Hans van Wees
Hans van Wees | |
|---|---|
| Academic background | |
| Thesis | Status Warriors: War, Violence and Society in Homer and History |
| Academic work | |
| Discipline | Classicist and historian |
| Institutions | Grote Professor of Ancient History at University College London |
Hans van Wees is a classicist and Grote Professor of Ancient History at University College London.
Academic career
His doctoral thesis was developed into a book and published in 1992 as Status Warriors: War, Violence and Society in Homer and History.[1][2] In 2000, he was editor of War and Violence in Ancient Greece.[3]
He was Lecturer, Reader and Professor at University College London from 1995 until 2011, when he became Grote Professor of Ancient History. He was PhD supervisor for Errietta Bissa, Roel Konijnendijk, Cezary Kucewicz, and Beatrice Pestarino.[4]
He published Greek Warfare: Myths and Realities in 2005. The book provides a general overview of the practice of warfare in ancient Greece, challenging long-standing assumptions about the purpose and nature of war presented by scholars like Victor Davis Hanson.[5][6]
In 2013, he published Ships, Silver, Taxes and Tribute: A Fiscal History of Archaic Athens. The book was praised for its insight on public finance in the archaic poleis.[7][8]
He has co-edited multiple volumes, including Competition in the Ancient World[9] and Cambridge History of Greek and Roman Warfare.[10]
References
- ^ "Review of: van Wees, Status Warriors". Bryn Mawr Classical Review. ISSN 1055-7660.
- ^ Hamilton, Charles D. (1993-12-01). "Hans Van Wees. Status Warriors: War, Violence and Society in Homer and History. (Dutch Monographs on Ancient History and Archaeology, number 9.) Amsterdam: J. C. Gieben. 1992. Pp. 455. f. 130". The American Historical Review. 98 (5): 1579. doi:10.1086/ahr/98.5.1579. ISSN 1937-5239.
- ^ "Hans van WEES (ed.), War and Violence in Ancient Greece". www.classicsireland.com. Retrieved 2026-03-23.
- ^ admin. "Professor Hans van Wees | UCL Faculty of Social & Historical Sciences". www.ucl.ac.uk. Retrieved 2026-03-23.
- ^ "Review of: Greek Warfare. Myths and Realities". Bryn Mawr Classical Review. ISSN 1055-7660.
- ^ Trundle, Matthew (2006). Van Wees, H. (ed.). "Greek Warfare". The Classical Review. 56 (1): 153–155. doi:10.1017/S0009840X0500079X. ISSN 0009-840X. JSTOR 3873566.
- ^ Peacock, Mark (August 2015). "Hans van Wees, Ships, Silver, Taxes and Tribute: A Fiscal History of Archaic Athens (London and New York: I. B. Tauris, 2014, x + 213 pp., £58, ISBN 978-1-78076-686-7)". Financial History Review. 22 (2): 255–257. doi:10.1017/S096856501500013X. ISSN 0968-5650.
- ^ "Review of: Ships and Silver, Taxes and Tribute: A Fiscal History of Archaic Athens". Bryn Mawr Classical Review. ISSN 1055-7660.
- ^ Golden, Mark (2011). "Competition in the Ancient World ed. by Nick Fisher and Hans van Wees (review)". Mouseion: Journal of the Classical Association of Canada. 55 (2): 245–248. doi:10.1353/mou.2011.0020. ISSN 1913-5416.
- ^ "Hans van Wees". Bloomsbury.