Education:
Stuttgart University of Music; Study in Paris & Tübingen (philology & indology); Ph.D., Tübingen, 1959; LL.D. (hon.) Aristotle-University of Thessaloniki; Russian Academy of Sciences.
Dissertation:
"Die Parenthese in Ovids Metamorphosen und ihre dichterische Funktion" (Tübingen, 1959); Phil. habil., "Freiheit und Gebundenheit römischer Epik: Studien zu Silius Italicus," (Tübingen, 1963).
Professional Experience:
Postdoctoral studies, Sorbonne, 1959-60; Research Assistant, University of Tübingen, 1959-63; Lecturer 1964, Professor Ordinarius 1964-98; Guest Professorships: Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton; Universities of Amsterdam, Texas, and Florida; full Member, National Vergilian Academy (Mantua), Academia Linguae Latinae (Rome), Academia Propertiana (Assisi), Ovidianum (Bucharest); Prizes: Praemium Classicum Clavarense, Russlanddeutscher Kulturpreis, Johann-Heinrich-Voss-Preis. Editor of the books series Studien zur Klassischen Philologie (185 volumes); Quellen und Studien zur Musikgeschichte (45 volumes).
Publications:
Selected Publications (articles are not included):
Die Parenthese in Ovids Metamorphosen (Würzburg, 1963; Hildesheim, 1964); Silius Italicus (Amsterdam, 1964); Goethe und das Volkslied (Darmstadt,1963); Iamblichos, Pythagoras (Zürich, 1963); Masters of Roman Prose (Heidelberg, 1971; English trans., N. Atkins, Liverpool, 1988); Römische Poesie (Heidelberg, 1976); Rom: Spiegel Europas (Heidelberg, 1988); History of Latin Literature (Bern, 1992; trans. Into 7 languages); Ovid: Eine Einführung (Stuttgart, 2003); Cicero’s Style (Leiden, 2003); Roman Epic (Leiden, 1999); Wort und Wandlung: Senecas Lebenskunst (Leiden, 2004); Vergil: Eine Einführung (Heidelberg, 2006); Ovids Metamorposen (Heidelberg, 2014); Grosse römische Autoren, 3 vols. (Heidelberg, 2013); Antike und Neuzeit, 3 vols. (Heidelberg, 2019); bilingual editions of Catullus, Cicero, Ovid, Vergil (Stuttgart: Reclam), Iamblichus (Zürich: Artemis).
