Staff Profiles

My primary research interests are the construction of time in ancient literature, literature and religion, and ancient (especially Latin) epic poetry. I wrote my PhD on Storytelling in Flavian Epic (published as Erzählen und Gesang im flavischen Epos with de Gruyter in 2014). More recently, I have published a monograph entitled Time in Ancient Stories of Origin (Oxford University Press, 2020), in which I examine the construction of time in select aetiological narratives in Archaic and Hellenistic Greece, in Augustan Rome as well as in early Christian literature. Currently, I am working on a project on festivals in Latin literature.

I am keen to hear from prospective research students with an interest in stories of origin, time in literature, literature and religion or Latin epic.

Academic Employment:

2017- : Lecturer in Classics, Newcastle University
2015/16: Feodor-Lynen Research Scholar, University of Virginia (funded by the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation)
2011-2017: Assistant Professor ('Wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin'), University of Rostock

Qualifications:

2011-18: Habilitation, Rostock

2006-11: PhD in Classics, Heidelberg

2005-06: MPhil in Classics, Cambridge

2004-05: Visiting Student in Classics, Cambridge

2001-04: Undergraduate Studies (Classics) in Göttingen and Heidelberg

 

Conferences organised:

30-31 August 2019: 'Celebrating the Divine - Roman Festivals in Art, Religion, and Literature', University of Virginia (with John F Miller)

2-4 May 2019: 'Ἀρχή and origo: The Power of Origins', Newcastle University (with Athanassios Vergados)

22-24 September 2017: 'Time and Eternity: the Conception of Time in Archaic Greek Literature', University of Virginia (with Jenny Strauss Clay and Athanassios Vergados)

1 October 2016: 'The fate of Rome's fatum', University of Virginia

16-17 July 2012: 'Telling Origins. The Structures of Aetiological Narrative', University of Rostock (with Christiane Reitz)

Monographs

- Time in Ancient Stories of Origin (Oxford 2020)

- Erzählen und Gesang im flavischen Epos. Beihefte des “Göttinger Forum fürAltertumswissenschaft” (Berlin 2014)

 

Edited volumes

- A. Vergados/A. Walter, Ἀρχή and origo: The Power of Origins (in preparation; forthcoming in 2021 with Brepols)

- J. S. Clay/A. Walter, Special Issue of the Classical Journal in Honour of John F. Miller. CJ 115.3-4 (2020)

- S. Finkmann/A. Behrendt/A. Walter (eds.), Antike Erzähl- und Deutungsmuster. Zwischen Exemplarität und

  Transformation. Beiträge zur Altertumskunde 374 (Berlin 2018)

- C. Reitz/A. Walter (eds.), Von Ursachen sprechen. Eine aitiologische Spurensuche/Telling Origins. On the Lookout

  for Aetiology (Hildesheim 2014)

Articles and Book Chapters

- 'Uncelebrating' Vergil: Festive Days in Statius’ Thebaid”, in: “Ritual in Roman Epic”, Special Issue of Vergilius, ed. S.

  Blakeley  (forthcoming in 2021 with The Vergilian Society)

- “tempora mutantur – Metamorphic Imagery in Ovid’s Fasti,“ in: J. S. Clay/A. Vergados (eds.), Teaching Through

  Images. Imagery in Greek and Roman Didactic Poetry (forthcoming in 2021 with Brill)

- “Seasonality and the Calendar in Ovid’s Exile Poetry”, in: R. Raja/A. Lichtenberger (eds.), The Archaeology of

  Seasonality. Studies in Classical Archaeology (forthcoming in 2020 with Brepols)

- “Death, lament, and ‘elegiac aetiology’ in Ovid’s Metamorphoses,” in: J. Farrell/D. Nelis/J. Miller/A. Schiesaro (eds.),

  Ovid, Death and Transfiguration (forthcoming in 2020 with Brill)

- “Carmentis and the Poet: Deification and Exile in Ovid’s Fasti”, in: J. S. Clay/A. Walter, Special Issue of the Classical

  Journal in Honour of John F. Miller. CJ 115.3-4 (2020), 382-96

- “Aetiology and Genealogy in Ancient Epic”, in: C. Reitz/S. Finkmann, Structures of Epic Poetry. vol. I: Foundations

  (Berlin 2019), 609–52

- “Prophecy in Roman Epic”, with S. Finkmann and C. Reitz, in: C. Reitz/S. Finkmann, Structures of Epic Poetry. vol. II.2:

  Configurations (Berlin 2019), 615–83

- “Die Tage des Monats in Hesiods Werken und Tagen und Vergils Georgica“, pp. 311-21; “Solons Lebensalter-

  Elegie”, pp. 323-9; „Genealogien am Beispiel des Kallimachos“, pp. 355-62; “Arats Phainomena”, pp. 363-75, in: R.

  Färber/R. Gautschy (eds.), Zeit in den Kulturen des Altertums. Antike Chronologie im Spiegel der Quellen (Wien

  2020).

- “iamque dies, nisi fallor, adest – Aeneas und der römische Kalender,” in: A. Junghanß/B. Kaiser/D. Pausch (eds.),

  Zeitmontagen. Formen und Funktionen gezielter Anachronismen in der Antike (Stuttgart 2019), 101–18

- “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

- “‘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

- “Ovids alma Venus, die Mutter der Aitiologie,” in: C. Reitz/A. Walter (eds.), Von Ursachen sprechen. Eine aitiologische

  Spurensuche/Telling Origins. On the Lookout for Aetiology (Hildesheim 2014), 431–59

- “Alexander Graham Bell, Hermes und die Gestaltung von Zeit in den Darstellungen großer Erfinder,”

  ClassicoContemporaneo 0 (2014), 56–77

- “Beginning at the end: Silius Italicus and the desolation of Thebes,” in: G. Manuwald/A. Voigt (eds.), Flavian Epic

  Interactions. Trends in Classics – Supplementary Volumes 21 (Berlin 2013), 311–26

- “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

 

Reviews

- Review of A. Wallace-Hadrill, Augustan Rome, 2nd edition (London, 2018), forthcoming in 2020 with Classics

  Ireland)

- Review R. Simms, Anticipation and Anachrony in Statius' Thebaid, CJ-Online 2020.05.02

- Review A. Rogerson, Virgil’s Ascanius. Imagining the Future in the Aeneid, Religious Studies Review 44 (2018), 107

- Review K. Corrigan, Virgo to Virago. Medea in the Silver Age, BMCR 2016.02.18

- Review A. Augoustakis, Ritual and Religion in Flavian Epic, Religious Studies Review 41

  (2015), 192

- Review T. Korneeva, Alter et ipse. Identità e duplicità nel sistema dei personaggi della Tebaide di Stazio, BMCR

  2013.03.26

 

I will be on research leave in the academic year of 2020/21.

• Walter A. Time in Ancient Stories of Origin. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2020.
• Walter A. Erzählen und Gesang im flavischen Epos. Berlin: de Gruyter, 2014.
• Clay JS, Walter A, ed. Special Issue of the Classical Journal in Honour of John F. Miller. Monmouth, IL: Classical Association of the Middle West and South, 2020.
• Finkman S, Behrendt A, Walter A, ed. Antike Erzähl- und Deutungsmuster. Zwischen Exemplarität und Transformation. Berlin, Germany: de Gruyter, 2018.
• Reitz C, Walter A, ed. Von Ursachen sprechen. Eine aitiologische Spurensuche/Telling Origins. On the Lookout for Aetiology. Hildesheim, Germany: Olms, 2014.
• Walter A. Carmentis and the Poet: Deification and Exile in Ovid’s Fasti. In: Clay JS; Walter A, ed. Special Issue of the Classical Journal in Honour of John F. Miller. CJ 115.3-4 (2020). Monmouth, IL: Classical Association of the Middle West and South, 2020, pp.382-396.
• Walter A. Aetiology and Genealogy in Ancient Epic. In: Reitz C; Finkmann S, ed. Structures of Epic Poetry. Berlin: de Gruyter, 2020, pp.609-652.
• Finkmann S, Reitz C, Walter A. Prophecies in Roman Epic. In: Reitz, C; Finkmann, S, ed. Structures of Epic Poetry. Berlin: De Gruyter, 2019, pp.615-684.
• Walter A. Die Tage des Monats in Hesiods Werken und Tagen und Vergils Georgica. In: Färber R; Gautschy R, ed. Zeit in den Kulturen des Altertums. Antike Chronologie im Spiegel der Quellen. Vienna: Böhlau Verlag, 2020, pp.311-321.
• Walter A. Solons Lebensalter-Elegie. In: Färber R; Gautschy R, ed. Zeit in den Kulturen des Altertums. Antike Chronologie im Spiegel der Quellen. Vienna: Böhlau Verlag, 2020, pp.323-329.
• Walter A. Genealogien am Beispiel des Kallimachos. In: Färber R; Gautschy R, ed. Zeit in den Kulturen des Altertums. Antike Chronologie im Spiegel der Quellen. Vienna: Böhlau Verlag, 2020, pp.355-362.
• Walter A. Arats Phainomena. In: Färber R; Gautschy R, ed. Zeit in den Kulturen des Altertums. Antike Chronologie im Spiegel der Quellen. Vienna: Böhlau Verlag, 2020, pp.363-375.
• Walter A. iamque dies, nisi fallor, adest – Aeneas und der römische Kalender. In: Junghanß, A; Kaiser, B; Pausch, D, ed. Zeitmontagen. Formen und Funktionen gezielter Anachronismen in der Antike. Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag, 2019, pp.101-118.
• Walter A. Regulus and the Inconsistencies of Fame in Silius Italicus' Punica. In: Finkman,S;Behrendt,A;Walter,A, ed. Antike Erzähl- und Deutungsmuster. Zwischen Exemplarität und Transformation. Berlin, Germany: de Gruyter, 2018.
• Walter A. ‘What it felt like‘: Memory and the Sensations of War in Vergil’s Aeneid and Kevin Powers’ The Yellow Birds. In: Ambühl,A, ed. War of the Senses - The Senses in War. Interactions and tensions between representations of war in classical and modern culture = thersites 4. Mainz: Johannes Gutenberg-Universitaet Mainz; Institut fuer Altertumswissenschaften, Klassische Philologie, 2016, pp.275–312.
• Walter A. Ovids alma Venus, die Mutter der Aitiologie. In: Reitz, C; Walter, A, ed. Von Ursachen sprechen. Eine aitiologische Spurensuche/Telling Origins. On the Lookout for Aetiology. Hildesheim, Germany: Olms, 2014, pp.431–59.
• Walter A. Alexander Graham Bell, Hermes und die Gestaltung von Zeit in den Darstellungen großer Erfinder. ClassicoContemporaneo 2014, 0, 56-77.
• Walter A. Beginning at the end: Silius Italicus and the desolation of Thebes. In: Manuwald,G;Voigt,A, ed. Flavian Epic Interactions. Berlin: de Gruyter, 2013, pp.311–26.
• Walter A. Der Mythos von Linus und Coroebus in Statius’ Thebais—ein aitiologischer Gegenentwurf zur Aeneis. In: Kramer,N;Reitz,C, ed. Tradition und Innovation. Mediale Strategien in der Zeit der Flavier. Berlin: de Gruyter, 2010, pp.63–91.
• Walter A. Review R. Simms, Anticipation and Anachrony in Statius' Thebaid. CJ-Online 2020, 05.02.
• Walter A. Review: Virgil’s Ascanius. Imagining the Future in the Aeneid. By Anne Rogerson . Religious Studies Review 2018, 44(1), 107-107.
• Walter A. Review K. Corrigan, Virgo to Virago. Medea in the Silver Age (Newcastle 2013). Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2016, 2016.02.18.
• Walter A. Review A. Augoustakis, Ritual and Religion in Flavian Epic (Oxford 2013). Religious Studies Review 2015, 41(4), 192-192.
• Walter A. Review T. Korneeva, Alter et ipse. Identità e duplicità nel sistema dei personaggi della Tebaide di Stazio (Pisa 2011). BMCR 2013, 2013.03.26.
• Walter A. Review of A. D. Morrison, Apollonius Rhodius, Herodotus and Historiography. Histos 2021, 15, xiv-xviii.
• Clay JS, Walter A. Introduction. Classical Journal 2020, 115(3-4), 257-260.
• Walter A. tempora mutantur – Metamorphic Imagery in Ovid’s Fasti. In: Clay,J S; Vergados,A, ed. Teaching Through Images. Imagery in Greek and Roman Didactic Poetry. Leiden: Brill, 2022, pp.257-271.
• Walter A. Latin Literature. Greece & Rome 2022, 69(1), 139-148.
• Walter A. Latin Literature. Greece & Rome 2022, 69(2), 310–319.
• Walter A. Seasonality and the Calendar in Ovid's Exile Poetry. In: Raja R; Lichtenberger A, ed. The Archaeology of Seasonality. Turnhout: Brepols, 2021, pp.127-40.