Affiliated Lecturer
Director of Studies at Girton College
Sidgwick Avenue
Cambridge
CB3 9DA
Biography:
In addition to my roles at Cambridge, I hold a Lectureship in Latin at the University of Basel, Switzerland, where I also act as Chair of the Scientific Board for the Basel Fellowships in Latin Literature.
Areas of expertise
Research Interests
Augustan and Imperial Latin Poetry | Cicero | Late Latin Literature | Classical Reception
Key Publications
Werkpolitik in der Antike. Studien zu Cicero, Vergil, Horaz und Ovid. München: C.H. Beck, 2016 (Zetemata: Monographien zur Klassischen Altertumswissenschaft 152).
(ed. with R. Laemmle, K. Wesselmann) Lists and Catalogues in Ancient Literature and Beyond. Towards a Poetics of Enumeration. Berlin/New York: de Gruyter, 2021 (Trends in Classics Suppl. Volumes 107)
Recent articles:
«medio Veneris in usu. L’obscénité et sa critique», in L. Chappuis-Sandoz (ed.), Au-delà de l’élégie d’amour. Métamorphoses et renouvellements d’un genre latin dans l’Antiquité et à la Renaissance, Paris: Classiques Garnier, 2011. 85–120.
«Homer on Kithairon. Negotiating Narrative and Dramatic Representation in Euripides’ Bacchae» (with R. Laemmle), The Classical Journal 108/2 (2012/2013) 129–158.
«Martial on Ovid on Ovid. Mart. 11.104, The Remedia Amoris, and Saturnalian Poetics», Classical World 107/3 (2014) 319–345.
«Einige Pendenzen. Weben und Text in der antiken Literatur», in H. Harich-Schwarzbauer (ed.), Texts and Textiles in the Ancient World. Materiality, Representation, Episteme, Metapoetics. Oxford: Oxbow, 2015, 167–208.
«Herrscherbilder. Optatian und die Strukturen des Panegyrischen» (with P. Schierl), in M. Squire, J. Wienand (eds.), Morphogrammata. The Lettered Art of Optatian. Figuring Cultural Transformations in the Age of Constantine and Beyond. München: Fink, 2016, 283–318.
«Last Words. Cicero’s Late Works and the Poetics of a Literary Legacy», in A. Gavrielatos (ed.), Self-Presentation and Identity in the Roman World, Newcastle: CSP, 2017, 17–36.
«Der Raub der Persephone. Eine Blütenlese» (with R. Laemmle), in: R. Möhrmann (ed.), Die Entjungferung – Fiktionen der Defloration, Stuttgart: Alfred Kröner, 2017, 3–31.
«On Cicero’s De domo. A survey of recent work», Ciceroniana online 1/1 (2017) 147–156.
«Lob – Reden – Schreiben. Szenen eines prekären Verhältnisses», in C. Ritter-Schmalz, R. Schwitter (eds.), Die Materialität des Textes. Alltägliche Präsenz und literarische Reflexion in der antiken Schriftkultur, Berlin/New York: de Gruyter, 2019, 261–286.
«Epic Catalogues» (with C. Reitz, K. Wesselmann), in S. Finkmann, C. Reitz (eds.), Structures of Epic Poetry, vol. I: Foundations. Berlin/New York: de Gruyter, 2019, 653–725.
«Starring Hypatia. Amenábar’s Ágora and the Tropology of Reception», in D. LaValle Norman, A Petkas (eds.), Hypatia of Alexandria. Her Context and Legacy. Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2020, 209–237.
«Literarische Rollen», in M. Möller (ed.), Ovid Handbuch. Leben – Werk – Wirkung. Stuttgart: J.B. Metzler, 2021, 137–143.
«Arachne, Pygmalion, Daedalus, Marsyas, Orpheus – der Künstler und sein Werk», in Möller 2021, 365–380.
«Cataloguing Contemporaries. Ovid, Ex Ponto 4.16 in Context», in Laemmle/Scheidegger Laemmle/Wesselmann 2021, 361–400.
cf. https://unibasel.academia.edu/C%C3%A9dricScheideggerLaemmle
