The Department of Classical Philology has had guest lecturers from all over the world. The following is a chronological list that includes topics of the lectures.
1991
Maarit Kaimio (Helsinki), Longos' Daphnis and Chloe
1992
Heikki Solin (Helsinki), Latin phonology
1993
Kenneth Ogilvie Matier (University of Durban-Westville, LAV), May, Horace
Outi Merisalo (Jyväskylä), codicology, vulgar Latin
Paavo Roos (Lund), Greek vase paintings
Stephen Daitz (New York), September, on reconstructed pronunciation of Greek and Latin
1994
Carl Joachim Classen (Göttingen), March, Latin rhetoric, stilistics (Cicero)
Jürgen von Ungern-Sternberg (Basel), Roman nobility
1995
Paul Gerhard Schmidt (Freiburg), April-May, Medieval vision literature
1996
Aleksandr Zaitsev (St Petersburg), March, Homeric hexameter
Birger Bergh (Lund), 29 March-4 April, De imperativis passivis Latinis; Medieval Latin poetry
Carl Joachim Classen (Göttingen), April, "Kunstprosa" from Cato to Fronto
Aleksandr Gavrilov (St Petersburg), April, classical philology in Russia
Paavo Roos (Lund), Greek vase paintings
Martin L. West (Oxford), September, Elektra of Euripides; Prometheus Bound - a tragedy of Aeschylus?
Stephanie R. West (Oxford), September, Choephoroi of Aeschylus
1997
Margarethe Billerbeck (Fribourg), Febryary, Seneca and Euripides (Medeia, Hercules Furens)
Carl Joachim Classen (Göttingen), April, Melanchthon between Cicero and St. Paul
Otto Kaiser (Marburg), The Nomoi of Plato
Peter Grossardt (Fribourg), 4-12 December, Odyssey and Iliad in the tradition of the Indo-European oral "coming home" epic
1998
Martin Steinrück (Fribourg), April, Sappho; Greek prose rhythm
2000
Hans Helander (Uppsala), 3-5 May, five lectures on Neo-Latin language and literature (Neo-Latin
literature: the historical background; Emanuel Swedenborg's early
writings; The Kingdom by the grace of God: religious propaganda; Olof
Hermelin, Professor at Dorpat, secretarius status and Latin poet; Neo-Latin literature: the Latin language of the period)
2001
Outi Merisalo (Jyväskylä), 22-26 October, Medieval Latin poetry
Mikhail Bibikov
(Russian State University for the Humanities, Moscow), 20-23 November, development of the Greek language in Late Antiquity and Byzantine times; comparison of Classical and Byzantine Greek; some linguistic problems in the texts of Prodromos
2002
Mikhail Bibikov (Russian State University for the Humanities, Moscow), 12 February, Greek paleography and codicology
Paavo Roos (Lund), 19-20 February, Greek vase paintings; excavations in Turkey
Walther Ludwig (Hamburg), 16-24 April, the functions of Latin language and literature in Modern Times Europe
Karin Blomqvist (Lund), 31 May, Aristotle's analysis of tyranny; the development of schools and education in later Athens
Martin Steinrück (Fribourg), 4-6 September, Zum Rhythmus der homerischen Verse; Zur homerischen Ringkomposition
Birger Bergh (Lund), 27 September, De Sancta Brigitta eiusque revelationibus
2003
Mikhail Bibikov (Russian State University for the Humanities, Moscow), 28 April, Bible and Byzantium
Martin Steinrück (Fribourg), 11 September, Ein Iambos Nietzsches: zum Stil des Anfangs des "Antichrist"
2005
Martin Steinrück (Fribourg), 22 February, Platon - iambischer Poet?
Peter A. Kuhlmann (Göttingen), 23 March, Ovid als Theologe
Heinz Hofmann (Tübingen), 13-15 September, Richard Wagner and Greek myth; the problem of Laudes Galli in Vergil's Georgics; Neo-Latin epic (Ubertino Carrara's Columbus and Giovanni Mario Filelfo's Martias)
2006
Martin Steinrück (Fribourg), 6 September, Aux origines de la narratologie (chez
Aristote)
2007
Bernadette Banaszkiewiscz
(Greifswald), 19-21 Febryary, The relation of reality and fiction in texts
of Classical Antiquity: Aristotle, Thukydides, Plato; Pseudos in Homer;
Pseudos and fiction in modernity
Rasmus Gottschalck (Aarhus), 29 March, Pomponius Laetus and the Roman academy; 4 April, Pompilius and his Sallust commentary
2008
Wolfgang Schuller (Konstanz), 17 April, Kleopatra
Joachim Fugmann (Konstanz), 22 May, De viris illustribus urbis Romae - Zum Typ der Exemplabiographie
Walther Ludwig (Hamburg), 27-30 May, Der neuzeitliche Gebrauch der lateinischen Sprache: Die Abhandlung De linguae Latinae in Germania fatis
von Jacob Burckhard (1713); Akademien der Neuzeit zwischen
Freundeskreis und Institution; Eine protestantische Ehelehre: Die
Sammlung Carmina et Epistolae de coniugio ad D. Davidem Chytraeum (1562); Ein horazisierendes jesuitisches Lehrgedicht zur Emblematik: De arte symbolica ad Erastum von Jacobus Boschius (1701); Die ethische Funktionalisierung der antiken Literatur: Janus Gruters Florilegium ethico-politicum (1610).
Martin Steinrück (Fribourg), 4 September, The Nekyia, the Odyssey and its composition
Gerlinde Huber-Rebenich (Jena), 8-12 September, On Mediaeval Latin language, literature, palaeography and codicology
Heinz-Günther Nesselrath (Göttingen), 4 November, The Pillars of Hercules - a mythical landmark and its significance in Classical Antiquity [The lecture was part of the German-Estonian academic week Academica]
Philipp Brandenburg (Puerto Rico), 18 December, Varro's morphological theory
In addition, Jaan Puhvel (California) has held several lectures and courses since 1991 (Homer; Juvenal; comparative grammar of Greek and Latin; Mycenean language; Italic languages; Hittite language).
