Dr. Laura Bottenberg

Imperial Greek prose

Dialogue

Hellenistic poetry

Rhetoric

Friendship and interculturality

Ecphrasis

Research project:

Rhetoric in the Hellensitic Poetry: Towards an Implicit Rhetoric

Organised conferences:

Conference (16-19/02/2026, Villa Vigoni) „Theophylaktos Simokates im Spiegel seiner Welt – Teofilatto Simocatta nello specchio del suo mondo“, (DFG-funded), co-organised with Marco Cristini

Conference (19-21/03/2025, Marburg) “Dux femina facti (Verg. Aen. 1.364) - Frauen*(netzwerk) in der Klassischen Philologie”, co-organised with Henrike Arnold, Mareike Ehlert, Paula Neumann, Saskia Schomber, Lisa Stalp

Workshop (6-7/10/2023, Gießen) “The Transformation of the Platonic Dialogue in the Early Imperial Age”, co-organised with Francesco Padovani 

Monograph:
Friendship and Otherness in Lucian’s ›Toxaris‹. A Literary Commentary (Untersuchungen zur antiken Literatur und Geschichte Volume 162), Berlin-Boston, 2025.
 

Edited Volume:
(with Francesco Padovani) The Platonic Dialogue Transformed. Creative Re-Writings from Cicero to Late Antiquity (Cambridge Texts and Studies in Platonism), Cambridge [forthcoming].

Papers and Chapters:
(with Viola Palmieri), ‘Rhetoric and Love: Exploring the Limits of Persuasion in Hellenistic Erotic Poetry’, in: Papaioannou, S./Serafim, A. (eds.), Brill’s Companion to Ancient Rhetoric, Leiden/Boston [forthcoming].
‘Friendship and Translation: The Latin Translations of Lucian’s Toxaris by Giovanni Aurispa and Erasmus of Rotterdam,’ in: A. Arena et al. (eds.), Testo, autore, pubblico. Forme di ricezione dall’ antichità alla modernità, Verona, 2024, 109-123.
‘One Body, One Mind: Friendship in Plutarch’s De amicorum multitudine and Lucian’s Toxaris,’ in: K. Jażdżewska & F. Doroszewski (eds.), Plutarch and His Contemporaries (Brill’s Plutarch Studies Volume 14), Leiden, 2024, 317-334. doi.org/10.1163/9789004687301_023