Table of Contents

List of Maps
Contributors
Part I. INTRODUCTION
Preface
1 Studying the State
Walter Scheidel
Part II. NEAR EASTERN STATES
2 Egypt
Joseph G. Manning
3 Fertile Crescent City-States
Steven Garfinkle
4 Mesopotamian Empires
Gojko Barjamovic
5 Anatolian States
Trevor Bryce
6 Jewish States
Seth Schwartz
7 Iranian Empires
Josef Wiesehöfer
Part III. AEGEAN STATES AND THEIR EXTENSIONS
8 Bronze Age Greece
John Bennet
9 Greek City-States
Mogens H. Hansen
10 Greek Multi-City States
Ian Morris
11 The Greek Koinon
Emily Mackil
12 Hellenistic Empires
John Ma
Part IV. CENTRAL MEDITERRANEAN STATES AND THEIR EXTENSIONS
13 Carthage
Walter Ameling
14 The Roman Empire I: The Republic
Henrik Mouritsen
15 The Roman Empire II: The Monarchy
Peter F. Bang
Part V. TRANSFORMATIONS OF THE ANCIENT STATE
16 The Byzantine Successor State
John Haldon
17 The Germanic Successor States
Ian Wood
18 The First Islamic Empire
Chase Robinson
Index

About the Author

Peter Fibiger Bang is Associate Professor at the Saxo Institute of the University of Copenhagen.

Walter Schiedel is Dickason Professor in the Humanities at Stanford University.

Reviews

"Oxford's distinguished series of handbooks on the ancient world continues to expand. This recent addition surveys the principal states in the ancient Near East and the Mediterranean from the fourth millennium BCE to the eighth century.... Each article provides an up-to-date overview of a state's political history and institutional structure and a select bibliography of current scholarship.... An excellent work. Essential."--S. M. Burstein, CHOICE