Table of Contents

Introduction
The Middle East in Early Antiquity
Egypt and Asia
The Rise and Decline of Assyria
The Rise and Fall of Media
The Empire of the Achaemenids
The Persian-Greek Wars
The Macedonian Conquest
The Dissolution of Alexander's Empire
Reconfiguration of the Middle East
Rome Enters the Middle East
The Roman-Parthian Conflict
The Struggle over the Euphrates Frontier
The Roman-Persian Stalemate
The Era of Shapur II
The Struggle for Persia's Frontiers
End of the Sassanid Empire
Afterword
Bibliography