Annabel Florence

Dr Annabel Florence is a Lecturer in Classics and Ancient History at the University of Queensland's School of Historical and Philosophical Inquiry, where she also serves as Integrity Officer. She is a Classicist and social historian of the Classical Greek world. Her research interests include the public finance, warfare, foreign policy, democracy, and economy of classical Athens, Greek and Latin epigraphy, and the material culture of the ancient world. Her current research focuses on the public financing of Athenian military campaigns during the fourth century BC. She teaches introductory, intermediate, and advanced classical Greek and Latin, as well as undergraduate courses in ancient history. In 2024, the University of Queensland Classics and Ancient History discipline announced her appointment to a permanent full-time position.

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.

Professional Email: a.florence@uq.edu.au