Dr Lothar Willms

• ancient philosophy (esp. Stoicism)
• ancient political philosophy
• ancient drama
• historical linguistics of Greek and Latin
• Reception studies

Monographs

• Epiktets Diatribe Über die Freiheit (4.1) – Einleitung, Übersetzung und Kommentar [Epictetus’ Diatribe On Freedom (4.1) – Introduction, Translation, and Commentary], Wissenschaftliche Kommentare zu griechischen und lateinischen Klassikern Universitätsverlag Winter, Heidelberg 2011/12 (1142 pp.).

  vol. 1: Einleitung und Kommentar (§§ 1-102) [Introduction and Commentary §§ 1-102] 2011 (540 pp.) ISBN: 978-3-8253-5816-7

  vol. 2: Kommentar (§§ 103-177), Übersetzung, Register und Literaturverzeichnis [Commentary §§ 103-177, Translation, General Index, and Bibliography] (602 pp.) ISBN: 978-3-8253-6012-2.
  – Reviews: Jula Wildberger. Revue philosophique de Louvain 112 (2014) 163-165, Anthony Arthur Long.Gnomon 88,6 (2016) 551-552.

• Klassische Philologie und Sprachwissenschaft [Classical Philology and Historical and Modern Linguistics] Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2013, 503 pp. ISBN: 978-3-8252-3857-5
  – Reviews: Roland Hoffmann. Gymnasium 121 (2014) 418-420, Joseph Reisdoerfer Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2015.01.03, Andreas Opfermann. Kratylos 61 (2016) 121–133
• Transgression, Tragik und Metatheater: Versuch einer Neuinterpretation des antiken Dramas. [Transgression, Tragic, and Metatheatre: Attempt at a New Interpretation of Ancient Drama] (933 pp., DRAMA – Beiträge zum antiken Drama und seiner Rezeption [Contributions to Ancient Drama and its Reception, vol. 13] [Narr, Tübingen 2014], ISBN: 978-3-8233-6828-1
  – Reviews: Hellmut Flashar. Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2015.01.21, Elisabeth Günther 

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• Übersetzung, philologischer Kommentar und vergleichende Interpretation des Tierkreises in Aviens Phaenomena [Translation, philological commentary, and comparative interpretation of the Zodiac in Avienus’ Phaenomena] (Verse 1014–1325) (151 pp., AKAN-Einzelschriften – Antike Naturwissenschaften und ihre Rezeption [AKAN-Monographs – Ancient science at its reception, vol. 9] Trier 2014) ISBN 978-3-86821-508-3
  – Reviews: Wolfgang Hübner. Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2015.01.16, Anne-Marie Lewis. Gnomon 88,4 (2016) 362-365, Marc Dominicy. Latomus 77 (2018) 898–901.
• Lateinische Stilübungen: Ein Arbeitsbuch mit Texten aus Cäsar und Cicero [Latin Prose Composition. Practice Exercises with Extracts from Caesar Bellum Gallicum, Cicero Catilinarian Orations and Tusculan Disputations] (151 pp.)(Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2017) ISBN/EAN: 978-3-5257-1120-0

Articles and chapters

• “Durocortorum Vulgare: Linguistic Change and Cultural Integration in the Non-Standard Latin Inscriptions of Rheims.” Journal of Latin Linguistics 24.2: 211–235.
• “The Project of a Connective Indo-European Etymological Online Dictionary: New Perspectives for Etymological Research and Outreach in the Digital Age”. Journal of Ancient Civilizations 40.2: 141–153.
• “Body, Mind, Soul, and Self.” In: John Sellars (ed.), The Cambridge Companion to Marcus Aurelius’ Meditations. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 82–108.
• “The Reception of the Presocratics in Middle and Imperial Stoicism – From Doxography to Psychagogy.” In: Christian Vassallo, Michele Alessandrelli, Stavros Kouloumentas (eds.), Stoic Presocratics – Presocratic Stoics: Studies in the Stoic Reception of Early Greek Philosophy (Philosophie hellénistique et romaine / Hellenistic and Roman Philosophy 17), Turnhout: Brepols 2025, 347–383.
• “Humans and Animals in Stoic Philosophy: Between Cosmology, Anthropology, Ethics and Psychagogy [Mensch und Tier in der Stoa. Zwischen Kosmologie, Anthropologie, Ethik und Psychagogie].” In: Jochen Althoff, Diego de Brasi, Sabine Föllinger, Georg Wöhrle (eds.), Antike Naturwissenschaft und ihre Rezeption [Ancient science and its reception]. Vol. 35. Trier: Wissenschaftlicher Verlag Trier 2025, 97–150.
• “Divodurum Vulgare: Linguistic Change and Cultural Integration in the Vulgar Latin Inscriptions of Divodurum (Metz).” In: Lucie Pultrová, Martina Vaníková (eds.), Exploring Latin: Structures, Functions, Meaning. Volume I: Word. Volume II: Clause and Discourse. Berlin: de Gruyter 2024, vol. 2, 789–804.
• “Mogontiacum Vulgare: Linguistic Change and Cultural Integration in the Vulgar Latin Inscriptions of Mainz.” Acta Antiqua Academiae Scientiarum Hungaricae 63, 2023, 631–657.
• “Adam Smith, Plato, and the Stoics – The Birth of Modern Economic Rationality and the Classical Heritage” In: Sven Günther (ed.), Modern Economics and the Ancient World: Were the Ancients Rational Actors? Selected Papers from the Online Conference, 29–31 July 2021. Muziris 2. Münster: Zaphon Publishing House 2023, 137–176.
• “On the Stoics’ reception of the Presocratics [Die Rezeption der Vorsokratiker bei den Stoikern.]” In: Oliver Hellmann, Benedikt Strobel (eds.), Rezeptionen der Vorsokratiker von der Antike bis in die Gegenwart. Philosophie der Antike vol. 43. Berlin: de Gruyter 2022, 177–205.
• “Colonia Agrippina Vulgaris: Linguistic Change and Cultural Integration in the Vulgar Latin Inscriptions of Cologne.” In: Antonio María Martín Rodríguez (ed.), Linguisticae Dissertationes. Current Perspectives on Latin Grammar, Lexicon and Pragmatics. Selected Papers from the 20th International Colloquium on Latin Linguistics (Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain, June 17–21, 2019). Madrid: Ediciones Clásicas 2021, 199–216.
• “Exegi monumentum aere perennius – On the poetology of ascension and material permanence in Horace’s Odes [Zur Poetologie des Aufstiegs und der materialen Permanenz der poetischen memoria in Horaz’ Oden].” Latomus 79, 2020, 438–487.
• “Augusta Treverorum Vulgaris: Linguistic Change and Cultural Integration in the Late Antique and Early Medieval Inscriptions of Trier (Germany).” In: Béla Adamik, Andrea Barta, Edit Krähling (eds.), The Proceedings of 13th International Colloquium on Late and Vulgar Latin (Latin vulgaire – latin tardif XIII). Acta Antiqua Academiae Scientiarum Hungaricae 59. Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó 2020, 651–661.
• “The reception of the Presocratics in Poseidonios and in Seneca’s Naturales quaestiones [Zur Rezeption der Vorsokratiker bei Poseidonios und in Senecas Naturales quaestiones].” In: Jochen Althoff, Sabine Föllinger, Georg Wöhrle (eds.), Antike Naturwissenschaft und ihre Rezeption [Ancient science and its reception]. Vol. 30. Trier: Wissenschaftlicher Verlag Trier 2020, 87–104.
• How to Build (and Kill) a Dragon. The Pontoon Bridge in Aeschylus’ Persians. In: David Goldstein, Stephanie Jamison, Brent Vine (eds.), Proceedings of the thirtieth Annual UCLA Indo-European Conference, Los Angeles. Bremen: Hempen Verlag 2020, 187–97.
• Exegi monumentum – Zur Rezeption von Horaz’ carm. 3,30 und seiner Konzeption eines dichterischen Nachlebens bei Ovid, du Bellay, Ronsard und Puschkin [On the reception of Horace’s Ode 3,30 and his conception of a poetic afterlife in Ovid, du Bellay, Ronsard and Pushkin]. Rheinisches Museum 162, 2019, 146–182.
• Aias gegen Kassandra: Ein Archetyp sexueller Gewalt am Kriegsende und sein Wandel in Literatur und bildender Kunst [Aias against Cassandra: on an archetype of sexual Violence at war end and its evolution in literature and visual arts]. In: Christine Walde, Georg Wöhrle (eds.), Iphis – Gender Studies in den Altertumswissenschaften. Vol. 8. Trier: Wissenschaftlicher Verlag Trier 2018, 127-187.
• Blei, Birke, Biber: Zur Herkunft von Wörtern der natürlichen Umwelt und ihrem Beitrag für die Kulturgeschichte [Lead, Birch, Beaver: On the Origin of Nouns relating to the Natural Environment and their contribution to cultural history]. Forthcoming in: Jochen Althoff, Sabine Föllinger, Georg Wöhrle (eds.), Antike Naturwissenschaft und ihre Rezeption. Vol. 27. Trier: Wissenschaftlicher Verlag Trier 2017, 231–276.
• Power play: time, theatricality and consent in Augustus’ Res Gestae 34. Arethusa 50,1 2017, 89–116.
• On the Origin of Latin Suffixes in -d- and -es, -it is: Case Endings, Composition, Analogy and Borrowing. Indogermanische Forschungen 121, 2016, 93–122. DOI: 10.1515/if-2016-0006
• L’école des hommes: Geschlechter, Zeichen, Raum und Lehre bei Epiktet [The School for Men: Gender, Semiotic, Space, and Education in Epictetus]. Wiener Studien 124, 2011, 55-93. 
• On the IE Etymology of Greek (w)anax. Glotta 86, 2010, 232-271. 
• Blaise Pascal und die antike Stoa: Paradox, Dialektik und Modernität [Blaise Pascal and the Ancient Stoa: Paradox, Dialectics, and Modernity]. In: Barbara Neymeyr, Jochen Schmidt and Bernhard Zimmermann (eds.), Stoizismus in der europäischen Philosophie, Literatur, Kunst und Politik. Eine Kulturgeschichte von der Antike bis zur Moderne. Berlin 2008, Bd. 2, 1017-1046.
• Platon, Popper und die Integrität – Versuch eines Neuansatzes mit Giorgio Agamben. [Plato, Popper, and Integrity: Attempt at a New Approach with Giorgio Agamben]. In: Andreas Eckl, Clemens Kaufmann (eds.), Politischer Platonismus. Würzburg 2008, 151-165.
• Die Konstruktion von Subordination oder: Status und Tätigkeit des baⁿdaka in der achämenidischen Reichsideologie [Construing Subordination or: Status and Work of the baⁿdaka in the Achaemenid Imperial Ideology]. In: M. Erdem Kabadayı, Tobias Reichardt (eds.), Unfreie Arbeit. Ökonomische und kulturgeschichtliche Perspektiven. Sklaverei, Knechtschaft, Zwangsarbeit 3. Hildesheim 2007, 38-63.
• „Wie ein Hund an einem Wagen“ – Zum Urheber eines stoischen Vergleichs für die Schicksalsgebundenheit des Menschen [Like a Dog Tied to a Cart – On the Author of a Stoic Comparison for Man’s Dependence on Fate]. In: Sabine Harwardt und Johannes Schwind (eds.), Corona Coronaria. Festschrift für Hans-Otto Kröner zum 75. Geburtstag. Spudasmata 102. Hildesheim 2005, 409-423.
• Nadine Quenouille, Lothar Willms, Die Aufnahme des Herakleios in den Katökenstand [On admitting Herakleios to the status of a katoikos] (P.UB Trier S 125-21). Archiv für Papyrusforschung 47 (2001) 55-70.
• Entries “Epiktetos” and “Stoa” in Handwörterbuch der antiken Sklaverei [Concise Dictionary of Ancient Slavery], ed. by Heinz Heinen (available on the CD-ROM-version I-III or Stuttgart: Steiner 2017, vol. 1, col. 810–17 and vol. 3, col. 2944–51)

Reviews

• Patrizia de Bernardo Stempel, Muttergöttinnen und ihre Votivformulare. Eine sprachhistorische Studie. Indogermanische Bibliothek. 3. Reihe: Untersuchungen. Heidelberg 2021. Bonner Jahrbücher 222 (2022) 472–476.
• Alexander Kirichenko, Lehrreiche Trugbilder. Senecas Tragödien und die Rhetorik des Sehens. Habil. Trier 2011. Bibliothek der klassischen Altertumswissenschaften 2 N.F. 142. Heidelberg 2013. Gnomon 91 (2019) 414–419.
• Arbogast Schmitt, Die Moderne und Platon. Stuttgart 2003. Philosophisches Jahrbuch 113 (2006) 186-189.
• Christoph Ulf, Robert Rollinger (eds.), Geschlechter - Frauen - fremde Ethnien. In antiker Ethnographie, Theorie und Realität. Innsbruck 2002. Gymnasium 112 (2005) 579-581.
• Anthony Arthur Long, Epictetus: a Stoic and Socratic guide to life. Oxford 2002. Gnomon 77 (2005) 304-307.
• Andreas Urs Sommer, Zur militärischen Metaphorik im Stoizismus. Schriftenreihe der Eidgenössischen Militärbibliothek und des Historischen Dienstes 2. Bern 2002. Gymnasium 112 (2005) 547-548.
• Barbara Wehner, Die Funktion der Dialogstruktur in Epiktets Diatriben. PhD thesis Freiburg i.Br. 1998/99. Philosophie der Antike 13. Stuttgart 2000. Gymnasium 110 (2003) 396-397.
• Marcello Gigante, Kepos e peripatos. Contributo alla storia dell’aristotelismo antico. Elenchos, Collana di testi e studi sul pensiero antico 29. Naples 1999. Gymnasium 109 (2002) 421-422.

• “Animals and emotions in Cynic and Stoic philosophy [Tiere und Emotionen in der kynischen und stoischen Philosophie]”, Conference Human-Animal-Studies in Classics: Emotions, September, 12th to 13th 2025, Universität Zürich
• “Freedom in Early Christianity and Stoicism.” Universidad Pontificia de Salamanca, 22. July, 22th 2025 (invited)
• “Greek Freedom: A Structuralist Approach.” Panel The Concept of Freedom in Ancient Greece and Rome, 16. Celtic Conference in Classics 2025, Coimbra, July, 15th to 18th, 2025
• “The literary form of Marcus Aurelius’ Meditations [Die literarische Form von Mark Aurels Selbstbetrachtungen.]” Trier, talk in the lecture cycle on the occasion of the exhibition on Marcus Aurelius in the Rheinisches Landesmuseum, July 2nd, 2025 (invited)
• “All Greek to us? A Structuralist Rereading of Sexuality in Antiquity” Ancient Sexuality Revisited, King's College London, June 26–28, 2025 (invited)
• “On the syntax of non-standard inscriptions from the provinces of Belgica and the Germanias”, 23th International Colloquium on Latin Linguistics (ICLL), Udine, June 9th to 12th, 2025.
• “Confucius and Stoicism – Between Ethics and Autonomy [Konfuzius und die Stoa – Zwischen Ethos und Autonomie]”, Colloquium Classicum, Goethe-Universität in Frankfurt am Main, summer semester, May 14, 2025 (invited)
• “La pharmacie d’Osthoff – On the Indo-European etymology of Greek φάρμακον and φαρμακός” Panel Classical Philology and Classical Traditions, World Congress of Classics, Beijing, November 6 to 8, 2024 (invited), Heidelberg-Oxford Philological Exchange Day, Heidelberg, April 9, 2025 (invited)
• “The Project of a Connective Etymological Online Dictionary: New Perspectives for Etymological Research and Outreach in the Digital Age”, Workshop: Future Developments of Digital Humanities and Didactics in Global Historical Studies, September 23, 2024, IHAC, NENU, Changchun (invited)
• “Rome’s Great Wall or the Cradle of Europe: Conflict Management, Social Integration and Cultural Fusion in the Cisrhenian Provinces of the Roman Empire”, Institute for the History of Ancient Civilizations (IHAC), Northeast Normal University (NENU), Changchun, September 19, Peking University, September 25 and Chinese and Greek Symposium on Agricultural Civilizations, Weifang University of Science and Technology, November 10, 2024 (all invited)
• “Durocortorum Vulgare: Linguistic Change and Cultural Integration in the Non-Standard Latin Inscriptions of Reims”, 15th International Colloquium on Late and Vulgar Latin (Latin vulgaire – latin tardif XV), Munich, September 2nd to 6th 2024
• “Make ready, present arms, glisten: Practical and aesthetical dynamics in the description of weapon in Mycenaean tablets and Greek literature” Panel ‘Some say the most beautiful thing on the black earth is an army of horsemen’ The aesthetic dimension of ancient warfare at the Celtic Conference in Classics 2024, Cardiff, July, 9–12, 2024
• “Humans and Animals in Stoic Philosophy: Between Cosmology, Anthropology, and Ethics [Mensch und Tier in der Stoa. Zwischen Kosmologie, Anthropologie und Ethik]. 35th meeting of the AKAN (Research Group Ancient science), University of Trier, June 28th and 29th 2024
• “Freedom in the Fringes: Liberation Wars in Ancient Histor(iograph)y”, War in the Ancient World International Conference 2024, University of Graz, June 13–15, 2024
• “Belgica Vulgaris: Linguistic Change and Cultural Integration in the Vulgar Latin Inscriptions of the province of Belgica” 22nd International Colloquium on Latin Linguistics (ICLL), Charles University Prague, June, 19–23 2023.
• “Mogontiacum Vulgare: Linguistic Change and Cultural Integration in the Vulgar Latin Inscriptions of Mainz.” 14th International Colloquium on Late and Vulgar Latin (Latin vulgaire – latin tardif XIV), Ghent University (September, 5–10 2022)
• “The Reception of the Presocratics in Middle and Imperial Stoicism – From Doxography to Psychagogy.” Seminar cycle Stoic Presocratics – Presocratic Stoics, June 24, 2022, online.
• “Adam Smith, Plato, and the Stoics – The Birth of Modern Economic Rationality and the Classical Heritage” Modern Economics and the Ancient World: Were the Ancients Rational Actors? Northeast Normal University, Changchun, China, July 29–31, 2021, online.
• “Saxa loquuntur: Sprach- und kulturgeschichtliche Grenzgänge im römischen Trier und Köln.” Verein Archaenova, Gesellschaft zur Förderung Prähistorischer Archäologie e.V., Heidelberg, June 10, 2021, online (invited).
• “The reception of the Presocratics in Poseidonios and Seneca’s Naturales quaestiones [Zur Rezeption der Vorsokratiker bei Poseidonios und in Senecas Naturales quaestiones]” 30th meeting of the AKAN (Research Group Ancient science) in Marburg (June 29, 2019).
• “Colonia Agrippina Vulgaris: Linguistic Change and Cultural Integration in the Vulgar Latin Inscriptions of Cologne” 20th International Colloquium on Latin Linguistics (ICLL) in Las Palmas de Gran Canaria (June 17–21, 2019).
• “Orion the nefarious lumberjack: An astronomical commemoration of eco-sacrilege in Avienus’ Aratea” Panel Imagining disaster (I): Perilous Environments, Ancient Minds. Society for Literature, Science, and the Arts (= SLSA) 32nd Annual Meeting “Out of Mind”, Toronto (November 15–18, 2018).
• “How to Build (and Kill) a Dragon. The Pontoon Bridge in Aeschylus’ Persians” Thirtieth Annual UCLA Indo-European Conference, Los Angeles (November 9–10, 2018).
• “Augusta Treverorum Vulgaris: Linguistic Change and Cultural Integration in the Late Antique and Early Medieval Inscriptions of Trier (Germany)” 13th International Colloquium on Late and Vulgar Latin (Latin vulgaire – latin tardif XIII), Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest, Hungary (September 3–7, 2018)
• “The Greek suffixes in -θ-, -φ-, -ν-, and -αλ(λ)-: Traces of Non-Greek Origin?” International Colloquium on Ancient Greek Linguistics (= ICAGL), Helsinki, Finland (August 30 – September 1, 2018)
• “Stoic receptions of the Presocratics [Die Rezeption der Vorsokratiker bei den Stoikern]” Rezeptionen der Vorsokratiker von der Antike bis in die Gegenwart, conference in honor of Professor Dr. Georg Wöhrle, Trier (June 29–30, 2018) (invited).
• “Light and Water: Two Elemental Metaphors for the Mind’s Sovereignty in Epictetus and Marcus Aurelius” McMaster University, Department of Classics (March 15, 2018) (invited).
• “Transgression, the Tragic and Metatheater: A New Look at Greek Tragedy” Department of Classical Studies, University of Waterloo (March 5, 2018)
• “Aristotle’s Theory on Slavery: a Critical and Semiotic Reconsideration” Cultures and Religions of the Ancient Mediterranean (CRAM) at Brown University (December 5, 2017)
• “Suffixes on Top: On the Origin of the Greek Suffixes in -θ-, -φ -and -αλ(λ)- and the etymology of κόρυς ‘helmet’ and κορυφή, κόρυφος ‘head, summit” Cornell Workshop on Greek linguistics (October 21, 2017)
• “Hiking words – a trip across the history of language and culture from Antiquity to our days [Wörter auf Wanderschaft – ein Streifzug durch die Sprach- und Kulturgeschichte von der Antike bis heute]”, end of semester talk at the department of Classical Philology, Ludwig-Maximilian-University, Munich (July 27, 2017)
• “Blei, Birke, Biber: Zur Herkunft von Wörtern der natürlichen Umwelt und ihrem Beitrag für die Kulturgeschichte [Lead, Birch, Beaver: On the Origin of Nouns relating to the Natural Environment and their contribution to cultural history]”, meeting of the AKAN (Research Group Ancient science) in Mainz, June, 24,  2017.
• “Sub-rule vs. Analogy: On the Outcome of the Double Dental cluster *-d^h- + *-t- in Latin” 19^thInternational Colloquium on Latin Linguistics (ICLL) in Munich, April, 24–28  2017.
• “Translating the Heathens: Astronomy and Paganism in Avienus’ Version of Aratus’ Phainomena” Workshop Translation in Antiquity, Translating Antiquity: methods and practices (University of OsloDecember, 1–2 2016).
• “Aias gegen Kassandra: Sexuelle Gewalt am Kriegsende bei Alkaios und dem Kleophrades-Maler. [Aias against Cassandra: Sexual Violence at war end in Alcaeus and the Cleophrades painter]” 7^thConference Iphis – Gender Studies in den Altertumswissenschaften in Trier (July, 7–8  2016) (invited).
• “Turning to the Self: Epictetus on Will, Freewill and Freedom” Prometheus Trust 11^th Annual Conference (“Will, freewill and freedom”) at Purley Chase Centre, Mancetter, Warwickshire (June, 24–26  2016).
• “Light and Water: Two Elemental Metaphors for the Mind’s Sovereignty in Epictetus and Marcus Aurelius” III International Congress of Greek Philosophy of the Sociedade Ibérica de Filosofia Grega(SIFG) (April, 20–22 2016) in the Faculty of Letters of the University of Lisbon.
• “Duplicatus Euripides und Warten auf Aiolos – Fallstudien zur Rezeption der attischen Tragödie bei Ennius. [Duplicatus Euripides and Waiting for Aiolos – Cases Studies on the reception of Attic Tragedy in Ennius]” 47^th Mittelrheinisches Symposion January, 22–23  2016 at the Justus-Liebig-Universität Gießen.
• “Tragic Phaidra: A diachronic case study between Antiquity and Early Modern Age” (panel Classical and Early Modern Tragedy: Comparative Approaches and New Perspectives at the 147^th annual meeting of the Society for Classical Studies in San Francisco, January 6–9, 2016).
• “The philanthrôpon in Aristotle’s Poetics (chap. 18): fellow-feeling or distributional justice?” Classical Association Conference at the University of Bristol April 10th to 13th 2015
• “Early Modern and Modern Translations of Imperial Stoic Texts on Sexuality” Workshop Anglophone Translations of the Classics and The History of Sexuality, Department of Classics and Ancient History of Durham University, organized by Dr Jennifer Ingleheart (March 27–28, 2015).
• “Oidipus und die Stoa in Alexanders von Aphrodisias De fato: Schicksal und Willensfreiheit.“ [Oedipus and the Stoa in De fato: by Alexanders from Aphrodisias: Fate and Free will] Kleine Mommsen-Tagung „Das 3. Jahrhundert nach Christus – Kontinuitäten im Übergang“. November, 20-22  2014 at the Bergische Universität Wuppertal, 46th Mittelrheinisches Symposion January 16 to 17  2015 at the Goethe-Universität in Frankfurt am Main.
• “Sexuality and Intertextuality in the Stoic and Platonic traditions.” Conference: Sex in the Margins, Davis, California, October, 10-12  2014
• “Power playing: time, persona and sovereignty in Augustus’ Res Gestae 34.” international conference XIV A.D. Saeculum Augustum. September 24-26  2014 in Lisbon.
• “Keltische Wörter im Lateinischen und ihr Fortleben in den modernen Sprachen.“ [Celtic loan words in Latin and their survival in modern languages] international conference Kelten, Römer, Griechen – Sprach- und Kulturkontakte im Römischen Reich und seinem Umfeld (Celts, Romans, Greeks – Language and cultural contacts in the Roman Empire and associated areas). September 18-21  2014 in Heidelberg.
• “Make ready, present arms, glistening: Practical and aesthetical implications in the description of weapon in Mycenaean tablets and Archaic Greek literature.” The International Ancient Warfare Conference 2014. July 1th to 3rd in Aberystwyth (Wales)
• “‚Die Vorstellungen gebrauchen‘ – ein antiker Ausdruck zwischen stoischer Subjekthaftigkeit und spätantiker Verinnerlichung.“ [‘Using impressions’ – an Expression in Ancient Philosophy from Stoic Subjectivity to Neoplatonist Internalization] in the research seminar of Prof. Dr. Michael Erler and Prof. Dr. Christian Tornau, Würzburg, January 14  2014
• “Archäologie der griechischen Freiheit: Begriffsentfaltung, Verinnerlichung,
  Selbst-Suche.” [Archaeology of Greek Freedom: Conceptual Unfolding, Internalization, and the Search for the Self] in the research seminar of the chair for philosophy of Prof. Dr. Christoph Horn, Bonn, December, 13  2013
• “Epiktet: Ein Philosoph des Selbst.“ [Epictetus: A Philosopher of the Self] in the “Philosophisch-Philologischen Colloquiums zur antiken Philosophie”, Trier, May, 5  2013
• “Blaise Pascal und die antike Stoa.” Conference “Stoa und Stoizismus in der europäischen Philosophie, Literatur und Politik von der Antike bis in die Moderne.” Freiburg i. Br., April, 20-21  2006
• “Die Entfaltung des philosophischen Freiheitsbegriffs bei Platon.” [On Plato Unfolding the Philosophical Concept of Freedom] 5th Colloquium on Ancient Philosophy of the GanPh eV. [Association for Ancient Philosophy] in Heidelberg, January, 7  2006
• “Die „Sklaven“ des Großkönigs – Griechen und Altertumswissenschaftler (miß)deuten das altiranische Gefolgschaftswesen.” [The Great King’s “Slaves” – On Greeks and Classicists (mis)interpreting the Old Iranian System of Followers] Conference “Unfreie Arbeit: ökonomische, rechtliche und geistesgeschichtliche Perspektiven” of the Graduate School Cluster “Sklaverei – Knechtschaft und Frondienst – Zwangsarbeit. Unfreie Arbeits- und Lebensformen von der Antike bis zum 20. Jahrhundert” in Trier, October, 20-22  2005
• “Popper, Platon und der Totalitarismus – Von der geschlossenen Gesellschaft zur Dialektik der Aufklärung.” [Popper, Plato, and Totalitarianism – From the Closed Society to Dialectics of Enlightenment] Conference “Politischer Platonismus – Befund, Tradition und Kritik” of the Research Group “Practical Philosophy” of the GanPh eV. [Association for Ancient Philosophy] at the Friedrich-Alexander-Universität in Nürnberg-Erlangen, June, 24-26 2005
• “L’école des hommes: Die Rolle des Ortes in Epiktets Reden über die Geschlechter.” [The Role of Place in Epictetus’ Discourse on Gender] 3rd Conference “Gender Studies in den Altertumswissenschaften”, in Castelen/Augst near Basel (Switzerland), June, 30 to July, 2  2004
• “u-na-ka-na-si = wanax: Minoan substrate in Greek?” International Conference “Europe Through the Millennia – Languages, Races, Cultures, Beliefs”, at the University of Łódź (Poland), June, 25-26   2004
• “Von der Freiheit eines Stoikers – Epiktets Philosophie der Befreiung.” [On the Freedom of a Stoic – Epictetus’ Philosophy of Liberation] Mittelrheinisches Symposium of Classics at the University of Marburg, January, 9-10  2004

North America

Class on “Textual criticism” Proseminar in Classics (CLAS 2000 S01), Department of Classics, Brown University (October 11, 2018)

Class on “Odyssey 9.272–342” in GREK 1100 – Advanced Homer: The Odyssey (Dr Pura Nieto Hernández), Department of Classics, Brown University (April 18, 2018)

Workshop “La lumière de la raison et la source du soi: Deux métaphores élémentaires pour la souveraineté de l’esprit chez Marc Aurèle et Épictète” Université de Montréal, Département d’Histoire, Centre d’études classiques (March 12, 2018)

Class on “Ovid, Ars Amatoria” in the translation course “Selections from Latin Authors (LAT 202)” (Professor Altay Coşkun), Department of Classical Studies, University of Waterloo (March 7, 2018)

Lecture “Aeschylus Agamemnon and Libation Bearers”, course Development of Western Civilization, Providence College (September 28 and 29, 2017)

Frankfurt

Winter semester 2025/26:
Lecture (Vorlesung): Postclassical Prose: from scientific texts to humoristic stories 
Greek Undergraduate seminar: Herodotus
Introduction to Linguistics for Classicists 
Introduction into the study of classical philology for Latinists

Heidelberg

Summer semester 2025:

• Translation course: Epictetus and Confucius

Winter semester 2024/25:

• Translation course: The Meditations by Marcus Aurelius

Summer semester 2024:

• History of Greek: An Overview illustrated by Text Samples (Summer semester 2024)

Winter semester 2023/24:

• Greek Undergraduate seminar: Oidipus Tyrannos

Summer semester 2023:

• Greek Graduate Courses (Linguistics): Callimachus, Theocritus and Herodas: Dialects in Hellenistic literature

Winter semester 2022/23:

• Translation course: Sailing around Africa: Hanno’s Periplus and Amerigo Vespucci’s Letter (including a visit of the exhibition Fall of the Roman Empire at the Rheinisches Landesmuseum in Trier)

Winter semester 2021/22:

• Translation course: Petrarch’s Ascent of Mont Ventoux (online)

Summer semester 2021:

• Translation course: Death in Ancient Philosophy (online)

Winter semester 2020/21:

• Translation course: Literature and Pandemic – From the Iliad to Lucretius (online)

Summer semester 2020:

• Lecture (Linguistics): Inscriptions and Literary Texts as Documents of the History of Latin and Greek (online)

Winter semester 2019/20:

• Latin Graduate Course (Linguistics): Vulgar Latin Inscriptions: Diachronic, diatopic and diaphasic varieties

Summer semester 2019:

• Greek Graduate Course (Linguistics): Greek dialects: Literary function and epigraphic documentation

Summer semester 2017:

• Lecture (Linguistics): History of Latin and Greek

Winter semester 2016/17:

• Greek Graduate Course (Linguistics): Homer and Mycenaean

Summer semester 2016:

• Greek and Latin Graduate Course (Linguistics): Early Language Contacts: Glosses and Phrase Books
• Introduction to Linguistics for Classicists

Winter semester 2015/16:

• Greek and Latin Graduate Course (Linguistics): Instructive Signs: Aratus and his Latin translators
• Latin Prose Composition (Graduate Course) [Lateinische Stilübungen III]

Summer semester 2015:

• Greek and Latin Graduate Course (Linguistics): Attic and Roman Tragedy and the Language of Tragedy
• Introduction to Linguistics for Classicists

Winter semester 2014/15:

• Latin undergraduate seminar (Linguistics): The origin of words: On the etymology of Latin and Greek vocabulary
• Lecture (Linguistics): Ferdinand de Saussure and modern and historical linguistics

Summer semester 2014:

• Latin undergraduate seminar (Linguistics): Etymologies in Latin, Germanic, and Romance Languages
• Introduction to Linguistics for Classicists

Winter semester 2013/14

• Latin undergraduate seminar (Linguistics): Dante De vulgari eloquentia and Romance Languages
• undergraduate seminar (interdisc..): Bucolic and Anacreontic Poetry in Ancient and German Literature (together with Dr. Jost Eickmeyer)

Summer semester 2013:

• Latin undergraduate seminar (Linguistics): Tacitus’ Germania – Non-Indo-European Substrate in Germanic Glottogenesis and Collective Identity
• Lecture: The Development of the Concept of Freedom in Ancient Greece and Rome – An Outline of Ancient Philosophy

Winter semester 2012/13:

• Latin undergraduate seminar (Linguistics): Sallust and Old Latin (two times)

Summer semester 2012:

• Latin undergraduate seminar (Linguistics): Lucretius’ De rerum natura
• Greek Prose Composition (Graduate Course) [Griechische Stilübungen III]

Winter semester 2011/12:

• Latin Graduate Course (Linguistics): Quintilian Institutio oratoria B. 1 & 2
• Greek Graduate Course (Linguistics): Sappho and Alcaeus

Summer semester 2011:

• Latin Prose Composition (Graduate Course) [Lateinische Stilübungen III]
• Lecture: Concepts of Linguistics from Antiquity to the 20^th Century

Summer semester 2010:

• Undergraduate seminar: Homer’s Iliad
• Latin Prose Composition (advanced undergraduate)

Winter semester 2009/10:

• Undergraduate seminar (interdisc.): Lyric of the Augustan Age and its Reception in German Poetry (together with Dr. Jost Eickmeyer)
• Undergraduate translation course: Ovid’s Metamorphoses

Summer semester 2009:

• Latin undergraduate seminar (Linguistics): Petronius’ Cena Trimalchionis, Vulgar Latin, and Romance Languages
• Introduction to Linguistics for Classicists

Winter semester 2008/09: Latin Prose Composition for beginners

Summer 2008:

• Latin undergraduate seminar (Linguistics): Cicero’s Orator
• Introduction to Linguistics for Classicists

Winter semester 2007/08:

• Latin Prose Composition (Graduate Exam)
• Latin undergraduate seminar (Linguistics): Terence’s Heautontimorumenos

Summer semester 2007:

• Undergraduate translation course: Plato’s Apology of Socrates.
• Greek Prose Composition (Graduate Exam): Lysias

Winter semester 2006/07:

• Greek undergraduate seminar: Between Orientalism and the Tragic: The Image of Barbarians in Aeschylus’ Persians and Herodotus’ Histories
• Latin Prose Composition (Graduate Course) [Lateinische Stilübungen III]

Summer semester 2006:

• Undergraduate seminar (interdisc.): Comparative Seminar – Theory and Practice of Tragedy in Antiquity and French Classics (together with Dr. Christian Grünnagel)
• Latin undergraduate seminar (Linguistics): Diachronic, Diastratic, and Diaphasic Variations of Latin

Winter semester 2005/06:

• Latin undergraduate seminar (Linguistics): Plautus’ Amphitruo
• Latin Prose Composition (Graduate Exam)

Summer semester 2005:

• Latin Prose Composition (Graduate Course) [Lateinische Stilübungen III]
• Latin undergraduate seminar (Linguistics): Etruscan, Italic, Old- and Vulgar Latin, and Romance Languages

Winter semester 2004/05:

• Undergraduate translation course: Cicero’s Catilinarian Orations
• Introduction to Linguistics for Classicists

Summer semester 2004: Greek Prose Composition for beginners

Winter term 2004/05 to Winter term WS 2008/09 I prepared and graded the written graduate exams in Latin-German-Translation, together with Professor Melanie Möller

Trier

Summer semester 2001 to 2003: Introduction to Latin and Greek Linguistics (two courses each term)

Winter semester 2000/01: Translation course on Thucydides, Translation course on Plato’s Protagoras, Graduate Latin-German Translation, Greek Prose Composition (Graduate Exam)

• Paul Widzgowski (Heidelberg) “Afrae aures? Das Latein in Inschriften und Fluchtäfelchen in Carthago mit vergleichender Betrachtung der Provinz Mauretania Caesariensis [The Latin in inscriptions and curse tablets in Carthage with a comparative glimpse on the province of Mauretania Caesariensis]” (BA Thesis) (together with Professor Gerrit Kloss) April – July 2023.
• Kathrin Speyer (Heidelberg) “Stigma und Intratheater in Sophokles’ Philoktet” (MA Thesis) (together with Professor Jonas Grethlein) November 2019 – April 2020
• Felicitas Nettels “Elisionshäufung bei Vergil [elision clusters in Virgil]” (BA Thesis) (together with Professor Gerrit Kloss) September – October 2019
• Javier Beltrán “Sprachwandelbewusstsein bei Aulus Gellius [Awareness of language change in Aulus Gellius]” (Heidelberg) (MA Thesis) (together with Professor Gerrit Kloss) August – September 2019
• Second Reader of Anna Maria Drummen (Heidelberg) “Dramatic pragmatics: A discourse approach to particle use in ancient Greek tragedy and comedy” (PhD thesis, first reader Dr. Anna Bonifazi) (April – July 2015)
• Laura Bottenberg (Heidelberg) “Die Funktion von Gräzismen in der römischen Dichtung von den Anfängen bis Catull [On the Function of Loans from Greek in Latin Poetry from its beginnings to Catullus]“ (BA Thesis) (together with Professor Gerrit Kloss) April - July 2014

• Member of the Mommsen-Gesellschaft 2013-
• Member of the Society for Classical Studies 2009-
• Member of the GanPh e.V. (Gesellschaft für antike Philosophie [Association for Ancient Philosophy]) 2004-
• Member of the University Council’s Committee for Teaching; at the time it dealt with the implementation of the Bachelor and Master Curricula (2005/06)
• Implementation of the Bachelor and Master Curricula of Classics at the University of Heidelberg (2006)
• Participation in the external evaluation of the Bachelor curriculum “Antike in Europa” [Antiquity in Europe] in Marburg by the Agency for curricula evaluation Acquin (2005)
• Implementation of new Teacher Curricula of Classics at the University of Heidelberg (2009/10)