The dynamics of ancient empires : state power from Assyria to Byzantium / edited by Ian Morris and Walter Scheidel.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Morris, Ian, 1960- editor.

Scheidel, Walter, 1966- editor.

Series:

Oxford scholarship online.

Oxford scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

State, The--History.

State, The.

Imperialism--History.

Imperialism.

Mediterranean Region--History--To 476.

Mediterranean Region.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (400 p.)

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2023.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This volume addresses and encourages 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.

Contents:

Contents; 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

Notes:

Previously issued in print: 2009.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Derived record based on print version record and publisher information.

ISBN:

0-19-770452-2

0-19-988817-5

1-281-92562-4

9786611925628

0-19-970761-8

OCLC:

437096239