Rate My Professor Annabel Florence

Florence holds a Bachelor of Arts with First Class Honours and a Doctor of Philosophy from the University of Queensland, as well as a Bachelor of Business in Accountancy from Queensland University of Technology. Her PhD thesis, completed in 2020, is titled 'Athens after defeat: warmaking and public finance from 404/3 to 370/69 BC.' She has published a book chapter in 2024 entitled 'The Corinthian War (395/4-387/6 BC): Ships, walls and money' in The Economics of War in Ancient Greece, published by Bloomsbury. This chapter examines Athens' financial strategies during the Corinthian War, arguing that the city exercised tight control over its military finances to rebuild its fleet and pursue naval campaigns. She has presented research at conferences, including on Athenian revenue raising for warmaking and the campaign of Timotheus to Corcyra in 374/3 BC. Florence supervises higher degree by research students, serving as principal advisor for projects such as 'Modes of Kingship: Pyrrhus of Epirus and his Contemporary World' and associate advisor for topics including 'Democracy and Food Security in Fourth Century Athens,' 'Democracy at War: The Military Reforms of Fourth Century Athens,' 'The Connection Between Animals and Malefic Magic in the Ancient Roman World,' 'History and Archaeology of Hellenistic Female Merchants,' and 'For the New Age to Rise, the Old Must Fall: Greek Mythological and Philosophical Creation from Destruction, Chaos and Absence.' She has completed supervision of theses including 'Ram-Horn Iconography in the Cults of Apollo Karneios and Zeus Ammon' (2024) and 'Water and Fire: Representations of a Cataclysmic Past in Archaic Greek Literature' (2025). Additionally, she is Honorary Treasurer of the Australasian Society for Classical Studies.