Professor Han Baltussen

• Appointments

  Date	Position	Institution name
  2011 - ongoing	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	Utrecht University

• Awards and Achievements

  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 Institute for Advanced Study	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	Member, School of Historical Studies (IAS Princeton)	Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton NJ	United States	$20,000
  1996	Scholarship	Junior Fellow	Centre for Hellenic Studies, Harvard University	United States	40,000

• Language Competencies

  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

• Education

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

• Research Interests

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

• Journals

  Year	Citation
  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. DOI
  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.
  2016	Baltussen, J. N. (2016). Review of H. Bottler, Pseudo-Plutarch und Stobaios: Eine synoptische Untersuchung (Göttingen 2014). Anzeiger für die Altertumswissenschaft.
  2015	Baltussen, J. N. (2015). McCoy, M.B. Wounded Heroes. Vulnerability as a Virtue in Ancient Greek Literature and Philosophy. Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2013. xviii, 228 pp. Pr. £50.00 (hb). ISBN 9780199672783. Mnemosyne, 68(6), 1049-1051. DOI
  2014	Baltussen, J. N. (2014). A 'Homeric' hymn to Stalin: performing safe criticism in ancient Greek?. Classical Receptions Journal, 7(2), 223-241. DOI Scopus1
  2013	Baltussen, H. (2013). Theophrastus of Eresus. Commentary, vol 6.1, Sources on Ethics. CLASSICAL REVIEW, 63(1), 66-68. DOI
  2012	Baltussen, H. (2012). Richard D. Mohr and Barbara M. Sattler, editors. One Book, The Whole Universe: Plato's Timaeus Today. Las Vegas-Zurich-Athens: Parmenides Publishing, 2010. Pp. viii + 406. Paper, $87.00.. Journal of the History of Philosophy, 50(1), 132-133. DOI
  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. DOI Scopus11
  2009	Baltussen, J. (2009). Personal grief and public mourning in Plutarch’s consolation to his wife. American Journal of Philology, 130(1), 67-98. DOI Scopus21 WoS16
  2009	Baltussen, J. (2009). Pseudo-Aristoteles (Pseudo-Alexander), Supplementa Problematorum. Classical Review, 59(1), 75-77. DOI
  2007	Baltussen, J. (2007). From polemic to exegesis: The ancient philosophical commentary. Poetics Today, 28(2), 247-281. DOI Scopus22 WoS12
  2006	Baltussen, J. (2006). The Greek Praise of Poverty: Origins of Ancient Cynicism; William D. Desmond. Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews, 11(04), 1.
  2006	Baltussen, J. (2006). Aristote. De la generation et la corruption by Marwan Rashed. (Review). Bryn Mawr Classical Review, 2006.11.03, 1-4.
  2006	Baltussen, H. (2006). The philosophy of the commentators 200-600 AD. A sourcebook.. JOURNAL OF HELLENIC STUDIES, 126, 216. DOI
  2006	Baltussen, J. (2006). An empedoclean 'hearing aid'? Fragment b99 revisited. Methexis, 19(1), 7-20. DOI
  2006	Baltussen, J. (2006). Addenda Eudemea. Leeds International Classical Studies, 5(1), 1-28.
  2006	Baltussen, J. (2006). Theophrastus of Eresus: On sweat, on dizziness and on fatigue. / Fortenbaugh W.W., Sharples R.W., Sollenberger M.G. (Philosophia Antiqua 93, Text, Translation, Commentary; Leiden and Boston: Brill, 2003). Classical Review, 56(2), 311-313. DOI
  2005	Baltussen, J. (2005). The Presocratics in the doxographical tradition. Sources, controversies, and current research. Studia Humaniora Tartuensia, 6(6), 1-26.
  2004	Baltussen, J. (2004). In the Grip of Disease. Studies in the Greek Imagination G.E.R. Lloyd. Bryn Mawr Classical Review (Print Edition), 1.
  2002	Baltussen, J. (2002). Matricide revisited: dramatic and rhetorical allusion in Tacticus, Suetonius and Cassius Dio. Antichthon, 36, 30-40. DOI
  2001	Baltussen, J. (2001). Plato's Timaeus, Donald J. Zeyl (trans.). Bryn Mawr Classical Review (Print Edition), 10(35), 1.
  2000	Baltussen, H. (2000). Plato in the placita (aËtius bk. iv): A dielsian blind spot. Philologus, 144(2), 227-238. DOI Scopus9
  2000	Baltussen, J. N. (2000). Review of R.W. Sharples, Theophrastus. Sources for his Life, Writings, Influence, commentary vol. 3.1 Sources on Physics (Leiden, EJ Brill, 1998). Journal of Hellenic Studies, 120, 169-170.
  1999	Baltussen, J. N. (1999). Review of W. Burkert, L. Gemelli, E. Matelli, L. Orelli (eds) Fragmentsammlungen philosophischer Texte der Antike. (Aporemata. Bd 3, Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 1998). Bryn Mawr Classical Review, 99.9.23.
  1998	Baltussen, J. N. (1998). The Purpose of Theophrastus’ De sensibus Reconsidered. Apeiron: a Journal for Ancient Philosophy, 167-200.
  1993	Baltussen, J. N. (1993). Review of ‘Theophrastus. De causis plantarum’, (Loeb 474, 475)'. Mnemosyne: a journal of classical studies, IV(46), 107-109.
  1989	Baltussen, J. N., & Harder, A. (1989). ‘Eudaimon to Sarapion (private letter nr. 3852)’. The Oxyrrhynchus Papyri, LVI, 100-102.
  1989	Baltussen, J. N., & Harder, A. (1989). ‘Eudaimon to Sarapion (private letter nr. 3852)'. Unknown Journal, LVI, 100-102.

• Books

  Year	Citation
  2024	Johnson, M., & Baltussen, J. (Eds.) (2024). A Cultural History of Love, vol. 1: Antiquity. London: Bloomsbury.
  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.
  2016	Baltussen, J. (2016). The Peripatetics. Aristotle's Heirs 322 BCE-200 CE (1 ed.). Abingdon, Oxon: Routledge. DOI Scopus13
  2015	Baltussen, H., & Davis, P. J. (Eds.) (2015). The Art of Veiled Speech: Self-Censorship from Aristophanes to Hobbes. University of Pennsylvania Press. Scopus6
  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..
  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.

• Book Chapters

  Year	Citation
  2023	Baltussen, J. (2023). Mapping Human Knowledge: Mirabilia, endoxa and the Limits of Belief. In R. Mayhew, A. Zucker, & O. Hellmann (Eds.), The Aristotelian Mirabilia and Early Peripatetic Natural Science. London: Routledge.
  2023	Baltussen, J., & Miles, G. (2023). Introduction: A New Interpretation of Eunapius' Lives of Philosophers and Sophists. In J. Henderson (Ed.), Philostratus, Lives of Sophists & Eunapius, Lives of Philosopher and Sophists (pp. 369-385). Harvard University Press.
  2023	Baltussen, H. (2023). Middleman or Man in the Middle? Plethon and the Plato-Aristotle Controversy. In Texts and Studies in Eastern Christianity (Vol. 27, pp. 279-301). BRILL. DOI
  2023	Baltussen, H. (2023). Simplicius and Aristotle's dialectic. In Ancient Greek Dialectic and Its Reception (pp. 441-456). De Gruyter. DOI
  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 (pp. 12-43).
  2022	Baltussen, J. N. (2022). Polemic, Personality and the Iamblichean Circle in Eunapius’ Lives. In P. d'Hoine, G. R. Roskam, & M. -A. Gavray (Eds.), Polemics, Rivalry and Networking in Greco-Roman Antiquity. Leuven: Brepols.
  2022	Baltussen, J. N. (2022). “Received Opinions” in Aristotle, Theophrastus and Simplicius: Doxography or Endoxography?. In A. Lammer, & M. Jas (Eds.), Received Opinions: Doxography in Antiquity and the Islamic World. Leiden: E.J. Brill.
  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. DOI
  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. (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. DOI
  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. DOI
  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. DOI
  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. DOI
  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. Scopus7
  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. DOI Scopus1
  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 (1 ed., pp. 37-62). Leiden: Brill. DOI
  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). 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. DOI
  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). Ancient philosophers on the sense of smell. In M. Bradley (Ed.), Smell and the ancient senses (pp. 30-45). London: Routledge.
  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. DOI
  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. DOI
  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).
  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. Scopus4
  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. DOI Scopus3
  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. Scopus2
  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. Scopus2
  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. DOI Scopus13
  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.

• Conference Papers

  Year	Citation
  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. DOI Scopus8
  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. Scopus3
  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.

• Original Creative Works

  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). Description: N/A. Extent: 1.5.

• Internet Publications

  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. DOI

Courses I (co)teach:

• CLAS 1003 Introduction to Greek and Roman History [annually]
• CLAS 2008 True Lies: Science and Fiction in the Roman Empire [2024]
• CLAS 2029 Rome! Rise of Empire [2023, 2025]
• CLAS 2032 Classical Mythology [2023, 2025]
• CLAS 2038OL Latin and Greek for Scientists: The Language of Science  (summer Jan., online only)
• CLAS 3026 Journeys to the Underworld from Homer to Hollywood [2024]
• CLAS 3030 Athens to Alexandria (capstone course) [annually, semester 2]
• CLAS 4001-3 Honours (common and special courses; thesis) [annually]

• Current Higher Degree by Research Supervision (University of Adelaide)

  Date	Role	Research Topic	Program	Degree Type	Student Load	Student Name
  2023	Principal Supervisor	Greek Physicians Under Rome: Immigration and Integration	Master of Philosophy	Master	Full Time	Miss Chelsea May Louise Schwartz
  2022	Principal Supervisor	Visualising Human Anatomy and Physiology in Medical Literature (10th - 17th c.)	Doctor of Philosophy	Doctorate	Full Time	Miss Mary Elizabeth Harpas
  2022	Co-Supervisor	Love in Gethsemane: The Consolatory Legacy of Thomas More in the Writings of English Exiles and Martyrs	Doctor of Philosophy	Doctorate	Full Time	Mr Mitchell Robert Thompson
  2022	Co-Supervisor	Legitimacy and Authoritarianism in the Late Roman Republic	Doctor of Philosophy	Doctorate	Full Time	Mr Nicholas Keefe George
  2021	Principal Supervisor	From Magic to Medicine: The dynamics of faith and science in drug development in antiquity.	Master of Philosophy	Master	Part Time	Mr Greg Macpherson

• Past Higher Degree by Research Supervision (University of Adelaide)

  Date	Role	Research Topic	Program	Degree Type	Student Load	Student Name
  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
  2019 - 2021	Principal Supervisor	Classical Ideas of Physiology and Pathology: Understandings of the Living Body in the Hippocratic Corpus	Master of Philosophy	Master	Full Time	Miss Mary Elizabeth Harpas
  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	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

• Committee Memberships

  Date	Role	Committee	Institution	Country
  2021 - 2022	Member	Professorial Committee for Fellowship Program	University of Adelaide	Australia
  2018 - 2018	Member	ERA REC Humanities and Creative Arts	University of Adelaide	Australia
  2014 - ongoing	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

• Memberships

  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

• Consulting/Advisories

  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

• Editorial Boards

  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

• Offices Held

  Date	Office Name	Institution	Country
  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

• Review, Assessment, Editorial and Advice

  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

• Position: Professor
• Phone: 83135288
• Email: han.baltussen@adelaide.edu.au
• Fax: 83134341
• Campus: North Terrace
• Building: Napier, floor 8
• Org Unit: School of Humanities