Dynamics of Ancient Empires: State Power from Assyria to Byzantium

by Ian Morris

Overview

Oxford Studies in Early Empires

Product Details

ISBN-13:	2900199758349
Publication date:	11/04/2010
Pages:	400
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 1.25(h) x 9.00(d)

About the Author

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.

Table of Contents

Contributors xi

Ancient States, Empires, and Exploitation: Problems and Perspectives Jack A. Goldstone John F. Haldon 3

The Neo-Assyrian Empire Peter R. Bedford 30

The Achaemenid Empire Josef Wiesehofer 66

The Greater Athenian State Ian Morris 99

The Political Economy of the Roman Empire Keith Hopkins 178

The Byzantine Empire John F. Haldon 205

Sex and Empire: A Darwinian Perspective Walter Scheidel 205

Bibliography 325

Index 369

Editorial Reviews

"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

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