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Dr. Rolf Strootman

Lecturer 
Humanities
Department of History and Art History
Ancient History and Classical Civilisation
Ancient History and Classical Civilisation
Researcher 
Humanities
Research Institute for History and Art History
Ancient History and Classical Civilisation
Ancient History and Classical Civilisation
Drift 6
Drift 6
Kamer 2.15
3512 BS Utrecht

Dr. Rolf Strootman

Lecturer
Ancient History and Classical Civilisation
Researcher
Ancient History and Classical Civilisation
+31 30 253 6480
r.strootman@uu.nl
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Profile CV Publications Research Teaching Ancillary activities Contact
Areas of expertise
Research areas

Highlighted publications

Strootman, R. (2019). Maritime empires in world history. In R. Strootman, F. van den Eijnde, & R. van Wijk (Eds.), Empires of the Sea: Maritime Power Networks in World History (pp. 1-35). (Cultural Interactions in the Mediterranean; Vol. 4). Brill. https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004407671_002
Strootman, R. (2019). The Ptolemaic Sea Empire. In R. Strootman, F. van den Eijnde, & R. van Wijk (Eds.), Empires of the Sea: Maritime Power Networks in World History (pp. 113-152). (Cultural Interactions in the Mediterranean; Vol. 4). Brill. https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004407671_006
Strootman, R. (2014). Courts and Elites in the Hellenistic Empires: The Near East After the Achaemenids, 330-30 BCE. (Studies in Ancient Persia ed.) Edinburgh University Press.
Strootman, R. (2013). Babylonian, Macedonian, King of the World: The Antiochos Cylinder from Borsippa and Seleukid imperial integration. In E. Stavrianopoulou (Ed.), Shifting Social Imaginaries in the Hellenistic Period: Narrations, Practices, and Images (pp. 67-97). Brill. https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004257993_005
https://dspace.library.uu.nl/bitstream/handle/1874/278688/Strootman%25202013%2520Seleukid%2520Babylon.pdf?sequence=1
Strootman, R., & Versluys, M. J. (2017). From Culture to Concept: The Reception and Appropriation of Persia in Antiquity. In M. J. Versluys, & R. Strootman (Eds.), Persianism in Antiquity (pp. 9-32). (Oriens & Occidens; Vol. 25). Franz Steiner Verlag.
Strootman, R. (2013). The Seleukid Empire between Orientalism and Hellenocentrism: Writing the history of Iran in the Third and Second Centuries BCE. Iranian Studies, 11(1-2), 17-35.
https://dspace.library.uu.nl/bitstream/handle/1874/386437/The_Seleucid_Empire_Between_Orientalism.pdf?sequence=1
Strootman, R. (2014). Hellenistic imperialism and the ideal of world unity. In H. Drake, & C. Rapp (Eds.), The City in the Classical and Post-Classical World: Changing Contexts of Power and Identity (pp. 38-61). Cambridge University Press. https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781139507042.003

Publications

2022

Scholarly publications

Strootman, R. (2022). Pothos or Propaganda: Alexander’s longing to Reach the Ocean and Argead Imperial Ideology. In F. Pownall, S. Müller, & S. Asirvatham (Eds.), The Courts of Philip II and Alexander the Great: Monarchy and Power in Ancient Macedonia (pp. 189-207). De Gruyter.

2021

Scholarly publications

Strootman, R. (2021). The Introduction of Hellenic Cults in Seleukid Syria: Colonial Appropriation and Transcultural Exchange in the Creation of an Imperial Landscape. In H. Bru, A. Dumitru, & N. Sekunda (Eds.), Colonial Geopolitics and Local Cultures in the Hellenistic and Roman East (3rd Century B.C.–3rd century A.D.): Geopolitique coloniale et cultures locales dans l'Orient hellenistique et romain (IIIe siecle av. J.-C. - IIIe siecle ap. J.-C.) (pp. 73-91). Archaeopress.
Strootman, R. (2021). ‘The glory of Alexander and Philip made spoil by Roman arms’: Diodoros, Livy and Plutarch on Macedonian spoils entering Rome, September 167 BCE. Paper presented at Reading Greek and Roman Spolia, Amsterdam, Netherlands.
Strootman, R., & von Reden, S. (2021). Imperial metropoleis and foundation myths: Ptolemaic and Seleucid capitals compared. In C. Fischer-Bovet, & S. von Reden (Eds.), Comparing the Ptolemaic and Seleucid Empires: Integration, Communication, and Resistance (pp. 17-47). Cambridge University Press. https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108782890.003
Strootman, R. (2021). Orontid kingship in its Hellenistic context: The Seleucid connections of Antiochos I of Kommagene. In M. Blömer, S. Riedel, M. J. Versluys, & E. Winter (Eds.), Common Dwelling Place of all the Gods: Commagene in its Local, Regional and Global Hellenistic Context (1 ed., pp. 295). Franz Steiner Verlag.
https://dspace.library.uu.nl/bitstream/handle/1874/415959/9783515129268_296_318.pdf?sequence=1
Strootman, R. (2021). Macht en legitimatie: Alexander de Grote. Tijdschrift Voor Geschiedenis, 134(2), 320-321. https://doi.org/10.5117/TVG2021.2.011.STRO
Strootman, R. (2021). ‘To be magnanimous and grateful’: The Entanglement of Cities and Empires in the Hellenistic Aegean. In M. D. Gygax, & A. Zuiderhoek (Eds.), Benefactors and the Polis: Origins and Development of the Public Gift in the Greek Cities from the Homeric World to Late Antiquity (pp. 137-178). Cambridge University Press. https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108895859.007

2020

Scholarly publications

Strootman, R. (2020). Women and dynasty at the Hellenistic imperial courts. In E. D. Carney, & S. Müller (Eds.), The Routledge Companion to Women and Monarchy in the Ancient Mediterranean World (1 ed., pp. 333–345). Routlegde. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780429434105-33
Strootman, R. (2020). The Seleukid Empire. In R. Mairs (Ed.), The Graeco-Bactrian and Indo-Greek World (1 ed., pp. 11–37). (Routledge Worlds). Routlegde. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315108513-3
Strootman, R. (2020). Strijd om Jeruzalem: De tijd van de Hasmoneeën, ca. 170-37 v.Chr. In J. van den Bent, & T. Hart (Eds.), Jeruzalem, Jeroesjalajiem, Al-Quds: De heilige stad door de eeuwen heen (pp. 79–95). (Zenobia; Vol. 7). Uitgeverij Verloren.
Strootman, R. (2020). Philoi. In W. Heckel, J. Heinrichs, S. Müller, & F. Pownall (Eds.), Lexicon of Argead Makedonia (pp. 423–426). (Separate Titel ). Frank & Timme.
Strootman, R., & Williamson, C. (2020). Creating a royal landscape: Hekatomnid use of urban and rural sacred sites in fourth-century Karia. In S. G. Caneva (Ed.), The Materiality of Hellenistic Ruler Cults (pp. 105-124). (Kernos supplément; Vol. 36). Presses de l'Université de Liège.
Strootman, R. (2020). Hellenism and Persianism in Iran: Culture and empire after Alexander the Great. Dabir: Digital Archive and Brief Notes & Iran Review, 7, 201-227.
https://dspace.library.uu.nl/bitstream/handle/1874/408015/Final_2.indd.pdf?sequence=1

2019

Scholarly publications

Strootman, R. (2019). The Ptolemaic Sea Empire. In R. Strootman, F. van den Eijnde, & R. van Wijk (Eds.), Empires of the Sea: Maritime Power Networks in World History (pp. 113-152). (Cultural Interactions in the Mediterranean; Vol. 4). Brill. https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004407671_006
Strootman, R. (2019). Maritime empires in world history. In R. Strootman, F. van den Eijnde, & R. van Wijk (Eds.), Empires of the Sea: Maritime Power Networks in World History (pp. 1-35). (Cultural Interactions in the Mediterranean; Vol. 4). Brill. https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004407671_002
Strootman, R., van den Eijnde, F., & van Wijk, R. (Eds.) (2019). Empires of the Sea: Maritime Power Networks in World History. (Cultural Interactions in the Mediterranean; Vol. 4). Brill. https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004407671
Strootman, R. (2019). Regalità e vita di corte in età ellenistica. In M. Mari (Ed.), L’età ellenistica: Società, politica, cultura (pp. 133-144). Carocci Editore.
https://dspace.library.uu.nl/bitstream/handle/1874/391083/Strootman_2019_Regalit_e_vita_di_corte_in_et_ellenistica.pdf?sequence=1
Strootman, R. (2019). Cosmopolitanism and Empire (book review). American Historical Review, 124(1), 311-313. https://doi.org/10.1093/ahr/rhy545
Strootman, R. (2019). Antiochos IV and Rome: The festival at Daphne (Syria), the Treaty of Apameia and the revival of Seleukid expansionism in the West. In A. Coşkun, & D. Engels (Eds.), The Seleukid Empire and Rome: Select Papers From Seleukid Study Day V, Brussels, 21–23 August 2015 (pp. 173-216). (Latomus; Vol. 360). Éditions Latomus.
https://dspace.library.uu.nl/bitstream/handle/1874/391009/Strootman_2019_Antiochos_IV_and_Rome.pdf?sequence=1
Strootman, R. (2019). The Great Kings of Asia: Imperial titulature in the Seleukid and post-Seleukid Middle East. In R. Oetjen (Ed.), New Perspectives in Seleucid History, Archaeology and Numismatics. Studies in Honor of Getzel M. Cohen (pp. 123-157). (Beiträge zur Altertumskunde; No. 355). De Gruyter.

Popularising publications

Strootman, R. (2019). Antiochus IV Epiphanes: moordenaar, monster, malloot. Hermeneus, 91(5), 196-200.

2018

Scholarly publications

Strootman, R. (2018). The coming of the Parthians: Crisis and resilience in Seleukid Iran in the reign of Seleukos II. In K. Erickson (Ed.), The Seleucid Empire, 281–222 BC: War within the Family (pp. 129-150). Classical Press of Wales.
van den Eijnde, F., Blok, J. H., & Strootman, R. (Eds.) (2018). Feasting and Polis Institutions. (Mnemosyne Supplements; Vol. 414). Brill publishers. https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004356733
Strootman, R. (2018). The return of the king: Ritualized feasting and the entanglement of city and empire in the Hellenistic Aegean. In F. van den Eijnde, J. H. Blok, & R. Strootman (Eds.), Feasting and Polis Institutions (pp. 273-296). (Mnemosyne Supplements; Vol. 414). Brill. https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004356733_012

Professional publications

Strootman, R. (2018). De Slangenzuil op het Paardenplein. In H. van der Heijden, & F. Gerritsen (Eds.), Standplaats Istanbul: Lange lijnen in de cultuurgeschiedenis van Turkije (pp. 21-29). Uitgeverij Jurgen Maas.

2017

Scholarly publications

Strootman, R. (2017). Review of Sujatha Chandrasekaran and Anna Kouremenos eds., Continuity and Destruction in the Greek East: The Transformation of Monumental Space From the Hellenistic Period to Late Antiquity (Oxford: British Archaeological Reports, 2015). Bryn Mawr Classical Review, 2017-12(11). http://www.bmcreview.org/2017/12/20171211.html
Strootman, R. (2017). De Perzische invasies van Lampas. Lampas, 50(3), 343-355.
Strootman, R. (2017). Eunuchs, Renegades and Concubines: The “Paradox of Power” and the Promotion of Favorites in the Hellenistic Empires. In A. Erskine, L. Llewellyn-Jones, & S. Wallace (Eds.), The Hellenistic Court: Monarchic Power and Elite Society From Alexander to Cleopatra (pp. 121-142). Classical Press of Wales.
Strootman, R. (2017). The Birdcage of the Muses: Patronage of the Arts and Sciences at the Ptolemaic Imperial Court, 305–222 BCE. ( Interdisciplinary Studies in Ancient Culture and Religion; Vol. 17). Peeters.
Strootman, R., & Versluys, M. J. (2017). Persianism in Antiquity. (Oriens & Occidens; Vol. 25). Franz Steiner Verlag.
Strootman, R., & Versluys, M. J. (2017). From Culture to Concept: The Reception and Appropriation of Persia in Antiquity. In M. J. Versluys, & R. Strootman (Eds.), Persianism in Antiquity (pp. 9-32). (Oriens & Occidens; Vol. 25). Franz Steiner Verlag.
Strootman, R. (2017). Imperial Persianism: Seleukids, Arsakids and Fratarakā. In R. Strootman, & M. J. Versluys (Eds.), Persianism in Antiquity (pp. 177-200). (Oriens et Occidens; Vol. 25). Franz Steiner Verlag.

2016

Scholarly publications

Strootman, R., & von Reden, S. (2016). Myth, Ritual and Empire: Ptolemaic and Seleukid Royal Cities Compared. Unpublished. In Comparing the Ptolemaic and Seleucid Empires
Strootman, R. (2016). Review of P. V. Wheatley and E. Baynham eds., East and West in the World Empire of Alexander (OUP 2015). Bryn Mawr Classical Review, June 2016(3). http://bmcr.brynmawr.edu/2016/2016-06-03.html
Strootman, R. (2016). A Western Empire in the East? The Historiography of the Seleukid Empire and the Cultural Boundaries of Europe (discussion paper, 2012).
https://dspace.library.uu.nl/bitstream/handle/1874/342091/Strootman_2012_The_Seleukid_Empire.pdf?sequence=1
Strootman, R. (2016). "The Heroic Company of my Forebears": The Ancestor Galleries of Antiochos I of Kommagene at Nemrut Dağı and the Role of Royal Women in the Transmission of Hellenistic Kingship. In A. Coşkun, & A. McAuley (Eds.), Seleukid Royal Women: Creation, Representation and Distortion of Hellenistic Queenship in the Seleukid Empire (pp. 209-229). Franz Steiner Verlag.
Strootman, R. (Accepted/In press). “To be magnanimous and grateful”: The entanglement of cities and empires in the Hellenistic Aegean. In M. Domingo-Gygax, & A. Zuiderhoek (Eds.), Benefactors and the Polis: Origins and Development of the Public Gift in the Greek Cities From the Homeric World to Late Antiquity Cambridge University Press.

Other output

Strootman, R. (2016). Royal Roads: The First World Empires and the Integration of Central Eurasia, c. 550-150 BCE. Paper presented at Connectivity: People and Ideas, Groningen, Netherlands. https://www.academia.edu/21078676/Royal_Roads_The_First_World_Empires_and_the_Integration_of_Central_Eurasia_c._550-150_BCE_2016_

2015

Scholarly publications

Strootman, R. (2015). Anchoring Military Innovation: The Theban, Macedonian and Marian Military Revolutions.
Strootman, R., Drijvers, J. W., & Mols, S. T. (2015). Oudheid en Politiek. (Lampas; Vol. 48, No. 4). Uitgeverij Verloren.
Strootman, R. (2015). Seleucus IV Philopator. In E. Yarshater (Ed.), Encyclopaedia Iranica Online Eisenbrauns. http://www.iranicaonline.org/articles/seleucus-kings#SeleucusIV
Strootman, R. (2015). Seleucus III Soter. In E. Yarshater (Ed.), Encyclopaedia Iranica Online Eisenbrauns. http://www.iranicaonline.org/articles/seleucus-kings#SeleucusIII
Strootman, R. (2015). Seleucus II Callinicus. In E. Yarshater (Ed.), Encyclopaedia Iranica Online Eisenbrauns. http://www.iranicaonline.org/articles/seleucus-kings#SeleucusII
Strootman, R. (2015). Seleucus I Nicator. In E. Yarshater (Ed.), Encyclopaedia Iranica Online Eisenbrauns. http://www.iranicaonline.org/articles/seleucus-kings#SeleucusI
Strootman, R. (2015). Seleucid Era. In E. Yarshater (Ed.), Encyclopaedia Iranica (Online) Eisenbrauns. http://www.iranicaonline.org/articles/seleucid-era
Strootman, R. (2015). The Seleucid Empire. In E. Yarshater (Ed.), Encyclopaedia Iranica Online Eisenbrauns. http://www.iranicaonline.org/articles/seleucid-empire

Other output

Strootman, R. (2015, Dec 21). Anchoring Military Innovation in Greece and Rome.
Strootman, R. (2015). Brand New Ancient: Anchoring Regime Change in Seleukid Babylonia and Ptolemaic Egypt. Paper presented at Anchoring Innovation in Antiquity, Nijmegen, Netherlands. https://www.academia.edu/20326327/Brand_New_Ancient_Anchoring_Regime_Change_in_Seleukid_Babylonia_and_Ptolemaic_Egypt_2015_
Strootman, R. (2015). Antiochos IV and Rome: The Festival at Daphne and the Renewal of Seleukid Expansionism. Paper presented at Seleukid Study Days V, Brussels, Belgium. http://www.altaycoskun.com/conferences/ssdconference
Strootman, R. (2015). Anchoring Empire in the Hellenistic Near East: The Seleucid Appropriation of the Babylonian Past. Paper presented at Tombros Conference on Hellenistic Kingship, State College, United States. https://hellenisticmonarchies2015.wordpress.com/friday-april-24th-2015/strootman/
Strootman, R. (2015). The Early Seleukids and the Cities of Ionia: Local Autonomy and Universal Empire in an Age of Globalization. Paper presented at Benefactors and the Polis, Princeton, NJ, United States.
Strootman, R. (2015). Foundation Myths and Social Identity in Graeco-Roman Alexandria. Paper presented at Nomos zwischen Identität und Normativität, Münster, Germany.
Strootman, R., & van den Eijnde, F. (2015). Empires of the Sea: Maritime Power Networks in Global History.
Strootman, R. (2015). The Ptolemaic Sea Empire. Paper presented at Empires of the Sea: Maritime Power Networks in Global History, Utrecht, Netherlands.

2014

Scholarly publications

Strootman, R. (2014). The Serpent Column: The persistent meanings of a pagan relic in Christian and Islamic Constantinople. Material Religion, 10(4), 432-451. https://doi.org/10.2752/175183414X14176054221328
Strootman, R. (2014). Courts and Elites in the Hellenistic Empires: The Near East After the Achaemenids, 330-30 BCE. (Studies in Ancient Persia ed.) Edinburgh University Press.
Strootman, R. (2014). Hellenistic imperialism and the ideal of world unity. In H. Drake, & C. Rapp (Eds.), The City in the Classical and Post-Classical World: Changing Contexts of Power and Identity (pp. 38-61). Cambridge University Press. https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781139507042.003
Strootman, R. (2014). Wedloop tussen oost en west: Bespreking van Ian Morris, Why the West Rules - For Now (2012). Tijdschrift Voor Geschiedenis, 127(2), 319-321.
https://dspace.library.uu.nl/bitstream/handle/1874/386439/wedloop_tussenn.pdf?sequence=1
Strootman, R. (2014). The dawning of a Golden Age: Images of peace and abundance in Alexandrian court poetry in the context of Ptolemaic imperial ideology. In G. Wakker, M. A. Harder, & R. Regtuit (Eds.), Hellenistic Poetry in Context. Tenth International Workshop on Hellenistic Poetry, Groningen 25th-27th August 2010 (pp. 325-341). (Hellenistica Groningana; Vol. 20). Peeters.
https://dspace.library.uu.nl/bitstream/handle/1874/386431/the_dawning_of_a_golden_age.pdf?sequence=1
Strootman, R. (2014). Bookreview Universal Empire: A Comparative Approach to Imperial Culture and Representation in Eurasian History. Bryn Mawr Classical Review, 2014(08). http://bmcr.brynmawr.edu/2014/2014-08-10.html
Strootman, R. (2014). “Men to whose rapacity neither sea nor mountain sets a limit”: The aims of the Diadochs. In H. Hauben, & A. Meeus (Eds.), The Age of the Successors and the Creation of the Hellenistic Kingdoms (323–276 B.C) (pp. 307-322). (Studia Hellenistica; Vol. 53). Peeters.
https://dspace.library.uu.nl/bitstream/handle/1874/386429/men_to_whose_rapacity.pdf?sequence=1
Strootman, R. (2014). Van de Hellespont tot India: Cleopatra VII en de “Donaties van Alexandrië”. Lampas, 47(2), 120-137.
https://dspace.library.uu.nl/bitstream/handle/1874/389297/Strootman_2014_Van_de_Hellespont_tot_India.pdf?sequence=1

Other output

Strootman, R., & Versluys, M. J. (2014). Introduction. Paper presented at Persianism in Antiquity. International Conference at the Netherlands Institute in Turkey, Istanbul.
Strootman, R., & Versluys, M. J. (2014). Persianism in Antiquity.
Strootman, R. (2014). The Birdcage of the Muses: The social position of poets at the early Ptolemaic court. Paper presented at OIkos Text in Context, Nijmegen, Netherlands.
Strootman, R. (2014). The introduction of Hellenic cults in Seleucid Syria: Colonial appropriation and transcultural exchange. Paper presented at Celtic Conference in Classics, Edinburgh, United Kingdom.
Strootman, R. (2014). The return of the king: Civic feasting and the entanglement of city and empire in the Hellenistic Aegean. Paper presented at Feasting and Polis Institutions, Utrecht, Netherlands.
Strootman, R. (2014). Iranian Persianism in the Late Seleukid world: Fratarakā, Arsakids, and Mithradatids. Paper presented at Persian in Antiquity, International Conference, Istanbul, Turkey.

2013

Scholarly publications

Strootman, R. (2013). Polyphemus in Anatolië: Klassieke en islamitische cultuur in de middeleeuwen. In R. Strootman, & M. Campopiano (Eds.), De klassieke oudheid in de Islamitische Wereld (pp. 244-255). Verloren.
https://dspace.library.uu.nl/bitstream/handle/1874/386433/Polyphemus_in_Anatolie_klassieke_en_isla.pdf?sequence=1
Strootman, R., & van den Eijnde, F. (2013). Odysseus variaties: Francis Ford Coppola's Apocalypse Now en de klassieke mythologie. Lampas, 46(4), 366-381.
https://dspace.library.uu.nl/bitstream/handle/1874/386438/Odysseus_variaties._Francis_Ford_Coppola.pdf?sequence=1
Strootman, R., & Campopiano, M. (Eds.) (2013). De klassieke oudheid in de islamitische wereld. (Lampas ed.) Verloren. http://www.verloren.nl/boeken/2086/212/5327/oudheid/de-klassieke-oudheid-in-de-islamitische-wereld
Strootman, R. (2013). Mehmet Caesar: De doorwerking van Grieks-Romeinse heerserideologie in het Osmaanse Rijk. In R. Strootman, & M. Campopiano (Eds.), De klassieke oudheid in de islamitische wereld (pp. 317-331). Verloren.
https://dspace.library.uu.nl/bitstream/handle/1874/389422/Strootman_2013_Mehmet_Caesar.pdf?sequence=1
Strootman, R. (2013). Dynastic courts of the Hellenistic Empires. In H. Beck (Ed.), A Companion to Ancient Greek Government (pp. 38-53). (Blackwell Companions to the Ancient World). Wiley-Blackwell. https://doi.org/10.1002/9781118303214.ch3
https://dspace.library.uu.nl/bitstream/handle/1874/278687/Strootman%25202013%2520Hellenistic%2520Royal%2520Courts.pdf?sequence=1
Strootman, R. (2013). Babylonian, Macedonian, King of the World: The Antiochos Cylinder from Borsippa and Seleukid imperial integration. In E. Stavrianopoulou (Ed.), Shifting Social Imaginaries in the Hellenistic Period: Narrations, Practices, and Images (pp. 67-97). Brill. https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004257993_005
https://dspace.library.uu.nl/bitstream/handle/1874/278688/Strootman%25202013%2520Seleukid%2520Babylon.pdf?sequence=1
Strootman, R. (2013). Bookreview The Ephemeral and the Eternal: The Pavilion of Ptolemy Philadelphos in the Court of Alexandria. BABESCH (Bulletin Antieke Beschaving), 88, 282-283.
https://dspace.library.uu.nl/bitstream/handle/1874/389298/Calandra_2011.pdf?sequence=1
Strootman, R. (2013). Alexander de Grote en het oosterse koningschap. In D. Burgersdijk, W. F. M. Henkelman, & W. Waal (Eds.), Alexander en Darius. De Macedoniër in de spiegel van het Nabije Oosten (pp. 101-114). Verloren.
https://dspace.library.uu.nl/bitstream/handle/1874/386428/Alexander_de_Grote_en_het_Perzische_koni.pdf?sequence=1
Strootman, R. (2013). Literature and the kings. In J. Clauss, & M. Cuypers (Eds.), A companion to Hellenistic literature (2 ed., pp. 30-45). (Blackwell companions to the ancient world. Literature and culture). Wiley-Blackwell.
Strootman, R. (2013). The Seleukid Empire between Orientalism and Hellenocentrism: Writing the history of Iran in the Third and Second Centuries BCE. Iranian Studies, 11(1-2), 17-35.
https://dspace.library.uu.nl/bitstream/handle/1874/386437/The_Seleucid_Empire_Between_Orientalism.pdf?sequence=1

Professional publications

Strootman, R. (2013). De klassieke wereld in Afrika en Afghanistan. Hermeneus, 85(1), 56-61.
https://dspace.library.uu.nl/bitstream/handle/1874/278690/Strootman%25202013%2520Lost%2520Cities.pdf?sequence=1
Strootman, R., & Campopiano, M. (2013). Introductie: De klassieke oudheid in de islamitische wereld. In M. Campopiano, & R. Strootman (Eds.), De klassieke oudheid in de islamitische wereld (pp. 241-243). Verloren.

2012

Scholarly publications

Strootman, R. (2012). Alexander's Thessalian cavalry. Talanta, 42/43, 51-67.
https://dspace.library.uu.nl/bitstream/handle/1874/278685/Strootman%25202012%2520Alexander%27s%2520Thessalian%2520Cavalry.pdf?sequence=1
Strootman, R. (2012). Bookreview Ancient Empires: from Mesopotamia to the Rise of Islam. Bryn Mawr Classical Review, 55.

Professional publications

Strootman, R. (2012). Antiochos III Megas. In R. Bagnall, K. Brodersen, C. B. Champion, A. Erskine, & S. R. Huebner (Eds.), The Encyclopedia of Ancient History (pp. 476-479). Wiley-Blackwell.
https://dspace.library.uu.nl/bitstream/handle/1874/278519/Antiochos%2520III%2520Megas.pdf?sequence=1
Strootman, R. (2012). Seleucids. In R. Bagnall, K. Brodersen, C. B. Champion, A. Erskine, & S. B. Huebner (Eds.), The Encyclopedia of Ancient History (pp. 6119-6125). Wiley-Blackwell.
https://dspace.library.uu.nl/bitstream/handle/1874/278686/Seleukids.pdf?sequence=1
Strootman, R. (2012). Heliodoros. In R. Bagnall, K. Brodersen, C. B. Champion, A. Erskine, & S. R. Huebner (Eds.), Blackwell Encyclopedia of Ancient History (pp. 3106-3107). Wiley-Blackwell.
https://dspace.library.uu.nl/bitstream/handle/1874/278683/Heliodoros.pdf?sequence=1
Strootman, R., & Strubbe, J. H. M. (2012). De geschiedenis van Klein-Azië. Een overzicht. Hermeneus, 84(2), 57-66.
https://dspace.library.uu.nl/bitstream/handle/1874/259481/Hellenistich%2520Klein-Azi_235_.pdf?sequence=1
Strootman, R. (2012). Achaios. In R. Bagnall, A. Erskine, K. Brodersen, C. B. Champion, & S. R. Huebner (Eds.), The Encyclopedia of Ancient History (pp. 41-42). Wiley-Blackwell.
https://dspace.library.uu.nl/bitstream/handle/1874/278521/Achaios.pdf?sequence=1
Strootman, R. (2012). Antiochos I Soter. In R. Bagnall, A. Erskine, C. B. Champion, K. Brodersen, & S. R. Huebner (Eds.), The Encyclopedia of Ancient History (pp. 473-475). Wiley-Blackwell.
https://dspace.library.uu.nl/bitstream/handle/1874/278520/Antiochos%2520I%2520Soter.pdf?sequence=1
Strootman, R. (2012). Court, Hellenistic. In R. Bagnall, K. Brodersen, A. Erskine, C. B. Champion, & S. R. Huebner (Eds.), Blackwell Encyclopedia of Ancient History (pp. 1818-1820). Wiley-Blackwell.
https://dspace.library.uu.nl/bitstream/handle/1874/278682/Hellenistic%2520Court.pdf?sequence=1
Strootman, R. (2012). Laodike, mother of Seleukos III. In R. Bagnall, K. Brodersen, A. Erskine, C. B. Champion, & S. R. Huebner (Eds.), Blackwell Encyclopedia of Ancient History (pp. 3904). Wiley-Blackwell.
https://dspace.library.uu.nl/bitstream/handle/1874/278522/Laodike%2520II.pdf?sequence=1

2011

Scholarly publications

Strootman, R. (2011). Hellenistic court society: The Seleukid imperial court under Antiochos the Great, 223-187 BCE. In J. Duindam, M. Kunt, & T. Artan (Eds.), Royal Courts in Dynastic States and Empires: A Global Perspective (pp. 63-89). (Rulers and Elites; No. 1). Brill.
https://dspace.library.uu.nl/bitstream/handle/1874/209851/Seleukid%2520Imperial%2520Court.pdf?sequence=1
Strootman, R. (2011). Hippodroom wordt Paardenplein: De wederopstanding van Constantinopel na 1453. In D. Burgersdijk, & W. Waal (Eds.), Constantinopel: Een mozaïek van de Byzantijnse metropool (pp. 183-198). Peeters.
https://dspace.library.uu.nl/bitstream/handle/1874/278684/Strootman%25202011%2520Constantinopel.pdf?sequence=1
Strootman, R., van der Berg, B., & de Jonge, C. (Eds.) (2011). Alexandrië. (Lampas ed.) Verloren.
Strootman, R. (2011). Alexandrië: een wereldstad. In C. de Jonge, B. van den Berg, & R. Strootman (Eds.), Alexandrië (pp. 292-310). Verloren.
https://dspace.library.uu.nl/bitstream/handle/1874/386599/Alexandrie_een_wereldstad_2011.pdf?sequence=1
Strootman, R. (2011). Kings and cities in the Hellenistic Age. In R. Alston, O. M. van Nijf, & C. Williamson (Eds.), Political Culture in the Greek City After the Classical Age (pp. 141-153). Peeters.
https://dspace.library.uu.nl/bitstream/handle/1874/210749/Kings%2520and%2520Cities-2.pdf?sequence=4

Professional publications

Strootman, R. (2011). Alexandrië: een wereldstad. Lampas, 44(4), 293-310.
https://dspace.library.uu.nl/bitstream/handle/1874/231697/Strootman%25202011%2520Alexandri_235_%2520Artikel.pdf?sequence=1

2010

Scholarly publications

Strootman, R. (2010). The Golden Age: Images of peace and abundance in Alexandrian court poetry in the context of Ptolemaic imperial ideology. In M. A. Harder, G. C. Wakker, & R. F. Regtuit (Eds.), Hellenistic Poetry in Context Peeters.
https://dspace.library.uu.nl/bitstream/handle/1874/389423/Strootman_2010_The_Golden_Age.pdf?sequence=1
Strootman, R. (2010). Literature and the Kings. In J. J. Clauss, & M. Cuypers (Eds.), A Companion to Hellenistic Literature (pp. 30-45). (Blackwell Companions to the Ancient World). Wiley-Blackwell.
https://dspace.library.uu.nl/bitstream/handle/1874/179912/Literature%2520and%2520the%2520Kings.pdf?sequence=1
Strootman, R. (2010). Queen of Kings: Cleopatra VII and the Donations of Alexandria. In M. Facella, & T. Kaizer (Eds.), Kingdoms and Principalities in the Roman Near East (pp. 140-157). Franz Steiner Verlag.
https://dspace.library.uu.nl/bitstream/handle/1874/179785/Donations%2520of%2520Alexandria.pdf?sequence=1
Strootman, R. (2010). Het verlangen van Alexander de Grote: pothos of propaganda. Groniek, 186, 5-20.
https://dspace.library.uu.nl/bitstream/handle/1874/179914/Alexanders%2520Verlangen.pdf?sequence=1

Professional publications

Strootman, R. (2010). De Zijderoute: het ontstaan van een trans-aziatische verbinding in de Oudheid. Kleio, 2(Ontdekkingsreizen), 34-39.
https://dspace.library.uu.nl/bitstream/handle/1874/43931/De%2520Zijderoute.pdf?sequence=1

Popularising publications

Strootman, R. (2010). De val van Constantinopel (1453): een keerpunt in de geschiedenis? Kleio, 51(5), 8-11.
https://dspace.library.uu.nl/bitstream/handle/1874/179913/De%2520val%2520van%2520Constantinopel.pdf?sequence=1

2009

Scholarly publications

Strootman, R. (2009). Bookreview The Court and Court Society in Ancient Monarchies. Bryn Mawr Classical Review. http://bmcr.brynmawr.edu/2009/2009-07-33.html
Strootman, R. (2009). De ondergang van het Seleukidenrijk. Tijdschrift Voor Geschiedenis, 122(2), 249-250.
https://dspace.library.uu.nl/bitstream/handle/1874/43908/Ehling%25202008.pdf?sequence=1

Professional publications

Strootman, R. (2009). Koninkrijk Azië: het Seleukidenrijk (312-64 v.Chr.) verdient meer aandacht. Kleio, (6), 4-8.
https://dspace.library.uu.nl/bitstream/handle/1874/43929/Koninkrijk%2520Azi_235_.pdf?sequence=1
Strootman, R. (2009). The Hellenistic royal court. Mnemosyne, 62(1), 168. https://doi.org/10.1163/156852509X340291

2008

Professional publications

Strootman, R. (2008). Peter Franz Mittag, Antiochos IV. Epiphanes. Eine politische Biographie. Bryn Mawr Classical Review. http://ccat.sas.upenn.edu/bmcr/2008/2008-09-28.html

Popularising publications

Strootman, R. (2008). De gouden kooi: mecenaat van kunst en wetenschappen aan het Ptolemaeïsche hof. Groniek, (177), 23-38.
https://dspace.library.uu.nl/bitstream/handle/1874/259478/De%2520Gouden%2520Kooi.pdf?sequence=1

2007

Scholarly publications

Strootman, R. (2007). The Hellenistic Royal Court. Court Culture, Ceremonial and Ideology in Greece, Egypt and the Near East, 336-30 BCE. [Doctoral thesis 1 (Research UU / Graduation UU), Utrecht University]. Utrecht University. https://dspace.library.uu.nl/handle/1874/22154

2006

Scholarly publications

Strootman, R. (2006). "En in woede en razernij doodden zij de afvalligen". Interactie van Joodse en Griekse cultuur in hellenistisch Palestina. Leidschrift, 21(3), 69-80.
https://dspace.library.uu.nl/bitstream/handle/1874/43926/Joden%2520en%2520Grieken.pdf?sequence=1
Strootman, R. (2006). The Seleukid Royal Economy. The Finances and Financial Administration of the Seleukid. Bryn Mawr Classical Review, 06.
Strootman, R. (2006). Van wetsgetrouwen en afvalligen. Religieus geweld en culturele verandering in de tijd der Makkabaeen. In B. Becking, & G. Rouwhorst (Eds.), Religies in interactie. Jodendom en Christendom in de Oudheid (pp. 79-97). Meinema.
https://dspace.library.uu.nl/bitstream/handle/1874/43891/Wetsgetrouwen%2520en%2520Afvalligen.pdf?sequence=1

Professional publications

Strootman, R. (2006). Cleopatra's kapsel. Tijdschrift Voor Geschiedenis, 119, 406-407.
https://dspace.library.uu.nl/bitstream/handle/1874/43892/Kleiner%25202005.pdf?sequence=1

2005

Scholarly publications

Strootman, R. (2005). De vrienden van de vorst: Het koninklijk hof in de Hellenistische rijken. Lampas, 38(3), 184-197.
Strootman, R. (2005). Hellenistische geschiedenis. Lampas, 38(3), 280-285.
Strootman, R. (2005). Kings against Celts: Deliverance from barbarians as a theme in Hellenistic royal propaganda. In K. A. E. Enenkel, & I. L. Pfeijffer (Eds.), The Manipulative Mode. Political Propaganda in Antiquity (pp. 101-141). Brill. https://doi.org/10.1163/9789047414544_006
https://dspace.library.uu.nl/bitstream/handle/1874/7323/Barbarianslayers.pdf?sequence=3

Professional publications

Strootman, R. (2005). Alexander de Grote: held of hufter? Aanzet, 21(2), 38-42.
https://dspace.library.uu.nl/bitstream/handle/1874/43890/Held%2520of%2520Hufter.pdf?sequence=1

Popularising publications

Strootman, R. (2005). Gekroonde goden. Hellenistische vorsten van Alexander tot Kleopatra. Amsterdam University Press.

2004

Scholarly publications

Strootman, R. (2004). Bookreview Massnahmen der Herrschaftssicherung bei Alexander dem Grossen. Bryn Mawr Classical Review. http://ccat.sas.upenn.edu/bmcr/2004/2004-11-32.html
Strootman, R. (2004). Bookreview The Roman War of Antiochos the Great. Bryn Mawr Classical Review. http://ccat.sas.upenn.edu/bmcr/2004/2004-03-52.html
Strootman, R. (2004). Bookreview The Legacy of Alexander. Politics, Warfare, and Propaganda Under the Successors. Bryn Mawr Classical Review. http://ccat.sas.upenn.edu/bmcr/2004/2004-01-31.html
Strootman, R. (2004). Mithridates Eupator. Mnemosyne, 47, 203-507.
Strootman, R. (2004). Alexander de Grote. Lampas, 37(5), 385-391.

Professional publications

Strootman, R. (2004). De vrouwelijke koning. Machtige vrouwen in de Hellenistische vorstendommen, 323-31 v.Chr. KCV Site. http://www.let.uu.nl/solis/geschiedenis/afdelingen/goac

2002

Scholarly publications

Strootman, R. (2002). De vrouwelijke koning. Machtige vrouwen in de hellenistische vorstendommen, 323-31 v.Chr. Groniek, 36(158/159), 45-62.
https://dspace.library.uu.nl/bitstream/handle/1874/386646/de_vrouwelijke_koning_2002.pdf?sequence=1

2001

Scholarly publications

Strootman, R. (2001). Mecenaat aan de hellenistische hoven. Lampas, 34(3), 187-203.
https://dspace.library.uu.nl/bitstream/handle/1874/259480/2001%2520Mecenaat.pdf?sequence=1

1996

Professional publications

Strootman, R. (1996). Helga Ruebsamen. In R. Mulder, V. Ouwens, & R. Strootman (Eds.), Op grondslag van solidariteit. Zestig jaar Voorzieningsfonds voor Kunstenaars (pp. 80-84). VvK.
Strootman, R. (1996). Feike Boschma. In R. Mulder, V. Ouwens, & R. Strootman (Eds.), Op grondslag van solidariteit. Zestig jaar Voorzieningsfonds voor Kunstenaars (pp. 72-76). VvK.
Mulder, R., Strootman, R., & Ouwens, V. (1996). Op grondslag van solidariteit. Zestig jaar Voorzieningsfonds voor Kunstenaars. Voorzieningsfonds voor Kunstenaars.

1995

Professional publications

Strootman, R. (1995). J. F. van Royen: een portret van de oprichter van het Voorzieningsfonds voor Kunstenaars. Kunstenaarswijzer, 11, 22-25.
 

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