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....
| Main Author: | Lendon, J. E. |
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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New Haven :
Yale University Press,
℗♭2005.
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Table of Contents:
- The Greeks. Fighting in the Iliad
- The last Hoplite
- Two stubborn Spartans in the Persian War
- The guile of Delium
- The arts of war in the early fourth century BC
- Alexander the Great at the Battle of Issus
- Hellenistic warfare (323-31BC)
- The Greeks, conclusion
- The Romans. Early Roman warfare
- The wrath of Pydna
- Caesar's Centurions and the Legion of Cohorts
- Scenes from the Jewish War, AD 67-70
- Shield wall and mask
- Julian in Persia, AD 363
- The Romans, conclusion
- Author's note and acknowledgments
- Chronology of Greek and Roman warfare.