Ortwin Knorr

Education

M.A.T. & Ph.D., University of Göttingen, Germany

Research and Teaching

The author of a book on the Satires of Horace, Professor Knorr has also published articles on the comedies of Terence, the Odes and Satires of Horace, and on the anti-heretic writings of two Greek church fathers, John of Damascus and Epiphanius of Salamis. Supported by a Loeb Library Foundation Grant, he is spending his 2007-2008 sabbatical working on a book that discusses Terence as an innovator of Roman comedy. Other, smaller projects that he hopes to complete in the near future involve Julius Caesar, Aristophanes, and Cicero.

At Willamette, he teaches courses on Greek and Roman epic poetry, ancient theater, Roman women, and ancient Greece and Rome in modern film. In addition, he has served as Chair of the Classical Studies Program, Program Coordinator of the Salem Society of the Archaeological Institute of America, and Founding Director of the Center for Ancient Studies and Archaeology (CASA).

Professor Knorr joined the Willamette faculty in 2001, after teaching at Georg August University in Göttingen (Germany), the University of California Berkeley, the Johns Hopkins University, and Georgetown University.

Publications

book

Verborgene Kunst: Argumentationsstruktur und Buchaufbau in den Satiren des Horaz [Hidden Art: The Argumentative Structure and Book Composition of Horace's Satires, in German], Hildesheim: Georg Olms Verlag, 2004 (Beiträge zur Altertumswissenschaft, 15). Pp. 277, ISBN 3-487-12539-0.

articles

"Theatralisches Spektakel und Metatheater in der Andria und Hecyra des Terenz" [Theatrical Spectacle and Metatheater in Terence's Andria and Hecyra, in German], Gymnasium, forthcoming.

"Metatheatrical Humor in the Comedies of Terence," in Terentius Poeta, eds. Peter Kruschwitz et al., Munich: C. H. Beck Verlag, 2007 (Zetemata, 127), 141-148.

"Horace's Ship Ode (C. 1.14) in Context: A Metaphorical Love Triangle," Transactions of the American Philological Association 136.1 (2006) 51-71.

"Three Orators and a Flawed Argument (Hor. Sat. 1.10.27-30)," The Classical Journal 100.4 (2005) 393-400.

"Die Parallelüberlieferung zum Panarion des Epiphanius von Salamis. Textkritische Anmerkungen zur Neuausgabe" [The Parallel Transmission of Epiphanius of Salamis' Panarion: Critical Notes on its Text on the Occasion of the New Edition, in German], Wiener Studien 112 (1999) 113-127.

"Zur Überlieferungsgeschichte des Liber de haeresibus des Johannes von Damaskus (um 650 - vor 754): Anmerkungen zur Edition B. Kotters" [On the History of the Textual Transmission of the Liber de haeresibus of John of Damascus (ca. 650- before 754): Notes on the Edition of B. Kotter, in German], Byzantinische Zeitschrift 91 (1998) 59-69.

"The Character of Bacchis in Terence's Heautontimorumenos," American Journal of Philology 116 (1995) 221-233.