Jula Wildberger has completed her article on "Fate" for the Blackwell Encyclopedia of Ancient History. (View here). Professor Wildberger has also been invited to become a Fellow of the Max-Weber-Kolleg at the University of Erfurt, to present her work during a short visit and become part of the research group Religious Individualization in an Historical Perspective.

After studying and working in Germany (Frankfurt am Main, Würzburg, and Bonn) and a detour into the British academic world (University College London and Glasgow), Jula Wildberger has now settled in Paris to work in an environment that nourishes her essentially interdisciplinary approach to classical antiquity.

She is particularly interested in the intersections between pragmatic, philosophical and literary questions, but also in the meaning our answers to such questions can have for us as intellectual and moral agents in the modern world.

Jula Wildberger started her academic career with research on Ovid's Art of Love, trying to see what happens if we treat this highly sophisticated intertextual exercise "seriously" and ask how it might "function" as a handbook of love for teenage Roman males.

Her second major research project is a new systematic reconstruction of the ancient philosophical system that is called Stoicism and an assessment of what the Roman Stoic L. Annaeus Seneca contributes to it. Part of the work – concerning physics, metaphysics, theology, theory of language and the role of the human being in the cosmos – has been published in her habilitation thesis Seneca und die Stoa: Der Platz des Menschen in der Welt.

Currently, Professor Wildberger is working on two further projects. She is preparing a German translation of Plato’s Republic and studying a wide range of texts containing moral exhortation that are commonly called "diatribes", asking whether it is possible to define and understand them from a pragmatic point of view, i.e. by looking at the various purposes they were intended for by their authors.

  Books

Seneca, De ira – Über die Wut, Lateinisch /Deutsch. Stuttgart: Philipp Reclam jun., 2007.

Seneca und die Stoa. Der Platz des Menschen in der Welt (2 volumes). Berlin / New York: De Gruyter, 2006 (revised version of habilitation thesis).

Lukian, Symposion oder: Die Lapithen. Griechisch/Deutsch. Stuttgart: Philipp Reclam jun., 2005.

Ovids Schule der ‘elegischen’ Liebe – Erotodidaxe und Psychagogie in der Ars amatoria. Frankfurt am Main/Bern/New York: Peter Lang 1998 (revised version of dissertation for Dr. phil.).

  Articles

“The Stoics on Time, Eternity and the Actions of God.” Zeit und Ewigkeit als Raum göttlichen Handelns: Religionsgeschichtliche, theologische und philosophische Perspektiven. Ed. Reinhard Kratz and Hermann Spieckermann. Berlin and New York: De Gruyter, 2009. 123-52.

“Vom Versuch Seneca zu übersetzen.” Pontes V: Übersetzung als Vermittlerin antiker Literatur. Ed. Wolfgang Kofler, Florian Schaffenrath and Karlheinz Töchterle. Innsbruck, Wien and Bozen: StudienVerlag, 2009.

“Iam nocte Titan dubius expulsa redit: Paradoxon, Spaltung und Integration in Senecas Oedipus.” Die Dichter und die Sterne: Beiträge zur lateinischen und griechischen Literatur für Ludwig Braun. Ed. Ulrich Schlegelmilch and Tanja Thanner. Würzburg: Kommissionsverlag Ferdinand Schöningh 2008. 101–23.

“Beast or God? – The Intermediate Status of Humans and the Physical Basis of the Stoic Scala Naturae.” Mensch und Tier in der Antike. Ed. Annetta Alexandridis, Lorenz Winkler-Horacek and Markus Wild. Wiesbaden: Reichert-Verlag, 2008. 47–70.

“Ovids Remedia amoris aus affektpsychologischer Sicht.” Ovid: Werk – Kultur – Wirkung. Ed. Markus Janka, Ulrich Schmitzer and Helmut Seng. Darmstadt: Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft 2007. 85–112.

“Seneca and the Stoic Theory of Cognition – Some Preliminary Remarks.” Seeing Seneca Whole: Perspectives on Philosophy, Poetry, and Politics. Ed. Katharina Volk and Gareth Williams. Leiden: Brill 2006. 75–102.

“‘Der eine der beiden Vögel …’: ein Konjekturvorschlag zu Lukian, Symposion 43.” Hermes 133 (2005): 383–87.

“Quanta sub nocte iaceret nostra dies (Lucan, BC 9,13f.): Stoizismen als Mittel der Verfrem-dung bei Lucan.” Lukan im 21. Jahrhundert. Lucan in the 21st Century. Lucano nei primi del XXI secolo. Ed. Christine Walde. München and Leipzig: Saur 2005, 56–88.

“Ovid, A. A. 3,343 und die zweite Auflage der Amores: Eine neue Konjektur.” Würzburger Jahrbücher für die Altertumswissenschaft 22 (1998): 177–86.

“Die Überhöhung der Geliebten bei Tibull, Properz und Ovid.” Gymnasium 105 (1998): 39-64.

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