Erich S. Gruen

Erich S. Gruen is an American historian and classical scholar specializing in the history of ancient Greece, Rome, and the Hellenistic world. He served as Wood Professor Emeritus of Ancient History in the Classics and History at the University of California, Berkeley, and is known for his scholarship on the aftermath of Alexander the Great and the Hellenistic kingdoms.

Gruen authored Coronation of the Diadochi: Monarchic Division after Alexander the Great, a study examining the adoption of royal titles by the successors of Alexander after 306 BC and the emergence of the Hellenistic monarchies.

Works

• Coronation of the Diadochi: Monarchic Division after Alexander the Great
• The Hellenistic World and the Coming of Rome
• Heritage and Hellenism
• Rethinking the Other in Antiquity

See also

• Diadochi
• Alexander the Great
• Hellenistic period