Table of 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

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.

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