History

Senior Lecturer

Office: 301, 23 Gordon Square
Office hour: Wednesdays 4-6pm

External phone: 020 7679 3623
Internal phone: 33623
E-mail: r.vanbremen@ucl.ac.uk

My general interest is in the Greek world after Alexander, and in particular the history of Asia Minor. I am working on a book on Neoi, young men, in the Greek world, as an institutional, political and cultural phenomenon, in which, among other things, I challenge structural models of youth and adulthood such as that proposed by P. Vidal Naquet in his famous series of articles on the Black Hunter. My longer term project is a new edition of the inscriptions of the city and territory of Stratonikeia in Karia (western Asia Minor), with a companion volume on the history of the city and the development and transformation of local cults during the Hellenistic and Roman periods. In 2006, I organized, jointly with J.-M. Carbon, the first international conference on Hellenistic Karia, whose proceedings have just been published (2010).

Areas of Research Supervision: Hellenistic history, with special interest in social, cultural and religious history; Asia minor; Greek epigraphy.

Theses Currently Supervised:

—A diachronic study of the religious structures in the region of the Hyrcanian Plain and Hermos Valley

—Karia and Crete: a study in cultural interaction

—What makes a war-god?

Select publications:

— ‘Plotina to all her Friends’: the Empress Plotina and the Epicureans in Athens’ Chiron 35 (2005) 499–532
— ‘The Entire house is full of Crowns: Greek agones and the celebration of victory’ in S. Hornblower and C. Morgan (eds) Pindar’s Poetry, Patrons and Festivals, From Archaic Greece to the Roman Empire (2007) 345–75
— R. van Bremen and J.-M. Carbon (eds.) Hellenistic Karia (Ausonius Études vol. 27, Bordeaux 2010.
— 'Adrastos at Aphrodisias' in Onomatologos: Studies in Greek Personal Names presented to Elaine Matthews (Oxford 2010) 440-452
— 'The date and context of the Kymaian decrees for Archippe’ Revue des Études Anciennes 110 (2008) 357–382
— 'La communauté de Panamara entre Rhodes et Stratonicée de Carie :autour de la date d’un décret des Panamaréens conservé dans le Fonds Louis Robert’ Comptes Rendues de l'Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-lettres 2010, 1405–1420

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