• Contributors


• 1.: Ancient States, Empires, and Exploitation: Problems and Perspectives


• 2.: The Neo-Assyrian Empire


• 3.: The Achaemenid Empire


• 4.: The Greater Athenian State


• 5.: The Political Economy of the Roman Empire


• 6.: The Byzantine Empire


• 7.: Sex and Empire: A Darwinian Perspective


• Bibliography


• Index

Ian Morris is Jean and Rebecca Willard Professor of Classics and Professor of History at Stanford University.
Walter Scheidel is Professor of Classics and, by courtesy, History at Stanford University.

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.