Ab April 2025 am SFB 1671 Leonhard Gerke M.A.

Leonhard Gerke studied classics, art history and German language and literature in Freiburg and Paris, as well as medieval studies and comparative literature in Heidelberg. His master's thesis dealt with the poetological significance of the belly and images of culinary incorporation as a foil for language-critical and metapoetic reflections in Greco-Roman literature.

As a doctoral candidate in subproject A01 of CRC 1671, he is working on concepts of home in Greek archaic poetry, focusing on the different constructions of belonging in Homer's Odyssey and Hesiod's Works and Days. The literary models of home that can be grasped here also serve as a framework for reflection on real practices of homing at the time of Greek colonisation in the light of epigraphic and archaeological sources.

• Early Greek epic and didactic poetry
• Lucian
• Interfaces between text and image studies