Institut für Klassische Philologie

Team

Dr. Tobias Joho

Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter, Studienberatung

Latein / Griechisch

Telefon
+41 31 684 35 85
E-Mail
tobias.joho[at]unibe.ch
Büro
B 144
Postadresse
Institut für Klassische Philologie
Länggassstrasse 49
3012 Bern
Sprechstunde
nach Vereinbarung

Publikationen

Monographie

Style and necessity in Thucydides (Oxford University Press, 2022)

Aufsätze

  • “The Peloponnesian War and the State of Nature in Thucydides: The Coincidence of Motion and Rest”, in Polemos and His Children: War, Its Repercussions, and Narrative in Ancient Greek Literature; Histos Supplement 12, R. Bruzzone, ed. (2021) 17-45. 
  • “Burckhardt and Nietzsche on the Agōn: the dark luster of ancient Greece”, in Conflict and Competition: Agon in Western Greece, H. L. Reid, J. Serrati, and T. Sorg, eds. (Parnassos Press: Sioux City, 2020) 267-288.
  • “Alcibiadean Mysteries and longing for absent and invisible things in Thucydides’ account of the Sicilian Expedition”, Harvard Studies in Classical Philology 110 (2020) 115-158.
  • “Iterative Figures of Speech in Goethe’s Elective Affinities”, in Goethe’s Bildung: Dialog between Tradition and Innovation., J.-I. Eidt and Ch. D. Weber, eds. (Peter Lang: New York, 2019) 109-142.
  • “A commotion at the heart of Greek culture: Jacob Burckhardt on the defeat of Athens in the Peloponnesian War”, Ktèma 42 (2017) 127-150.
  •  “Thucydides, Epic, and Tragedy”, in The Oxford Handbook on Thucydides. S. Forsdyke, E. Foster, and R. Balot, eds. (Oxford University Press: Oxford, 2017) 587-604.
  • “The Revival of the Funeral Oration and the Plague in Thucydides Books 6–7”, Greek, Roman, and Byzantine Studies 57,1 (2017) 16-48.

Rezensionen

  • Kopp, H. Das Meer als Versprechen: Bedeutung und Funktion von Seeherrschaft bei Thukydides. Göttingen: Vandenhoeck und Ruprecht, 2017, BMCR, 2018.04.08

Lexikonartikel

Vier Einträge in Der Neue Pauly. Supplemente Band 6: Geschichte der Altertumswissenschaften, Biographisches Lexikon. (Metzler: Stuttgart, 2012):

  • “Erich Burck”
  • “Ernst Robert Curtius”
  • “Gilbert Highet”
  • “Bruno Snell”

Vorträge

Academic talks (since 2013, invited with *)

  • * “In Search of Homer: Jean-Luc Godard’s Le Mépris”
    Associazione Italiana di Cultura Classica, Delegazione di Como (10 May 2024)
  • “Jean-Luc Godard’s Contempt and the Modern Longing for the World of Homeric Greece”
    Conference: The Modern Reception of Ancient Greek Texts, Interdisciplinary Center for Hellenic Studies, University of South Florida (20 April 2024)
  • “Goethe’s Elective Affinities, Aristophanes’ myth in the Symposium, and the Dialectic of Enlightenment”
    Conference: Plato’s Myths: Tools for Thinking, University of Leiden (20 January 2024)
  • * “The Metaphysical Temper: Thucydidean Challenge and Platonic Response”
    Conference (in honor of Liz Asmis): Meaning and Morality, University of Chicago (4 November 2023)  
  • “Burckhardt’s Morphology of Crisis and the Paradigmatic Aspirations of Thucydidean Historiography”
    Conference: Κίνησις und Krise: Vom Grundmotiv antiker Geschichtsschreibung zum modernen Begriff, Universität Bern (July 1, 2023)
  • * “Herodotus and the realm of the divine: τὸ θεῖον vs. ὁ θεός”
    Classics Symposium Style and Necessity in Thucydides and Beyond, Colgate University (April 1, 2023)
  • * “Themes from my Book Style and Necessity in Thucydides: What is Abstract Style, and How Does It Relate to Necessity?”
    Classics Symposium Style and Necessity in Thucydides and Beyond, Colgate University (March 30, 2023)
  • * “Thucydides’ Account of the Motivations for the Sicilian Expedition, and the Transformation of Athenian Character in Sicily”
    Lecture to students in preparation for a trip to Sicily, Colgate University (March 29, 2023)
  • “Tragische Ironie in der Apologie des Sokrates”
    Conference: 42nd Metageitnia, Basel (January 2023))
  • “An epiphany of the Homeric world: Goethe in Palermo and the garden of Alcinous”
    Conference: Homer in Sicily, Syracuse, Italy (October 2022)
  • * “Tragic Irony in the Democratic Court: On Plato’s Apology”
    Conference: Irony and Democracy in Classical Antiquity and Modernity, Ruhr-Universität Bochum (May 2022)
  • * “Ἔρως and the Fate of Athens in the Peloponnesian War: Reflections on Thucydides”
    Associazione Italiana di Cultura Classica, Delegazione di Como (May 2021)
  • “Tense Usage, Dialogue Form, and Characterization in Herodotus”
    Conference: Time, Tense and Genre in Ancient Greek Literature, King’s College, London (September 2019)
  • “The life-giving force and nightmare of Greek culture: Burckhardt and Nietzsche on the ἀγών”
    5th Symposium on the Heritage of Western Greece, Syracuse, Italy (June 2019)
  • “Croesus in conversation: past tense and dramatic form in Herodotus”
    Society for Classical Studies, San Diego, CA (January 2019)
  • “Vergangenheitstempora und innere Form in Gesprächsszenen Herodots”
    39th Metageitnia, Strasbourg (January 2018)
  • “Die Tragikomödie des Alkibiades: Platons Dialog mit Thukydides”
    38th Metageitnia, Bern (January 2017)
  • * “Peloponnesian War and state of nature in Thucydides: the coincidence of motion and rest”
    Conference: Representations of Conflict in the Ancient and Modern World, Institute for Advanced Studies, Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg (July 2016)
  • * “Nominalstil und Notwendigkeit: zum Stasis-Exkurs des Thukydides”
    Seminar für Klassische Philologie, Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg (June 2016)
  • * “A commotion at the heart of Greek culture: Jacob Burckhardt on the defeat of Athens in the Peloponnesian War”
    Conference: Defeat and the West, Université de Strasbourg (May 2016)
  • “Figures of doubling in Goethe’s Elective Affinities”
    Conference: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: Writer, Scientist, Philosopher, University of Dallas (April 2016)
  • “Zweierlei Art von Mysterienfrevel bei Thukydides”
    37th Metageitnia, Besançon (January 2016)
  • “Metaphysical language in Thucydides’ account of Periclean Athens”
    Classical Association of the Middle West and South, Boulder, CO (March 2015)
  • * “Longing for the lost world of Homer in Jean-Luc Godard’s Contempt”
    Rhetoric and Poetics Workshop, Department of Classics, University of Chicago (February 2015)
  • * “Athenian eros and the tragic perspective of Thucydides’ History”
    Winter Quarter Lecture for Greek Thought & Literature Humanities Core Sequence, University of Chicago (February 2015)
  • * “Thukydideischer Nominalstil: Stasis und Kinēsis”
    Kommission für Alte Geschichte und Epigraphik des Deutschen Archäologischen Instituts, Munich (July 2014)
  • “The return of the plague in Thucydides’ account of the Athenian defeat at Sicily”
    Classical Association of the Middle West and South, Waco, TX (April 2014)
  • “King Archidamus and the inversion of language in Thucydides”
    American Philological Association, Seattle, WA (January 2013)

Lehrveranstaltungen

Aktuelle Veranstaltungen

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Lehrtätigkeit in den vergangenen Semestern

Griechisch

  • Proseminar: Euripides, Medea (FS 2024)
  • Proseminar: Herodot, Historien VII-VIII (FS 2023)
  • Proseminar: Euripides, Bakchen (FS 2022)
  • Proseminar: Thukydides, Geschichte des Peloponnesischen Krieges VI-VII (FS 2021)
  • Proseminar: Homer, Odyssee IX-XII (FS 2020, 2016)
  • Proseminar: Platon, Apologie des Sokrates (FS 2019)
  • Proseminar: Homer, Ilias I und XVI-XII (FS 2018)
  • Proseminar: Herodot, Historien I und III (FS 2017)
  • Proseminar: Sophokles, Antigone (FS 2011)
  • Proseminar: Thukydides, Geschichte des Peloponnesischen Krieges I-II (FS 2010)
  • Griechische Stilbungen II (FS 2011)
  • Griechische Stilübungen I (HS 2010)

Latein

  • Lateinische Stilübungen II (FS 2024, 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016, 2010)
  • Lateinische Stilübungen I (HS 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016, 2015, 2009)
  • Sprachpraxis Latein III, gemeinsam mit G. Bechtle (HS 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016)
  • Sprachpraxis Latein II, gemeinsam mit G. Bechtle und A. Hänni (FS 2024, 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2017, 2016)
  • Sprachpraxis Latein I, gemeinsam mit A. Hänni (HS 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2016, 2015)