About our staff
Professor Andrew Erskine
Professor of Ancient History
- Tel: +44 (0)131 650 3591
- Email: Andrew.Erskine@ed.ac.uk
- Room 1.13, William Robertson Wing, Old Medical School, Teviot Place
Current Students:
| Name | Degree | Thesis topic | Supervision type | Link |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ellis, Sam | PhD | The discourse of one-man rule and its justification in the context of the Greek poleis from the Archaic Period to the Early Hellenistic Period | Secondary | |
| Mazloum, Gladys | PhD | Characterization in the Histories of Polybius | Primary | |
| McCaffrey, David | PhD | Post-Conflict Settlement in the Seleucid empire | Primary | |
| Moodie, Meg | PhD | Funerary Architecture of Ancient North Africa from the Prehistoric to the Third Century BCE | Secondary | |
| Velliou, Panagiota | PhD | Language and Politics in the World of the Hellenistic Poleis: the Evidence of Inscriptions | Joint | link |
Past Students:
| Name | Degree | Thesis topic | Supervision type | Completion year | Link |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Herzogenrath-Amelung, Tristan | PhD | A comparative analysis of military loyalty in the armies of the Greek city-states and Hellenistic kingdoms | Primary | 2018 | |
| Valachova, Cas | PhD | The Political and philosophical strategies of Roman Epicureans in the Late Republic | Primary | 2018 | link |
| Close, Elke | PhD | Megalopolis and the Achaean Koinon: Local identity and the federal state | Primary | 2017 | link |
| Gale, Liam | PhD | The Hellenistic Galatians: Representation and self-presentation | Primary | 2017 | |
| Dubreuil, Raphaela | PhD | Theatrica and political action in Plutarch | Secondary | 2017 | |
| Ito, Masayuki | PhD | Roman diplomatic methods in the middle republic | Primary | 2016 | |
| Parmar, Hiteshkumar | PhD | Strabo and India | Secondary | 2016 | |
| Nenci, Nicola | PhD | Taking Apollo by the horns. Reconsidering the cult(s) of Apollo Karneios in the Mediterranean | Secondary | 2016 | link |
| Murray, Lauren | PhD | Aristocratic fathers and sons in the middle and late Roman republic | Primary | 2015 | |
| Holton, John | PhD | The image of the Basileus: The common character of royal self-presentation in the early Hellenistic world (323-276 BC) | Primary | 2014 | |
| Lu, Houliang | PhD | Xenophon’s Theory of Moral Education | Secondary | 2014 | |
| Megrelis, Marc | PhD | Religion and cultural conservatism in Lycia: Xanthos and the Letoon | Primary | 2013 | link |
| Liong, Katherine | PhD | Cicero de re militari: a civilian perspective on military matters in the late republic | Primary | 2011 | |
| Wallace, Shane | PhD | The Freedom of the Greeks in the Early Hellenistic Period. A Study of the Ruler/City Relations | Primary | 2011 |
Books - Authored
Waterfield, R. and Erskine, A. (2016) Plutarch: Hellenistic Lives Including Alexander the Great. Oxford University Press
Erskine, A. (2010) Roman Imperialism. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press
Erskine, A. (2001) Troy between Greece and Rome: Local Tradition and Imperial Power. Oxford: Oxford University Press
Erskine, A. (1990) The Hellenistic Stoa: Political Thought and Action. London: Gerald Duckworth & Co.
Books - Edited
Canevaro, M., Erskine, A., Gray, B. and Ober, J. (eds.) (2018) Ancient Greek History and Contemporary Social Science. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University PressDOI: https://doi.org/10.3366/edinburgh/9781474421775.001.0001
Erskine, A., Llewellyn-Jones, L. and Wallace, S. (eds.) (2017) The Hellenistic Court: Monarchic Power and Elite Society from Alexander to Cleopatra. Classical Press of WalesDOI: https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctt1z27gr0
Erskine, A., Bagnall, R., Brodersen, K., Champion, C. and Huebner, S. (eds.) (2013) The Encyclopedia of Ancient History. WileyDOI: https://doi.org/10.1002/9781444338386
Erskine, A. and Llewellyn-Jones, L. (eds.) (2010) Creating a Hellenistic World. Swansea: Classical Press of Wales
Berry, D. and Erskine, A. (eds.) (2010) Form and Function in Roman Oratory. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press
Bremmer, J. and Erskine, A. (eds.) (2010) The Gods of Ancient Greece: Identities and Transformations. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press
Erskine, A. (ed.) (2009) A Companion to Ancient History. Wiley-BlackwellDOI: https://doi.org/10.1002/9781444308372
Erskine, A. (ed.) (2003) A Companion to the Hellenistic World. Oxford: Wiley-BlackwellDOI: https://doi.org/10.1002/9780470996584
Articles
Erskine, A. (2004) Book review: B. Dignas, Economy of the Sacred in Hellenistic and Roman Asia Minor. The Journal of Roman Studies (JRS), pp. 263 - 264DOI: https://doi.org/10.2307/4135084
Erskine, A. (2003) Cicero and the Shaping of Hellenistic Philosophy. Hermathena, 175, pp. 5-15
Erskine, A. (2002) Life after death: Alexandria and the body of Alexander. Greece and Rome, 49, pp. 163-179
Erskine, A. (2000) Polybios and Barbarian Rome. Mediterraneo Antico 3, pp. 165-182
Erskine, A. (1998) Cato, Caesar and the Name of the Republic in Lucan 2. Scholia 7, pp. 118-20
Erskine, A. (1998) Trojan Horseplay in Rome. Dialogos: Hellenic Studies Review 5, 5, pp. 131-38
Erskine, A. (1997) Delos, Aeneas and IG XI.4.756. Zeitschrift fur Papyrologie und Epigraphik, pp. 133-37
Erskine, A. (1997) Greek Gifts and Roman Suspicion. Classics Ireland, pp. 33-45
Erskine, A. (1997) Greekness and Uniqueness: the Cult of the Senate in the Greek East. Phoenix 51, pp. 25-37
Erskine, A. (1996) Money-Loving Romans. Papers of the Leeds International Latin Seminar, pp. 1-11
Erskine, A. (1995) Culture and power in Ptolemaic Egypt: The Museum and Library of Alexandria. Greece and Rome, 42(1), pp. 38-48
Erskine, A. (1991) Hellenistic monarchy and Roman political invective. The Classical Quarterly, 41(1), pp. 106-120DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/S000983880000358X
Chapters
Erskine, A. (2020) Changes of fortune: Polybius and the transformation of Greece. In: Klooster, J. and Kuin, I. (eds.) After the Crisis: Remembrance, Re-anchoring and Recovery in Ancient Greece and Rome. London: Bloomsbury Academic, pp. 65-81
Erskine, A. (2018) Standing up to the Demos: Plutarch, Phocion and the democratic life. In: Canevaro, M. and Gray, B. (eds.) The Hellenistic Reception of Classical Athenian Democracy and Political Thought. Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp. 237-259DOI: https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198748472.003.0011
Erskine, A. (2014) Ruler cult and the Early Hellenistic City. In: Hauben, H. and Meeus, A. (eds.) The Age of the Successors and the Creation of the Hellenistic Kingdoms (323-276 B.C.). Peeters, pp. 579-598
Erskine, A. (2013) Encountering Carthage: Mid-Republican Rome and Mediterranean culture. In: Gardner, A., Herring, E. and Lomas, K. (eds.) Creating Ethnicities & Identities in the Roman World. Oxford University Press, pp. 113-129
Erskine, A. (2013) The view from the East. In: Prag, J. and Crawley Quinn, J. (eds.) The Hellenistic West: Rethinking the Ancient Mediterranean. Cambridge University Press, pp. 14-34
Erskine, A. (2013) How to rule the world: Polybius Book 6 reconsidered. In: Gibson, B. and Harrison, T. (eds.) Polybius and his World: Essays in Memory of F.W. Walbank. Oxford University Press, pp. 231-246
Erskine, A. (2013) Founding Alexandria in the Alexandrian imagination. In: Ager, S. and Faber, R. (eds.) Belonging and Isolation in the Hellenistic World. University of Toronto Press, pp. 169-183DOI: https://doi.org/10.3138/9781442699441-017
Erskine, A. (2013) Polybius and Ptolemaic sea power. In: Buraselis, K., Stefanou, M. and Thompson, D. (eds.) The Ptolemies, the Sea and the Nile: Studies in Waterborne Power. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, pp. 82-96
Erskine, A. (2012) Polybius among the Romans: Life in the Cyclops' Cave. In: Smith, C. and Yarrow, L. (eds.) Imperialism, Cultural Politics, and Polybius. Oxford University Press, pp. 17-32DOI: https://doi.org/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199600755.003.0002
Berry, D. and Erskine, A. (2010) Form and function. In: Berry, D. and Erskine, A. (eds.) Form and Function in Roman Oratory. Cambridge University Press, pp. 1-17
Erskine, A. (2009) Ancient History and National Identity. In: Erskine, A. (ed.) A Companion to Ancient History. Wiley-Blackwell, pp. 555-63
Erskine, A. (2007) Cicero and the Expression of Grief. In: S Morton Braund, C. (ed.) The Passions in Roman Thought and Literature. Cambridge University Press, pp. 36-47
Erskine, A. (2006) Rhetoric and Persuasion in the Hellenistic World: Speaking up for the Polis. In: Worthington, I. (ed.) A Companion to Greek Rhetoric. Blackwell Publishing Ltd, pp. 272-85
Erskine, A. (2005) Unity and Identity: Shaping the Past in the Greek Mediterranean. In: Gruen, E. (ed.) Cultural Borrowings and Ethnic Appropriations in Antiquity (Oriens et Occidens 8). Franz Steiner, pp. 121-136
Erskine, A. (2004) The Trojan War in Italy: Myth and Local Tradition. In: Moron, J., Andreotti, G. and Ponce, F. (eds.) Historia y Mito: el pasado legendario como fuente de autoriadad. Centro de Ediciones de la Diputacion de Malaga, pp. 97-107
Erskine, A. (2003) Approaching the Hellenistic World. In: Erskine, A. (ed.) A Companion to the Hellenistic World. Oxford: Blackwell
Erskine, A. (2003) Distant Cousins and International Relations: Syngeneia in the Hellenistic World. In: K Buraselis, K. (ed.) The Idea of European Community in History: Aspects of Connecting Poleis and Ethne in Ancient Greece. Athens: Education Centre of Greece, pp. 203-216
Erskine, A. (2002) O Brother, Where are thou? Tales of Kinship and Diplomacy. In: Ogden, D. (ed.) New Perspectives on the Hellenistic World. London/Swansea: University of Wales Press/Duckworth, pp. 97-115
Erskine, A. (1999) Zenon. In: Brodersen, K. (ed.) GroBe Gestalten der griechischen Antike: 58 historische Portraits von Homer bis Kleopatra. C H Beck, pp. 414-20
Conference contribution
Erskine, A. (2015) Polybius and the anger of the Romans. In: Emotions Between Greece and Rome. Institute of Classical Studies, School of Advanced Study, University of London