Soldiers and ghosts : a history of battle in classical antiquity /
Sparta, Macedon, and Rome - how did these nations come to dominate the ancient world? What set their armies apart? Noting this was an age that witnessed few technological advances, J.E. Lendon shows us that the most successful armies were those that made the most effective use of cultural tradition....
| Основен автор: | Lendon, J. E. |
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| Формат: | Електронна книга |
| Език: | English |
| Публикувано: |
New Haven :
Yale University Press,
℗♭2005.
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| Онлайн достъп: |
http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=187904 |
| Подобни документи: |
Print version::
Soldiers and ghosts. |
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Sparta, Macedon, and Rome - how did these nations come to dominate the ancient world? What set their armies apart? Noting this was an age that witnessed few technological advances, J.E. Lendon shows us that the most successful armies were those that made the most effective use of cultural tradition. Ancient combat moved forward by looking backward for inspiration - the Greeks, to Homer; the Romans, to the Greeks and to their own heroic past. The best ancient armies recruited soldiers from societies with strong competitive traditions; and the best ancient leaders, such as Alexander to Julius Caesar, called upon those traditions to encourage ferocious competition at every rank. Ranging from the Battle of Champions between Sparta and Argos in 550 B.C. through Julian's invasion of Persia in 363 A.D., Soldiers and Ghosts brings to life the most decisive military contests of ancient Greece and Rome. Lendon places these battles, and the methods by which they were fought, in a sweeping narrative of ancient military history. On every battlefield, living soldiers fought alongside the ghosts of tradition - ghosts that would inspire greatness for almost a millennium before ultimately coming to stifle it. |
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| Физически характеристики: |
1 online resource (xii, 468 pages) : illustrations, maps |
| Библиография: |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 393-403) and index. |
| ISBN: |
9780300128994 0300128991 9780300106633 0300106637 1281729329 9781281729323 |