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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.
Table of Contents
Acknowledgements
Conventions and Abbreviations
Introduction
Part I. War and Peace
1. Kinsmen, Friends and Allies: the society of states
2. Justice, Honour and Profit: causes and goals of war
3. Pleonexia: structural causes of war
Part II. Citizens and Soldiers
4. Men of Bronze: the myth of the middle-class militia
5. The Other Warriors: light infantry, cavalry, body-servants and mercenaries
6. Politics and the Battlefield: ideology in Greek warfare
Part III. Amateur Armies
7. Bodies of Men: training and organisation of the militia
8. The Bare Necessities: mobilisation and maintenance of armies
Part IV. Agonal and Total Warfare
9. Ritual, Rules and Strategies: the structure of campaigns
10. Ambush, Battle and Siege: changing forms of combat
Part V. The Experience of Combat
11. The Deeds of Heroes: battle in the Iliad
12. The Archaic Phalanx: infantry combat down to the Persian Wars
13. The Classical Phalanx: infantry combat transformed
Part VI. Ruling the Waves
14. The Wall of Wood: ships, men and money
15. War at Sea: classical naval campaigns
Conclusion. The Development of Greek Warfare: war and the state
Appendices
1. Athenian manpower in 480 and 431 BC
2. Changes in Spartan military organisation from 480 to 371 BC
3. The historicity and date of Homeric warfare
Notes
Bibliography
Select Index of Passages
General Index
Product details
| Published | Aug 19 2004 |
|---|---|
| Format | Paperback |
| Edition | 1st |
| Pages | 380 |
| ISBN | 9780715629673 |
| Imprint | Bristol Classical Press |
| Dimensions | 234 x 156 mm |
| Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
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