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PRE-ORDER NOW - Published: 04/01/2026
Discover a comprehensive and cross-disciplinary handbook exploring several sub-regions and key themes perfect for a new generation of students?? A Companion to the Hellenistic and Roman Near East?delivers the first complete handbook in the area of Hellenistic and Roman Near Eastern?history. The book is divided into sections dealing with interdisciplinary source material, each with a great deal of regional variety and engaging with several key themes. It integrates discussions of the classical Near East with the typical undergraduate teaching syllabus in the?Anglo-Saxon?world.? All contributors in this edited volume are leading scholars in their field, with a combination of established researchers and academics,?and emerging voices.?Contributors??hail?from countries?across several continents, and?work in various disciplines,?including?Ancient History, Archaeology, Art History, Epigraphy, Numismatics, and Oriental Studies.?? In addition to furthering the integration of the Levantine lands in the?classical?periods into the teaching canon, the book offers readers:?? The first comprehensively structured Companion and edited handbook on the Hellenistic and Roman Near East?Extensive regional and sub-regional variety in the cross-disciplinary source material?A way to compensate for the recent destruction of?monuments?in the region?and the new generation of researchers' inability to examine these historical stages in person?An integration of?the study of the Hellenistic and Roman Near East with traditional undergraduate teaching syllabi in the?Anglo-Saxon?world? Perfect for undergraduate?history?and classics?students studying the?Near East,?A Companion to the Hellenistic and Roman Near East?will also earn a place in the libraries of graduate students and?scholars?working?within Near Eastern studies, as well as interested members of the public with a passion for history.?Binding: Paperback / softback