Dr. Jean Coert

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Dr. Jean Coert

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Professur für Alte Geschichte

Professur für Alte Geschichte

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Visiting address:

Bürohaus Zellescher Weg (BZW) 17, A 523 Zellescher Weg 17

01062 Dresden

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Office hours:

Sprechstunden finden in der vorlesungsfreien Zeit am 22.07.25, 13:00 - 14:00 Uhr, und am 01.09.25, 13:00 - 14:00 Uhr, (ohne Voranmeldung) statt.

Core research areas

  • Political culture of classical Athens and republican and imperial Rome
  • Roman imperial conception and foreign policy in the late Republic and the Imperial period
  • The late Hellenistic East
  • Client kings and forms of rule in the Roman periphery
  • The shaming and defamation of sexual deviance in Attic and Roman rhetoric
  • Gender history and forms of sexual and partner deviance in antiquity
  • Reception of antiquity in digital media

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. Following on from this, it discusses whether these changes can be understood as deliberate interventions in the structure of the imperial elite, which aimed to weaken and destabilize potential competitors of the Iulian-Claudian emperors or the urban Roman aristocracy and possibly to replace them in some regions of the empire. In this context, the extent to which this contributed to the establishment, strengthening and legitimization of the young principate and influenced the imperial position in the long term is also discussed.

Curriculum Vitae

Since 04/2023 Research Associate (Postdoctoral Researcher) at the TUD Dresden University of Technology
10/2018 until 03/2023 Research Associate at the University of Bremen
Winter semester 2017/2018 to winter semester 2022/2023

Doctoral student in the subject Ancient History

Dissertation topic: "Früher wurde Rom von Königen regiert" – Auswärtige Fürsten als Reichselite des Prinzipats? (submission of the dissertation 09/2022, defense 03/2023)
Winter semester 2015/2016 to summer semester 2017

Master's degree in History at the Freie Universität Berlin
Winter semester 2013/2014 to summer semester 2017 Mentor in History at the Friedrich Meinecke Institute, Freie Universität Berlin
Winter semester 2012/2013 to summer semester 2015

Bachelor's degree in History/Philosophy at the Freie Universität Berlin
1994 Birth in Berlin

Scholarships and stays abroad

Memberships

Academic functions

  • since 06/2023: deputy mid-level representative on the Institute Council of the Institute of History
  • since 05/2023: Subject advisor for Ancient History in the Bachelor's, Master's and
    teacher training programs and in the Master's program Classical Studies

Publications (selection)

Monograph

  • 1. Inservientes reges. Klientelherrscher als Reichselite des frühen Prinzipats. (Diss. Bremen 2023, in Druckvorbereitung)

Editorship

Articles (with review process)

Prosopography articles

1.-42 42 articles on Rome's friends and client rulers from Northwest Africa, Egypt, Meroë, the Levant, Arabia, Ceylon, Caucasia, Asia Minor, Greece and Britain (from the Middle Republic/Hellenism to Late Antiquity) in: Coşkun, Altay; Bräckel, Oliver; Coert, Jean (eds.): Amici Populi Romani (APR 7-13). Prosopography of the foreign friends of Rome/ Prosopographie der auswärtigen Freunde Roms. Waterloo, On. 2017-2023.

Transfer and science communication

2022-2023 Co-supervision and organization of public, scientific lecture programs in the Bremen House of Science as deputy chairman of the Freundeskreis der Antike zu Bremen e.V.

2021-2023 Founding member, editorial member and co-editor of the podcast "Kleio - Historians of the University of Bremen in Conversation"

Reviews

Scientific presentations and conference contributions (selection)

  • Shaming sexual deviance with Attic Eloquence
    - Tagung: Ancient Sexuality Revisited, King’s College London, Großbritannien (26.06.2025)

  • Royal veterans welfare. Client rulers as patrons and benefactors of veteran Roman soldiers in the early principate
    -  XXVI. Limes Congress, Staatliche Schota-Rustaweli-Universität Batumi, Georgien (11.09.2024)

  • Die verlorenen Prinzen Mauretaniens. Überlegungen zum mauretanischen Interregnum und der ersten Vergabe des römischen Bürgerrechts an ein auswärtiges Königshaus
    - workshop „Amici Populi Romani: Friendship Diplomacy, Networking, and Digital Opportunities”, Universität Leipzig (29.05.2024)

  • Damen, die vor dem Traualtar zu Herren wurden. Der Nachweis gleichgeschlechtlicher Ehen und der Geschlechtsfluidität in der römischen Kaiserzeit

    - Deutsche Schülerakademie Roßleben (09.08.2023)

  • Des Kaisers neue Machthaber. Klientelherrscher als neue Reichselite im iulisch-claudischen Prinzipat?

    - Mitteldeutsches Althistorikertreffen, TU Dresden (09.06.2023)

  • The last royal patron. Defining senatorial and imperial power through client kingdoms in the Augustan principate

    - Althistorisches Forschungskolloquium, Universität Kopenhagen, Dänemark (28.02.2023)

  • Imperium cum fine? The redefinition of senatorial and royal administrative spaces in the early principate

    - Tagung: L’éloignement du pouvoir. Approches historique, littéraire et anthropologique, Universität Limoges, Frankreich (26.01.2023)

  • Inservientes reges. Die königliche Elite des Prinzeps Augustus

    - Kolloquium des Seminars für Alte Geschichte, Eberhard-Karls-Universität Tübingen (12.07.2022)

  • Auf den Pfaden von Caesar und Sokrates am heimischen Bildschirm. Rezeption und Vermittlung der Antike in Videospielen

    - Landeskongress Latein und Griechisch des rheinland-pfälzischen Landesverbandes im Deutschen Altphilologenverband, Universität Trier (18.09.2021)

  • Renuntiatio amicitiae. Der kaiserliche Freundschaftsentzug als Instrument der Gewalt und Ordnung im Imperium Romanum

    - Vis omnia vincit? Neue Perspektiven zur Gewalt in der griechisch-römischen Antike. Interdisziplinäre Nachwuchstagung in Hamburg, Universität Hamburg (16.02.2021)

  • Eine virtuelle Zeitreise ins alte Rom. Über die Antikerezeption und Geschichtsforschung in Videospielen.

    -  Freundeskreis der Antike zu Bremen e.V., Haus der Wissenschaft Bremen (07.12.2020)

    - Deutsche Schülerakademie Urspring (14.08.2019)

  • "Früher wurde Rom von Königen regiert" - Auswärtige Fürsten als Reichsnobilität des Prinzipats?

    - Interdisziplinäres Kolloquium zur Literatur und Kultur des griechisch-römischen Mittelmeerraums, Ruhr-Universität Bochum (03.12.2019)

    - Colloquium Chaucense, Universität Bremen (24.05.2019)

    - 3. Norddeutscher Doktorandenworkshop der Altertumswissenschaften, Universität Osnabrück (27.04.2019)

    - Internationale Winterschule "Client States in the Ancient World", Staatliche Iwane-Jawakishvili Universität Tiflis, Georgien (26.02.2019)

  • Der digitale furor teutonicus. Geschichtsforschung im Videospiel am Beispiel antiker Germanenbilder.

    - Jahrestagung der Arbeitsgemeinschaft Geschichte und EDV "Wort und Bild vernetzen", Philipps-Universität Marburg (29.11.2019)

  • Free Folk vs Kneelers. Observations on ancient topoi and narratives of the north of Game of Thrones.

    - International Conference: Game of Thrones. Views from the Humanities, Universität Sevilla und Universität Pablo de Olavide, Spanien (15.05.2019)

  • "Once kings reigned Rome" - Foreign princes as imperial nobility of the Principate?

    - Staatliche Demidow-Universität Jaroslawl, Russland (06.03.2019)

  • The client kings of the Roman Empire

    - Staatliche Demidow-Universität Jaroslawl, Russland (06.03.2019)

  • Die Klientelkönige des Imperium Romanum

    - Internationale Winterschule "Client States in the Ancient World", Staatliche Iwane-Jawakishvili Universität Tiflis, Georgien (25.02.2019)

  • (zusammen mit Tassilo Schmitt): Wer war Fl. Dades? Epigraphische und archäologische Aspekte.

    - International Symposium: Advances in Black Sea Studies: Scholarly Traditions and Preservation of Cultural Heritage, Constanta, Rumänien (21.08.2018)

Lectures

TUD Dresden University of Technology

SoSe 2025: Excersice: Earth and Water - Reception of the Persian Wars in Comics and (Board)Games (together with Dr. Mathias Herrmann)

Seminar: Sparta and Athens shake Hellas. Greece in the 5th century BCE.

WiSe 2024/2025: Reading course: Political speeches and rhetoric in classical and Hellenistic Athens

Proseminar: Disciplines and methodes - ancient history.

Summer semester 2024: Seminar: Under the sign of the cross. The late antique Imperium Romanum and early Christianity under Constantine I.

Proseminar: Introduction to ancient historical methods and sources

WiSe 2023/2024: Seminar: The First. Augustus and the creation of the Roman Empire

Reading course: Sexuality, gender identity and partnership in antiquity

Summer semester 2023: Proseminar: Germanic peoples on the borders of the Imperium Romanum. Cultural contacts, identity constructions and political ambitions on the Rhine and the Danube

Reading course: Images of the North in ancient literature

German Pupils' Academy (program for gifted students offered by "Bildung & Begabung")

Course at the Roßleben Academy 2023: Germane, Arier, Übermensch. Germanic peoples in antiquity and their modern reception

University of Bremen

Winter semester 2022/2023: Seminar: Sex, sexuality and sexual identity in Greco-Roman antiquity

Summer semester 2022: Seminar: Athens in the classical period

WiSe 2021/2022: Seminar: Nero and the early Principate

Summer semester 2021: Seminar: Germanic tribes. Historiographical, ethnographical and archaeological aspects

Winter semester 2020/2021: Seminar: The Hellenistic East and the Roman Republic

Summer semester 2020: Seminar: The Persian Wars

Winter semester 2019/2020: Seminar: The Attic League

Summer semester 2019: Seminar: Augustus

WiSe 2018/2019: Seminar: Rome and the kings

German Pupils' Academy (support program for gifted students from "Bildung & Begabung")

Course at Urspring Academy 2019: Germanic tribes - demystifying a myth of European cultural history

Course at the Braunschweig Academy 2018: Cleopatra - Demystifying an ancient myth

Free University of Berlin

Winter semester 2013/2014 - summer semester 2017: regular mentoring sessions for first-year students, introducing them to researching, working and writing in history

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