Dr. Robert Alexander Rohland

seit 2026         Humboldt Research Fellow, Philipps-Universität Marburg

 2020 – 2025    Junior Research Fellow, Trinity College, University of Cambridge

 2019 – 2020    Teaching Fellow for Latin Literature and Language, University of Warwick

 2019                PhD in Classics, University of Cambridge

 2015                MSt in Classics, University of Oxford

 2014                MA in Classics, University of St Andrews

·         Römische Dichtung der frühen Kaiserzeit

·         Lyrik und Epigramm

·         Materielle Kultur und Literatur

1. Monographie

Carpe diem: The poetics of presence in Latin literature, Cambridge University Press 2022.

2. Aufsätze in Fachzeitschriften:

·         “The ancient photograph: Mirror and time in Horace Odes 4.10”, Arethusa 58 (2025): 101–25. 

·         “Writing down epic: Another Homeric allusion in Horace Odes 1.6”, Classical Philology 118 (2023): 125–31.

·         “A note on Laelia in Martial 10.68: Code-switching, linguistic and moral purity, and Cicero’s influence on Martial 10.68”, Hermes 147 (2019): 508–14.

·         “Highway to hell: AP 11.23 = Antipater of Thessalonica 38 G-P”, Mnemosyne 72 (2019): 459–70.

3. Aufsätze in Sammelbänden

·         “‘Stimmung’ and sacred song: Horace’s Odes and changes in religious atmosphere”. In R. Peel, K. Schautt, P.D. Seinsche and M. Zepernick, eds. Echoes of change: Exploring the dynamics of religious atmospheres. Mohr Siebeck. Accepted and forthcoming.

·         “Convivial epigrams: Roman banquets and performance in Greek epigrams of Philip’s Garland”. In Voiceless writing: Epigrams, performance and oral poetry. Eikasmós: Quaderni Bolognesi di Filologia Classica. Accepted and forthcoming.

4. Rezensionen

·         M. Grawehr and M. Kersten, eds. (2024) A second gaze: Intertextuality and transient meaning in Roman texts and objects. BMCR 2025.11.11.

·         K. Gilhuly and J.P. Ulrich, eds. (2023) Making time for Greek and Roman literature. BMCR 2024.09.38.

·         V. Lütkenhaus (2023) And with the Teian lyre imitate Anacreon: The reception of Anacreon and the Carmina Anacreontea in Horace’s lyric and iambic poetry. BMCR 2024.02.45.

5. kleine Beiträge für Schulen

·         “The greatest king Assyria never had”, Omnibus 89 (2025): 6–8. 

·         “Time and wine in Rome”, Omnibus 86 (2023): 10–12.

wissenschaftliche Aktivitäten

·         2026 Feb: “Roman futures”, workshop, co-organised with Anne Rogerson at the University of Sydney; funded by the University of Sydney

·         2025: Award of William Ritchie Visiting Fellowship in Classics at the University of Sydney        

·         2025 Sep: “Luxorius: A fixed handout workshop”, workshop, co-organised with Elena Giusti and Bobby Xinyue at the University of Cambridge; funded by the Cambridge Faculty of Classics and King’s College London

·         2024 Mar: “Power play and literary games: Ludus in Latin literature and its reception”, panel, co-organised with Alessandra Tafaro, Robin Kreutel and Lucrezia Sperindio at the Classical Association Conference, Warwick

·         2017: Bursary for research stay at Fondation Hardt, Geneva

 wissenschaftliche Vorträge

·         2026 Apr: “The matter of genre”. Conference “Practicing genre: Dynamics of generic form(ation)s in Greco-Roman literature”, Bonn

·         2026 Feb: “Trading futures: Financial metaphors and future time in Roman literature”. Workshop “Roman Futures”, Sydney

·         2025 Sep: “Carthaginian things”. Conference “Luxorius – A fixed handout workshop”, Cambridge

·         2025 Jul: “Echoes of religious Stimmung in Horace’s Odes”, CA St Andrews

·         2025 May: “Echoes of religious Stimmung in Horace’s Odes”. Conference “Echoes of change”. Marburg

·         2024 Nov: “Domitian and the politics of occasion in Martial”. Departmental research seminar, Manchester

·         2024 Sep: “Law and lyric in Horace: Sovereignty and mercy”. Meeting of the Réseau Poésie Augustéenne on “Powerful speech in Augustan poetry”, Durham

·         2024 May: “Convivial Epigrams: Roman banquets and performance in Philip’s Garland”. Conference “Voiceless writing? Epigrams, performance and oral poetry”, Bologna

·         2024 Mar: “Playing Ovid: Bernardine Evaristo’s The Emperor’s Babe”. Panel “Power play and literary games: Ludus in Latin literature and its reception”, CA Warwick

·         2024 Jan: “Intertextuality and cultural memory in shipwreck epigrams”. Panel “Intertextuality and Greek and Roman cultural memory”, SCS Chicago

·         2023 Jul: “Horace, Varro and the invention of a perfect future”. Panel “Manipulating time in Roman culture”, Celtic Conference in Classics, Universidade de Coimbra

·         2023 Mar: “Horace, Varro and the invention of a perfect future”. Lyric seminar, Cambridge

·         2022 Sep: “Figuring out shipwreck in Augustan poetry”. Meeting of the Réseau Poésie Augustéenne on “Figures of thought in Augustan poetry”, Heidelberg

·         2022 May: “No one’s shipwreck: Authors, anonymity, epigrams and the Odyssey”. Conference “Anonymity, unoriginality, collectivity”, Warwick

·         2022 May: “The old stuff and the sea: Epigrams and shipwreck”. A-Caucus seminar, Cambridge

·         2020 Jan: “A moveable feast: Wine storage-places in Horace”. Departmental research seminar, Warwick

·         2019 Sept: “The time of dining and the time of death: Sardanapallus, epitaphs and performance”. Conference “Time, tense and genre in ancient Greek literature”, King’s College London

·         2019 Feb: “Excerpe diem! or excerpts of ‘carpe diem’”. A-Caucus seminar, Cambridge

·         2018 Jun: “Carpe, carpe! Cutting carpe diem”. Conference “Unabridged: Epitome from fragmentation to re-composition (and back-again)”, Academia Belgica, Rome

·         2018 May: “Carpamus dulcia: Excerpting lyric carpe diem”. Conference “Lyric beyond lyric: ‘Submerged’ traditions, generic interactions, and later receptions”, King’s College London

·         2017 Nov: “Ergo vivamus: The carpe diem motif as a tool for imposters in satire”. Conference “Hacks, quacks and impostors: Affected and assumed identities in fiction”, Freiburg

·         2017 Sept: “The emergence of a haptic conception of time in Archaic Greek literature”. Conference “Time and eternity: The conception of time in Archaic Greek literature”, University of Virginia

·         2016 Sept: “Words and leaves that are green turn to brown: Cyclical time and a theory of historical linguistics in Horace”. Annual Meeting of Postgraduates in Ancient Literature, Oxford