Table of Contents

Preface
Time Chart
The Contributors
Abbreviations

49: Saite Egypt (Alexander Schütze)
50: The Neo-Babylonian Empire (Michael Jursa)
51: The Kingdom of Lydia (Annick Payne)
52: The Southern Levant and Northern Arabia in the Iron Age (Juan Manuel Tebes)
53: Early Saba and Its Neighbors (Norbert Nebes)
54: The Persian Empire under the Teispid Dynasty: Emergence and Conquest (Matt Waters)
55: The Persian Empire under the Achaemenid Dynasty, from Darius I to Darius III (D.T. Potts)
56: The Satrapies of the Persian Empire: Persia and Elam (Gian Pietro Basello)
57: The Satrapies of the Persian Empire: Media and Armenia (Giusto Traina)
58: The Satrapies of the Persian Empire in Asia Minor: Lydia, Caria, Lycia, Phrygia, and Cappadocia (Hilmar Klinkott)
59: The Satrapies of the Persian Empire: Babylonia and Assyria (André Heller)
60: The Satrapies of the Persian Empire: Ebir-nari / Syria (Peter R. Bedford)
61: The Satrapies of the Persian Empire in Egypt (Damien Agut-Labordère)
62: The Northeastern Regions of the Persian Empire: Bactriana, Sogdiana, Margiana, Chorasmia, Aria, Parthia, the Sakas and the Dahae (Michele Minardi)
63: The Southeastern Regions of the Persian Empire on the Indo-Iranian Frontier: Arachosia, Drangiana, Gedrosia, Sattagydia, Gandhara and India (Pierfrancesco Callieri)
64: The Persian Empire in Contact with the World (Robert Rollinger)
65: The Persian Empire: Perspectives on Culture and Society (Maria Brosius)

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About the Author

Karen Radner is Alexander von Humboldt Professor of Ancient History of the Near and Middle East at Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München.

Nadine Moeller is Professor of Egyptian Archaeology at Yale University.

D. T. Potts is Professor of Ancient Near Eastern Archaeology and History at the Institute for the Study of the Ancient World, New York University.