Empires through the Ages Short-term Empires – Rule or Exception?

Robert Rollinger  is Professor of Ancient History and Ancient Near Eastern Studies at the Leopold-Franzens University of Innsbruck. His main research areas are the history of the Ancient Near East and the Achaemenid Empire, contacts between the Aegean World and the Ancient Near East, ancient historiography, and the comparative history of empires. 

Florian Posselt is doing his PhD in the field of Ancient History and Classical Studies at the Leopold-Franzens University of Innsbruck. His thesis addresses the origin of the ancient continental division into Europe, Asia and Africa. His research thematizes mental mapping and spatial perception in Antiquity, cultural contacts between the Ancient Near Eastern and the Classical World, Ancient Near Eastern royal inscriptions, Greek historiography and the history of research of Ancient Geography.

Hilmar Klinkott is Professor of Ancient History at the Christian Albrecht University of Kiel. His main research areas are the history of the Achaemenid Empire, in particular the political and cultural exchange with the Eastern Mediterranean, the Hellenistic monarchies and Republican Rome. 

Kai Ruffing is Professor of Ancient History at the University of Kassel. His main research interests are the economic and social history of the ancient world, the contacts between the Mediterranean world and the ancient Near East, the ancient historiography and the history of the reception of the ancient world.