Rate My Professor Clemens Koehn

Dr. Koehn's research interests include Hellenistic history and historiography, especially Polybius; Greek epigraphy; late antiquity, particularly 6th-century history under Justinian; history of Roman law, both constitutional and private; ancient military history, especially Roman artillery and asymmetrical warfare; and experimental archaeology. He teaches a wide range of units, including ANCH110 Introduction to Ancient Greece, ANCH307/507 Alexander the Great and the Hellenistic World, ANCH351/551 Warfare in the Ancient World, HIST510 Imperialism in the Roman Republic, and classical language courses such as CLLA402 Advanced Classical Texts and CLLA403 Classical Prose Texts. Key publications comprise the monograph 'Krieg-Diplomatie-Ideologie. Zur Außenpolitik hellenistischer Mittelstaaten' (Historia-Einzelschrift 195, Steiner Verlag, Stuttgart, 2007), the co-edited volume 'Polybios und seine Historien' (Steiner Verlag, Stuttgart, 2013), 'Die Eumenesrede (Polybios XXI 19-21) und die Neuordnung Kleinasiens 189/88 v. Chr.' (Hermes 135, 2007), 'Pompeius, Cassius und Augustus. Bemerkungen zum imperium maius' (Chiron 40, 2010), and 'Some Remarks on Weaponry and Tactics of Justinian's Hippotoxotai' (2013). Notable grants and awards include funding from the Varusgesellschaft (2011), Gerda-Henkel-Stiftung (2010), Deutsches Archäologisches Institut travel grant (2008), and DAAD PhD research funding (2003). He is a Fellow of the Deutsches Archäologisches Institut and a member of the Australasian Society for Classical Studies.