You can find our courses in the summer semester 2025 in the course catalog.

Here you can download the study bibliography, which should provide you with an important orientation for your literature research with numerous, thematically sorted basic works.

Welcome to the “open door page” of Latin Studies in Mainz!

The Student Council of Classical Philology provides information about the special features of studying Latin in Mainz.

Lecture Apl. Prof. Dr. Annemarie Ambühl: Catullus: The Longer Poems (61-68)

Theme days: students present their own research results

The theme days, which have been organized since 2012 and were initiated by Prof. Dr. Christine Walde, are committed to the concept of research-based learning, which encourages students to take responsibility for their own work. The students give public academic presentations on individual aspects of the framework topic. The presentations are prepared partly in plenary sessions and partly in group work, always accompanied by mentoring from the lecturers. For the students, the theme day is an opportunity to present their first academic papers to relatives, friends, fellow students and the general public.

Latin theater group

The Latin theater group, which emerged from the innovative teaching project “Performing an ancient comedy in the original language”, is a unique feature of JGU: no other German university has a Latin theater group led by a teaching staff member. Through the otherwise little-practiced active spokesperson of the Latin language, the students expand their language competence, promote those personal and social skills that are of great importance not only for the teaching profession by performing on stage and interacting with each other, and gain insights into everyday Roman language and culture, which is little considered in the subject.

3sat Kulturzeit Extra: O Tempora (produced in collaboration with the Mainz Latin Studies Department)

Radio interview with Adrian Weiß and Matthias Heinemann (doctoral students and Mainz alumni)

Deutschlandfunk: Egyptology, Linguistics and Co: “Small Subject Weeks” to strengthen degree programs (Anke Petermann)

Welcome to the “open door page” of Greek Studies in Mainz!

The Student Council of Classical Philology provides information about the special features of studying Greek in Mainz.

Lecture Univ.-Prof. Dr. Jochen Althoff: Euripides

In the current Greek lecture, Prof. Dr. Jochen Althoff deals with the tragedian Euripides: “In many respects, Euripides was the most important, but above all the most powerful and perhaps also the most difficult of the classical tragedian poets. His plays strongly influenced both the New Attic comedy and the Roman comedy of Plautus and Terence, as well as the tragedies of Seneca, through their independent dramatic Technics Department, but also through their special content. The form of tragedy developed by Euripides was also an important benchmark for Aristotelian drama theory (in the Poetics), as the tragedian dominated the tragedy stages of the ancient world from the 4th century BC. As we have 20 plays by Euripides, it will not be possible to cover all of his tragedies. We will follow the grouping of the plays by Latacz (whose book “Einführung in die griechische Tragödie”, Göttingen 2003, is generally recommended) and try to discuss two plays from each group (“master dramas”, “war plays”, “intrigue plays”): Medea and Hippolytus; Heraclides and Trojan Women; Ion and Orest.

Here you will find recordings of the first three sessions of this lecture:

Introductory video on Greek Studies: nano (3sat) provides information about the degree program in Greek Studies in Mainz

Radio interview with Adrian Weiß and Matthias Heinemann (doctoral students and Mainz alumni)

Deutschlandfunk: Egyptology, Linguistics and Co: “Small Subject Weeks” to strengthen degree programs (Anke Petermann)

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