Jean Coert. Send encrypted email via the SecureMail portal for TUD external users only. Professur für Alte Geschichte. Bürohaus Zellescher Weg BZW 17, A Zellescher Weg Feriensprechstunden finden am Um eine vorige Anmeldung per E-Mail wird gebeten. Current research project: Shaming sexual deviances with Attic eloquence The aim of the project is to systematically work out the significance of sexuality, love relationships and gender identity for the public image of ancient politicians and their political practice.
The aim is to trace the development of sexual ideals that were expected of public political figures and to investigate the consequences of not fulfilling these expectations. The extent to which sexual deviancy could be used to defame and shame politicians, thereby attacking, limiting and damaging their public reputation and their scope for political action, will be investigated.
The extent to which the amorous private lives of these individuals could influence their careers, public acceptance and political success and be used as a weapon against them by their opponents will be discussed. The hypothesis will be pursued that standardized forms of sexual shaming and defamation in the political public sphere developed in Attic rhetoric of the classical period, which were adopted in the late Republic and Imperial period in Rome and continued there in rhetoric on the one hand and also found expression in the literary genre of political biography on the other.
Completed research project: Inservientes reges. Client rulers as an imperial elite of the early Principate.
By investigating whether Augustus systemically created a new imperial elite alongside the Roman nobility with the client kings, this dissertation project aims to contribute to a radical rethinking of previous research approaches to the imperial elite and the Roman nobility in the early Principate. It systematically investigates how Augustus reshaped, renewed and reformed the integration of the client kings into the Imperium Romanum and their relationship with Rome and explores the associated repercussions on the Roman imperial apparatus, the imperial center and the nobility.
