Greek Warfare Myth and Realities

Name: Greek Warfare Myth and Realities
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ISBN: 9780715629673

ISBN-10: 0715629670

ISBN-13: 9780715629673

Edition: 2000

Authors: Hans van Wees

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This text on Greek warfare 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.

Book details

List price: $40.95
Copyright year: 2000
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Publication date: 8/19/2004
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 380
Size: 6.14" wide x 9.21" long x 0.78" tall
Weight: 1.518
Language: English




Kinsmen, friends and allies : the society of states



Justice, honour and profit : causes and goals of wars



Pleonexia : structural causes of war



Men of bronze : the myth of the middle-class militia



The other warriors : light infantry, cavalry, body-servants and mercenaries



Politics and the battlefield : ideology in Greek warfare



Bodies of men : training and organisation of the militia



The bare necessities : mobilisation and maintenance of armies



Rituals, rules and strategies : the structure of campaigns



Ambush, battle and siege : changing forms of combat



The deeds of heroes : battle in the Iliad



The Archaic Phalanx : infantry combat down to the Persian wars



The Classical Phalanx : infantry combat transformed



The wall of wood : ships, men and money



War at sea : classical naval campaigns


Conclusion : the development of Greek warfare : war and the state



Athenian manpower in 480 and 431 BC



Changes in Spartan military organisation from 480 to 371 BC



The historicity and date of Homeric warfare