Dr Kyle Erickson BA (UCLA), MA (Exeter), PhD (Exeter)

Kyle Erickson

Contact Details

School of Classics

Location

Arts Building

Campus

Lampeter Campus

Job Title

Lecturer in Classics

Role in the University

Lecturer in Classics

Background

Doctor of Philosophy

March, 2010

PhD Thesis:  “The early Seleucids, their gods and their coins”
Supervisors: Professors Daniel Ogden and Stephen Mitchell
Department of Classics and Ancient History                    
University of Exeter, United Kingdom

Masters of Arts (Hellenistic History and Culture) (Distinction)

January, 2007

Masters Dissertation: “Power and Cults for Royal Women in the Hellenistic Period”
Department of Classics and Ancient History
University of Exeter, United Kingdom

Bachelor of Arts (History, Greek and Latin) (Cum Laude)

June, 2005

Undergraduate Thesis: “Divine Dreams in Homer and Herodotus”
Department of History; Department of Classics
University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), USA

Member of

Waterloo Institute for Hellenistic Studies (External Research Associate) 

Classical Association

American Philological Society

Academic Interests

My primary research interest is the political and cultural interactions between the Greek world and the Near East. I am interested in connections between divinity and legitimacy. As a result, my PhD concentrated on the numismatic representation of divine figures and their potential multicultural interpretations.

Horse sculpture, Mausoleum of HalicarnassusMy current research explores the creation of ruler cult in Asia Minor during the Hellenistic period. I am also interested in the development of the Alexander legends and the potential existence of a Seleucus romance.

Publications

2009
“Review of Richard Stoneman, Alexander the Great: A life in Legend” Ex Historia, Vol 1, 2009, 59-61

2008-2009
Co-editor Pegasus: The Journal of the Department of Classics and Ancient History of the University of Exeter

Forthcoming  
“Seleucus I, Zeus and Alexander” in L. Mitchell and C. Melville (eds), Every Inch a King: Comparative Studies in Kings and Kingship in the Ancient and Medieval Worlds, Leiden.

Forthcoming
“Apollo-Nabû: the Babylonian policy of Antiochus I.”  Conference Proceedings for Seleukid Dissolution, University of Exeter, July 2008

Forthcoming
Co-editor Seleucid Dissolution Conference Proceedings. (to appear in Franz Steiner Verlag’s Oriens et Occidens series)

Submitted
“The ‘royal archer’ and Apollo in the east: Greco-Persian iconography in the Seleukid Empire” to Proceedings of the XIV International Numismatic Congress. Co-author with Nicholas Wright