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.

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