Since 2016: Professorship of Ancient History > Professorship of Ancient Culture

Since the death of Prof. Dr. Veit Rosenberger in 2016, the tasks of the professorship for Ancient History have to be taken over by the professorship for Ancient Culture.

The reliable binding teaching offer is fixed.

The page Teaching at the Professorship of Ancient Culture informs about the current and future courses.

Prof. Dr. Veit Rosenberger (1963-2016)

BIOGRAPHY

• April 7, 1963 - September 1, 2016

• Studied Ancient History, Latin and Classical Archaeology at the Universities of Heidelberg, Augsburg, Cologne and Oxford. Doctorate in 1992, habilitation in 1997.

• Teaching experience: 1992-2003 assistant and senior assistant at the Department of Ancient History at the University of Augsburg; 2000-2001 exchange lecturer at Emory University, Atlanta (Georgia) USA; since 2003 lectureship and substitute professorship and since 2006 professorship at the University of Erfurt.

• Scholarships and awards: DAAD scholarship for study at St. John's College, Oxford (1990/91); Fulbright scholarship for teaching and research at Emory University, Atlanta (2000/01); Prize for Good Teaching of the Free State of Bavaria (2001).

 

LIBRARY

Monographs

Bella et expeditiones. Die antike Terminologie der Kriege Roms (Heidelberger Althistorische Beiträge und Epigraphische Studien 12), Stuttgart 1992. 203 pp.

Tamed Gods. Das Prodigienwesen der römischen Republik (Heidelberger Althistorische Beiträge und Epigraphische Studien 27), Stuttgart 1998. 287 p.

Greek Oracles. Eine Kulturgeschichte, Darmstadt 2001. 240 pp.

(together with Gunther Gottlieb) Christianity and the Church in the 4th and 5th Centuries, Heidelberg 2003. 100 pp.

Religion in Antiquity, Darmstadt 2012. 136 pp.

I pranzi de santi: Pratiche alimentari e ascesi nel monachesimo tardoantico, translated by Giovanni Cerro, Bologna 2016, 73 pp.

 

Editorial

(with Lidija Getto and Gunther Gottlieb), Across Borders ... Universities of Augsburg and Osijek, Twenty Years of Partnership, Augsburg 1998. 272 pp.

(together with Pedro Barceló), Humanitas. Beiträge zur antiken Kulturgeschichte, Festschrift für Gunther Gottlieb, Munich 2001. 302 pp.

"The Ideals of the Ancients: Antikerezeption um 1800, Stuttgart 2008. 199 pp.

The Acerra Philologica. Ein frühneuzeitliches Nachschlagewerk zur Antike, Stuttgart 2011. 199 p.

 

Essays

On the Septuagint papyrus VBP IV 56, in Journal of Papyrology and Epigraphy 61, 1985, 115-121.

Addendum to the Septuagint Papyrus VBP IV 56, in: Journal of Papyrology and Epigraphy 65, 1986, 106.

Journal review "Antike Wirtschaft" for 1988, in: Laverna 1, 1990, 132-139.

Journal review "Antike Wirtschaft" for 1989 and 1990, in: Laverna 2, 1991, 129-139.

Journal review "Antike Wirtschaft" for 1991, in: Laverna 3, 1992,173-181.

Journal review "Antike Wirtschaft" for 1992, in: Laverna 4, 1993, 180-189.

Journal review "Ancient Economy" for 1993, in: Laverna 5, 1994, 262-268.

Deceptive Smells - Adulterations of Spices and Perfumes in the Elder Pliny, in: Münstersche Beiträge zur antiken Handelsgeschichte, vol. XII, 1994, 40-54.

The Ring of Polycrates in the Light of the Magic Papyri, in: Journal of Papyrology and Epigraphy, vol. 108, 1995, 69-71.

Journal review "Ancient Economy" for 1994, in: Laverna 6, 1995, 163-170.

Taprobane - dream island or the beginning of a new world? in: Laverna 7, 1996, 1-16.

Journal review "Ancient Economy" for 1995 and 1996, in: Laverna 8, 1997, 137-146.

Who made Alexander "the Great"? in: Historia 47, 1998, 485-489.

The Economy of Pythia or: Economic Aspects of Greek Oracles, in: Laverna 10, 1999, 153-164.

Virtual Worlds of Ancient History, in: Kai Brodersen (ed.), Virtuelle Antike. Wendepunkte der Alten Geschichte, Darmstadt 2000, 153-162.

Time and End Times in Greco-Roman Antiquity, in: Stefan Krimm/Ulrike Triller (eds.), The Angel and the Seventh Trumpet.... End Time Concepts in History and Literature. Acta Hohenschwangau 1999, Munich 2000, 11-26.

Signs of Divine Wrath: A Media Historical Investigation of Roman Prodigies, in: Kai Brodersen (ed.), Curse, Prayer, Sign and Dream: Aspects of Religious Communication in Antiquity, Münster 2001, 69-88.

The Old Man and the Sea. The Sea and its Inhabitants as Bearers of Prophetic Knowledge, in: Kai Brodersen (ed.), Prognosis. Studies on the Function of Future Prediction in Literature and History since Antiquity, Münster 2001, 73-95.

Communicating Heads. Ein Versuch zur Körpergeschichte bei Herodot, in: Pedro Barceló/Veit Rosenberger (eds.), Humanitas, Festschrift für Gunther Gottlieb, Munich 2001, 287-300.

Asterix Conquers Rome? Reflections on the supposed Gaulish fear, in: Kai Brodersen (ed.), Asterix und seine Zeit. Die kleine Welt des großen Galliers, Munich 2001, 196-209.

Oracles and votive gifts: Delphi as a crystallization point of Greek identities, in: Ralf von den Hoff/Stefan Schmidt (eds.), Konstruktion von Wirklichkeit. Bilder im Griechenland des 5. und 4. Jahrhunderts v. Chr., Stuttgart 2001, 107-119.

Journeys to the Oracle. Greeks, Lydians and Persians as Clients of Hellenic Oracle Sites, in: Markus Witte/Stefan Alkier (eds.), Die Griechen und der Vordere Orient (Orbis Biblicus et Orientalis 191) Freiburg (Schweiz) u. Göttingen 2003, 25-57.

Metus and Human Sacrifice: Reflections on Gaulish Fear and the Second Founding of Rome, in Alfred Kneppe/Dieter Metzler (eds.), The Emotional Dimension of Ancient Religiosity, Münster 2003, 47-63.

The Missing Corpse: Reflections on the Finding of the Sarcophagus of Numas in 181 B.C., in Benedikt Kranemann/Jörg Rüpke (eds.), The Memory of Memory: On the Presence of Rituals in Descriptive and Reflective Texts, Marburg 2003, 39-59.

The Beautiful Corpse: Lucretia and the Expulsion of the Kings, in Hildegard Macha/Claudia Fahrenwald, Body Images between Nature and Culture. Interdisciplinary Contributions to Gender Research, Opladen 2003, 103-116.

The Gallic Disaster, in: Classical World 96, 2003, 365-37.

Die "furchtbaren" Gallier: Überlegungen zur vermeintlichen Gallierfurcht und zur zweiten Gründung Roms, in: Volker Dotterweich (ed.), Mythen und Legenden in der Geschichte (Schriften der Philosophischen Fakultäten der Universität Augsburg 64), Munich 2004, 25-37.

Oracles, Prophecy, in: Jürgen Zangenberg (ed.), Neues Testament und Alte Kultur, vol. 3, Neukirchen-Vluyn 2005, 137-143.

The Geographical Origin of the Clients of the Delphic Oracle, in: Eckart Olshausen/Holger Sonnabend (eds.), "Troianer sind wir gewesen" - Migrations in the Ancient World, Stuttgart 2006, 194-199.

The Oracle in the Mountains: Delphi, in: Kai Brodersen (ed.), Highlights of Antiquity, Darmstadt 2006, 25-38.

Besatzung in der Antike, in: Günther Kronenbitter/Markus Pöhlmann/Dierk Walter (eds.), Besatzung. Funktion und Gestalt militärischer Fremdherrschaft von der Antike bis zum 20. Jahrhundert, Paderborn et al. 2006, 23-36.

The Roman Conquest (43), in Rudolf Beck/Konrad Schröder (eds.), Handbuch der britischen Kulturgeschichte, Paderborn 2006, 9-14.

Prodigies from Italy: Geographical Distribution and Religious Communication, Cahiers du Centre Gustave Glotz 16, 2005 (2007), 235-257.

Republican Nobiles: Controlling the res publica, in Jörg Rüpke (ed.), A Companion to Roman Religion, Oxford 2007, 292-303.

Theseus in Athens. Stranger and Figure of Identification, in: Humanistische Bildung 23, 2007, 39-48.

Gifts and Oracles: Aspects of Religious Communication, in Anders Holm Rasmussen/Susanne William Rasmussen (eds.), Religion and Society. Rituals, Resources and Identity in the Ancient Graeco-Roman World, Rome 2008, 89-104.

Panhellenic, Roman, and Local Identities in the Marble Parium, in Anders Holm Rasmussen/Susanne William Rasmussen (eds.), Religion and Society. Rituals, Resources and Identity in the Ancient Graeco-Roman World, Rome 2008, 223-231.

The Strategemata of Polyainos, or: Why were the Greeks, although they knew many more war lists, inferior to the Romans?, in Kai Brodersen (ed.), Vincere scis, victoria uti nescis. Aspects of hindsight bias in ancient history, Münster 2008, 95-111.

Variety and Selection: Vom Umgang mit antiken Stoffen am Beispiel des Weimarer Schlosses, in Veit Rosenberger (ed.), "Die Ideale der Alten": Antikerezeption um 1800, 77-91.

Zeichen und Wunder in der antiken Welt, in: Wolfgang Bergsdorf u.a. (eds.), Wunder - Provokation der Vernunft?, Erfurt 2008, 213-232.

Verwehrte Ehre: Zur Wertigkeit des triumphus in monte Albano, in: Klio 91, 2009, 29-39.

Between Theater and Utopia. Phaethon bei Euripides und Platon, in: Karl-Joachim Hölkeskamp/Stefan Rebenich (eds.), Phaethon. A Myth and Antiquity and Modernity, Stuttgart 2009, 21-32.

The Cunning and the Divine: Religion in Polyainus, in Kai Brodersen (ed.), Polyainus. Neue Studien/Polyaenus. New Studies, Berlin 2010, 133-148.

Strange Signs, Divine Wrath, and the Dynamics of Rituals: The Expiation of Prodigies in the Roman Republic, in: Margo Kitts, Bernd Schneidmüller et al. (eds.), Ritual Dynamics and the Science of Ritual, Vol. III: State, Power, and Violence, Wiesbaden 2010, 247-260.

The "Thick Darkness of Superstition". Ancient Religion in the Acerra Philologica, in: Veit Rosenberger (ed.), Die Acerra Philologica. Ein frühneuzeitliches Nachschlagewerk zur Antike, Stuttgart 2011, 165-192.

The Saint and the Bishop: Severinus of Noricum, in: Johan Leemans et al. (eds.), "Episcopal Elections in Late Antiquity," Berlin/Boston 2011, 203-216.

Four Letter-writers: Religion in Pliny, Trajan, Libanius, and Julian, in: Jörg Rüpke/Wolfgang Spickermann (eds.), Reflections on Religious Individuality, Berlin/Boston 2012, 247-260.

Arcadian Paradoxes. Von der Konstruktion einer antiken Idylle, in: Christoph auf der Horst (ed.), Paradoxien des Glücks. Interdisciplinary Notes on a Phenomenon, Düsseldorf 2012, 35-54.

Rome and Italy: religious communication and the reception of new deities. In Martin Jehne, Bernhard Linke, and Jörg Rüpke (eds.), Religious Diversity and Integration. (Studies in Ancient History, vol. 17). Heidelberg 2013, 95-110

Competing Coenobites: Food and Drink in the Lives of Theodoretus of Cyrrhus, in David Engels/Peter van Nuffelen (eds.), Religion and Competition. Collection Latomus 343, Leuven 2014, 173-191.

Private Deifications in the Roman Imperial Period: Death, Mourning, and Memoria, in: Ego, Beate / Mittmann, Ulrike (eds.), Evil and Death. Conceptions of the Human in Biblical, Early Jewish, Greco-Roman and Egyptian Literature. Deuterocanonical and Cognate Literature Studies 18, Berlin 2015, 295-312.

Coping with Death: Private Deification in the Roman Empire, in: Waldner, Katharina / Gordon, Richard / Spickermann, Wolfgang (eds.), Burial rituals, ideas of afterlife, and the individual in the Hellenistic world and the Roman Empire, Stuttgart 2016, 112-127.

 

Encyclopedia article

The New Pauly (hierarchy, omen, oracle, atonement rite, temple economy, expeditio).

Religion in history and present (war)

Thesaurus Cultus et Rituum Antiquorum (prodigies, public/private among the Romans).

 

Corpus Inscriptionum Latinarum

Employee on vol. VI.viii.2 of the Corpus Inscriptionum Latinarum, Berlin/New York 1996, 4423-4433 (editing of the city Roman inscriptions for the Flavian emperors)

 

Reviews

ULRIKE HAHN, Die Frauen des römischen Kaiserhauses und ihre Ehrungen im griechischen Osten anhand epigraphischer und numismatischer Zeugnisse von Livia bis Sabina, Saarbrücken 1994, in: Klio 78, 1996, 320-321.

MARTINA JANTZ, Das Fremdenbild der Römer in der Literatur der Römischen Republik und der Augusteischen Zeit, Frankfurt am Main 1995, in: Klio 79, 1997, 246-247.

YANN LE BOHEC, The Roman Army, Stuttgart 1993, in: Gymnasium 105, 1998, 81-82

NORMAN J.E. AUSTIN/N. BORIS RANKOV, Exploratio. Military and Political Intelligence in the Roman World from the Second Punic War to the Battle of Adrianople, London u. New York 1996, in: Klio 81, 1999, 260-261.

PETER H. HERZOG, Die Funktion des militärischen Planens bei Tacitus, Frankfurt am Main 1996, in: Klio 82, 2000, 274-275.

DAVID SHULMAN/GUY G. STROUMSA (eds.), Dream Cultures. Explorations in the Comparative History of Dreaming, New York u. Oxford 1999, in: Classical Review 51, 2001, 139-141.

ANNE VIOLA SIEBERT, Instrumenta sacra. Untersuchungen zu römischen Opfer-, Kult- und Priestergeräten, Berlin 1999, in: Gymnasium 198, 2001, 39-40.

MARKUS SEHLMAYER, Stadtrömische Ehrenstatuen der republikanischen Zeit, Stuttgart 1999, in: Gymnasium 108, 2001, 173-174.

DOROTHEA BAUDY, Roman Social Rites. Eine ethologische Untersuchung der Funktion von Wiederholung für religiöses Verhalten, Berlin u. New York 1998, in: Klio 83, 2001, 251

FRANK BERNSTEIN, Ludi publici. Untersuchungen zur Entstehung und Entwicklung der öffentlichen Spiele im republikanischen Rom, Stuttgart 1998, in: Klio 83, 2001, 254-55.

JOHN SCHEID, Commentarii fratrum Arvalium qui supersunt, Rome 1998, in: Gnomon 74, 2002, 268-269.

STEFAN FALLER, Taprobane im Wandel der Zeit, Stuttgart 1999, in: Laverna 13, 2002, 131-133.

JÖRG RÜPKE, Die Religion der Römer, Munich 2001, in: Klio 86, 2004, 256-258.

JYRI VAAHTERA, Roman Augural Lore in Greek Historiography, in: Klio 86, 2004, 478-480.

MANUELA MARI, Al di là dell' Olimpo, in: Historical Journal 278, 2004, 738-740.

MARCOS JOSÉ DE ARAÚJO CALDAS, Delphi - Oracles of the Mighty, Bonn 2003, in: Gymnasium 113, 2006, 65-66.

BEAT NÄF, Traum und Traumdeutung im Altertum, Darmstadt 2004, in: Historische Zeitschrift 285, 2007, 414-416.

Thesaurus cultus et rituum antiquorum, vol. I: Processions, Sacrifices, Libations, Fumigations, Dedications, Los Angeles 2004, in: Gnomon 80, 2008, 71-73.

MARIA CRISTINA MARTINI, Le vestali. Un sacerdozio funzionale al "cosmo" romano, Brussels 2004, in: Gnomon 80, 2008, 363-365.

JAS ELSNER/IAN RUTHERFORD (eds.), Pilgrimage in Greco-Roman & Early Christian Antiquity, Oxford 2005, in: Historical Journal 285, 2007, 702-703.

MARK MUNN, The Mother of the Gods, Athens, and the Tyranny of Asia, Berkeley et al. 2006, in: Historical Journal 285, 2007, 152-154.

DAVID B. DODD/CHRISTOPHER A. FARAONE (eds.), Initiation in Ancient Greek Rituals and Narratives, London 2003, in: Historical Journal 285, 2007, 148-149.

DAVID ENGELS, Das römische Vorzeichenwesen, Stuttgart 2007, in: Klio 91, 2009, 223-225.

MICHAEL MAASS, Das antike Delphi, Munich 2007, in: Gymnasium 116, 2009, 298-299.

MARY EMERSON, Greek Sanctuaries. An Introduction, Bristol 2007, in: Gymnasium 116, 2009, 400-401.

FRED S. NAIDEN, Ancient Supplication, Oxford 2006, in: Gnomon 81, 2009, 524-527.

CHRISTIAN FREVEL/HENNER VON HESBERG (eds.), Cult and Communication: Media in Sanctuaries of Antiquity, in Journal of Hellenic Studies 129, 2009, 174-175.

MARTINA DIETERLE, Dodona. Religionsgeschichtliche und historische Untersuchungen zur Entstehung und Entwicklung des Zeus-Heiligtums, Hildesheim 2008, in: Klio 91, 2009, 490.

FRANCESCA PRESCENDI, Décrire et comprendre le sacrifice, Stuttgart 2008, in: Gnomon 82, 2010, 663-666.

SUSANNA ELM, Sons of Hellenism, Berkeley/Los Angeles 2012, in: Gymnasium 122, 2014, 314-315.

ALEXANDER BÄTZ, Sacrae Virgines, Paderborn 2012, in: Gymnasium 122, 2014, 413-414.

FEDERICO SANTANGELO, Divination, Predication and the End of the Roman Republic, Cambridge 2013, in: Gymnasium 122, 2014, 512-513

MICHAEL SCOTT, Delphi: A History of the Center of the Ancient World, Princeton 2014, in: Gymnasium 123, 2015, 515-517

CHRISTOPHE CHANDEZON/JULIEN DU BOUCHET (eds.), Artémidore de Daldis et l'Interpretation des Rêves, Paris 2014, in: Historical Journal 302, 2016, 763-764.

 

Kai Brodersen