Andrew Erskine
Biographic Data
| ID | 3599735 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Andrew Erskine |
| GIVEN NAMES | Andrew |
| FAMILY NAME | Erskine |
| SIGNATURE | ERSKINE A |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Edinburgh |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-4715-3779 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 74 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 234 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 66 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 8 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1991 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
Sheila Ager and Hans Beck. Localism in Hellenistic Greece
Imperialism in the Roman Empire (east)
In 229 bce , when Roman forces first crossed the Adriatic Sea to fight the Illyrians, the eastern Mediterranean was a Greco‐Macedonian domain. Dynasties that traced their origin back to Macedon ruled in kingdoms based in Egypt, Syria, and Macedon itself. In mainland Greece there were also two influential confederations, the Aitolian League and the Achaian League. By the end of the first century bce this whole power structure had been overthrown. …
Aemilius Paullus, Lucius
Lucius Aemilius Paullus (ca. 228–160 bce ) was one of the leading Roman generals of the second century bce , celebrated in particular for his victory over the Macedonian king Perseus.
Changes of Fortune: Polybius and the Transformation of Greece
P aul J. K osmin . Time and Its Adversaries in the Seleucid Empire
The Seleucid Empire, the largest of the Hellenistic empires that followed the death of Alexander, has been something of a growth area in recent scholarship. Paul J. Kosmin’s contribution has been both distinctive and important. His new book is in many ways a companion piece to his earlier one, The Land of the Elephant Kings (2014). Where that treated the concept of space and territory in the Seleucid Empire, this second book, Time and Its Adversa…
Ancient Greek History and Contemporary Social Science
Social scientists and political theorists have recently come to realize the potential importance of the classical Greek world and its legacy for testing social theories. Meanwhile, some Hellenists have mastered the techniques of contemporary social science. They have come to recognize the value of formal and quantitative methods as a complement to traditional qualitative approaches to Greek history and culture. Some of the most exciting new work …
Ancient Greek History and Contemporary Social Science
Defines the cutting-edge of scholarship on ancient Greek history employing methods from social science There is a long history of successful engagement between social science and classical studies. Social science has been a source of new and productive approaches to understanding ancient Greece, while classical Greek history and culture has been a touchstone for social theorists since the 19th century. This new collection of essays surveys the cu…
Sphairos of Borysthenes
Sphairos of Borysthenes was a third‐century bce Stoic philosopher, a pupil of Zeno and Kleanthes. He is particularly well known for his involvement in the Spartan revolution of Kleomenes III in the 220 s bce .
The Hellenistic Court: Monarchic Power and Elite Society from Alexander to Cleopatra
Hellenistic Court: Monarchic Power and Elite Society from Alexander to Cleopatra
Memphis under the Ptolemies
Memphis was long one of the foremost cities of Pharaonic Egypt. Founded around 3000 B.C., it was a city of great religious significance, rich in Egyptian traditions, home to the god Ptah, yet at th
Rome, Polybius, and the East
This volume offers a collection of seventeen of the more important papers written by the late Peter Derow during the course of his career. With a detailed introduction by the editors, it is essential reading for anyone interested in Roman imperialism or Polybius, and Rome's rise to Mediterranean power.
Polybius
This chapter presents a general account of the life and works of Polybius before placing him within the Greek historical tradition. It considers Polybius's historical account of the process whereby the Mediterranean world came to be conquered by Rome and how its several peoples (including the Romans) fared during the time of Roman rule. It also looks at Polybius's enumeration of Timaeus's defects as a historian, which reflects what he thought his…
Imperium, Imperial Space and Empire1
This chapter examines the Roman conception of empire in the 190s, with particular reference to the fundamental tension between Hellenistic Greece's notions of ‘imperial space’ and Rome's idea of imperium. It first provides an overview of the affairs of Greece between 196 and 192 before turning to Polybius's portrayal of the situation in Greece in relation to the defence of Philopoimen he offered to the Roman commissioners in 146/52. It then consi…
Polybios and the Embassy of Kallikrates
This chapter examines Polybius's account of the embassy of Kallikrates of Leontion, ambassador from the Achaian League to Rome. More specifically, it considers Polybius's argument that Kallikrates's embassy did not provide any real benefit for Rome and was the cause of the great misfortunes for all the Greeks. In 180 bc, Kallikrates advised the Roman Senate to intervene in local politics in the democratic states of Greece, a move for which he has…
Historical Explanation
This chapter focuses on one of the essential features of Polybius's approach to history: the need to find explanations. It begins with an overview of Greek historiography, focusing on the work of Herodotus and Thucydides as well as Hecataeus, before turning to Polybius. In particular, it examines Polybius's interpretation of the war between Antiochus and the Romans. Finally, it describes Greece under Rome's dominion.
Pharos and Rome
This chapter examines Louis Robert's texts about an inscription from Stari Grad on the Adriatic island of Hvar that bears evidence about the relations between Rome and the Greek city of Pharos. The texts suggest that Pharos had an alliance with Rome from some point in the third century bc. Apollonia and Corcyra and, to a lesser extent, Epidamnos, served regularly as landing and staging points during Rome's wars against Philip, Antiochus, and Pers…
Polybius and Ptolemaic sea power
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Hellenistic Parades and Roman Triumphs
This chapter explores the (often imagined) relationship between the Hellenistic royal processions and the Roman institution of the triumph. It highlights the very different contexts of each and suggests that scholars have often been too ready to find connections between them, most obviously in the case of Antiochos IV, who is believed by some to have imported elements of the Roman triumph to Syria. A victory is not needed to explain these process…
The View from the Old World: Contemporary Perspectives on Hellenistic Culture
This chapter draws attention to differences between Plutarch's view of Alexander and the Hellenistic age and Polybios' view. It focuses on one writer among Kallimachos, Apollonios Rhodios, or Herodas, who was undoubtedly from the old Greek world, the historian Polybios from the Peloponnesian city of Megalopolis. His treatment of the Hellenistic foundation of Alexandria in Egypt suggests that he did not think of the new cities of the Hellenistic w…
The Hellenistic West: Rethinking the Ancient Mediterranean
Although the Hellenistic period has become increasingly popular in research and teaching in recent years, the western Mediterranean is rarely considered part of the 'Hellenistic world'; instead the cities, peoples and kingdoms of the West are usually only discussed insofar as they relate to Rome. This book contends that the rift between the 'Greek East' and the 'Roman West' is more a product of the traditional separation of Roman and Greek histor…
Making Sense of the Romans: Polybius and the Greek Perspective
The Greek historian Polybius was a contemporary observer of Roman expansion in the eastern Mediterranean. This papers examines Polybius’ conception of the Romans, how they differed from Greeks (and barbarians) and how these differences help to explain their extraordinary success. Polybius’ Romans are highly efficient and prioritise the state above all else, a combination that makes them both terrifying and seemingly unstoppable
Aemilius Paullus, Lucius
Lucius Aemilius Paullus (ca. 228–160 BCE ) was one of the leading Roman generals of the second century BCE , celebrated in particular for his victory over the Macedonian king Perseus.
Imperialism in the Roman Empire (east)
In 229 BCE , when Roman forces first crossed the Adriatic Sea, the eastern Mediterranean was a Greco‐Macedonian domain, a legacy of Alexander's conquest of the Persian Empire.
Founding Alexandria in the Alexandrian Imagination
Troy between Greece and Rome: Local Tradition and Imperial Power
Troy linked Greece and Rome. It was once the subject of the greatest of Greek poems and the mother city of the Romans. It gave the Romans a place in the mythical past of the Greeks, it gave Greeks a way of approaching Rome, and it gave the emperor Augustus, descendant of Aeneas, a suitably elevated ancestry. In this book Andrew Erskine examines the role and meaning of Troy in the changing relationship between Greeks and Romans, as Rome is transfo…
Roman Imperialism
The controversial and fascinating transformation of Rome from a small city-state into the sole Mediterranean superpower At its height the Roman Empire extended from Britain in the North to Libya in the South and from Spain in the West to Syria in the East. It has impressed not only by its extent but also by its longevity. Andrew Erskine examines the course and nature of Roman expansion, focusing on the impact of Roman rule on the subject and the …
Pausanias' Greece: Ancient Artists and Roman Rulers
This is the first systematic and detailed study of Pausanias' view of Roman involvement in Greece. It begins with an assessment of Pausanias' life and writings, placing them in their contemporary political, historical, literary and cultural context. Pausanias' attitudes towards the art and artists of the pre-Roman period are also considered, and his attempts to define and analyse the past examined. Much of the book is devoted to the assessment of…
The Encyclopedia of Ancient History
Herakleopolis Magna, the capital of the Herakleopolite nome, was an important town throughout the history of ancient Egypt
Hellenistic Monarchy and Roman Political Invective
The origins of the well-known hatred for the nomen regis at Rome are in this way explained by Cicero in the De Republica , written in the late 50s b.c. Tarquinius Superbus, Rome's last king, so traumatised the Roman people that the term rex still had a potent effect almost five hundred years after his downfall. Many modern scholars would accept that the Roman hatred of kings was deep-rooted and intense, and it is often called upon to explain Roma…
Ancient Greek History and Contemporary Social Science
Defines the cutting-edge of scholarship on ancient Greek history employing methods from social science There is a long history of successful engagement between social science and classical studies. Social science has been a source of new and productive approaches to understanding ancient Greece, while classical Greek history and culture has been a touchstone for social theorists since the 19th century. This new collection of essays surveys the cu…
A Companion to the Hellenistic World
The Hellenistic Stoa: Political Thought and Action
Making Sense of the Romans: Polybius and the Greek Perspective
The Greek historian Polybius was a contemporary observer of Roman expansion in the eastern Mediterranean. This papers examines Polybius’ conception of the Romans, how they differed from Greeks (and barbarians) and how these differences help to explain their extraordinary success. Polybius’ Romans are highly efficient and prioritise the state above all else, a combination that makes them both terrifying and seemingly unstoppable
Greekness and Uniqueness: The Cult of the Senate in the Greek East
ROMAN POWER GENERATED many different cults in the Greek east during the Republic, for instance of the goddess 'Ptcgl,1 of the Romans as benefactors and of the Roman demos. But there is one noticeable absence. Although there was a cult of the Senate in the imperial period, there is no evidence at all for it during the Republic. Thus when the power of the Senate is at its height it generates no cult honours but, paradoxically, once it has little si…
Hellenistic Monarchy and Roman Political Invective
The origins of the well-known hatred for the nomen regis at Rome are in this way explained by Cicero in the De Republica , written in the late 50s b.c. Tarquinius Superbus, Rome's last king, so traumatised the Roman people that the term rex still had a potent effect almost five hundred years after his downfall. Many modern scholars would accept that the Roman hatred of kings was deep-rooted and intense, and it is often called upon to explain Roma…
The Hellenistic Stoa. Political Thought and Action
The Hellenistic Stoa: Political Thought and Action
The Yale Editions of the Private Papers of James Boswell: Research Edition: Correspondence, Vol. 5: The General Correspondence of James Boswell, 1766–1769: Volume 1: 1766–1767: Volume 1: 1766–1767
"The Yale Editions of the Private Papers of James Boswell: Research Edition: Correspondence, Vol. 5: The General Correspondence of James Boswell, 1766–1769: Volume 1: 1766–1767" published on by Edinburgh University Press.
Greek Embassies and the City of Rome
Pausanias' Greece: Ancient Artists and Roman Rulers
This is the first systematic and detailed study of Pausanias' view of Roman involvement in Greece. It begins with an assessment of Pausanias' life and writings, placing them in their contemporary political, historical, literary and cultural context. Pausanias' attitudes towards the art and artists of the pre-Roman period are also considered, and his attempts to define and analyse the past examined. Much of the book is devoted to the assessment of…
The Yale Editions of the Private Papers of James Boswell: Research Edition: Correspondence, Vol. 7: The General Correspondence of James Boswell, 1766–1769: Volume 2: 1768–1769: Volume 2: 1768–1769
"The Yale Editions of the Private Papers of James Boswell: Research Edition: Correspondence, Vol. 7: The General Correspondence of James Boswell, 1766–1769: Volume 2: 1768–1769" published on by Edinburgh University Press.
Cicero and the expression of grief
What is not only more wretched, but also more repugnant or more grotesque than a man who is shattered, enfeebled and laid low by distress ( aegritudo ). So Cicero wrote in his Tusculans . The intensity of feeling in this rhetorical question is no coincidence. Cicero knew from personal experience the devastating effect of one particular form of distress – that is grief, by which I mean the pain felt at someone's death. Not long before he wrote the…
Greek Gifts and Roman Suspicion
In preparation for his return to public life after the death of Sulla Cicero took lessons in oratory from some of the most distinguished rhetoricians in the Greek world. He visited Rhodes where he was taught rhetoric by Apollonius, son of Molon, but, because Apollonius knew no Latin, he asked Cicero to declaim in Greek. After the declamation everyone crowded around Cicero to congratulate him with the exception of Apollonius who sat silent and glu…
Greekness and Uniqueness: The Cult of the Senate in the Greek East
ROMAN POWER GENERATED many different cults in the Greek east during the Republic, for instance of the goddess 'Ptcgl,1 of the Romans as benefactors and of the Roman demos. But there is one noticeable absence. Although there was a cult of the Senate in the imperial period, there is no evidence at all for it during the Republic. Thus when the power of the Senate is at its height it generates no cult honours but, paradoxically, once it has little si…
Judaea and Mediterranean Politics 219 to 161 B.C.E.GeraDov Judaea and Mediterranean Politics 219 to 161 B.C.E. Brill's Series in Jewish Studies 8BrillLeiden, 1998, xii, 362
Zeno and the Beginning of Stoicism
On the north side of the Athenian agora there was a colonnade known as the Stoa Poikile, or the Painted Stoa, named after the famous paintings which decorated its rear wall. Here a visitor to third century Athens might have seen a thin, rather tall man with a slightly twisted neck, pacing up and down as he addressed a small group of listeners. This was Zeno, the founder of one of the most influential philosophical schools in antiquity, a school w…
Homer and the Artists: Text and Picture in Early Greek Art
Title Pages
The Recovery of Trojan Rome
After the fall of Troy Aeneas and his band of Trojan survivors fled westwards. Their wanderings stopped on1y when they had arrived in central Italy, where they founded two settlements, Lavinium and Alba Longa. Later, and more importantly, the descendants of these Trojan refugees in the persons of Romulus and Remus established a third settlement in Latium, the city of Rome. Trojan origins are here an essential feature of the foundation story of Ro…
Ilion between Greece and Rome
In 190 Be the Romans were about to pursue the defeated Antio-chos into Asia. C. Livius Salinator was taking the fleet to the Hellespont to prepare for the crossing of the land army under the command of the Scipio brothers. Landing at the so-called ‘Har-bour of the Achaians’ he ,vent to Ilion, where he offered sacrifice to Athena llias. This is the first recorded visit of a Roman to the ancestral home. Shortly afterwards the consul, L. Scipio, arr…
Homer and the Archaic Age
At the very same time that one Greek city was revering a ‘frojan as its eponymous founder, another was transforming the Trojans into barbarian precursors of the Persians. The former was the obscure northern town of Aineia, the latter was Athens as it recovered from the Persian wars.1 These two examples represent opposite poles and help to demonstrate that there was no one image of the Trojans current among the Greeks. Instead, the Greek relations…
Dedication
Troy and the Western Greeks
The beginnings of Rome’s Trojan ancestry should be sought not in Rome, nor among Greek intellectuals and antiquarians, but rather in the relationship between the Greeks and non-Greeks who together inhabited Italy and Sicily. From the outset it was a myth of interaction, a co1laboration between the Greeks and their neighbours. It is easy to imagine that Rome was unique or exceptional. In many ways, of course, it was, but in acquiring a mytho-logic…
Greek States and Roman Relatives
In the 190s ambassadors from the Greek city of Lampsakos in the Troad arrived in Rome to seek Roman protection. Coming before the Senate they informed their aristocratic audience that the people of Lampsakos were kinsmen of the Romans. This is no isolated instance. Several other states also invoked ties of kinship when making approaches to Rome. The numbers may be few but the mere fact is significant. For many scholars the Greeks were exploiting …
The Persian Wars and the Denigration of the Trojans
In Euripides’ Andromache Hermione, the wife of Neoptolemos, delivers an angry tirade against her Trojan rival: There is no Hektor here, nor Priam with his gold, but instead it is a Greek city. Yet you have reached such a depth of ignorance, you wretched woman, that you can bear to sleep with the son of the man who killed your husband and to have children by the murderers of your kin. The whole barbarian race is like that. Fathers have sex with da…
Trojan Past and Present
In 280 Be Pyrrhos, the Molossian ruler of Epiros, landed in South Italy to assist the Greek city of Taras against the Romans. His early victory at Herakleia may not have been decisive, but it did allow hirn to win over non-Greeks as well as Greeks. Bruttians, Lucanians, and Samnites all supported him. Rome, however, rejected any attempts at a negotiated settlement. Finally, in 275, after a two-year diversion in Sicily and a poor showing in battle…
Trojan Past and Present
fany Greek cities absorbed the Tnojan myth into their own traditions; they may have claimed Trojan descent or a Trojan founder; they may have had a cult of a Trcojan hero or other ties with the mythical city. Often these are obscure cities which left little or no artistic or literary record, virtua1ly ignored by historians such as Herodotos, Polybios, and Livy, salvaged only by the comprehensive scrutiny of a geographer such as Strabo or a trave…
Epilogue
Subject Ancient Roman History Ancient Greek History Collection: Oxford Scholarship Online
Old Gods, New Homes
The Second Punic war introduced two new gods into Rome, Venus Erycina from Sicily and the Magna Mater from Asia Minor.1 Both came on the recommendation of the Sibylline books, both were mountain goddesses who found homes on the hills of Rome, and both are something of a puzzle. Viewed from one angle these cults appear to have no Trojan character at all, but from another angle the Trojan content is all too obvious. Livy who provides the fullest, a…
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