284 Pages
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Routledge
280 Pages
by
Routledge
280 Pages
by
Routledge
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Warfare in Ancient Greece assembles a wide range of source material and introduces the latest scholarship on the Greek experience of war. The author has carefully selected key texts, many of them not previously available in English, and provided them with comprehensive commentaries. For the Greek polis, warfare was a more usual state of affairs than peace. The documents assembled here recreate... Read more
Introduction; EARLY GREEK WARFARE: HOMER AND THE DARK AGES; The hero and the heroic code; Weapons and preparation for battle; The practice of Homeric warfare; The results of war; The Dark Ages; 2 THE AGE OF HOPLITE WARFARE; Introduction; Army organization; Light-armed troops; Cavalry; Provisioning and supply armies 55 Military and naval pay; Military command; Treaties of alliance; Hoplite battles; Greeks and non-Greeks in battle: the Persian War; The aftermath of battle; Siege warfare; Greeks and non-Greeks; The spoils of war; Truces and peace treaties; 3 THE FOURTH CENTURY; Tactical developments; The use of light-armed troops; Mercenaries; Siege warfare; 4 THE RISE OF MACEDONIA: PHILIP AND ALEXANDER; The early Macedonian army; Philip II and the development of the Macedonian army; Alexander the Great; 5 HELLENISTIC WARFARE; Some common causes of war; Hellenistic armies; The armies of the great powers
Biography
Michael M Sage is Professor of Classics and Ancient History at the University of Cincinnati. He has published widely on Tacitus and aspects of ancient military history
