Ancient warfare : introducing current research

Ancient warfare : introducing current research / edited by Geoff Lee, Helene Whittaker and Graham Wrightson.

This volume provides chapters on current research into ancient warfare. It is a collection with a wide-range, covering a long chronological spread, with many historical themes, including some that have recently been rather neglected. It has wide academic relevance to a number of on-going debates on...

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Other Authors: Lee, Geoff (Editor), Whittaker, Helene (Editor), Wrightson, Graham (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Newcastle upon Tyne : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2015.
Subjects:
Military history, Ancient.
Military art and science > History.
Ancient history: to c 500 CE.
Classical history > classical civilisation.
Classical Greek & Roman archaeology.
HISTORY > Military > Other.
TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING > Military Science.
Military art and science
Military history, Ancient
History
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Table of Contents:
  • Symbolic Aspects of Warfare in Minoan Crete / Helene Whittaker
  • Death of a Swordsman, Death of a Sword: The Killing of Swords in the Early Iron Age Aegean (ca. 1050 to ca. 690 B.C.E.) / Dr. Matthew Lloyd
  • Filling the Gaps: Catapults and Philon of Byzantium / Dr. Aimee Schofield
  • Aeneas Tacticus and Small Units in Greek Warfare / Dr. Nick Barley
  • To Use or not to Use: The Practical and Historical Reliability of Asclepiodotus'sa ́Philosophical' Tactical Manual / Dr. Graham Wrightson
  • Furious Wrath: Alexander's Siege of Thebes and Perdiccas' False Retreat / Dr. Borja Antela-Bernardez
  • Civil War and Counterinsurgency in Greece: Rival Systems of Hegemony during the Fourth Century BC / Konstantinos Lentakis
  • The Problem of the Four Hundred Wagons: The Provisioning of the Ten Thousand on the March to Cunaxa / Dr. Stephen O'Connor
  • War as Training, War as Spectacle: The Hippika Gymnasia from Xenophon to Arrian / Dr. Anna Busetto
  • Trouble Comes in Threes: From Chariot to Cavalry in thea ́Celtic' World / Alberto Perez-Rubio
  • The Late Bronze, Early Iron Age Transition: Changes in Warriors and Warfare and the Earliest Recorded Naval Battles / Dr. Jeffrey P. Emanuel
  • Thucydides' Narrative on Naval Warfare: Epibatai, Military Theory, Ideology / Dr. Matteo Zaccarini
  • Commemorating War Dead and Inventing Battle Heroes: Heroic Paradigms and Discursive Strategies in Ancient Athens and Phocis / Dr. Elena Franchi, Dr. Giorgia Proietti
  • Ajax, Cassandra and Athena: Retaliatory Warfare and Gender Violence at the Sack of Troy / Dr. Susan Deacy, Dr. Fiona McHardy
  • Treating Hemorrhage in Greek and Roman Militaries / Dr. Julie Laskaris
  • Are You (Ro)man Enough? Non-Roman Virtus in the Roman Army / Dr. Adam Anders
  • To the Victor the Spoils? Post-Battle Looting in the Roman World / Joanne Ball
  • The Role of the Peace-Makers (Caduceatores) in Roman Attitudes to War and Peace / Dr. Hannah Cornwell.

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