| Description |
xiv, 349 pages ; 24 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and indexes. |
| Contents |
Kinsmen, friends, and allies : the society of states -- Justice, honour, and profit : causes and goals of wars -- Pleonexia : structural causes of war -- Men of bronze : the myth of the middle-class militia -- The other warriors : light infantry, cavalry, body-servants, and mercenaries -- Politics and the battlefield : ideology in Greek warfare -- Bodies of men : training and organisation of the militia -- The bare necessities : mobilisation and maintenance of armies -- Rituals, rules, and strategies : the structure of campaigns -- Ambush, battle, and siege : changing forms of combat -- The deeds of heroes : battle in the Iliad -- The archaic phalanx : infantry combat down to the Persian Wars -- The classical phalanx : infantry combat transformed -- The wall of wood : ships, men, and money -- War at sea : classical naval campaigns -- Conclusion : the development of Greek warfare : war and the state. |
| Summary |
"From the soldier's-eye view of combat to the broad social and economic structures which shaped campaigns and wars, ancient Greek warfare in all its aspects has been studied more intensively in the last few decades than ever before. This book ranges from the concrete details of conducting raids, battles and sieges to more theoretical questions about the causes, costs and consequences of warfare in archaic and classical Greece. It argues that the Greek sources present a highly selective and idealised picture, too easily accepted by most modern scholars, and that a more critical study of the evidence leads to radically different conclusions about the Greek way of war."--Jacket. |
| Subject |
Military art and science -- History -- To 500.
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Military art and science. |
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History. |
| Chronological Term |
To 500 |
| Subject |
Military art and science -- Greece -- History.
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Greece. |
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Greece -- History, Military -- To 146 B.C.
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Ελλάδα -- Στρατιωτική ιστορία -- Μέχρι το 146 π.Χ.
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History, Military. |
| Chronological Term |
To 146 B.C |
| Subject |
Oorlogvoering. |
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Griekse oudheid. |
| Genre/Form |
History.
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Military history.
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| ISBN |
0715629670 (paperback) |
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9780715629673 (paperback) |
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