09/2020 – 08/2021
Fellowship at Einstein Centre Chronoi Berlin

07/2018
'Habilitation' and venia legendi in Classics, University of Rostock

Seit 12/2017
Lecturer (since 08/2022 Senior Lecturer) of Classics, Newcastle University

07 – 10/2016
Visiting Scholar (William M. Calder III Fellowship), University of Virginia

04/2015 – 03/2016
Feodor Lynen Research Fellowship, awarded by the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, University of Virginia

07/2013 – 10/2013
Visiting Scholar ("Hermes" Scholarship of the University of Rostock), University of Virginia

09/2011 – 11/2017
"Wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin" in Latin Literature, University of Rostock

07/2011
PhD in Classics, University of Heidelberg

The Corporeality of Conflict: The Seven against Thebes in Imperial Roman Literature and Art

The aim of the project is to explore the way literature and art depict the visible and invisible manifestations of conflict in the human body. The myth of the Seven against Thebes will serve as a case study. In Flavian Rome, this myth comes to new prominence in Statius’ epic Thebaid. Subsequently, figures from this myth also appear on a small number of high-quality sarcophagus reliefs from Rome and Athens. The surprisingly understudied coexistence of these representations in literature and art provides a fertile ground for exploring the way both media deal with one of the most brutal conflicts of ancient myth: with its complex psychological motivations, with their corporeal expressions, and with how the human body negotiates the tensions between the visible and the invisible. My host, Dr. Burkhard Emme, and I will shed new light on the interplay between the different representational strategies of literature and art in the imperial age and their cultural and political implications.

Forschungsschwerpunkte

Latin literature; ancient epic; ancient stories of origin; the construction of time in literature; festivals in Latin literature; the representation of war in literature

2020
A. Walter, Time in Ancient Stories of Origin (Oxford 2020)

2018
A. Walter, "Regulus and the Inconsistencies of Fame in Silius Italicus’ Punica", in: S. Finkmann/A. Behrendt/A. Walter (eds.), Antike Erzähl- und Deutungsmuster. Zwischen Exemplarität und Transformation. Beiträge zur Altertumskunde 374 (Berlin 2018), 201–18

2016
A. Walter, "‘What it felt like’: Memory and the Sensations of War in Vergil’s Aeneid and Kevin Powers’ The Yellow Birds", in: A. Ambühl (ed.), Krieg der Sinne – Die Sinne im Krieg. Kriegsdarstellungen im Spannungsfeld zwischen antiker und moderner Kultur / War of the Senses – The Senses in War. Interactions and Tensions between Representations of War in Classical and Modern Culture = thersites 4 (2016), 275–312

2014
A. Walter, Erzählen und Gesang im flavischen Epos. Beihefte des "Göttinger Forum für Altertumswissenschaft" (Berlin 2014)

2010
A. Walter, "Der Mythos von Linus und Coroebus in Statius’ Thebais – ein aitiologischer Gegenentwurf zur Aeneis", in: N. Kramer/C. Reitz (eds.), Tradition und Innovation. Mediale Strategien in der Zeit der Flavier (Berlin 2010), 63–91