Leo Trotz-Liboff, Ph. D.
Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter Latinistik
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Leo Trotz-Liboff ist ab Wintersemester 2024/2025 Mitarbeiter am Lehrstuhl für Klassische Philologie/Latinistik.
Leo Trotz-Liboff, Ph. D. Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter Latinistik
Raum 3.009
Rabinstraße 8
53111 Bonn
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Ancient philosophy and political thought
didactic and epic poetry
Studium und akademische Qualifikation:
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2024 - Duke University, Durham, NC
PhD in Classical Studies: “Esoteric Philosophy in Rome”
(Advisor: Professor Jed W. Atkins) -
2018 - The University of Oxford, Oxford, England
MSt in Greek and Latin Languages and Literature
Thesis: “Eros, Rhetoric, and Myth in Plato’s Gorgias and Phaedrus”
(Advisor: Professor R. B. Rutherford) -
2017 - Middlebury College, Middlebury, VT
BA in Classics, summa cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa
Wissenschaftlicher Werdegang:
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2023-2024 - The University of Bonn, Bonn, Germany
Fulbright Graduate Fellow, Department of Greek and Latin Philology -
2019 - The University of Cologne, Cologne, Germany
German for Students of Classical Studies, Summer Session -
2015-2016 - Pantheon-Sorbonne University, Paris, France
Visiting Student, Department of Philosophy; through the Middlebury School in France
Universität Bonn
- WiSe 2025/2026 - Übung: Lateinische Lektüre 1 (Caesar – Cicero)
- SoSe 2025 - Seminar: Theory and Practice in the Interpretation of Ancient Texts: Iliad and Aeneid
- WiSe 2024/2025 - Reception Seminar: Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar and Plutarch’s Life of Caesar
Duke University, Durham, NC
- 2022-2023 - Elementary Greek Parts I-II, Instructor of Record
- 2022 - Intermediate Greek: Plato’s Symposium, Guest Instructor
- 2021-2022 - Elementary Greek Parts I-II, Teaching Assistant for Professor Erika L. Weiberg
- 2020 - Democracy: Ancient and Modern, Teaching Assistant for Professor Jed W. Atkins
- 2020 - Roman History, Teaching Assistant for Professor Mary T. Boatwright
Middlebury College, Middlebury, VT
- 2017 - Guest Spoken Latin Teacher for Beginning Latin 2017
- 2014-2017 - Tutor for Greek, Latin, French, and Italian 2014-2017
Tilden Preparatory School, Albany, CA (Summer Session)
- 2015 - Intermediate and Advanced Placement Latin
- 2015 - Beginning and Intermediate French
Logos English Camp, Emilia-Romagna, Italy (Summer Session)
- 2014 - English as Second Language Teacher for Children Ages 7-12
Monographien
Weitere Veröffentlichungen
2025
- “Philosophic Esotericism and the End of Cicero’s De natura deorum”, in: Review of Metaphysics 79.1: 3-40, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/rvm.2025.a968965
- “Quid de legibus carminibusque Cicero senserit”, in: Vox Latina 61 (issue 240): 152-156
2024
- “Cicero’s De oratore and the Platonic Art of Writing” (with Jed W. Atkins), In: Cicero as Philosopher: New Perspectives on His Philosophy and Its Legacy, ed. Andree Hahmann and Michael Vazquez, 97-126. Berlin: De Gruyter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783111591520-006
2023
- “Vergil’s Epicurean Fortunatus”, in: Classical Journal 118.4: 409-439 ;DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/tcj.2023.0010
- “Writing as Pharmakon and the Limits of Law in Plato’s Statesman, Phaedrus, and Laws”, in: Polis: The Journal for Ancient Greek and Roman Political Thought 40.3: 391-414 DOI: https://doi.org/10.1163/20512996-12340415
2025
- “Esoteric Philosophy in Plato’s Theaetetus: 152c8-e9; 155e3-156c5” XIV Symposium Platonicum: Plato’s Theaetetus, The International Plato Society, Madrid, Spain
- “Cicero and Esoteric Philosophy in Rome” Erasmus Guest Lecture, University of Crete, Rethymno, Greece
2024
- “Seth Benardete and Metaphysical Esotericism” Second Sailings: A Virtual Conference on the Thought of Seth Benardete, The Benardete Archive
- “Die esoterische Philosophie in Rom” Kolloquium Latinistik, University of Bonn, Bonn, Germany
- “Plutarchs De audiendis poetis und das Problem der esoterischen Philosophie” Ianualia MMXXIV, Bielefeld University, Bielefeld, Germany (remote)
- “Plutarchs De audiendis poetis und das Problem der esoterischen Philosophie” Kolloquium praktische Philosophie/ältere Philosophiegeschichte, University of Bonn, Bonn, Germany
2023
- “Quid de legibus carminibusque Cicero senserit” (watch here)
The Paideia Institute’s Living Latin in New York City annual meeting, New York City, NY - “Four Forms of Philosophic Esotericism in Cicero’s De natura deorum”
The Society for Classical Studies annual meeting, New Orleans, LA
2022
- “Reverse Ethnography in Caesar’s DBC: 1.35.3-4 as Intratext to DBG 1.1.1” The Classical Association of the Middle West and South annual meeting, Winston-Salem, NC
- “Cicero’s De oratore and the Platonic Art of Writing” (with Professor Jed W. Atkins)
The Society for Classical Studies annual meeting, San Francisco, CA (remote)
2021
- “The Hermeneutics of Law and Writing in Plato’s Statesman and Phaedrus”
1st Annual UCLA Graduate Student Conference in Political Theory, Los Angeles, CA (remote) - “Manners Matter: Custom in Plutarch’s De genio Socratis and Plato’s Phaedo”
Duke-UNC Classics Graduate Symposium, Durham and Chapel Hill, NC (remote)
2020
- Respondent for Professor Melissa Lane: “What is the Meaning of Political Office? Ideas Ancient (Greek) and Modern”
Duke University Political Theory Workshop, Durham, NC (remote) - “Μῆνις and Μῆτις: The Meeting of Two Epics in Iliad IX”
The Classical Association of the Middle West and South annual meeting, Birmingham, AL (remote)
2019
- Respondent for Fabian Neuwahl, “Die Seuchenbeschreibungen bei Vergil und Ovid”
Fakt und Fiktion in (spät)antiker Literatur, University of Cologne, Cologne, Germany