Han Baltussen

Research Interests

Classics History and Philosophy of Medicine History and Philosophy of Specific Fields History of Ideas Philosophy of Specific Cultures

Prof Han Baltussen

School of Humanities

College of Creative Arts, Design and Humanities

Eligible to supervise Masters and PhD - email supervisor to discuss availability.

Available For Media Comment.

Han Baltussen (FAHA) is Emeritus Professor of Classics and Ancient Thought at Adelaide University and holder of an ARC-DP grant on the theme of self-consolation and self-care in antiquity (2026-2029). He is the former W.W. Hughes Professor of Classics — one of the two founding chairs of the University of Adelaide (1874). Before coming to the University of Adelaide he held several postdoctoral positions in Washington DC, Utrecht University, and Kings College London (Philosophy Dept.) as chief assistant editor to the Ancient Commentators on Aristotle Translation Project). He received prestigious fellowships at the Princeton Institute for Advanced Study (2006), the Royal Flemish Academy, Institue of Classical Studies (London), and Edinburgh's Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities (IASH 2024). Professor Baltussen's research interests fall within the intellectual history of the ancient mediterranean and its influence [for details see below under the Research Tab].

My research interests cover a range of topics in intellectual history and the history of ideas from antiquity to the early modern age, focusing on three themes: origin, transmission, and evolution of ideas. I regularly give public talks and lectures to highlight the ongoing importance of human concerns so similar across time.

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Date Position Institution name
2025 - ongoing Emeritus Professor Adelaide University
2011 - 2025 Walter W. Hughes Professor of Classics University of Adelaide
2010 - 2011 Associate Professor University of Adelaide
2005 - 2010 Senior Lecturer University of Adelaide
2002 - 2005 Lecturer University of Adelaide
2001 - 2001 Adjunct lecturer Greek philosophy University College London
1997 - 2002 Research Associate and temporary lecturer & tutor King's College London
1997 - 2002 Chief Assistant Editor Ancient Commentators Project (0.8) King's College London
1996 - 1997 Postdoctoral research fellow Harvard Center for Hellenic Studies
1993 - 1996 Postdoctoral research associate (Stoa Project) Utrecht University

Date Type Title Institution Name Country Amount
2023 Fellowship Dorothy Tarrant Fellowship Institute of Classical Studies, London United Kingdom £5,000
2017 Fellowship Visiting Professor UWA Institute for Advanced Studies, UWA Australia $3,000
2014 Scholarship Spinoza Fellow Leiden University Leiden University (LUCAS) Netherlands -
2010 Fellowship Fellowship Royal Flemish Academy Brussels Royal Academy Brussels Belgium -
2010 Research Award Faculty Research Award University of Adelaide Australia -
2009 Fellowship Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities Australian Academy of the Humanities Australia -
2006 Fellowship Fellowship Princeton Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton NJ United States $20,000
1996 Scholarship Junior Fellow Harvard Centre Centre for Hellenic Studies, Harvard University United States 40,000

Language Competency
Dutch; Flemish Can read, write, speak, understand spoken and peer review
English Can read, write, speak, understand spoken and peer review
French Can read, write and understand spoken
German Can read, write, speak, understand spoken and peer review
Italian Can read

Date Institution name Country Title
1988 - 1993 Utrecht University Netherlands PhD
1983 - 1986 Utrecht University Netherlands MA
1978 - 1983 Utrecht University Netherlands BA

Year Citation
2024 Baltussen, H. (2024). David Konstan (1940–2024). Emotions: History, Culture, Society, 8(2), 319-321.
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2019 Baltussen, J. N. (2019). Theophrastus’ De sensibus in Diels’ the A-fragments: Revisiting the Testimonia and their Value.. Rhizomata. Journal for Ancient Philosophy and Science, 7(2), 120-145.
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2018 Baltussen, J. (2018). Peripatetic Epistemology After Aristotle. Theorising Knowledge from Theophrastus to Aristocles. Lexicon Philosophicum. International Journal for the History of Texts and Ideas, 6(Special Issue on Hellenistic Theories of Knowledge), 53-77.
2018 Baltussen, J. N. (2018). A Curious Sidelight on the Reception of ps.Cicero's Consolatio (1583): Bodleian MS. Rawl. 985 D. Bibliotheque d'Humanisme et Renaissance; travaux et documents, LXXX(3), 485-506.
2017 Baltussen, J. N. (2017). Slim pickings and Russian Dolls? Presocratic fragments in peripatetic sources after Aristotle. Journal for Juristic Papyrology, (Suppl. 30), 73-90.
2014 Baltussen, J. N. (2014). A 'Homeric' hymn to Stalin: performing safe criticism in ancient Greek?. Classical Receptions Journal, 7(2), 223-241.
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2009 Baltussen, J. (2009). Simplicius and the Subversion of Authority. Antiquorum Philosophia, 3, 121-136.
2009 Baltussen, J. (2009). A Grief Observed: Cicero on Remembering Tullia. Mortality, 14(4), 355-369.
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2009 Baltussen, J. (2009). Personal grief and public mourning in Plutarch’s consolation to his wife. American Journal of Philology, 130(1), 67-98.
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2007 Baltussen, J. (2007). From polemic to exegesis: The ancient philosophical commentary. Poetics Today, 28(2), 247-281.
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2006 Baltussen, J. (2006). An empedoclean 'hearing aid'? Fragment b99 revisited. Methexis, 19(1), 7-20.
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2006 Baltussen, J. (2006). Addenda Eudemea. Leeds International Classical Studies, 5(1), 1-28.
2005 Baltussen, J. (2005). The Presocratics in the doxographical tradition. Sources, controversies, and current research. Studia Humaniora Tartuensia, 6(6), 1-26.
2002 Baltussen, J. (2002). Matricide revisited: dramatic and rhetorical allusion in Tacticus, Suetonius and Cassius Dio. Antichthon, 36, 30-40.
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2000 Baltussen, H. (2000). Plato in the placita (aËtius bk. iv): A dielsian blind spot. Philologus, 144(2), 227-238.
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2000 Baltussen, J. N. (2000). Review of T.K. Johansen, Aristotle on the Sense Organs (Cambridge 1998). Journal of Early Science and Medicine, 5,1(108), 103-104.
1998 Baltussen, J. N. (1998). The Purpose of Theophrastus’ De sensibus Reconsidered. Apeiron: a Journal for Ancient Philosophy, 167-200.
1989 Baltussen, J. N., & Harder, A. (1989). ‘Eudaimon to Sarapion (private letter nr. 3852)’. The Oxyrrhynchus Papyri, LVI, 100-102.

Year Citation
2025 Johnson, M., & Baltussen, J. (Eds.) (2025). A Cultural History of Love, vol. 1: In Antiquity. London: Bloomsbury Publishing.
2023 Clarke, J. R., King, D., & Baltussen, J. (Eds.) (2023). Pain Narratives in Greco-Roman Writings: Studies in the Representation of Physical and Mental Suffering (Vol. 58). Leiden-Boston: Brill.
2023 Clarke, J. R., King, D., & Baltussen, J. (Eds.) (2023). Pain Narratives in Greco-Roman Writings: Studies in the Representation of Physical and Mental Suffering (Vol. 58). Leiden-Boston: Brill.
2023 Baltussen, J. N. (2023). Eunapius, Lives of Philosophers and Sophists. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press.
2023 Baltussen, J. N. (2023). Eunapius, Lives of Philosophers and Sophists. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press.
2016 Baltussen, J. (2016). The Peripatetics. Aristotle's Heirs 322 BCE-200 CE (1 ed.). Abingdon, Oxon: Routledge.
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2015 Baltussen, H., & Davis, P. J. (Eds.) (2015). The Art of Veiled Speech: Self-Censorship from Aristophanes to Hobbes. University of Pennsylvania Press.
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2014 Baltussen, H., Share, M., Atkinson, M., Mueller, I., & Sorabji, R. (2014). SIMPLICIUS: On Aristotle Physics 1.5-9. Bristol Classical Press.
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2013 Baltussen, J. (Ed.) (2013). Greek and Roman consolations: eight studies of a tradition and its afterlife. Wales: Classic Press of Wales.
2008 Baltussen, J. (2008). Philosophy and Exegesis in Simplicius. The Methodology of a Commentator. UK: Gerald Duckworth and Co..
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2004 Adamson, P., Baltussen, J., & Stone, M. (Eds.) (2004). Philosophy, Science and Exegesis in Greek, Arabic and Latin Commentaries, Vol.2. London UK: Institute of Classical Studies, School of Advanced Study, University of London.
2004 Adamson, P., Baltussen, J., & Stone, M. (Eds.) (2004). Philosophy, Science and Exegesis in Greek, Arabic and Latin Commentaries; Vol.1. London: Institute of Classical Studies, School of Advanced Study, University of London.
2000 Baltussen, J. (2000). Theophrastus against the Presocratics and Plato : peripatetic dialectic in the De sensibus. Brill.

Year Citation
2026 Baltussen, H. (2026). Teaching and Learning the Human Condition: Life after Death in Antiquity. In A. Regagliolo (Ed.), Teaching and Learning Classics at University level. Delaware: Vernon Press.
2026 Baltussen, H. (2026). Eunapius’ Lives of Philosophers and Sophists. Aims and Agendas in a Collection of Bioi. In S. Inowlocki, & J. Verheyden (Eds.), Collective Biographies from Antiquity to the Early Modern Age. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
2025 Baltussen, H. (2025). Philosophical Communities. In J. Stenger (Ed.), A Cultural History of Higher Learning in Antiquity (pp. 113-133). London: Bloomsbury.
2025 Baltussen, H., & Johnson, M. (2025). Introduction: Love in antiquity. In H. Baltussen, & M. Johnson (Eds.), A Cultural History of Love in Antiquity (pp. 1-21). London: Bloomsbury.
2025 Baltussen, H., & Johnson, M. (2025). Introduction: Love in antiquity. In H. Baltussen, & M. Johnson (Eds.), A Cultural History of Love in Antiquity (pp. 1-21). London: Bloomsbury.
2025 Baltussen, H. (2025). Simplicius as a Source for Theophrastus’ Physika. Evidence, Challenges, Prospects. In G. Guyomarc’h, & A. Santoro (Eds.), Perspectives on Peripatetic Physics. From Theophrastus to Alexander (Vol. 176, pp. 10-38). De Gruyter-Brill.
2025 Schwartz, C., & Baltussen, H. (2025). Gender and Medicine. In A. Blanshard (Ed.), A Cultural History of Gender, Volume 2: A Cultural History of Gender in Antiquity (Vol. 2, 1 ed., pp. 37-54). London: Bloomsbury Publishing.
2024 Baltussen, H. (2024). Mapping Human Knowledge in Peripatetic Research: Thaumata, Endoxa and the Hierarchy of Beliefs. In A. Zucker, R. Mayhew, & O. Hellmann (Eds.), The Aristotelian Mirabilia and Early Peripatetic Natural Science (1st Ed. ed., pp. 26-45). Routledge.
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2023 Clarke, J., King, D., & Baltussen, H. (2023). Introduction: A New Approach to Pain in Antiquity. In A. E. Hanson, B. Holmes, O. Lewis, & J. Ziegler (Eds.), Studies in Ancient Medicine (Vol. 58, pp. 1-11). Brill.
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2023 Baltussen, J. (2023). Simplicius and Aristotle's Dialectic. In M. G. Mouzala (Ed.), Ancient Greek Dialectic and its Reception (Vol. vol. 10, pp. 441-456). Berlin: De Gruyter.
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2023 Baltussen, J. (2023). Labelling Pain: Early Greek Concepts from Homer to the Hellenistic Age. In J. R. Clarke, & D. King (Eds.), Pain Narratives in Greco-Roman Writings. Studies in the Representation of Physical and Mental Suffering (Vol. 58, pp. 12-43). Brill.
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2023 Baltussen, J. (2023). Labelling Pain: Early Greek Concepts from Homer to the Hellenistic Age. In J. R. Clarke, & D. King (Eds.), Pain Narratives in Greco-Roman Writings. Studies in the Representation of Physical and Mental Suffering (Vol. 58, pp. 12-43). Brill.
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2023 Baltussen, J., & Miles, G. (2023). Eunapius : Introduction. In J. Henderson (Ed.), Philostratus : Lives of Sophists and Eunapius : Lives of Philosopher and Sophists (pp. 369-385). Harvard University Press.
2022 Baltussen, J. (2022). Middleman or Man-in-the-Middle? Plethon and the Plato-Aristotle Controversy. In E. Anagnostou-Laoutides, & K. Parry (Eds.), Later Platonists and their Heirs among Christians, Jews, and Muslims (Vol. 27, pp. 279-301). Leiden: Brill.
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2022 Baltussen, J. N. (2022). Polemic, Personality and the Lamblichean Circle in Eunapius' Lives of Philosophers and Sophists (VPS)*. In P. d'Hoine, G. R. Roskam, S. Schorn, & J. Verheyden (Eds.), Polemics and Networking in Greco-Roman Antiquity (pp. 151-176). Turnhout, Belgium: Brepols.
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2022 Baltussen, J. N. (2022). “Reputable Opinions” (endoxa) in Aristotle, Theophrastus and Simplicius: Doxography or Endoxography?. In A. Lammer, & M. Jas (Eds.), Received Opinions: Doxography in Antiquity and the Islamic World (Vol. 106, pp. 151-174). Leiden; Boston: Brill.
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2020 Baltussen, J. N. (2020). Eunapius' lives of philosophers and sophists: Was he constructing "pagan saints" in the age of Christianity?. In K. Parry, & E. Anagnostou-Laoutides (Eds.), Eastern Christianity and Late Antique Philosophy (Vol. 18, pp. 239-260). Leiden-New York-Berlin: E.J. Brill.
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2020 Baltussen, J. N. (2020). Knowledge: Science and Education. In B. Dignas (Ed.), Cultural History of Memory: Volume 1 (Vol. 1, pp. 64-81). London: Bloomsbury.
2019 Baltussen, J. N. (2019). Early theories of sense perception: Greek origins. In R. Skeates, & J. Day (Eds.), The Routledge Handbook of Sensory Archaeology (pp. 35-47). London, United Kingdom: Routledge.
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2018 Baltussen, J. (2018). Simplikios. In C. Horn, C. Riedweg, & D. Wyrwa (Eds.), Neue Ueberweg: Die Philosophie der Kaiserzeit und der Spätantike (Vol. 5, 14th ed.). Basel: Schwabe und Co. AG Verlag.
2018 Baltussen, J. (2018). Philosophical Commentary. In S. McGill, & E. Watts (Eds.), A Companion to Late Antique Literature (pp. 297-311). USA: Blackwell Publishing Ltd: Wiley & Sons.
2018 Baltussen, J. N. (2018). Simplikios. In C. Riedweg, C. Horn, & C. Wirwa (Eds.), Philosophie der Kaiserzeit und der Spätantike (Vol. 5/1-3, pp. 2060-2084). Basel: Schwabe Verlag.
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2018 Baltussen, J. (2018). Simplicius and the commentator's task: Clarifying exegeses and exegetical techniques. In B. Strobel (Ed.), Die Kunst der philosophischen Exegese bei den antiken Platon- und Aristoteles Kommentatoren (pp. 159-183). Berlin: Walter De Gruyter.
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2017 Baltussen, J. (2017). The Aristotelian Tradition. In D. Richter, & W. Johnson (Eds.), The Oxford Handbook to the Second Sophistic (pp. 581-594). Oxford: Oxford University Press.
2017 Baltussen, J. N. (2017). ‘The Philosophical Commentary: Literary Forms and Philosophical Functions’. In E. Watts, & S. McGill (Eds.), Blackwell Companion to Late Antique Literature. J. Wiley and Sons Inc..
2016 Baltussen, J. (2016). Philosophers, exegetes, scholars: the ancient philosophical commentary from Plato to Simplicius. In C. Kraus, & C. Stray (Eds.), Classical Commentaries: Explorations in a Scholarly Genre (pp. 173-194). Oxford: Oxford University Press.
2015 Baltussen, J. (2015). Understanding odours in problemata 12-13: Peripatetic problems concerning the elusive sense of smell. In R. Mayhew (Ed.), The Aristotelian Problemata Physica: Philosophical and Scientific Investigations (Vol. 139, 1 ed., pp. 172-189). Leiden: Brill.
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2015 Baltussen, H., & Davis, P. (2015). Parrhêsia, free speech, and self-censorship. In H. Baltussen, & P. Davis (Eds.), The Art of Veiled Speech: Self-Censorship from Aristophanes to Hobbes (1 ed., pp. 1-17). Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press.
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2015 Baltussen, J. (2015). Simplicius on elements and causes in Greek philosophy: critical appraisal or philosophical synthesis?. In A. Marmadoro, & B. Prince (Eds.), Causation and Creation in Late Antiquity (1 ed., pp. 111-128). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
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2015 Baltussen, J. (2015). Strato of Lampsacus as a reader of Plato's Phaedo: His critique of the soul’s immortality. In S. Delcomminette, P. d'Hoine, & M. -A. Gavray (Eds.), Ancient Readings of Plato's Phaedo (Vol. 140, 1 ed., pp. 37-62). Leiden: Brill.
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2015 Baltussen, H. (2015). A bark worse than his bite? Diogenes the Cynic and the politics of tolerance in Athens. In H. Baltussen, & P. Davis (Eds.), The Art of Veiled Speech: Self-Censorship from Aristophanes to Hobbes (1 ed., pp. 74-93). Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press.
2015 Baltussen, J. (2015). "Hippocratic" oaths?: A cross-cultural exploration of medical ethics in the ancient world. In B. Holmes, & K. -D. Fisher (Eds.), The frontiers of ancient science: essays in honor of Heinrich von Staden (pp. 47-66). Berlin: Walter de Gruyter.
2015 Baltussen, J. (2015). Nicolaus of Modruš’s De Consolatione (1465-66): A new approach to grief management. In S. Broomhall (Ed.), Ordering Emotions in Europe, 1100-1800 (1 ed., pp. 105-120). Online: Brill.
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2015 Baltussen, J. (2015). Ancient philosophers on the sense of smell. In M. Bradley (Ed.), Smell and the ancient senses (pp. 30-45). London: Routledge.
2015 Baltussen, H. (2015). Nicholas of Modruš's De consolatione (1465-1466): A New Approach to Grief Management. In Studies in Medieval and Reformation Traditions (Vol. 195, pp. 105-120).
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2015 Baltussen, H., & Davis, P. J. (2015). <i>Parrhesia</i>, Free Speech, and Self-Censorship. In H. Baltussen, & P. J. Davis (Eds.), ART OF VEILED SPEECH: SELF-CENSORSHIP FROM ARISTOPHANES TO HOBBES (pp. 1-17). UNIV PENNSYLVANIA PRESS.
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2015 Baltussen, H., & Davis, P. J. (2015). THE ART OF VEILED SPEECH Self-Censorship from Aristophanes to Hobbes Epilogue. In H. Baltussen, & P. J. Davis (Eds.), ART OF VEILED SPEECH: SELF-CENSORSHIP FROM ARISTOPHANES TO HOBBES (pp. 318-320). UNIV PENNSYLVANIA PRESS.
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2014 Baltussen, H. (2014). Aristotelian commentary tradition. In Routledge Handbook of Neoplatonism (pp. 106-114). Routledge.
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2014 Baltussen, J. (2014). Aristotelian commentary tradition. In S. Slaveva-Griffin, & P. Remes (Eds.), The Routledge Handbook of Neoplatonism (1 ed., pp. 106-114). United States: Routledge.
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2013 Baltussen, J. (2013). The Peripatetics after Aristotle. In J. Warren, & F. Sheffield (Eds.), The Routledge companion to ancient philosophy (1 ed., pp. 511-525). UK-United States: Routledge.
2013 Baltussen, J. (2013). Introduction. In H. Baltussen (Ed.), Greek and Roman Consolations: Eight Studies of a Tradition and its Afterlife (1 ed., pp. xiii-xx). UK: The Classical Press of Wales.
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2013 Baltussen, J. (2013). Cicero's Consolatio ad se: character, purpose and impact of a curious treatise. In H. Baltussen (Ed.), Greek and Roman consolations: eight studies of a tradition and its afterlife (pp. 67-91). Wales: Classic Press of Wales.
2012 Baltussen, J. (2012). Simplicius: On Aristotle Physics 1.5-9 Translated by Han Baltussen. In J. Baltussen, M. Share, M. Atkinson, & I. Mueller (Eds.), Simplicius: On Aristotle Physics 1.5-9 (1 ed., pp. 17-29). United Kingdom: Bristol Classical Press (Duckworth).
2012 Baltussen, J. (2012). Simplicius: On Aristotle Physics 1.5-9 Translated by Han Baltussen. In J. Baltussen, M. Share, M. Atkinson, & I. Mueller (Eds.), Simplicius: On Aristotle Physics 1.5-9 (1 ed., pp. 17-29). United Kingdom: Bristol Classical Press (Duckworth).
2011 Baltussen, J. (2011). Cicero's translation of Greek Philosophy: Personal mission or public service?. In S. McElduff, & E. Sciarrino (Eds.), Complicating the History of Western Translation: The Ancient Mediterranean in Perspective (1 ed., pp. 37-48). United Kingdom: St Jerome Publishing.
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2010 Baltussen, J. (2010). Simplicius of Cilicia. In L. Gerson (Ed.), The Cambridge History of Philosophy in Late Antiquity: Volume 2 (pp. 711-732). United Kingdom: Cambridge University Press.
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2010 Baltussen, J. (2010). Marcus Aurelius and the therapeutic use of soliloquy : an interdisciplinary approach. In B. Sidwell (Ed.), Studies in Emotions and Power in the Late Roman World: Papers in Honour of Ron Newbold (pp. 39-57). United States: Gorgias Press.
2008 Baltussen, J. (2008). Dialectic in dialogue: The message of Plato’s protagoras and Aristotle’s topics. In E. Anne Mackay (Ed.), Orality, Literacy, Memory in the Ancient Greco-Roman World (Vol. 298, pp. 203-225). Netherlands: Brill.
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2007 Baltussen, J. (2007). Playing the Pythagorean: Ion's Triagmos. In V. Jennings, & A. Katsaros (Eds.), The World of Ion of Chios (Vol. 288, pp. 295-318). The Netherlands: Brill.
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2007 Baltussen, J. N. (2007). ‘Did Aristotle Have a Concept of Intuition? Some Comments on translating nous'. In M. Close, M. Tsianakis, & G. Couvalis (Eds.), Greek Research in Australia (Proceedings 2005) Department of Languages—Modern Greek, Flinders University), 53-62 (pp. 53-62).
2004 Baltussen, J. N. (2004). ‘Plato Protagoras 340-48: Commentary in the Making?’. In P. Adamson, J. Baltussen, & M. W. F. Stone (Eds.), Philosophy, Science and Exegesis in Greek, Latin and Arabic Commentaries (Bulletin of Institute of Classical Studies Supplements, 2 Vols) (pp. 21-35).
2003 Baltussen, J. (2003). Early Reactions to Plato’s Timaeus. Polemic and Exegesis in Theophrastus and Epicurus. In R. Sharples, & A. Sheppard (Eds.), Ancient approaches to Plato's Timaeus (Vol. 46, pp. 49-71). UK: Institute of Classical Studies, School of Advanced Study, University of London.
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2002 Baltussen, J. N. (2002). ‘Philology or Philosophy? Simplicius on the Use of Quotations’. In I. Worthington, & J. Foley (Eds.), Epea and Grammata: Oral and Written Communication in Ancient Greece (Vol. vol. IV, pp. 173-189). http://www.brill.com/epea-and-grammata-oral-and-written-communication-ancient-greece: E.J. Brill.
2002 Baltussen, J. N. (2002). Wehrli’s Edition of Eudemus of Rhodes. The physical fragments in Simplicius On Aristotle’s Physics. In W. W. Fortenbaugh, & I. Bodnár (Eds.), Eudemus of Rhodes (Vol. 11, pp. 127-156).
2002 Baltussen, J. (2002). Philology or philosophy? Simplicius on the use of quotations. In Unknown Book (Vol. Supplement, pp. 174-189). Brill Academic Publishers, Inc..
1996 Baltussen, J. N. (1996). A “dialectical” argument in De anima A 2-4. On Aristotle’s use of topoi in systematic contexts. In K. A. Algra, P. van der Horst, & D. T. Runia (Eds.), Polyhistôr. Studies in the History and Historiography of Ancient Philosophy (pp. 333-343). Leiden: E.J. Brill.
1992 Baltussen, J. N. (1992). Peripatetic Dialectic in the De sensibus. In W. W. Fortenbaugh, & D. Gutas (Eds.), Theophrastus: His Psychological, Doxographical, and Scientific Writings (= RUSCH V) (pp. 1-19). Transaction Books.

Year Citation
2025 Baltussen, H. (2025). Simplicius as a Source for Theophrastus' Physics: Evidence, Challenges, Prospects. In G. Guyomarc'h, & A. Santoro (Eds.), PERSPECTIVES ON PERIPATETIC PHYSICS Vol. 176 (pp. 10-38). BRILL.
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2007 Baltussen, J. (2007). Did Aristotle have a concept of "intuition"? Some thoughts on translating nous. In E. Close, M. Tsianikas, & G. Couvalis (Eds.), Proceedings of the 6th Biennial International Conference of Greek Studies (pp. 53-62). Australia: Flinders University.
2004 Baltussen, J. (2004). Plato Protagoras 340-48: commentary in the making?. In P. Adamson, H. Baltussen, & M. Stone (Eds.), Philosophy, Science and Exegesis in Greek and Latin Commentaries, Vol. 1 Vol. 47 (pp. 21-35). University of London: University of London.
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2002 Baltussen, J. (2002). "Wehlri's edition of Eudemus of Rhodes. The physical fragments in Simplicius on Aristotle's Physics". In Philosophy, Science and Exegesis in Greek, Latin and Arabic Commentaries (pp. 127-156). London: Institute of Classical Studies, School of Advanced Study, University of London.
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2002 Baltussen, J. (2002). Theophrastean echoes? The De sensibus in the Platonic and Aristotelian tradition. In On the Opuscula of Theophrastus. Records of the 3rd Tagung der Karl-und Gertrud-Abel-Stiftung vom 19.-23. Meeting of Karl-und Gertrud - Abel Foundation, 19.-23. Juli 1999 in Trier July 1999 in Trier (pp. 39-58). Trier, Germany: Franz Steiner Verlag.
1996 Baltussen, H. (1996). ‘A “dialectical” argument in De anima A 2-4. On Aristotle’s use of topoi in systematic contexts’. In Algra, K.A., Van der Horst, P., & Runia, D.T. (Eds.), Polyhistor (pp. 333-343). Utrecht.

Year Citation
2012 Authors: Baltussen JN, Share, M, Atkinson, M, Mueller, I.. Title: Simplicius, Commentary on Aristotle's Physics 1.5-9 (translated from Ancient Greek with annotations). Extent: 1.5.

Year Citation
2015 Baltussen, H., & Marks, K. (2015). Learning lessons from Antiquity about Coping with Grief. Australia Academy of the Humanities.
2012 Baltussen, J. N. (2012). Coping with Bereavement and Grief: Lessons from History. The Conversation.
- Baltussen, H. (n.d.). Theophrastus of Eresus. Oxford University Press.
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PROJECT GRANTING BODY YEAR AMOUNT
"Consoling the Self: Ancient Grief Strategies and the Healing Arts"   Australian Research Council (DP) 2026-29 $385,254
Network Fellow: monograph on self-consolation in antiquity The Catholic University of Leuven 2024 $15,000
Visiting Fellowship for monograph on self-consolation in antiquity Institute of Advanced Studies in the Humanities, University of Edinburgh   2024 in-kind
Dorothy Tarrant Fellow 2020 (postponed to 2023 due to covid) Institute of Classical Studies, London 2023 $10,000
Short-term fellowship Institute for Advanced Studies (UWA) 2017 $3,000
Paper international Conference Center for the History of Emotions (AI) 2015 $3,000
"Stoic Liberalism and the Enlightenment" (with Lisa Hill) Australian Research Council (DP) 2014-16 $300,000
"The Dynamics of Censorship in Antiquity" (with Peter J. Davis) Australian Research Council (DP) 2011-13 $249,000
Short-term fellowship Leiden University (Spinoza Fellow) 2014 $3,000
Invited paper international Conference Center for the History of Emotions (AI) 2014 $3,000
"Hitching a Ride on iPods" (podcasting to enhance student engagement) DVC(A) eLearning grant 2013 $13,000
Overseas conference papers, archival research in UK libraries Various Faculty Travel Grants 2005-13 $18,000
Invited paper international Conference Center for the History of Emotions (AI) 2012 $3,000
"Ancient consolation and psychotherapy" Australian Research Council (DP) 2007-09 $69,000
Simplicius' Methodology Faculty Small Research Grant 2003 $3,500
International conference London Multiple sources (UK based) 2002 £10,220
Junior Fellowship Harvard Center for Hellenic Studies, Washington D.C. 1996-97 $40,000
Travel grant short study leave, Fondation Hardt (Geneva, Switzerland) Dutch Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO) 1996 €2,000
PhD scholarship Dutch Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO) 1993-96 $68,000

As Emeritus I am no longer active in course work, only in postgraduate supervision and research.

Date Role Research Topic Program Degree Type Student Load Student Name
2022 Co-Supervisor Separations, Grief, and Consolation in the Later Works of Thomas More Doctor of Philosophy Doctorate Full Time Mr Mitchell Robert Thompson
2022 Principal Supervisor Visualising Human Anatomy and Physiology in Medical Literature (10th - 17th c.) Doctor of Philosophy Doctorate Part Time Miss Mary Elizabeth Harpas
2022 Co-Supervisor Legitimacy and Authoritarianism in the Late Roman Republic Doctor of Philosophy Doctorate Full Time Mr Nicholas Keefe George

Date Role Research Topic Program Degree Type Student Load Student Name
2023 - 2025 Principal Supervisor Greek Physicians Under Rome: Immigration and Integration Master of Philosophy Master Full Time Miss Chelsea May Louise Schwartz
2021 - 2025 Principal Supervisor Medicine and Magic: The dynamics of science and faith in drug development in antiquity. Master of Philosophy Master Part Time Mr Greg Macpherson
2020 - 2021 Co-Supervisor ‘A lightness that is both new and a return’: Nekyia and katabasis in twenty-first century receptions of the Iliad Master of Philosophy Master Full Time Mr Patrick James Moritz
2020 - 2024 Co-Supervisor Taking Liberties: (Mis)translating Sexual Violence in Ovid’s Metamorphoses Master of Philosophy Master Full Time Miss Gemma Caitlin Neall
2019 - 2021 Principal Supervisor The Ascent to the Hidden One: The Reception of the Egyptian One God in Neoplatonism and the Greek Magical Papyri Master of Philosophy Master Full Time Ms Tiana Blazevic
2019 - 2021 Principal Supervisor Visualising Human Anatomy and Physiology in Medical Literature (10th - 17th c.) Doctor of Philosophy Master Full Time Miss Mary Elizabeth Harpas
2019 - 2021 Principal Supervisor Veiled Criticism in Seneca’s Epistulae Morales Master of Philosophy Master Full Time Mr Tamas Karoly Preston
2014 - 2017 Co-Supervisor Dental Crown Morphology Variations Associated with Congenital Syphilis and their Importance in Paleopathological Diagnosis Doctor of Philosophy Doctorate Full Time Dr Stella Ioannou
2013 - 2016 Co-Supervisor Faunus and the Fauns in Latin Literature of the Republic and Early Empire Master of Philosophy Master Full Time Ms Tammy DI-Giusto
2012 - 2014 Principal Supervisor Venus Restrained: The Regulation of Rome's Women in the Second Punic War. Master of Philosophy Master Full Time Lewis Mark Webb
2011 - 2017 Co-Supervisor A Dynamic Equilibrium: Doctors and Patients in Seventeenth Century England Doctor of Philosophy Doctorate Part Time Mrs Elizabeth Connolly
2005 - 2008 Co-Supervisor Understanding and Dealing with Evil and Suffering: A Fourth Century A.D Pagan Perspective Master of Arts Master Part Time Ms Susanne Harvey Wallis

Date Role Committee Institution Country
2021 - 2022 Member Professorial Committee for Fellowship Program (ASH) University of Adelaide Australia
2018 - 2018 Member ERA REC Humanities and Creative Arts University of Adelaide Australia
2014 - 2019 Member Research Committee School of Humanities University of Adelaide Australia
2014 - 2016 Member Executive Council Australian Academy of the Humanities Australia
2011 - 2020 Advisory Board Member Barr Smith B. Cowan Scholarship Committee University of Adelaide Australia
2009 - 2014 Member Faculty Research Committee University of Adelaide Australia
2004 - 2008 Chair Faculty Library Committee University of Adelaide Australia

Date Role Membership Country
2010 - ongoing Member Australian Historical Association Australia
2003 - ongoing Board Member Australasian Society of Classical Studies Australia
1998 - ongoing Member Society for the Promotion of Hellenic Studies (UK) United Kingdom
1997 - ongoing Member Society for Classical Studies (US) United States

Date Institution Department Organisation Type Country
2023 - ongoing Padua University Department of Historical and Geographic Sciences and the Ancient World Scientific research Italy
2020 - 2020 TEQSA College Scientific research Australia

Date Role Editorial Board Name Institution Country
2022 - ongoing Board Member Aristotelica University of Padua Italy
2017 - ongoing Member Rutgers University Studies in the Classical Humanities Rutgers University United States
2016 - ongoing Board Member Studies in Late Antiquity - United States

Date Office Name Institution Country
2026 - 2026 Deputy Head, Classics Section Australian Academy of the Humanities Australia
2017 - 2020 Head of Classics Section, Australian Academy Australian Academy of the Humanities Australia
2015 - ongoing Editor Antichthon: journal of ancient world studies Australasian Society for Classical Studies Australia
2014 - 2016 Council Member, Australian Academy Australian Academy of the Humanities Australia
2013 - 2017 Program Coordinator BA(Advanced) University of Adelaide Australia
2009 - 2013 Head of Department University of Adelaide Australia
2003 - ongoing Adelaide Representative Executive Board Australasian Society for Classical Studies Australia

Date Title Type Institution Country
2019 - ongoing Flemish Science Foundation Grant Assessment Flanders Science Foundation (FWO) Belgium
2015 - 2021 Editor of Antichthon (Greek materials) Editorial University of Adelaide -
2014 - ongoing Reviewer fellowship applications Grant Assessment Institute of Advanced Study, Princeton United States

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