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Silvio Bär

Professor - Classics

Email silvio.baer((at))ifikk.uio.no

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Office hour: Monday, 11:00-12:00h, GM 545. No advance notification is required, but please do not come when you are ill.

Academic interests

Genres: Greek epic, tragedy, lyric, the novel, Second Sophistic prose and poetry, mythology and mythography (especially Herakles), rhetoric.
Methods/approaches: intertextuality, transtextuality, diachronic narratology, popular narratology, cognitive theory.
Reception: antiquity in contemporary literature and popular culture, transfer of knowledge.

Education

2015: Certificate of Teaching in Higher Education at UiO
2013: BA at the University of Zurich (English)
2010: High school teaching diploma at the University of Zurich
2008: PhD at the University of Zurich
2006–07: Visiting doctoral student at Corpus Christi College, University of Oxford
2005: Lizentiat (BA/MA) at the University of Zurich (Greek, Latin, Musicology)

Employment history and offices

2025–28: Deputy representative of the permanent academic staff at the Department Board of IFIKK
2021–24: Representative of the permanent academic staff at the Department Board of IFIKK
2021–22: Deputy representative of the permanent academic staff at the Faculty Board of the Faculty of Humanities
2019–23: President of the Nasjonalt fagorgan for gresk og latin
2019–20: PhD Leader at IFIKK
2018–20: Head of Subject in Classics at IFIKK
2016–now: Professor of Greek at UiO
2014–15: Associate Professor of Greek at UiO
2012–13: Postdoc researcher at the University of Zurich
2009–14: High school teacher in Zurich
2005–12: Research assistant and lecturer at the University of Zurich
2002–06: High school teacher in Zurich

Tags: Classics, Greek, Epic, Mythology, Intertextuality, Narratology, Rhetoric, Reception

Publications

Books (as author)

Quintus Smyrnaeus. »Posthomerica« 1: Die Wiedergeburt des Epos aus dem Geiste der Amazonomachie. Mit einem Kommentar zu den Versen 1–219. Göttingen 2009 (Hypomnemata 183): 640 pages (review: BMCR 2010.07.27).
Herakles im griechischen Epos: Studien zur Narrativität und Poetizität eines Helden. Stuttgart 2018 (Palingenesia 111): 184 pages (reviews: AAW 70 (2017): 129–133; Gymnasium 126 (2019): 357–358; Antike Welt 5 (2019): 93; BMCR 2020.02.25; Plekos 23 (2021): 89–101; QUCC 128 (2021): 193–199; Phoenix 75 (2021): 134–136; Ancient West & East 21 (2022): 319–320; pdf with relevant passages [Greek-German] can be found here).
Diachronic Narratology in Greek Myth. Cambridge 2025 (Cambridge Elements in Greek and Roman Mythology): iv, 66 pages.

Books (as editor)

With Manuel Baumbach: Quintus Smyrnaeus: Transforming Homer in Second Sophistic Epic. Berlin / New York 2007 (Millennium Studies 17): viii, 501 pages (review: BMCR 2008.09.58).
With Manuel Baumbach: Brill’s Companion to Greek and Latin Epyllion and Its Reception. Leiden / Boston 2012: xxvi, 640 pages (reviews: BMCR 2013.12.02; CR 64 (2014): 339–341).
With Emily Hauser: Reading Poetry, Writing Genre: English Poetry and Literary Criticism in Dialogue with Classical Scholarship. London et al. 2019 (Bloomsbury Studies in Classical Reception): xii, 256 pages (reviews: BMCR 2019.08.46; Translation Studies 28 (2019): 324–329; Thersites 11 (2020): 370–378; CJ 117 (2022): 361–362).
Christophe Bourquin†, Humor in der Aeneis: Ein rezeptionstheoretischer Versuch. Berlin 2019 (Klassische Philologie 6): 122 pages (reviews: BMCR 2020.10.58; Gnomon 93 (2021): 313–317).
With Anastasia Maravela: Narrative, Narratology and Intertextuality: New Perspectives on Greek Epic from Homer to Nonnus. Symbolae Osloenses 93 (2019), special issue: 270 pages.
With Emma Greensmith & Leyla Ozbek: Quintus of Smyrna’s Posthomerica: Writing Homer Under Rome. Edinburgh 2022: xii, 436 pages (review: CR 73 (2023): 108–111).
With Han Lamers: Studia in Honorem Vibeke Roggen. Oslo 2022: xii, 564 pages (review: Klassisk Forum (2023/1–2): 85–90).
With Andriana Domouzi: Artificial Intelligence in Greek and Roman Epic. London et al. 2024: x, 306 pages (review: BMCR 2025.25.04).
Transtextual Characters in Ancient Greek and Roman Epic: Conceptualization and Case Studies. 2 vols., Boston / Berlin 2027 (Trends in Classics Supplementary Volumes 215): in press.
With Giulia Frigerio: Deciphering Female Figures in Greek Myth and Ritual. Boston / Berlin 2027 (MythosEikonPoiesis): accepted for publication.
With Diane Cuny: Le centaure: Hybridité et dualité de l’Antiquité à nos jours. Turnhout 2027: accepted for publication.

Editions, translations

With Manuel Baumbach, Nicola Dümmler, Horst Sitta & Fabian Zogg (eds., transl., comm.): Carmina Anacreontea: Griechisch/Deutsch. Stuttgart 2014: 172 pages (second edition 2020: 166 pages; review: LGNRW 1.2 (2020): 54).
“Lysias: Talen om nektelse av uføretrygd til en invalid mann: Oversettelse med introduksjon og noter.” Klassisk Forum (2024/1–2): 41–52.
“Forgiftning eller ulykke? En introduksjon til Antifons ‘Anklagetalen mot stemoren’ (ca. 418–415 f.Kr.).” Arr: Idéhistorisk tidsskrift 37.2 (2025): 83–88 + “Antifon fra Rhamnus: Anklagetalen mot stemoren. Oversatt fra gresk.” Arr: Idéhistorisk tidsskrift 37.2 (2025): 89–93 (for the correction of some typos see this document here).
With Valeria Flavia Lovato: John Tzetzes: The Little and Big Iliad. Translated with introduction and notes. Liverpool 2026 (Translated Texts for Byzantinists): in press.

Journal articles

“Quintus of Smyrna and the Second Sophistic.” Harvard Studies in Classical Philology 105 (2010): 287–316.
“War die Argo nicht doch das erste Schiff?” Rheinisches Museum für Philologie 155 (2012): 210–214.
“Zivilisationskritik und Kulturpessimismus im Ammenprolog von Euripides’ Medea.” Gymnasium 119 (2012): 215–233.
“Rhetorik auf dem Schlachtfeld: Caesar, Pompeius und Labienus vor der Entscheidung bei Pharsalus (De bello civili III 85–87).” Hyperboreus 18 (2012): 243–263.
“Der Neue Poseidipp (P. Mil. Vogl. VIII 309): Zur Ergänzung des Versschlusses in col. IX 35 = ep. 60,1 AB.” Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik 186 (2013): 105–107.
“Helena: übergewichtig oder schwanger? Zu Menelaos’ Scherz in Eur. Troad. 1050.” Eos 100 (2013): 251–267.
“‘So Glad to be at Home Again’: L. Frank Baum’s The Wonderful Wizard of Oz as a Rereading of Homer’s Odyssey.” New Voices in Classical Reception Studies 10 (2015): 15–26.
“‘O Brother, Where Art Thou?’: Et nyoppdaget Sapfo-dikt og fragmenteringen av antikken.” Klassisk Forum (2015/1): 5–20.
“What’s in a μή? On a Polysemous Negative in Call. Aet. fr. 1.25.” Lexis 33 (2015): 241–244.
“Inventing and Deconstructing Epyllion: Some Thoughts on a Taxonomy of Greek Hexameter Poetry.” Thersites 2 (2015): 23–51.
“‘Ceci n’est pas un fragment’: Identity, Intertextuality and Fictionality in Sappho’s ‘Brothers Poem’.” Symbolae Osloenses 90 (2016): 8–54.
“‘Come, Second Best of Painters!’: Irony, Ambiguity, and Voices in Carmina Anacreontea 16 and 17.” Phoenix 70 (2016): 23–39.
“Det greske epos fra Homer til Kazantzakis: Innføring og overblikk.” Klassisk Forum (2017/1): 52–72.
“Composition, Voices, and the Poetological Programme in the Carmina Anacreontea.” Symbolae Philologorum Posnaniensium 27.1 (2017): 17–40.
“Cunnilingus für den Dichter? Bemerkungen zu Anth. Pal. 9.395 (Palladas).” Myrtia 32 (2017): 243–256.
“Herakles und die Schafe der Hesperiden.” Prometheus 45 (2019): 108–116.
With Anastasia Maravela: “Narrative, Narratology and Intertextuality: New Perspectives on Greek Epic from Homer to Nonnus.” Symbolae Osloenses 93 (2019): 1–11.
“Heracles in Homer and Apollonius: Narratological Character Analysis in a Diachronic Perspective.” Symbolae Osloenses 93 (2019): 106–131.
“Gendered or Ungendered? The Crux of Translation in Sappho’s Poetry: Two Case Studies.” Eranos 110 (2019): 1–17.
“‘Zur Beute den Hunden und den Vögeln zum Mahl’: Zu den iliadischen Implikationen in Aesch. Supp. 800-801.” Habis 51 (2020): 53–62.
“Alfred Hitchcock’s Vertigo and the Pygmalion Myth Reconsidered.” Boletim de estudos clássicos 65 (2020): 83–106.
“The Nature and Characteristics of the Gods in Classical Mythology.” Symbolae Philologorum Posnaniensium 30 (2020): 7–46 (typo on page 8, line 13: read “Rick Riordan”).
“Εἰσαναβαίνειν: Ein Beitrag zur homerischen Interformularität.” The Journal of Greco-Roman Studies 59.3 (2020): 1–16 (typo on page 1, line 8: read  “iterative lines”).
“‘I Honour Those Who Reverence My Power’: Gods, Humans, and the Breaking of Social and Religious Rules In Euripides’ Hippolytus.” Graeco-Latina Brunensia 25.2 (2020): 17–32.
“The Second Divine Council at Odyssey 5.1–42 Reconsidered.” Akroterion 66 (2021): 1–16.
“Wozu Latein am Gymnasium? Zur Abschaffungsrhetorik der Lateingegner in der deutschsprachigen Schweiz.” Pegasus-Onlinezeitschrift 20 (2021): 110–132.
“Apollonius Rhodius 1.103: A Discussion of a New Emendation.” Symbolae Osloenses 95 (2021): 95–103.
“Zum Schicksal des Skylakeus bei Quintus Smyrnaeus (Posthomerica 10.147–166).” Symbolae Osloenses 96 (2022): 145–163.
“Kalypso, the Divine Among the Goddesses: Allegorisation, Symbolisation and Reception from Homer to Star Trek.” Belgü: Journal of the Faculty of Humanities and Literature of Ardahan University, special issue (2023): 1–14.
“Die Amazonen am Kaukasus: Eine mythographische Spurensuche.” Phasis 27 (2024): 5–32.
“Zur Konzeptualisierung des Transtextualitätsbegriffs: Licht aus der Klassischen Philologie?” Journal of Literary Theory 19 (2025): 213–236.
“The Silence of the Stones: On the Lapidation of Lycides and His Family at Hdt. 9.5.” Mnemosyne 79 (2026): 45–69.
“Irrwege, Sackgassen und verschlungene Pfade: Zu den (pseudo-)antiken Ursprüngen des Troilus-und-Cressida-Stoffes.” Antike und Abendland 72 (2026): 41–68.
“Var Odyssevs intelligent?” Arr: Idéhistorisk tidsskrift (2026): in press.

Book chapters

With Manuel Baumbach: “An Introduction to Quintus Smyrnaeus’ Posthomerica.” In: Baumbach/Bär (2007): 1–26.
“Quintus Smyrnaeus und die Tradition des epischen Musenanrufs.” In: Baumbach/Bär (2007): 29–64.
With Manuel Baumbach: “A Short Introduction to the Ancient Epyllion.” In: Baumbach/Bär (2012): ix–xvi.
“‘Museum of Words’: Christodorus, the Art of Ekphrasis and the Epyllic Genre.” In: Baumbach/Bär (2012): 447–471.
“Odysseus’ Letter to Calypso in Lucian’s Verae Historiae.” In: Owen Hodkinson / Patricia A. Rosenmeyer / Evelien Bracke (eds.), Epistolary Narratives in Ancient Greek Literature. Leiden / Boston 2013 (Mnemosyne Suppl. 359), 221–236.
With Manuel Baumbach: “The Epic Cycle and imperial Greek epic.” In: Marco Fantuzzi / Christos Tsagalis (eds.), The Greek Epic Cycle and its Ancient Reception:  A Companion. Cambridge 2015, 604–622.
Commentary on poems AB 57–61, in: Bernd Seidensticker / Adrian Stähli / Antje Wessels (eds.), Der Neue Poseidipp: Text – Übersetzung – Kommentar. Darmstadt 2015, 229–246.
“Reading Homer, Writing Troy: Intertextuality and Narrativity of the Gods and the Divine in Quintus of Smyrna’s Posthomerica.” In: James J. Clauss / Martine P. Cuypers / Ahuvia Kahane (eds.), The Gods of Greek Hexameter Poetry: From the Archaic Age to Late Antiquity and Beyond. Stuttgart 2016 (PAwB 56), 215–230.
“Diktys und Dares vor dem Hintergrund des zweitsophistischen Homerrevisionismus.” In: Graziana Brescia / Mario Lentano / Giampiero Scafoglio / Valentina Zanusso (eds.), Revival and Revision of the Trojan Myth: Studies on Dictys Cretensis and Dares Phrygius. Hildesheim / Zurich / New York 2018 (Spudasmata 177), 151–176.
With Emily Hauser: “Introduction.” In: Bär/Hauser (2019): 1–12, notes 187–188, references 218–219.
“The Elizabethan Epyllion: From Constructed Classical Genre to Twentieth-Century Genre Propre.” In: Bär/Hauser (2019): 138–150, notes 206–207, references 238–240.
With Elisabeth Schedel: “Epic fragments.” In: Christiane Reitz / Simone Finkmann (eds.), Structures of Epic Poetry. Vol. 1: Foundations. Berlin / Boston 2019, 317–355.
“Herakles and the Panhellenic Idea in Ancient Greek Culture.” In: Serpil Ahmetkocaoğlu et al. (eds.), II. International Symposium on Mythology. 8–10 June 2021, Ardahan. Proceedings Book. Ardahan 2021, 643–656.
“Quintus of Smyrna.” In: Mathieu de Bakker / Irene J.F. de Jong (eds.), Speech in Ancient Greek Literature. Leiden / Boston 2021 (SAGN 5), 154–171.
With Emma Greensmith & Leyla Ozbek: “Introduction: Going to Rome, Returning to Troy.” In: Bär/Greensmith/Ozbek (2022): 1–13.
“Heracles’ Emotions in Apollonius of Rhodes’ Argonautica.” In: Mathieu de Bakker / Baukje van den Berg / Jacqueline J.H. Klooster (eds.), Emotions and Narrative in Ancient Literature and Beyond: Studies in Honour of Irene de Jong. Leiden / Boston 2022 (Mnemosyne Suppl. 451), 471–478.
“Zwei Reden und drei Frauen: Zu den Sprecherinnen des Frauenredepaars bei Quintus Smyrnaeus (Posthomerica 1,403–476).” In: Lamers/Bär (2022): 55–68.
“Greek and Roman Epigrammatists in the Later Imperial Period: Ausonius and Palladas in Dialogue with the Classical Past.” In: Berenice Verhelst / Tine Scheijnen (eds.), Greek and Latin Poetry of Late Antiquity: Form, Tradition, and Context. Cambridge 2022, 31–50.
“Sinon and Laocoon in Quintus of Smyrna’s Posthomerica: A Rewriting and De-Romanisation of Vergil’s Aeneid?” In: Katerina Carvounis / Sophia Papaioannou / Giampiero Scafoglio (eds.), Later Greek Epic and the Latin Literary Tradition: Further Explorations. Berlin / Boston 2022, 55–74.
“Der Teufel trägt Gucci? Die Akropolis von Athen als Imaginationsort von Demokratie, Hochkultur und Panhellenismus.” In: Camille Semenzato / Lucius Hartmann (eds.), Von der Antike begeistert! Philologie, Philosophie, Religion und Politik durch drei Jahrtausende: Festschrift für Christoph Riedweg. Basel 2023, 211–222.
“Heracles and Hesione in the Iliad.” In: Christos Tsagalis (ed.), Heracles in Early Greek Epic. Leiden / Boston 2024 (Mnemosyne Suppl. 482), 146–163.
With Andriana Domouzi: “Introduction: Greek and Roman Authors Imagining Artificial Intelligence: The Case of Epic Poetry.” In: Domouzi/Bär (2024): 1–11.
“Translator, Poet, Botcher? Raoul Schrott’s German Iliad and Its Popular and Scholarly Reception.” In: Burkhard Fehr / Panagiotis Roilos (eds.), Mythogenesis, Interdiscursivity, Ritual: Studies Presented to Demetrios Yatromanolakis. Leiden / Boston 2024 (Brill’s Studies in Intellectual History 354), 411–429 (typo on page 412, line 13: read “a canonical scholarly translation”).
“The Study of Transtextual Characters in Homeric Sequels: A Methodological Manifesto.” In: Diane Cuny / Arnaud Perrot (eds.), Suites d’Homère de l’Antiquité à la Renaissance. Turnhout 2024, 83–93. [Enlarged Spanish version, translated by Graciela Zecchin de Fasano: “El estudio de personajes transtextuales en las secuelas homéricas (y más allá): un manifiesto metodológico.” In: Claudia N. Fernández / Graciela Zecchin de Fasano (eds.), Pensar la Antigüedad en clave contemporánea: Enfoques interdisciplinarios y nuevos paradigmas. La Plata / Buenos Aires 2025, 92–115.]
“Lorenz Rhodoman als Herausgeber von Quintus Smyrnaeus’ Posthomerica.” In: Stefan Weise (ed.), Griechischhumanismus des 16. Jahrhunderts: Lorenz Rhodoman im Kontext und digital. Stuttgart 2025, 271–296.
“Dictis Cretense, Diario de la Guerra de Troya.” In: Ivana Chialva / Esteban Bérchez Castaño / Marcos Carmignani (eds.), La novela antigua: una introducción. Valencia 2026, 317–332 (translated by Julián Aubrit, in press).
“The Conceptualization of Transtextuality and the Study of Ancient Epic.” In: Bär (2026): in press.
With Giulia Frigerio: “Introduction: Deciphering Female Figures Between Myth and Ritual: Re-Evaluating Female Agency in Ancient Greek Sacred Contexts.” In: Frigerio/Bär (2026/27): in press.
“Galen on the Non-Existence of the Centaurs (De usu partium 3.1).” In: Cuny/Bär (2026/27): in press.
“Ekel im griechischen Roman.” In: Pietro Vesentin / Mattia De Poli (eds.), Lo spettacolo delle emozioni: il romanzo antico. Berlin / Boston 2026: in press.
“The Ambiguity of Female Beauty in the Ancient Greek Love Novel: Chariton and Xenophon.” In: Margarita Sotiriou (ed.), Females in Distress in Ancient Greek Literature: Mechanisms of Survival, Resistance, and Resilience. London et al. 2026: in press.
“Herakles in Homer and Apollonius (and Beyond): The Dark Side of an Epic Hero.” In: George W.M. Harrison (ed.), A Companion to Hercules. Malden / Oxford / Chichester 2026: in press.
“Poetics.” In: Tim Whitmarsh (ed.), The Cambridge Companion to the Greek Poetry of the Roman Empire. Cambridge 2026/27: in press.

Further publications and outreach

“Die Brüder der zehnten Muse: Ein Papyrusfund mit Fragmenten zweier Gedichte, die vermutlich von Sappho stammen.” Neue Zürcher Zeitung 21.02.2014.
“Erzählen, wo es nichts zu erzählen gibt? Herakles bei Apollonios Rhodios, der narrative Palimpsest und die Widerspruchsfähigkeit des Mythos.” Nexus: Studentische Zeitschrift des Seminars für Klassische Philologie an der Ruhr-Universität Bochum 4 (2016/17) 6–8.
“Greek Epic from Homer to Kazantzakis: An Introduction and Overview.” Nexus: Studentische Zeitschrift des Seminars für Klassische Philologie an der Ruhr-Universität Bochum 5 (2017): 10–13; 6 (2017/18): 8–12; 7 (2018): 6–10.
“Antikkens Herkules var mye mer enn en voldelig muskelbunt.” forskning.no 04.11.2019.
“En trist seier for antiintellektualismen.” minerva.no 30.06.2020.
“Amerikanske tilstander med krenkehysteri: Studer antikkens retorikk før dere klager!” khrono.no 07.07.2020 (response by Elise Lystad: “Hvem er egentlig krenket?” khrono.no 08.07.2020).
“Classical Rhetoric and Cognition” (concept videos). Digital teaching materials Literature, Cognition and Emotions (LCE) April 2021.
“Ancient Greek Literature and Heroes without Texts” (interview with Karin Kukkonen). Podcast Literature, Cognition and Emotions (LCE) 03.03.2023.
“Hvordan lykkes med faget klassisk retorikk?” (interview with Ida Snoksrud). studenttorget.no 12.04.2023.
“Calipso, divina fra le dee: Origini e ricezione moderna di una divinità omerica.” Quaderni di Antico & Moderno 2 (2023): 21–32.
“Når forsøk på inkludering fører til ekskludering.” khrono.no 26.01.2025.
“Myten som ble temmet.” minerva.no 05.09.2026.

Lexicon articles

With Manuel Baumbach: “Quintus von Smyrna.” In: Christine Walde (ed.), Der Neue Pauly. Suppl. vol. 7: Die Rezeption der antiken Literatur: Kulturhistorisches Werklexikon. Stuttgart / Weimar 2010, 783–790.
“Quintus Smyrnaeus” & “Nonnos von Panopolis.” In: Heinz Heinen et al. (eds.), Handwörterbuch der antiken Sklaverei. Mayence 2012 (Forschungen zur antiken Sklaverei Beiheft 5; CD-ROM IV).
“Byzantine Literature” & “Quintus of Smyrna.” In: Jan Ziolkowski / Richard Thomas (eds.), The Virgil Encyclopedia. Chichester 2014, 215–216 (vol. 1) & 1062–1063 (vol. 3).
“Quintus Smyrnaeus, Greek epic poet, 2nd/3rd century CE.” In: Oxford Classical Dictionary. Online edition 2017.

Reviews

Alan James (transl., comm.), Quintus of Smyrna. The Trojan Epic: Posthomerica. Baltimore / London 2004 + Ursula Gärtner, Quintus Smyrnaeus und die Aeneis: Zur Nachwirkung Vergils in der griechischen Literatur der Kaiserzeit. Munich 2005 (Zetemata 123): Museum Helveticum 63 (2006): 220–221.
Elena Pallantza, Der Troische Krieg in der nachhomerischen Literatur bis zum 5. Jahrhundert v.Chr. Stuttgart 2005 (Hermes Einzelschriften 94): Museum Helveticum 63 (2006): 222–223.
Barry B. Powell, The War at Troy: a true history. Philadelphia 2006: BMCR 2007.06.38.
Michael Paschalis (ed.), Roman and Greek Imperial Epic. Heraklion 2005 (Rethymnon Classical Studies 2): Museum Helveticum 64 (2007): 251–252.
Carol G. Thomas / Craig Conant, The Trojan War. Norman OK 2007: BMCR 2008.06.11.
Thomas Gärtner, Untersuchungen zur Gestaltung und zum historischen Stoff der Johannis Coripps. Berlin 2008 (UaLG 90): BMCR 2009.02.48.
Laura Miguélez Cavero, Poems in Context: Greek Poetry in the Egyptian Thebaid 200–600 AD. Berlin / New York 2008 (Sozomena 2): Plekos 12 (2010): 67–77.
Barbara Graziosi / Johannes Haubold (eds., comm.), Homer: Iliad, Book VI. Cambridge / New York 2010: BMCR 2011.11.29.
Andrea Harbach, Die Wahl des Lebens in der antiken Literatur. Heidelberg 2010: Classical Review 62 (2012): 24–26.
Peter Riedlberger, Philologischer, historischer und liturgischer Kommentar zum 8. Buch der Johannis des Goripp nebst kritischer Edition und Übersetzung. Groningen 2010: Gnomon 84 (2012): 25–29.
Robert Shorrock, The Myth of Paganism: Nonnus, Dionysus and the World of Late Antiquity. London 2011: Plekos 14 (2012): 95–105.
Sabine Seelentag, Der pseudovergilische Culex: Text, Übersetzung, Kommentar. Stuttgart 2012: (Hermes Einzelschriften 105): BMCR 2012.12.20.
Calum A. Maciver, Quintus Smyrnaeus’ Posthomerica: Engaging Homer in Late Antiquity, Leiden / Boston 2012 (Mnemosyne Suppl. 343): Museum Helveticum 69 (2012): 213–214.
Thomas A. Szlezák, Was Europa den Griechen verdankt: Von den Grundlagen unserer Kultur in der griechischen Antike. Tübingen 2010 + id., Homer oder Die Geburt der abendländischen Dichtung. Munich 2012: Arctos 47 (2013): 302–305.
Ursula Gärtner (ed., transl., comm.), Quintus von Smyrna: Der Untergang Trojas. Griechisch und deutsch. 2 vols., Darmstadt 2010: Göttinger Forum für Altertumswissenschaft 17 (2014): 1095–1101.
Emanuele Lelli et al. (eds., transl., comm.), Quinto di Smirne: Il seguito dell’Iliade di Omero. Milan 2013: BMCR 2014.08.21.
Emma Stafford, Herakles. London / New York 2012: Ancient History Bulletin 4 (2014): 111–115.
Pál Kelemen / Ernő Kulcsár Szabó / Ábel Tamás (eds.), Kulturtechnik Philologie: Zur Theorie des Umgangs mit Texten. Heidelberg 2011: KulturPoetik 14 (2014): 296–298.
Calum A. Maciver, Quintus Smyrnaeus’ Posthomerica: Engaging Homer in Late Antiquity. Leiden / Boston 2012 (Mnemosyne Suppl. 343): Journal of Hellenic Studies 134 (2014): 178–179.
Alessia Ferreccio, Commento al libro II dei Posthomerica di Quinto Smirneo. Rome 2014 (Pleiadi 18): Anzeiger für die Altertumswissenschaft 67 (2014): 157–165.
Richard Hunter / Antonios Rengakos / Evina Sistakou (eds.), Hellenistic Studies at a Crossroads: Exploring Texts, Contexts and Metatexts. Berlin / Boston 2014 (Trends in Classics Suppl. 25): Göttinger Forum für Altertumswissenschaft 18 (2015): 1001–1015.
Laura Miguélez-Cavero, Triphiodorus, The Sack of Troy: A General Study and a Commentary. Berlin / Boston 2013 (Texte und Kommentare 45): Mnemosyne 68 (2015): 689–695.
Boris Dunsch / Arbogast Schmitt / Thomas A. Schmitz (eds.), Epos, Lyrik, Drama: Genese und Ausformung der literarischen Gattungen. Heidelberg 2013: Göttinger Forum für Altertumswissenschaft 18 (2015): 1105–1120.
Krešimir Matijević, Ursprung und Charakter der homerischen Jenseitsvorstellungen. Paderborn 2015: BMCR 2016.03.14.
Raffaella Cribiore, Libanius the Sophist: Rhetoric, Reality, and Religion in the Fourth Century. Ithaca / London 2013: Gymnasium 123 (2016): 181–182.
Alexia Zotou, Carmina Anacreontea 1-34: Ein Kommentar. Berlin / Boston 2014: Göttinger Forum für Altertumswissenschaft 19 (2016): 1067–1095.
Nikoletta Kanavou, The Names of Homeric Heroes: Problems and Interpretations. Berlin / Boston 2015: Göttinger Forum für Altertumswissenschaft 20 (2017): 1061–1069.
Jonas Grethlein, Die Odyssee: Homer und die Kunst des Erzählens. München 2017: BMCR 2017.10.27.
Jonas Grethlein / Antonios Rengakos (eds.), Griechische Literaturgeschichtsschreibung: Traditionen, Probleme und Konzepte. Berlin / Boston 2017: Göttinger Forum für Altertumswissenschaft 20 (2017): 1152–1166.
Egbert J. Bakker, The Meaning of Meat and the Structure of the Odyssey. Cambridge 2013: Frankfurter elektronische Rundschau zur Altertumskunde 34 (2017): 73–79.
Georgios P. Tsomis, Quintus Smyrnaeus: Kommentar zum siebten Buch der Posthomerica. Stuttgart 2018 (Palingenesia 110): Anzeiger für die Altertumswissenschaft 70 (2017): 228–232 (typo on page 229, note 2: read “Sophokles’ Skyrioi”).
Joel P. Christensen / Erik Robinson (eds., transl., comm.), The Homeric Battle of the Frogs and Mice. London et al. 2018: Euroclassica Reviews 03.04.2018.
Rebecca Futo Kennedy (ed.), Brill’s Companion to the Reception of Aeschylus. Leiden / Boston 2017: Classical Review 68 (2018): 337–340.
Robert Simms (ed.), Brill’s Companion to Prequels, Sequels, and Retellings of Classical Epic. Leiden / Boston 2018: Euroclassica Reviews 26.11.2018.
Maureen Alden, Para-Narratives in the Odyssey: Stories in the Frame. Oxford 2017: Museum Helveticum 75 (2018): 225.
Emanuele Lelli, Pastori antichi e moderni: Teocrito e le origini popolari della poesia bucolica. Hildesheim / Zurich / New York 2017 (Spudasmata 174): Museum Helveticum 75 (2018): 229.
Kai Brodersen (ed., transl., comm.), Ailianos: Tierleben. Berlin / Boston 2018: Göttinger Forum für Altertumswissenschaft 22 (2019): 1001–1015.
Katrien Levrie (ed., transl.), Jean Pédiasimos: Essai sur les douze travaux d’Héraclès. Édition critique, traduction et introduction. Leuven / Paris / Bristol 2018: Rosetta 24 (2019): 65–68.
Christos Tsagalis / Andreas Markantonatos (eds.), The Winnowing Oar: New Perspectives in Homeric Studies. Berlin / Boston 2017: Göttinger Forum für Altertumswissenschaft 22 (2019): 1027–1039.
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Christoph Jamme / Stefan Matuschek, Handbuch der Mythologie. Darmstadt 2017: Göttinger Forum für Altertumswissenschaft 22 (2019): 1047–1050.
Kostas Myrsiades, Reading Homer’s Odyssey. Lewisburg 2019: BMCR 2019.10.05.
Jonas Grethlein, Aesthetic Experiences and Classical Antiquity: The Significance of Form in Narrative and Pictures. Cambridge 2017: KulturPoetik 19 (2019): 351–353.
Alexander Loney / Stephen Scully (eds.), The Oxford Handbook of Hesiod. Oxford 2018: The Classical Journal Online Reviews 2019.11.05.
Arnold Bärtschi, Titanen, Giganten und Riesen im antiken Epos: Eine literaturtheoretische Neuinterpretation. Heidelberg 2019: Phoenix 73 (2019): 196–198.
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Paul Dräger (ed., trans., comm.), Apollonios von Rhodos: Die Fahrt der Argonauten. Griechisch/Deutsch. 3rd rev. ed. Stuttgart 2019: BMCR 2020.01.37.
Mark W. Padilla, Classical Myth in Alfred Hitchcock’s Wrong Man and Grace Kelly Films. Lanham, MD 2019: Euroclassica Reviews 21.02.2020.
Richard W. Westall, Caesar’s Civil War: Historical Reality and Fabrication. Leiden / Boston 2018 (Mnemosyne Suppl. 410): Gnomon 92 (2020): 376–378.
Gerhard P. Binder, P. Vergilius Maro: Aeneis. Ein Kommentar. 3 vols., Trier 2019 (BAC 104–106): BMCR 2020.07.08.
Gunther Martin (ed.), The Oxford Handbook of Demosthenes. Oxford 2019: Museum Helveticum 77 (2020): 253–254.
Edmund Cueva et al. (eds.), Re-Wiring the Ancient Novel. 2 bind, Groningen 2018: Museum Helveticum 77 (2020): 284–285.
Arbogast Schmitt, Die Moderne und die Antike: Gründe und Folgen des größten Kulturbruchs in der Geschichte Europas. Heidelberg 2019: Museum Helveticum 77 (2020): 288.
Stephan Renker, A Commentary on Quintus of Smyrna, Posthomerica 13. Bamberg 2020 (Bamberger Studien zu Literatur, Kultur und Medien 29): Plekos 23 (2021): 83–87.
Stefan Weise, Der Arion des Lorenz Rhodomann: Ein altgriechisches Epyllion der Renaissance. Einleitung, Text, Übersetzung, Wortindex. Stuttgart 2019 (Palingenesia 117): Frankfurter elektronische Rundschau zur Altertumskunde 43 (2021): 14–17.
Jan Kwapisz, The Paradigm of Simias: Essays on Poetic Eccentricity. Berlin / Boston 2019: Gnomon 93 (2021): 654–656.
Susanne Moraw, Die Odyssee in der Spätantike: Bildliche und literarische Rezeption. Turnhout 2020: Classical Review 72 (2021): 38–40.
Katerina Carvounis, A Commentary on Quintus of Smyrna, Posthomerica 14. Oxford 2019: Athenaeum 110 (2022): 254–258.
Tanja Susanne Scheer (ed.), Natur – Mythos – Religion im antiken Griechenland. Nature – Myth – Religion in Ancient Greece. Stuttgart 2019: Göttinger Forum für Altertumswissenschaft 25 (2022): 1055–1063.
Stefanie Stürner, Die Argonauten in Afrika: Einleitung, Übersetzung und Kommentar zur Libyenepisode der Argonautika des Apollonios von Rhodos (A.R 4,1223–1781). Berlin / Boston 2022: Exemplaria Classica 27 (2023): 292–296.
Simon Zuenelli, Das 12. Buch der Dionysiaka des Nonnos aus Panopolis: Ein literarischer Kommentar. Göttingen 2022: Museum Helveticum 80 (2023): 331–332.
Raimund Schulz / Uwe Walter, Griechische Geschichte ca. 800–322 v.Chr. 2 vols., Oldenburg / Berlin 2022: Museum Helveticum 80 (2023): 343.
Sophie Marianne Bocksberger, Telamonian Ajax: The Myth in Archaic and Classical Greece. Oxford 2022: KLIO: Beiträge zur Alten Geschichte 106 (2024): 318–324.
Maria Kanellou / Chris Carey (eds.), Palladas and the Yale Papyrus Codex (P. CtYBR inv. 4000). Leiden / Boston 2023 (Papyrologica Lugduno-Batava 39): sehepunkte 24.7–8 (2024).
Jonas Grethlein, Ancient Greek Texts and Modern Narrative Theory: Towards a Critical Dialogue. Cambridge 2023: Diegesis: Interdisciplinary E-Journal for Narrative Research 14.2 (2025): 133–143.
Annamaria Peri / Tobias Thum (eds.), Martin Hose: Formen und Funktionen griechisch-römischer Literatur: Aufsätze zur Literaturgeschichte und Literaturgeschichtsschreibung. Stuttgart 2023: Göttinger Forum für Altertumswissenschaft 28 (2025): 1031–1042.
Anna A. Novokhatko, A Guide to Classics and Cognitive Studies: Reviewing Findings and Results. Berlin / Boston 2025: BMCR 2026.03.02.
Hugo Shakeshaft, Beauty and the Gods: A History from Homer to Plato. Princeton 2025: to be published in CLARA: Classical Art and Archaeology.