plutarch, Parallel lives
• Properz, Monobiblos
• Seneca, Epistulae morales
• Seneca, Hercules furens
• Seneca, Medea
• Seneca, Oedipus
• Seneca, Troades
• Tacitus, Agricola
• Tacitus, Annales
• Tacitus, Dialogus de oratoribus
• Tibullus
• Valerius Flaccus, Argonautica
• Vergil, Eclogues

Reading courses

• Appendix Vergiliana
• Apuleius, Metamorphoses
• Caesar, de bello Gallico 7
• Cicero, Catilinarian Speeches
• Cicero, Cato maior de senectute
• Cicero, Pro Caelio
• Cicero, Pro Murena
• Cicero, Pro Sexto Roscio Amerino
• Speaking and raging: Demosthenes and Cicero
• Horace, Odes  2
• Horace and Seneca (together with Martin Stöckinger)
• Lucretius, De rerum natura 6
• Metamorphoses in Greek and Latin Literature (together with Anna Lefteratou, Jakob Lenz, and Eva Noller)
• Nepos, de viris illustribus
• Ovid, Fasti 3
• Ovid, Metamorphoses 6
• Propertius, Elegies IV
• Sallust, De coniuratione Catilinae
• Seneca, consolationes ad Marciam, ad Polybium
• Vergil, Aeneid 1
• Vergil, Aeneid 2
• Vergil, Aeneid 7

Introductions and general topics

• History of Latin Literature (Preparation class for the intermediate exam / ‘Zwischenprüfung’)
• Introduction to Classical Studies
• Introduction to Literary Theory and Criticism
• Introduction to Textual Criticism
• Developing reading skills in Latin (Roman historiography, love elegy, epigram)

Language classes and Latin prose composition

• Latin prose composition levels 1–4
• Refresher Course: Grammar and Translation 
• Introduction to Roman Language and Culture (Latin for beginners)
• Translation and Interpretation of Latin texts for advanced students (Preparation class for ‘Staatsexamen’)
• Translation into Latin for advanced students (Preparation class for ‘Staatsexamen’)

• financial and general management of the Department of Classics (as of 2019)
• coordination of the Erasmus exchange programme (as of 2019)
• member of the departmental ‘Fachrat’ / ‘staff council’ (as of 2011)
• member of the ‘Fachrat MA Classics’ (responsible for an interdisciplinary joint Master’s degree programme including Ancient History, Byzantine Archaeology and Art History, Ancient Greek, Classical Archaeology, Latin, Papyrology) (as of 2025)
• development and evaluation of study programmes (BA, MA, Master of Education, Staatsexamen) (as of 2011)
• equal opportunities officer at the Department of Classics (as of 2013)
• student advisor (2011–2019)
• convenor of the intermediate exam in Latin (2011–2018)