1st Edition
Stranger-Kingship in Antiquity
Contributors vii
Acknowledgements ix
Note on Spelling and Abbreviations x
1 Introduction 1
HENRY ANDERSON, JULIUS GUTHRIE AND EMMA NICHOLSON
2 Strangers and Chameleons: On Hellenistic Kings 20
BENEDIKT ECKHARDT
SECTION 1
Individuals 31
3 King, Emperor, or Princeps: Augustus as a Stranger-King in Early Imperial Rome? 33
AMBER GARTRELL
4 Clearchus of Heraclea Pontica as Stranger-King: Power, Religion and Tyranny on the Black Sea 48
MARCALINE J. BOYD
5 The Accession of Marcian and his Marriage to Pulcheria Viewed through the Stranger-King Paradigm 63
HENRY ANDERSON
SECTION 2
Groups 81
6 The Cypselids, Stranger-Kingship, and the Immanent Limits of Greek Political Thinking 83
JULIUS GUTHRIE
7 Hecataeus, Manetho, and the Ptolemies as Stranger-Kings of Egypt 104
MARC GEHRMANN
8 Waiting for the Barbarians? The Notion of the Stranger-King among the Ostrogoths and Visigoths 121
ANDREW T. FEAR
Bibliography 133
Index 148
Biography
Julius Guthrie is an Honorary-Research Fellow at the University of Exeter, where he completed his PhD on sole rule in Greek Sicily in 2023, and where he has taught undergraduate courses on Archaic Greek politics and Persian Kingship.
Henry Anderson is a Teacher in Late Antiquity at Cardiff University. He previously completed his PhD on the fifth-century East Roman court and emperor at the University of Exeter in 2024.
Emma Nicholson is a Senior Lecturer in Classics and Ancient History at the University of Exeter. She has published various articles on Hellenistic history and historiography, as well as a monograph entitled, Philip V of Macedon in Polybius’ Histories: Politics, History & Fiction (OUP, 2023).
