Dr. Alexander Meeus
Alexander Meeus is a postdoctoral scholar (Akademischer Rat) in the department of Ancient History: he researches and teaches ancient Greek and Roman history. After obtaining his PhD at the University of Leuven (Belgium) in 2009, he has held postdoctoral positions in Leuven and at the University of Wales Trinity Saint David (Lampeter, UK), and lectured at the Radboud University (Nijmegen, the Netherlands). He came to Mannheim in September 2015 and stayed until September 2022.
His main research interests are ancient historiography – with particular attention for historical methods, history and society, and the understudied author Diodoros of Sicily – and Hellenistic history, focusing especially on international politics and the nature of kingship. He is also very interested in the role of inscriptions and coins as direct primary sources for the ancient world, and in the theory of history.
Topics recently taught include the Ptolemaic Empire, Historical Theory in Antiquity Between Nonsense and Intercultural Misunderstanding, the Persian Empire, Sicilian Tyrants, Herodotos, and Plutarch’s Parallel Lives of famous Greeks and Romans.
Publikationsliste
- Meeus, A. (2018). Introduction: Narrative and interpretation in the Hellenistic historians. HISTOS, Suppl., 1–22.
- Meeus, A. (2017). Compilation or tradition? Some thoughts on the methods of historians and other scholars in antiquity. Sacris Erudiri : A Journal on the Inheritance of Early and Medieval Christianity, 56, 395–413.
- Meeus, A. (2017). Medeios of Larissa (129). Brill's New Jacoby.
- Meeus, A. (2016). Kyrsilos of Pharsalos (130). Brill's New Jacoby.
- Meeus, A. (2016). Ägypten sollte nur der Anfang sein : König Ptolemaios I.. Damals : das Magazin für Geschichte, 48, 72–76.
- Meeus, A. (2013). Goddelijke koningen, gigantische oorlogsschepen en twee wereldwonderen : Politieke, sociale en culturele ontwikkelingen in de strijd om de opvolging van Alexander de Grote (323–276 v.C.). Tetradio: Tijdschrift van het Griekenlandcentrum, 22, 87–107.
- Meeus, A. (2012). Diodorus and the chronology of the Third Diadoch War. Phoenix : Journal of the Classical Association of Canada, 66, 74–96.
- Meeus, A. (2009). Some institutional problems concerning the succession to Alexander the Great: Prostasia and chiliarchy. Historia : Zeitschrift für alte Geschichte, 58, 287–310.
- Meeus, A. (2008). De territoriale ambities van de diadochen in de eerste jaren na de dood van Alexander de Grote (323–320 v.C.). Handelingen / Koninklijke Zuidnederlandse Maatschappij voor Taal- en Letterkunde en Geschiedenis, 61.2007, 219–236.
- Meeus, A. (2020). Truth, method and the historian’s character: The epistemic virtues of Greek and Roman historians. In Reconciling ancient and modern philosophies of history (S. 83–122). Berlin ; Boston: De Gruyter.
- Meeus, A. (2019). Life portraits: Royals and people in a globalizing world. In A companion to Greco-Roman and late antique Egypt (S. 89–99). Hoboken, NJ [u.a.]: Wiley Blackwell.
- Meeus, A. (2018). Friendship and betrayal: The alliances among the Diadochoi. In Ancient Macedonians in the Greek and Roman sources : from history to historiography (S. 103–136). Swansea: Classical Press of Wales.
- Meeus, A. (2018). History’s aims and audience in the proem to Diodoros’ Bibliotheke. In Diodoros of Sicily : historiographical theory and practice in the Bibliotheke (S. 149–174). Leuven ; Paris ; Bristol: Peeters.
- Meeus, A., Hau, I. L. und Sheridan, B. (2018). Introduction. In Diodoros of Sicily : historiographical theory and practice in the Bibliotheke (S. 3–12). Leuven ; Paris ; Bristol: Peeters.
- Meeus, A. (2017). Ktesias of Knidos : poet, novelist or historian? In Truth and history in the ancient world : pluralising the past (S. 172–201). London: Routledge.
- Meeus, A. (2015). The career of Sostratos of Knidos: Politics, diplomacy and the Alexandrian building programme in the early Hellenistic period. In Greece, Macedon and Persia : studies in social, political and military history in honour of Waldemar Heckel (S. 143–171). Oxford ; Philadelphia: Oxbow Books.
- Meeus, A. (2015). Xenogoras (1757). In Die Fragmente der Griechischen Historiker Continued. Part IV E, Paradoxography and Antiquities. IV 2; Antiquities (S. ). Leiden: Brill.
- Hauben, H. und Meeus, A. (2014). Introduction. New perspectives on the age of the successors. In The age of the successors and the creation of the Hellenistic kingdoms (323 – 276 B.C.) (S. 1–8). Leuven ; Paris ; Bristol: Peeters.
- Meeus, A. (2014). The territorial ambitions of Ptolemy I. In The age of the successors and the creation of the Hellenistic kingdoms (323 – 276 B.C.) (S. 263–306). Leuven ; Paris ; Bristol: Peeters.
- Meeus, A. (2013). Confusing aim and result? Hindsight and the disintegration of Alexander the Great's empire. In Hindsight in Greek and Roman History (S. 113–148). Swansea: Classical Press of Wales.
- Meeus, A. (2013). What we do not know about the age of the Diadochi: the methodological consequences of the gaps in the evidence. In After Alexander: the time of the Diadochi (323–281 B.C.) (S. 84–98). Oxford: Oxbow Books.
- Meeus, A. (2009). Alexander’s image in the age of the successors. In Alexander the Great : a new history (S. 235–250). Malden, MA [u.a.]: Wiley-Blackwell.
- Meeus, A. (2009). Kleopatra and the Diadochoi. In Faces of Hellenism : studies in the history of the Eastern Mediterranean (4th century B. C. – 5th century A. D.) (S. 63–92). Leuven ; Paris ; Bristol: Peeters.
- Meeus, A. (2022). The history of the Diadochoi in book XIX of Diodoros' Bibliotheke : a historical and historiographical commentary. Berlin, Boston, Mass.: De Gruyter.
- Trampedach, K. und Meeus, A. (Hrsg.) (2020). The legitimation of conquest : monarchical representation and the art of government in the empire of Alexander the Great. Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag.
- Hau, I. L., Meeus, A. und Sheridan, B. (Hrsg.) (2018). Diodoros of Sicily : historiographical theory and practice in the Bibliotheke. Leuven ; Paris ; Bristol: Peeters.
- Meeus, A. (2020). The Diadochi (323–301 B.C.E.). In , T&T Clark encyclopedia of second temple Judaism (S. ). London [u.a.]: T&T Clarke.
- Meeus, A. (2013). Antigonos I Monophthalmos. In , The encyclopedia of ancient history (S. 459–461). Chichester [u.a.]: Wiley-Blackwell.
- Meeus, A. (2013). Hieronymos of Kardia. In , The encyclopedia of ancient history (S. 3214-3215). Chichester [u.a.]: Wiley-Blackwell.
- Meeus, A. (2013). Polyperchon. In , The encyclopedia of ancient history (S. 5398-5399). Chichester [u.a.]: Wiley-Blackwell.
- Meeus, A. (2013). Successors, Wars of. In , The encyclopedia of ancient history (S. 6432-6434). Chichester [u.a.]: Wiley-Blackwell.
- Meeus, A. (2013). Triparadeisos, treaty of. In , The encyclopedia of ancient history (S. 6864-6865). Chichester [u.a.]: Wiley-Blackwell.
- Mann, C. und Meeus, A. (2019). Der Streit um Alexander den Großen: Die tagespolitische Relevanz der Alten Geschichte im Balkan. AGON : Alte Geschichte: Online News, 4. Februar 2019. Mannheim: Lehrstuhl für Alte Geschichte der Universität Mannheim.
- Meeus, A. (2018). Reading Thucydides’ rhetoric. AGON : Alte Geschichte: Online News. Mannheim: Lehrstuhl für Alte Geschichte der Universität Mannheim.
- Meeus, A. (2017). „Immer der Beste zu sein“: Die agonale Kultur der Griechen. AGON : Alte Geschichte: Online News, 09.06.2017. Mannheim: Lehrstuhl für Alte Geschichte der Universität Mannheim.
- Meeus, A. (2012). Robin Waterfield, Dividing the Spoils. The War for Alexander the Great's Empire (Ancient Warfare and Civilization). Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2011. Pp. XXVII + 273. ISBN 978-0-19-957392-9. £18,99. Review, The Ancient History Bulletin = Revue d'histoire ancienne = Zeitschrift für alte Geschichte
- Meeus, A. (2009). Errington (R.M.) A History of the Hellenistic World 323–30 BC. Pp. xx + 348, ills, maps. Malden, MA and Oxford: Blackwell Publishing, 2008. Paper, £19.99, €27 (Cased, £55, €74.30). ISBN: 978-0-631-23388-6 (978-0-631-23387-9 hbk). Review, The Classical Review
- Meeus, A. (2009). Franca Landucci Gattinoni, Diodoro Siculo: Biblioteca storica: libro XVIII: commento storico. Storia. Ricerche. Milano: Vita e Pensiero, 2008. Pp. liii, 345. ISBN 9788834315781. €30.00 (pb).. Review, Bryn Mawr Classical Review : BMCR