My field of research is mainly the Hellenistic period, especially the Seleucid Empire. I work on questions of royal legitimacy and power, female mobility and networks in the Hellenistic period, and views of the past in antiquity. In addition, I participate in a project on the reception history and identity.

Course responsible:

• HIS301/350 Masterseminar Ancient History Masterseminar i historie | Historie | UiB
• HIS101 Survey of Pre-Modern History to 1750 https://www.uib.no/en/course/HIS101
• HIS114 Specialization in Pre-Modern History https://www.uib.no/en/course/HIS114

Other course involvement:

• HIS100
• HIS250 Bachelor thesis supervision 

Visscher, M.S. (under review) ‘Alexander i Holberg’. In Seland & Mæhle (eds.), Antikkens virkningshistorie.

Visscher, M.S. (under review) ‘Travelling Queens: networks of female royal power in the Hellenistic World’. In Visscher, Bull, Riepe (eds.), Roads (not) taken: Mobility in the Ancient World. 

Visscher, M.S. (accepted) ‘Antiochus Epimanes and the madness of Nebuchadnezzar: Anti-Seleucid literary motives in Jewish resistance’. In J. Klooster (eds.), Beyond Alexandria (Hellenistica Groningana). 

Bull, C.H. og Visscher, M.S.  (before published) ‘Aleksander den Store og hans hellenistiske etterfølgeres imperiedannelser’. In J. Braarvig & A. Haave (eds.) De store imperiene. 

Visscher, M.S. (2020) Beyond Alexandria: Literature and Empire in the Seleucid Empire, Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Visscher, M.S. (2019)a. Royal Presence in the Astronomical Diaries. In J.H. Haubold, J.M Steele & K. Stevens (eds.), Keeping watch in Babylon: the astronomical diaries in context (pp. 237-268). Leiden: Brill Publishers.

Visscher, M.S. (2019)b. Poets and Politics: Antiochos the Great, Hegesianax and the War with Rome. In A. Coşkun & D. Engels (eds.), Rome and the Seleukid East. Selected Papers from Seleukid Study Day V (pp. 61-85). Brussels: Latomus.

Visscher, M.S. (2018) “Review: The Legend of Seleucus: Kingship, Narrative and Mythmaking in the Ancient World, by Daniel Ogden”, Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2018.04.07.

Visscher, M.S. (2017). Imperial Asia: Past and Present in Callimachus’ Lock of Berenice. In M.A. Harder, R.F. Regtuit & G.C. Wakker (eds.), Past and Present in Hellenistic Poetry (Hellenistica Groningana 21, pp. 211-232). Leuven: Peeters.

Visscher, M.S. (Marijn) (2015) “Review: The Land of the Elephant Kings: Space, Territory, and Ideology in the Seleucid Empire, by Paul J. Kosmin”, Near Eastern Archaeology 78.4, 316-317.

Visscher, Marijn (2011) “‘The past perfect and the present tense’: A comparison between three treatises on the ethics of historical practise”, Синтезис, 63-81.

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