Han Baltussen

Biography

Han Baltussen (PhD 1993, Utrecht University) is the W.W. Hughes Professor of Classics and Ancient Thought at the University of Adelaide. He has taught and researched at Utrecht University and King’s College London, and held fellowships at various institutions, including the Harvard Center for Hellenic Studies in Washington DC, the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, the Institute of Classical Studies in London, and the Institute of Advanced Studies in the Humanities at Edinburgh University. He has held three ARC Discovery grants as Principal investigator (twice in collaboration with colleagues) and has published 10 books and many articles on Greek and Roman philosophy. Major publications include monographs on neglected Greek philosophers (Aristotle’s successor, Theophrastus; the Neoplatonist Simplicius), Aristotle’s school, as well as the new edition and translation of Eunapius’ Lives of Philosophers and Sophists for Loeb Classical Library (Harvard University Press). Other publications include four (co)edited volumes on topics in intellectual history, in particular enduring questions around human responses to life’s caprices, such as grief & consolation, censorship and (in)tolerance, pain narratives, and love.