Description: Greek and Roman empires have largely been studied in isolation from those of the Near East. This volume is designed to encourage dialogue across disciplinary boundaries by examining the fundamental features of the successive and partly overlapping imperial states that dominated much of the Near East and the Mediterranean in the first millennia BCE and CE.
Review Quotes: "This volume is an ambitious cross-cultural perspective of the ancient empires in a series of case studies based on political theory as well as on recent archeological research." --Journal of World History
"This book justly claims as a distinctive feature that it brings Greco-Roman empires together with Near Eastern ones in a comparative perspective.... Its parts are varied and interesting, the unexceeded sum makes an absorbing volume." - Bryn Mawr Classical Review