The Oxford Handbook of the State in the Ancient Near East and Mediterranean

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.

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.

• List of MapsContributorsPart I. INTRODUCTIONPreface1 Studying the StateWalter ScheidelPart II. NEAR EASTERN STATES2 EgyptJoseph G. Manning3 Fertile Crescent City-StatesSteven Garfinkle4 Mesopotamian EmpiresGojko Barjamovic5 Anatolian StatesTrevor Bryce6 Jewish StatesSeth Schwartz7 Iranian EmpiresJosef WiesehöferPart III. AEGEAN STATES AND THEIR EXTENSIONS8 Bronze Age GreeceJohn Bennet9 Greek City-StatesMogens H. Hansen10 Greek Multi-City StatesIan Morris11 The Greek KoinonEmily Mackil12 Hellenistic EmpiresJohn MaPart IV. CENTRAL MEDITERRANEAN STATES AND THEIR EXTENSIONS13 CarthageWalter Ameling14 The Roman Empire I: The RepublicHenrik Mouritsen15 The Roman Empire II: The MonarchyPeter F. BangPart V. TRANSFORMATIONS OF THE ANCIENT STATE16 The Byzantine Successor StateJohn Haldon17 The Germanic Successor StatesIan Wood18 The First Islamic EmpireChase RobinsonIndex