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Ancient Empires: From Mesopotamia to the Rise of Islam

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  • Copyright: 2011-06-27
  • Publisher: Cambridge University Press

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Ancient Empires is a relatively brief yet comprehensive and even-handed overview of the ancient Near East, the Mediterranean, and Europe, including the Greco-Roman world, Late Antiquity, and the early Muslim period. Taking a focused and thematic approach, it aims to provoke a discussion of an explicit set of themes supplemented by the reading of ancient sources. By focusing on empires and imperialism as well as modes of response and resistance, it is relevant to current discussions about order, justice, and freedom. The book concludes that some of the ancient world's most enduring ideas, value systems, and institutions were formulated by peoples who were resisting the great empires. It analyzes the central, if problematic, connection between political and ideological power in both empire formation and resistance. The intricate interrelations among ideological, economic, military, and political power are explored for every empire and resisting group.

Author Biography

Eric H. Cline is Associate Professor and the Chair of the Department of Classical and Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations at George Washington University. The author of more than eighty articles, his most recent books include Biblical Archaeology: A Very Short Introduction (2009) and From Eden to Exile: Unraveling Mysteries of the Bible (2008). Mark W. Graham is Associate Professor in the Department of History at Grove City College, Pennsylvania. He has published numerous articles in scholarly journals and contributed chapters to several books, including Encyclopedia of Greece and the Hellenic Tradition (2000) and Encyclopedia of the Empires of the World (2011). Most recently, he authored News and Frontier Consciousness in the Late Roman Empire (2006).

Table of Contents

Illustrationsp. xi
Acknowledgmentsp. xvii
Introduction: What Is an (Ancient) Empire?p. 1
Definition of Empirep. 3
Empire, Response, and Resistancep. 7
Empires, Ancient and Modernp. 8
Questions, Questions, Questionsp. 9
Prelude to the Age of Ancient Empiresp. 10
The Dawn of Empirep. 11
Between Amarna and Qadesh: Realpolitik Bronze Age Stylep. 23
Collapse of the International Systemp. 29
The Rise of the Age of Ancient Empiresp. 33
The Levels of Historical Time and the Rise of the Age of Ancient Empiresp. 34
Climate Change and the Birth of a New Agep. 36
The Neo-Assyrian Revivalp. 37
The Logic of Assyrian Dominationp. 42
The Demise of Assyrian Dominationp. 52
Dealing with Empires: Varieties of Responsesp. 55
Secondary State Formation: Urartup. 56
Coalition and Collapse: Syria and Its Neighborsp. 62
Revival of East-West Trade: The Phoenicians/Canaanitesp. 66
Conflict and Covenant: Israel and Judahp. 72
Beyond the Near East: The Neo-Babylonian and Early Achaemenid Persian Empiresp. 80
The Rise (and Fall) of the Neo-Babylonian Empirep. 81
Looking Back and Looking Ahead: Neo-Babylonian Rulership in Actionp. 84
Interlude: The People of the Bookp. 89
The Enigmatic Nabonidus and the Persian Takeoverp. 90
The Rise of a Multiculturalist Empire: The Achaemenid Persiansp. 92
The Pragmatics of a Multicultural Empirep. 98
Responding to Empirep. 101
The Crucible of History: East Meets Westp. 103
The Greek Expansion and the Birth of the Polisp. 108
The Ionian Intellectual Revolution and the Limits of Persian Tolerancep. 112
The Crucible of Historyp. 116
The Greco-Persian Warp. 118
Postlude: East, West, and Orientalismp. 124
Democracy and Empire between Athens and Alexanderp. 126
A Golden Age (at Athens)p. 128
Can a Democracy Run an Empire? The Peloponnesian Warp. 134
The Empire Strikes Back: Alexander the Greatp. 142
ôSpear-Wonö Empires: The Hellenistic Synthesisp. 149
Alexander's ôFuneral Gamesöp. 150
The Hellenistic IEMP Synthesisp. 153
Empire and the Cityp. 159
The Individual in the Hellenistic Worldp. 162
Resistance and Revolt: Mauryans and Maccabeesp. 166
The Western Mediterranean and the Rise of Romep. 173
The Western Mediterranean Settingp. 176
Roman Beginnings: Inside and Outsidep. 181
The Roots of Roman Imperialismp. 189
Imperium Sine Fine: Roman Imperialism and the End of the Old Orderp. 199
Rome versus Carthagep. 200
Symploké Rome and the Hellenistic Eastp. 204
The Late Republic and the End of the Old Orderp. 210
The New Political Order: The Foundations of the Principatep. 221
Mr. IEMP: Octavian/Augustusp. 222
Pax Romanap. 232
Into the Arena: A Microcosm of Imperial Society in the Principatep. 235
ôBarbariansö through Roman Eyes: The Romans Encounter ôthe Otheröp. 239
Ruling and Resisting the Roman Empirep. 244
Power and the Provincesp. 246
The Imperial Cult and Roman Rulep. 254
Resisting Roman Rulep. 258
Imperial Crisis and Recoveryp. 267
The ôThird-Century Crisisöp. 268
The Rise of Christianityp. 277
The Dominate: Cosmos Restoredp. 283
Universal Empires and Their Peripheries in Late Antiquityp. 294
Roman Political and Religious Universalismp. 295
Renovatio: Byzantium, the New Romep. 301
The Rise of the Sasanid Persian Empirep. 306
Politics, Resistance, and Heterodoxies at the Peripheries of the Empiresp. 311
The Formation of the Islamic World Empirep. 319
The Clash of Empires and the End of the (Ancient) Worldp. 322
The Arabs and the Rise of Islamp. 326
The Umayyads: The First Islamic (and the Last Ancient) Empirep. 332
Notesp. 341
Further Readingp. 347
Indexp. 357
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