Staff in Classics
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
Books - Edited
Canevaro, M., Gray, B., Erskine, A. and Ober, J. (eds.) (2018) Ancient Greek History and Contemporary Social Science. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press
Llewellyn-Jones, L., Erskine, A. and Wallace, S. (eds.) (2017) The Hellenistic Court: Monarchic Power and Elite Society from Alexander to Cleopatra. Classical Press of Wales
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., 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-Blackwell
Articles
Erskine, A. (2004) Book review: B. Dignas, Economy of the Sacred in Hellenistic and Roman Asia Minor. Journal of Roman Studies, 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 library and museum at Alexandria. Greece and Rome, 42(1), pp. 38-48
Chapters
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. 237-59DOI: 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) 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) 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
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. Bulletin of the Institute of Classical Studies