Warwick Ball argues that the story of Rome is the story of the East, more than the story of the West."--BOOK JACKET.

Fergus Millar is one of the most influential contemporary historians of the ancient world. His essays and books, including The Emperor in the Roman World and Th

Studies the complex system of trade exchanges and commerce that profoundly changed Roman society.

The ancient Middle East was the theater of passionate interaction between Phoenicians, Aramaeans, Arabs, Jews, Greeks, and Romans. At the crossroads of the Medi

From Augustus to Constantine, the Roman Empire in the Near East expanded step by step, southward to the Red Sea and eastward across the Euphrates to the Tigris.