Hans Beck (historian)

Hans Beck (* 22 April 1969 in Werneck) is a German ancient historian.

Hans Beck graduated from Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg in 1997 with a thesis entitled Polis und Koinon. Untersuchungen zur Geschichte und Struktur der griechischen Bundesstaaten im 4. Jahrhundert v. Chr. (Polis and Koinon. Investigation of the History and Structure of the Greek Federal State in the Fourth Century BC). After that he was a postdoc at Cologne University and then at Frankfurt University. In Cologne he achieved his habilitation in 2004 with a work entitled Karriere und Hierarchie. Die römische Aristokratie und die Anfänge des cursus honorum in der mittleren Republik (Career and Hierarchy. The Roman Aristocracy and the Origin of the cursus honorum in the Middle Republic). Then he was scholar in residence at the Center for Hellenic Studies in Washington DC. He is now employed as Professor in the Department of History and Classical Studies at McGill University in Montreal, holding the John MacNaughton Chair of Classics and serving as Director of Classical Studies within the Faculty of Arts.

Beck is a specialist in classical Greece and the Roman Republic. He focuses on governments and federations in Greece, the political culture of Rome, the ancient aristocracy and historiography. Between 1998 and 2002 he contributed more than 80 articles for the New Pauly, mainly in Greek history, prosopography and geography, including several major subject articles. He is editor of the Göttinger Forum für Altertumswissenschaft.

Selected Publications

• Polis und Koinon. Untersuchungen zur Geschichte und Struktur der griechischen Bundesstaaten im 4. Jhdt. v. Chr. (Polis and Koinon. Investigation of the History and Structure of the Greek Federal State in the Fourth Century BC), Steiner, Stuttgart 1997 ISBN 3-515-07117-2 (Historia Einzelschriften, Vol 114).
• Editor with Uwe Walter: Die Frühen Römischen Historiker I. Von Fabius Pictor bis Cn. Gellius (The Early Roman Historians I: From Fabius Pictor to Gn. Gellius, Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft, Darmstadt 2001, ISBN 3-534-14757-X (Texte zur Forschung, Vol. 76)
  • E-book edition 2003, 2nd revised edition 2005 (ISBN 3-534-19048-3)
• Editor with Uwe Walter: Die Frühen Römischen Historiker II. Von Coelius Antipater bis Pomponius Atticus, Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft, Darmstadt 2004, ISBN 3-534-14758-8 (Texte zur Forschung, Vol. 77)
• Karriere und Hierarchie. Die römische Aristokratie und die Anfänge des cursus honorum in der mittleren Republik, Akademie, Berlin 2005, ISBN 3-05-004154-4 (Klio supplement, New Series, Vol. 10).
• Editor with Peter Scholz und Uwe Walter: Die Macht der Wenigen. Aristokratische Herrschaftspraxis, Kommunikation und edler Lebensstil in Antike und Früher Neuzeit (The Battle of the Least. Aristocratic Rulership Practice, Communication and Elite Lifestyle in Antiquity and the Early Modern Period), Oldenbourg, München 2008 ISBN 978-3-486-58726-5 (Historische Zeitschrift, Supplement, New Series, Vol. 47)
• With John Buckler: Central Greece and the Politics of Power in the Fourth Century BC., Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 2008
• Editor with Hans-Ulrich Wiemer: Feiern und Erinnern. Geschichtsbilder im Spiegel antiker Feste (Celebration and Commemoration. Historical Images in the Games of Ancient Festivals), Verlag Antike, Berlin 2009 (Studien zur Alten Geschichte).
• Editor with Antonio Dupla, Francisco Pina Polo und Martin Jehne: Consuls and Res Publica. Holding High Office in Republican Rome, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 2011

Weblinks

• Publications by and about Hans Beck in the catalgoue of the Deutschen Nationalbibliothek
• McGill University Profile