Transitions to Empire
Subtitle: Essays in Greco-Roman History, 360-146 B.C., in Honor of E. Badian (Oklahoma Series in Classical Culture)
Contributors: E. Badian (Editor); Edward Monroe Harris (Editor)
Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
Published: October 1996
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 498
ISBN-13: 9780806128634
Subjects: European history: BCE to c 500 CE; POLITICS & GOVERNMENT; World history: BCE to c 500 CE; Rome; Greece; Ancient Greece - History; Ancient Rome - History; History - General History; Republic, 510-30 B.C; History: World; Ancient Greece; Ancient Rome; History; Ancient - Greece; To 146 B.C; Ancient - General; Civilization, Classical
Description: During the period 360-146 B.C., the Greco-Roman world underwent the transition from independent city states and small regional powers to the large and potent empires of the Hellenistic age. The essays in this volume consider various aspects of this central political transformation.

The contributors to the volume are students or close working colleagues of Ernst Badian, perhaps the greatest living authority on the period under discussion. Included in the volume is a complete bibliography of Badian's publications.

The broadly based yet coherent theme - the momentous changes in systems of power and authority in the ancient Mediterranean world - makes Transitions to Empire an important contribution to Greco-Roman scholarship and a fitting tribute to a scholar whose work has had such a far-reaching influence on the field of ancient history.