AHMA Participating Faculty
Erich Gruen, Ph.D. (Harvard, 1964)
Gladys Rehard Wood Professor of History and Classics
Hellenistic History, Roman History, and Jews in the Graeco-Roman World
gruene@berkeley.edu
Selected Works:
Roman Politics and the Criminal Courts, 149-78 B.C., 1968
The Last Generation of the Roman Republic, 1974
The Hellenistic World and the Coming of Rome, 1984
Studies in Greek Culture and Roman Policy, 1990
Culture and National Identity in Republican Rome, 1992
"The Polis in the Hellenistic World," in Rosen and Farrell, eds., Nomodeiktes, 1993
"Hellenism and Persecution: Antiochus IV and the Jews," in Green, Hellenistic History and Culture, 1993
"The Expansion of the Empire under Augustus," in Cambridge Ancient History, X, 1996
"The Hellenistic Images of Joseph," in Moorten and Titchener, Mimesis, 1997
"Fact and Fiction: Jewish Legends in a Hellenistic Context," in Cartledge, Garnsey, and Gruen, Hellenistic Constructs, 1997
Heritage and Hellenism: The Reinvention of Jewish Tradition, 1998
"Rome and the Myth of Alexander." In Hillard, et al., Ancient History in a Modern University, 1998
"The Use and Abuse of the Exodus Story." Jewish History, 1998
"Culture as Policy: The Attalids of Pergamon." In de Grummond and Ridgway, From Pegamon to Sperlonga, 2000
"Jewish Perspectives on Greek Culture and Ethnicity," in Malkin, Ancient Perceptions of Greek Ethnicity, 2001
Diaspora: Jews amidst the Greeks and Romans, 2002
"Diaspora and Homeland," in Wettstein, Diasporas and Exiles, 2002
"Hellenistic Judaism," in Biale, Cultures of the Jews, 2002
"Cleopatra in Rome: Facts and Fantasies," in Braund and Gill, Myhth, History, and Culture in Republican Rome, 2003
"Greeks and Jews: Mutual Misperceptions in Josephus' Contra Apionem," in Bakhos, Ancient Judaism in its Hellenistic Context, 2005