Antiochos III and the Cities of Western Asia Minor

by John Ma

This important and wide-ranging book examines the relationship between the Greek city-states and the Hellenistic empire, focusing specifically on the interaction between Antiochos III and the cities of Western Asia Minor. Dr Ma approaches this material from a variety of narrative history, structural analyses of imperial power, and analyses of the functions played by language and stereotype in the interaction between rulers and ruled. This paperback edition includes a new preface and a section of addenda.

425 pages, Paperback

First published March 9, 2000

About the author

A specialist in the history of the ancient Greek world and its broader context (including the ancient near-east), John Ma is Professor of Classics at Columbia University, where he has taught since 2015. Before taking up his post at Columbia Ma worked at Corpus Christi College and the Faculty of Classics at Oxford for fifteen years. Before that, he worked in the Classics Department at Princeton (during which period he lived in New York). He received a B.A. (Literae Humaniores) and D.Phil. (Ancient History) from Oxford University.