Marion Giebel

Marion Giebel (born 1939 in Frankfurt am Main) is a classical philologist with a doctorate. She studied classical philology and German studies and received her doctorate in 1965 for a dissertation on Athena as a divine helper in Homer’s „Odyssey“. After training in publishing, she worked as a publishing editor and later as a freelance author, translator, and editor. She published numerous books and biographies on Greek and Roman antiquity, including „Cicero“, „Sappho“, „Augustus“, „Vergil“, „Ovid“, and „Dreams in Antiquity“, as well as bilingual annotated editions of ancient authors. In 2018 she received the Alternative Translator’s Prize, followed in 2019 by the Pegasus Honorary Pin of the German Association of Classical Philologists for her life’s work.