'This is an engrossing book to read, very dense, beautifully written and enormously rewarding for anyone interested in how language can shape power relations.' - Paola Ceccarelli, Università dell'Aquila, Italy'an absorbing and thought-provoking study, which will be essential reading for all serious students of the Hellenistic Near East.' - G. R. G. Hambly, Choice'The professional Hellenistic historian or the epigraphist consequently is likely to find this study most enthralling -and it will prove highly rewarding.' -Times Literary SupplementThis important and wide-ranging study 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 angles: 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.