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

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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

Selected Publications

2011    
“Apollo-Nabû: the Babylonian Policy of Antiochus I” in K. Erickson and G. Ramsey (eds), Seleucid Dissolution: The Sinking of the Anchor. Philippika 50. Harrassowitz. 2011, 51-66.

2011    
“The ‘royal archer’ and Apollo in the east: Greco-Persian iconography in the Seleukid Empire” in Holmes, N. (ed), Proceedings of the XIV International Numismatic Congress. Glasgow. 2012, 163-168. Co-authored with Nicholas Wright.

2012
The Alexander Romance in Persia and the East. Ancient Narrative Supplements 15. Barkhuis Publishing. 2012. Co-editor with Richard Stoneman and Ian Netton.

2011
Seleucid Dissolution: The Sinking of the Anchor. Philippika 50. Harrassowitz. 2011. Co-editor with Gillian Ramsey.