This is a booklist I've compiled as I've been hunting round. I don't have any of these so if anyone does and can make any recommendations that would be great! *S* The Butcher book seems to have picked up good reviews as an excellent overview so that one's gone on my Amazon list *lol*

BALL, Warwick, Rome in the East. The Transformation of an Empire, Routledge, 2000

BUTCHER, Kevin, Roman Syria and the Near East, Getty Publications (with the British Museum Press), 2003.

COLVIN, S. (ed.), The Greco-Roman East: Politics, Culture, Society, CUP, 2004

ISAAC, Benjamin H., The Limits of Empire: The Roman Army in the East, Clarendon Press/Oxford University Press, 1990

KENNEDY, D, The Roman Army in Jordan, Council for British Research in the Levant, 2004

MILLAR, Fergus, The Roman Near East 31 BC-AD 337, Cambridge, MA and Harvard University Press, 1993

MITCHELL, Stephen, Anatolia v.1 Celts and the Impact of Roman Rule, Clarendon Press, 1995

SARTRE, M, (trans. by C. Porter & E. Rawlings) The Middle East under Rome, Belknap Press /Harvard U.P, 2005

WHITTAKER, C. R, Rome and its Frontiers: The Dynamics of Empire, Routledge, 2004