Venue: Onassis Foundation-Athens

The Scholar’s Association of the Alexander S. Onassis Public Benefit Foundation, in collaboration with the Greek Society of Humanistic Studies present a lecture by Bernhard Zimmermann. The Professor of Classical Philology and Greek Literature of the University of Freiburg will lecture on “The Song of the Polis. Some remarks on the history of dithyrambic poetry.”

Professor Bernhard Zimmermann was born in Konstanz, Germany in 1955. e studied classical philology in Konstanz and London. Professor Bernhard Zimmermann received his Ph.D. in 1983 and until 1990 was Assistant Professor at the University of Konstanz. From 1990 until 1992 he was Assistant Professor at the University of Zurich, Switzerland and from 1992 until 1997 he was professor of Classical Philology and Greek Literature at the University of Düsseldorf. Since 1997 he is Professor of classical Philology and Greek Literature at the University of Freiburg. Professor Zimmermann is a member of the Heidelberger Akademie der Wissenschaften and the Deutsche Archäologische Institut and Head of the German Association of Classical Philologists of Baden-Württemberg. His publications include writings on Greek drama, novels and historiography on the reception of Greek literature in German culture.

Professor Zimmermann is visiting Greece as a Fellow of the Alexander S. Onassis Public Benefit Foundation.