This prodigious two-volume work produced in honor of Edwin Judge gathers eighty-four key papers on a broad range of topics of interest to teachers, students, and general readers of ancient history. Including contributions from a broad spectrum of respected scholars, these volumes will serve as a vade mecum for the current state of scholarship in this fascinating area of study.

Volume 1 contains thirty-six essays that explore important facets of the archaeology and history of the ancient Near East; the people of ancient Egypt; Anatolia, Mesopotamia, and Palestine; archaic and classical Greece, the Hellenistic age, the Roman state and its people, the age of the caesars, and the classical tradition.