Professor Johannes Baltussen

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• Appointments

  Date	Position	Institution name
  2011	Walter W. Hughes Professor of Classics	University of Adelaide
  2002 - 2011	Lecturer, Senior Lecturer, Associate Professor	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

• Awards and Achievements

  Date	Type	Title	Institution Name	Country	Amount
  2021	Fellowship	Dorothy Tarrant Fellowship	Institute of Classical Studies	United Kingdom	£5,000
  2020	Fellowship	Visiting Professor	Australian National University	Australia	non-stipendiary
  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	—
  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

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• Journals

  Year	Citation
  2020	Baltussen, H. (2020). Theophrastus' De sensibus in A-fragments of Diels-Kranz. Revisiting the Testimonia and their Value. Rhizomata, 7(2), 120-145. DOI
  2018	Baltussen, J. (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.
  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.
  2017	Baltussen, J. (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. 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 Scopus5
  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 Scopus12 WoS9
  2007	Baltussen, J. (2007). From polemic to exegesis: The ancient philosophical commentary. Poetics Today, 28(2), 247-281. DOI Scopus15 WoS10
  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). Aristote. De la generation et la corruption by Marwan Rashed. (Review). Bryn Mawr Classical Review, 2006.11.03, 1-4.
  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. 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 Scopus6
  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.
  1989	Baltussen, J. N., & Harder, A. (1989). ‘Eudaimon to Sarapion (private letter nr. 3852)'. Unknown Journal, LVI, 100-102.

• Books

  Year	Citation
  2016	Baltussen, J. (2016). The Peripatetics. Aristotle's Heirs 322 BCE-200 CE (1 ed.). Abingdon, Oxon: Routledge. DOI Scopus4
  2015	Baltussen, H., & Davis, P. J. (Eds.) (2015). The Art of Veiled Speech: Self-Censorship from Aristophanes to Hobbes. University of Pennsylvania Press. Scopus2
  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
  2020	Baltussen, J. N. (2020). ‘Memory, Education and Science. Internal and External Memory and the Rise of Ancient Science’. In B. Dignas (Ed.), A Cultural History of Memory, vol. 1 ‘Antiquity’,. London: Bloomsbury.
  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 (pp. 239-260). Leiden-New York-Berlin: E.J. Brill.
  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. (2018). Simplikios. In C. Horn, C. Riedweg, & C. Wirwa (Eds.), Ueberwegs Grundriss der Geschichte der Philosophie (14. Neuauflage) Bd. 5: Die Philosophie der Kaiserzeit und der Spätantike (pp. 206-230). Basel: Schwabe.
  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.
  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.
  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. Scopus4
  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). Ancient philosophers on the sense of smell. In M. Bradley (Ed.), Smell and the ancient senses (pp. 30-45). London: Routledge.
  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). "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.
  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 Scopus8
  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.
  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 Scopus1
  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.
  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. Scopus1
  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 Scopus10
  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. (2002). Philology or philosophy? Simplicius on the use of quotations. In Unknown Book (Vol. Supplement, pp. 174-189). Brill Academic Publishers, Inc..
  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).
  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 Scopus4
  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. Scopus2
  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.

• Internet Publications

  Year	Citation
  2018	Baltussen, J. N. (2018). Theophrastus of Eresus. Oxford Bibliographies Online: Classics (ed. by D. Clayman), Oxford. DOI
  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.

On study leave July-Dec 2020.

• CLAS 1003 Introduction to Greek and Roman History (L, T) [a]
• CLAS 1004 Introduction to Greek and Roman Literature (L, T) [a]
• CLAS 2008 Life in the Golden Age of Rome (L, T) [e]
• CLAS 2029 Rome! Rise of Empire (CC, L, T) [o]
• CLAS 2032 Classical Mythology (L, T) [o]
• CLAS 2037 Athenian Democracy: Reacting to the Past (CC, L, T,) [e/not in 2020]
• CLAS 2038OL Latin and Greek for Scientists (summer school, online) (CC, L) [a]
• CLAS 3026 Afterlife and Underworld in Antiquity (CC, L, T) [e]
• CLAS 3030 Athens to Alexandria (capstone course) [a]
• CLAS 4001-3 Honours (common and special courses; thesis) [a]

N.B.1. CC=Course Coordinator; L=Lecturer; T=Tutor; N.B.2. Course availability: annually [a], or alternating in even [e] or odd [o] years

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

  Date	Role	Research Topic	Program	Degree Type	Student Load	Student Name
  2020	Co-Supervisor	The influence of Ovid’s self-reception on Ovidian scholarship and translation	Master of Philosophy	Master	Full Time	Miss Gemma Caitlin Neall
  2019	Principal Supervisor	Platonists, Magicians and Ritual Power in Late Antiquity	Master of Philosophy	Master	Full Time	Miss Tiana Blazevic
  2019	Principal Supervisor	Seneca's Moral Epistles	Master of Philosophy	Master	Full Time	Mr Tamas Karoly Preston
  2019	Co-Supervisor	Postmodern Homer: Receptions of the Iliad and the Odyssey in the 21st Century	Doctor of Philosophy	Doctorate	Full Time	Mr Patrick James Moritz
  2019	Principal Supervisor	The Living Body in Early Greek Thought: Presocratic Philosophy and Early Greek Medicine	Master of Philosophy	Master	Full Time	Miss Mary Elizabeth Harpas
  2018	Principal Supervisor	Dying to Have a Say: Freedom of Speech in the Early Roman Empire	Master of Philosophy	Master	Full Time	Ms Emily Jane Chambers
  2014	Co-Supervisor	The First Liberals: Stoicism and The Enlightenment	Doctor of Philosophy	Doctorate	Part Time	Astrid Claire Lane

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

  Date	Role	Research Topic	Program	Degree Type	Student Load	Student Name
  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

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• Committee Memberships

  Date	Role	Committee	Institution	Country
  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 - ongoing	—	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
  2020 - 2020	TEQSA	College	Scientific research	Australia

• Editorial Boards

  Date	Role	Editorial Board Name	Institution	Country
  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 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 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

• Position: Hughes Professor of Classics
• Phone: 83135288
• Email: han.baltussen@adelaide.edu.au
• Fax: 8313 4341
• Campus: North Terrace
• Building: Napier, floor 8
• Room: 8 10
• Org Unit: Classics, Archaeology & Ancient History