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The Oxford handbook of warfare in the classical world /

Other Authors: Campbell, J. B., (ed.), Tritle, Lawrence A., 1946- (ed.)
Format: Book
Language: English
Published: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2013.
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Table of Contents:
  • Chronology
  • Editors' introduction
  • Introduction: the classical world at war
  • War and warfare in ancient Greece / Louis Rawlings
  • War and warfare in ancient Rome / Randall S. Howarth
  • Writers on war. Part I Greece: winning ways in warfare / P.C. Millett
  • Part II Rome: a story of conflict / Michael Lovano
  • The archaeology of war / Simon James
  • Warfare and environment in the ancient world / J. Donald Hughes
  • The face of battle in the classical world
  • The classical Greek experience / John W.I. Lee
  • The three thousand: Alexander's infantry guard / Waldemar Heckel
  • The hellenistic experience with war: stagnation or development? / John Serrati
  • War and society in Greece / Nicholas V. Sekunda
  • The rise of Rome / Michael Sage
  • Imperial Rome at war / Phyllis Culham
  • War and society in the Roman Empire / Colin Adams
  • Impacts and techniques: war in the classical world
  • Men at war / Lawrence A. Tritle
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  • Treating the sick and wounded / Christine F. Salazar
  • Keeping military discipline / Stefan G. Chrissanthos
  • The business of war: mercenaries / Matthew Trundle
  • Logistics: sinews of war / Donald Engels
  • War at sea / Philip de Souza
  • Arms and armor Part I: arming Greeks for battle / Eero Jarva Part II: arming Romans for battle / Duncan B. Campbell
  • Greeks under siege: challenges, experiences, and emotions / Angelos Chaniotis
  • Generalship: leadership and command / Rosemary Moore
  • Finding the enemy: military intelligence / Frank Russell
  • War and the horse / Ann Hyland
  • Part I: horses for war: breeding and keeping a warhorse
  • Part II: the development and training of cavalry in Greece and Rome
  • Greek rituals of war / Daniel P. Tompkins
  • Roman rituals of war / John Rich
  • Fighting the other. Part I: Greeks and Achaemenid Persians / Bruce Laforse
  • Part II: the Germanic and Danubian transfrontier peoples / Peter S. Wells
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  • Part III: Military and society in Sasanian Iran / Scott McDonough
  • Case studies: the classical world at war
  • The Athenian expedition to Sicily / Lee L. Brice
  • The Peloponnesian War and its sieges / Michael Seaman
  • Epaminondas at Leuctra, 371 B.C. / John Buckler
  • Demetrius "the Besieger" and hellenistic warfare / Thomas R. Martin
  • The second Punic War / Dexter Hoyos
  • Roman warfare with Sasanian Persia / A.D. Lee
  • Epilogue: The legacy of war in the classical world / Thomas Palaima and Lawrence A. Tritle.