Prof. Dr. Anton F.H. Bierl

Greek Literature and Culture

– Literature: Greek Drama; Homer; Early Lyric Poets; Greek Novel

                       – Presocratics

                       – Post–classical Greek Literature; Second Sophistic

                       – Myth, Ritual; Greek Religion in general, esp. Dionysus; the Interface and Interdependence between Literature and Religion; Mythic-Ritual Poetics

                       – Song and Performance Culture; Chorality

                       – Image and Text

                       – Wissenschaftsgeschichte and Reception in the 19th and 20th Centuries; Modern Productions of Greek Drama and Theater Studies

                       – Interdisciplinary Interests (anthropological and cultural studies in a comparative perspective, literary studies, linguistics, modern theory: e.g. metatheater, orality, performance, rituality, intertextuality, interdiscursivity, narratology, aesthetics, poetics)