Prof. Dr. Jonas Grethlein

Seminar für Klassische Philologie Universität Heidelberg Marstallhof 2-4 69117 Heidelberg Zimmer 222 Telefon: 06221-54 2262 jonas.grethlein@skph.uni-heidelberg.de   2012/13 Fellow am Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin

Publikationen  -   Curriculum vitae   -   ERC Project "Experience and Teleology in Ancient Narrative"

Monographs

• Experience and Teleology in Ancient Historiography. Futures Past from Herodotus to Augustine (forthcoming from Cambridge University Press)
• The Greeks and Their Past. Poetry, Oratory and History in the Fifth Century BCE. Cambridge 2010.
• Littells Orestie. Mythos, Macht und Moral in Les Bienveillantes. Freiburg 2009 (Paradeigmata 9).
• Das Geschichtsbild der Ilias. Eine Untersuchung des Geschichtsbildes der Ilias aus phänomenologischer und narratologischer Perspektive. Göttingen 2006 (Hypomnemata 163).
• Asyl und Athen. Die Konstruktion kollektiver Identität in der griechischen Tragödie. Stuttgart/Weimar 2003 (Drama. Beiträge zum antiken Drama und seiner Rezeption. Beiheft 21).

Edited Volumes

• Together with C. Krebs: Time and Narrative in Ancient Historiography. The “Plupast” from Herodotus to Appian. Cambridge University Press 2012.
• Together with A. Rengakos: Narratology and Interpretation. The Content of Narrative Form in Ancient Literature. Berlin/New York 2009 (Trends in Classics – Supplementary Volumes 4).

Articles

• "Zeit, Erzählung und Raum in Augustins Confessiones." In: F. Kragl, C. Schneider, eds. Erzähllogiken in der Literatur des Mittelalters und der Frühen Neuzeit (forthcoming)
• "Democracy, Oratory, and the Rise of Historiography in Fifth-Century Greece." In: J. P. Arnason, K. Raaflaub, P. Wagner, eds. The Greek Polis and the Invention of Democracy: A Politico-cultural Transformation and its Interpretations (forthcoming)
• "The Presence of the Past in Thucydides." In: M. Tamiolaki and A. Tsakmakis, eds. Thucydides' Techniques. Between Historical Research and Literary Representation (forthcoming).
• "The Many Faces of the Past in Archaic and Classical Greece." In: K. Raaflaub, ed. Thinking, Recording, and Writing History in the Ancient World (forthcoming).
• "Choral Intertemporality in the Oresteia.", In: M. Hopman/ R. Gagne, eds. Choral Mediations in Greek Drama (forthcoming)
• "A slim girl and the fat of the land in Theocritus, id. 10." CQ 62.2, 2012: 603-617.
• "Xenophon's Anabasis from Character to Narrator." JHS 132, 2012: 23-40.
• “Theophilos: Edition, Introduction, Commentary and Translation.” In: Fragmente der griechischen Historiker V (forthcoming).
• "'Sandalenfilme aus den Grünbein-Studios'? Zum Verhältnis von Antike und Moderne in den Gedichten von Durs Grünbein." Poetica 43 (3-4), 2011:411-439.
• "Homer and Heroic History." In: J. Marincola, L. Llewellyn-Jones and C. Maciver, eds. Greek Notions of the Past in the Archaic and Classical Eras. Edinburgh University Press 2012: 14-36.
• Together with C. Krebs: "The historian’s plupast: introductory remarks on its forms and functions" In: J. Grethlein/C. Krebs, eds. Time and Narrative in Ancient Historiography. The “Plupast” from Herodotus to Appian. Cambridge University Press 2012: 1-16.
• "The use and abuse of history in the Plataean debate (Thuc. 3.52–68)." In: J. Grethlein/C. Krebs, eds. Time and Narrative in Ancient Historiography. The “Plupast” from Herodotus to Appian. Cambridge University Press 2012: 57-75.
• “Myths, morals and metafiction in Jonathan Littell's Les Bienveillantes.” PMLA 127.1, 2012: 77-93.
• “Herodot und Xerxes. Meta-Historie in den Historien.” In: R. Rollinger/ B. Truschnegg/ R. Bichler, eds. Herodot und das persische Weltreich. Wiesbaden 2011: 103-122.
• “Divine, Human and Poetic Time in Pindar, Pythian 9.” Mnemosyne 64, 2011: 383-409.
• “‘Historia Magistra Vitae’ in Herodotus and Thucydides? The Exemplary Use of the Past and Ancient and Modern Temporalities.” In: A. Lianeri, ed. The Western Time of Ancient History. Historiographical Encounters with the Greek and Roman Pasts. Cambridge 2011: 247-263.
• “The Rise of Greek Historiography and the Invention of Prose.” In: A. Feldherr, ed. Oxford History of Historical Writing. Volume I. Oxford 2011: 148-170.
• “SS-Officers as Tragic Heroes? Les Bienveillantes and the Narrative Representation of the Shoah.” Style 44, 2010: 566-585.
• “Die Fabel.” In: B. Zimmermann, ed. Handbuch der Altertumswissenschaften. Griechische Literatur. Munich 2011: 321-325.
• “Experientiality and Narrative Reference. With Thanks to Thucydides.” History & Theory 49, 2010: 315-335.
• “'Narrative Referenz'. Erfahrungshaftigkeit und Erzählung.” In: T. Breyer, D. Creutz, eds. Erfahrung und Geschichte. Historische Sinnbildung im Pränarrativen, Berlin/ New York 2010: 21-39.
• “The Narrative Reconfiguration of Time beyond Ricœur” Poetics Today 31, 2010: 313-329.
• “Beyond Intentional History.” In: L. Foxhall, H.-J. Gehrke, N. Luraghi, eds. Intentional History. Spinning time in Ancient Greece. Stuttgart 2010: 327-342.
• “From ‘Imperishable Glory’ to History: The Iliad and the Trojan War.” In: K. Raaflaub/ D. Konstan, eds. Epic and History. London 2010: 122-144.
• “How Not to Do History. Xerxes in Herodotus’ Histories.” AJP 130, 2009: 195-218.
• Together with Antonios Rengakos: “Introduction.” In: J. Grethlein/ A. Rengakos, eds. Narratology and Interpretation. The Content of Narrative Form in Ancient Literature. Berlin/ New York 2009: 1-11.
• “Philosophical and Structuralist Narratologies – Worlds Apart?” In: J. Grethlein/ A. Rengakos, eds. Narratology and Interpretation. The Content of Narrative Form in Ancient Literature. Berlin/ New York 2009: 153-174.
• “Memory and Material Objects in the Iliad and the Odyssey.” JHS 128, 2008: 27-51.
• “Eine herodoteische Deutung der sizilischen Expedition (Thuc 7.87.5f.).” Hermes 136, 2008: 129-142.
• “The Hermeneutics and Poetics of Memory in Aeschylus’ Persae.” Arethusa 40, 2007: 363-396.
• “Variationen des „nächsten Fremden“. Die Perser des Aischylos im 20. Jahrhundert.” Antike und Abendland 53, 2007: 1-20.
• “Diomedes Redivivus. A New Reading of Mimnermus fr. 14 W2.” Mnemosyne 60, 2007: 102-111.
• “Epic Narrative and Ritual. The Case of the Funeral Games in the Iliad.” In: A. Bierl et al., eds. Literatur und Religion I. Wege zu einer mythisch/rituellen Poetik bei den Griechen. Berlin/New York 2007: 151-177.
• “The Poetics of the Bath in the Iliad.” HSCP 103, 2006.
• “How Old Is Nestor?” Eikasmos 17, 2006: 1-9.
• “The Unthucydidean Voice of Sallust.” TAPA 136/2, 2006: 299-327.
• “The Manifold Uses of the Epic Past. The Embassy Scene in Hdt. 7.153-163.” AJP 127/4, 2006: 485-509.
• “Individuelle Identität und conditio humana. Die Bedeutung und Funktion von GENEH im Blättergleichnis in Il. 6, 146-149.” Philologus 150, 2006: 3-13.
• “Nam quid ea memorem. The Dialectical Relation of res gestae and memoria rerum gestarum in Sallust’s Bellum Jugurthinum.” CQ 56, 2006: 135-148.
• “Eine Anthropologie des Essens. Der Essensstreit in der Ilias und die Erntemetapher in Il. 19, 221-224.” Hermes 133, 2005: 257-279.
• “Sophokles und Athen. Überlegungen zum Oidipus auf Kolonos.” Freiburger Universitätsblätter 169, 2005: 47-75.
• “Gefahren des Logos. Thukydides’ Historien und die Grabrede des Perikles.” Klio 87/1, 2005: 41-71.
• “Logographos und Thuc. 1.21.1.” Prometheus 30, 2004: 209-216.
• “Aeschylus’ Eumenides and Legal Anthropology.” In: D. Leao et al., eds. Nomos. Direito e sociedade na Antiguidade Clássica. Madrid 2004: 113-125.
• “Aesch. Eum. 475.” Philologus 147, 2003: 347-351.
• “Die poetologische Bedeutung des aristotelischen Mitleidbegriffs. Überlegungen zu Nähe und Distanz in der griechischen Tragödie.” Poetica 35, 2003: 41-67.
• “Aesch. Suppl. 498.” Lexis 19, 2001: 171-174.
• “Aesch. Suppl. 946-949.” Lexis 19, 2001: 175-182.

General-Audience Essays

• "The flower of virginity between metaphor and metonymy." In: H. Hatry, Not a Rose. Milan, New York 2012
• “Die Griechen-Barbaren Dichotomie im Horizont der conditio humana.” In: Heidelberger Jahrbuch 54: Menschen – Bilder. Heidelberg, 2012: 135-147.
• “Homer – die epische Erinnerung an ‘Unvergänglichen Ruhm’.” In: K.-J. Hölkeskamp/ E. Stein-Hölkeskamp, eds. Erinnerungsorte der Antike. Die griechische Welt. Munich 2010: 386-399.
• “Historisches Fieber.” in: Ruperto Carola 1/10, Heidelberg, 2010: 26-30
• “Ilias und Odyssee. Anfänge der europäischen Literatur.” In: Zeit der Helden. Die “dunklen Jahrhunderte” Griechenlands 1200-700 v. Chr. Karlsruhe 2008: 332-339.

Book Reviews

• "R. Scodel,  Epic Facework. Self-presentation and Social Interaction in Homer, Swansea, 2008." Mnemosyne 64, 2011: 481-485.
• “Rachel Hall Sternberg, Tragedy Offstage. Suffering and Sympathy in Ancient Athens, Austin 2006.” Gnomon 81, 2009: 275-277.
• “C. Traulsen, Das säkulare Asyl in der Alten Welt. Tübingen 2004.” Theologische Literaturzeitschrift 2005.
• “J. McGlew, Citizens on Stage. Comedy and Political Culture in the Athenian Democracy. Ann Arbor 2002.” Gnomon 76, 2004: 643-645.
• “T. Kindt/ H.-H. Müller, eds., What Is Narratology? Questions and Answers Regarding the Status of a Theory. Berlin/ New York 2003.” iaslonline 2004.