Gillian Ramsey

Associate Professor (Campion College)

Ph.D (University of Exeter); MA (University of Victoria); BA (University of Regina)

Contact Info

Gillian.Ramsey@uregina.ca

Office: 306-586-4228

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Research Interests

Hellenistic Culture and History
Women’s History
The Seleucid Empire

Commonly Taught courses

CLAS 160 - Introduction to Ancient Greek I
CLAS 161 - Introduction to Ancient Greek II
CLAS 210 - Greek and Roman Epic
CLAS 220 - Women in Greece and Rome
CLAS 390AD - The World of Ancient Greek Philosophers
HIST 261 - Introduction to Ancient Greece

Representative Publications

2025. A Social and Cultural History of the Hellenistic World. New York: Wiley-Blackwell. (https://www.wiley.com/en-us/A+Social+and+Cultural+History+of+the+Hellenistic+World-p-9781119043249)
2025. 'Ptolemaic and Seleucid Royal Women.' Brill's Companion to Ancient Women and War in the Mediterranean World, Elizabeth D. Carney and Sabine Müller, eds. Leiden: Brill, 200-217.
2024. ‘The Hellenistic Poleis of Southern Babylonia and the Erythraean Sea.’ Anabasis. Studia Classica et Orientalia. Vol. 12: Cities, Trade, and Routes. From the Greek World to Iran and Bactria, 101-124. (https://sites.google.com/view/anabasiss/anabasis-volumes-12-13?authuser=0)
2023. ‘Rebel Poleis: the politics of anti-Seleukid violence.’ in Seleukid Ideology: Creation, Reception and Response, Altay Çoskun and Richard Wenghofer, eds. Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag, 219-235.
2022. ‘Geographical sources and documents.’ in The Blackwell Companion to the Hellenistic and Roman Near East, Ted Kaizer, ed. New York, London: Wiley-Blackwell, 21-33.
2021. ‘Apama and Stratonike.’ in Routledge Companion to Women and Monarchy in the Ancient Mediterranean, Elizabeth Carney and Sabine Müller, eds. London; New York: Routledge, 186-197.
2020. ‘Seleukid Land and Native Populations: Laodike II and the Competition for Power in Asia Minor and Babylonia,’ in New Perspectives in Seleucid History, Archaeology and Numismatics. Studies in Honor of Getzel M. Cohen, Roland Oetjen, Francis X. Ryan, eds. Beiträge zur Altertumskunde, 355. Berlin: de Gruyter, 243-263. (https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.1515/9783110283846-015/html?lang=en&srsltid=AfmBOoqEQhgysn8wm9BwX4eW97hNyxxZl4kPHXVuqk-TUS_MPeI_1cNR)
2019. ‘Generals and Cities in Late-Seleukid and Early-Parthian Babylonia.’ in Rome and the Seleukid East. Selected Papers from Seleukid Study Day V, Brussels, 21-23 August 2015, Altay Çoskun and David Engels, eds. Collection LATOMUS, volume 360. Leuven: Peeters, 435-456. (https://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctv1q26ncx.19)