Humour and Comic Literature in Ancient Rome

Professor Dr. Markus Janka (LMU München, Institut für Griechische und Lateinische Philologie
Arbeitsbereich Klassische Philologie/Fachdidaktik der Alten Sprachen) will give us a presentation about 

"Telling the truth with a smile - Humour and Comic Literature in Ancient Rome” 😄

Janka was a research assistant at the Chair of Greek Philology (Georg Rechenauer) at the University of Regensburg. On February 5, 2003, he qualified as a professor with his thesis Dialog der Tragiker: Liebe, Wahn und Erkenntnis in Sophokles’ Trachiniai und Euripides’ Hippolytos (Dialogue of the Tragic Poets: Love, Delusion, and Insight in Sophocles' Trachiniae and Euripides' Hippolytus).

He was appointed professor of classical philology and teaching methodology for ancient languages in the Department of Greek and Latin Philology in 2007. - Since 2007, Janka has been co-editor of the journal Gymnasium. His main areas of interest are ancient drama, rhetoric, eroticism, and mythology (particularly Ovid).