Dr Ryan Strickler
BA, MA Religious Studies, MA History, MA Classics, PhD Ancient History
Lecturer, Centre for Classical Studies
College of Arts and Social Sciences
Areas of expertise
- Latin And Classical Greek Languages 200305
- Classical Greek And Roman History 210306
- Religion And Religious Studies 2204
Research interests
- Religion and Identity in the Greco-Roman World
- Responses to Crisis in the Greco-Roman World
- Late Antiquity
- Religion and Authority in the later Roman Empire
Publications
- Strickler, R 2020, 'Paradise regained? Utopias of deliverance in seventh-century apocalyptic discourse', in Bronwen Neil and Kosta Simic (ed.), Memories of Utopia: The Revision of Histories and Landscapes in Late Antiquity, Routledge, United Kingdom, pp. 171-188.
- Strickler, R 2019, 'Persecution and apostasy: Christian identity during the crises of the seventh century', in Eric Fournier and Wendy Mayer (ed.), Heirs of Roman Persecution: Studies on a Christian and Para-Christian Discourse in Late Antiquity, Routledge, United Kingdom, pp. 296-314.
- Strickler, R 2018, 'Dreaming of Treason: Portentous Dreams and Imperial Coups in Seventh-Century Byzantine Apocalyptic Discourse', in Bronwen Neil and Eva Anagnostou-Laoutides (ed.), Dreams, Memory and Imagination in Byzantium, Brill, The Netherlands, pp. 118-135.
- Strickler, R 2017, 'Pious Forgeries: The Simultaneous Use and Critique of Spurious Texts in the Disputatio cum Pyrrho', in David Goldfrank, Valeria Nollan & Jennifer Spock (ed.), Iosif Volotskii and Eastern Christianity: Essays Across Seventeen Centuries, New Academia Publishing, United States, pp. 105-125.
- Strickler, R 2017, 'A Dispute in Dispute: Revisiting the Disputatio cum Pyrrho Attributed to Maximus the Confessor (CPG 7698)', Sacris Erudiri, vol. 56, pp. 243-272.
- Strickler, R 2016, 'The "Wolves of Arabia": A Reconsideration of Maximus the Confessor's Epistula 8', Byzantion: Revue Internationale des Etudes Byzantines, vol. 86, pp. 419-439.
