Machine generated contents note: 1. Introduction / Johann P. Arnason
pt. I Expansion and Transformation
2. From City-State to Empire: Rome in Comparative Perspective / Kurt A. Raaflaub
3. The Transition from Republic to Principate: Loss of Legitimacy, Revolution, and Acceptance / Egon Flaig
4. Strong and Weak Regimes: Comparing the Roman Principate and the Medieval Crown of Aragon / J. E. Lendon
pt. II Late Antiquity: Division, Transformation, and Continuity
5. The Background to the Third-Century Crisis of the Roman Empire / Adam Ziolkowski
6. The End of Sacrifice: Religious Mutations of Late Antiquity / Guy G Stroumsa
7. Contextualizing Late Antiquity: The First Millennium / Garth Fowden
pt. III Destinies of the Roman Legacy
8. The Franks: Rome's Heirs in the West / Matthias Becher
9. The End of Rome? The Transformation of the Eastern Empire in the Seventh and Eighth Centuries CE / John Haldon
10. The First Islamic Empire / Chase F. Robinson
pt. IV Comparative Perspectives
11. From City-State to Empire: The Case of Assyria / Mario Liverani
12. China's Early Empires: The Authority and Means of Government / Michael Loewe
13. The Legs of the Throne: Kings, Elites, and Subjects in Sasanian Iran / Scott McDonough
14. The King of Kings: Universal Hegemony, Imperial Power, and a New Comparative History of Rome / Peter Fibiger Bang
pt. V Conceptual and Theoretical Reflections
15. The Roman Phenomenon: State, Empire, and Civilization / Johann P. Arnason
16. Roman-European Continuities: Conceptual and Historical Questions / Peter Wagner.
