Ursula Gärtner

Ursula Gärtner has been Professor for Classics at the University of Potsdam since 2002. From March 2016 onwards she deputizes for the Professor of Latin at the University of Graz.

She studied Latin, Greek, Medieval Latin and Hebrew at the universities of Heidelberg, Freiburg, Pittsburgh and Basel, gained her PhD in Freiburg, and completed her habilitation treatise in Leipzig. Her current research focus is on ancient epic and ancient fable.

Ursula Gärtner's main publications are Gehalt und Funktion der Gleichnisse bei Valerius Flaccus (Stuttgart 1994); Zum Lob Italiens in der griechischen Literatur (Stuttgart 2002, 7-57); Quintus Smyrnaeus und die Aeneis. Zur Nachwirkung Vergils in der griechischen Literatur der Kaiserzeit (München 2005); Quintus von Smyrna. Der Untergang Trojas (Darmstadt 2010); Phaedrus. Ein Interpretationskommentar zum ersten Buch der Fabeln (München 2015).