The Oxford Handbook of Warfare in the Classical World (eBook, PDF)

Redaktion: Campbell, Brian; Tritle, Lawrence A.

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

This Handbook gathers 38 leading historians to describe, analyze, and interpret warfare and its effects in classical Greece and Rome.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: OUP eBook
• Erscheinungstermin: 10. Dezember 2012
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780199719556
• Artikelnr.: 38148164

Autorenporträt

Brian Campbell is Professor of Roman History at Queen's University Belfast. Lawrence A. Tritle is Professor of History at Loyola Marymount University.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgements
Contributors
Abbreviations and Spelling Norms
Chronology
Editors' Introduction
PART I Introduction: The Classical World at War
1. War and Warfare in Ancient Greece
L. Rawlings
2. War and Warfare in Ancient Rome
Randall Howarth
3. Writers on War
a. Greece: Winning Ways in Warfare
P.C. Millett
b. Rome: A Story of Conflict
Michael Lovano
4. The Archeology of War
S. James
5. Warfare and Environment in the Ancient World
J. Donald Hughes
PART II The Face of Battle in the Classical World
6. The Classical Greek Experience
John W.I. Lee
7. The Three Thousand: Alexander's Infantry Guard
Waldemar Heckel
8. The Hellenistic Experience with War: Stagnation or Development?
John Serrati
9. War and Society in Greece
N. Sekunda
10. The Rise of Rome
Michael Sage
11. War in Imperial Rome
Phyllis Culham
12. War and Society in the Roman Empire
Colin Adams
PART III Impacts and Techniques: War in the Classical World
13. Men at War
L.A. Tritle
14. Sick and Wounded
Christine Salazar
15. Discipline
Stefan Chrissanthos
16. Mercenaries
Matthew Trundle
17. Logistics: Sinews of War
Donald Engels
18. War at Sea
Philip de Souza
19. Arms and Armor
a. Greek
Eero Jarva
b. Roman
Duncan B. Campbell
20. Under Siege: Challenges, Experiences, and Emotions
Angelos Chaniotis
21. Generalship
Rosemary Moore
22. Military Intelligence
Frank Russell
23. War and Animals
Ann Hyland
a. Horses for War: Breeding and Keeping a Warhorse
b. The Development and Training of Cavalry in Greece and Rome
24. Greek Rituals of War
Daniel Tompkins
25. Roman Rituals of War
John Rich
26. Fighting the Other
a. Achaemenid Persians
Bruce Laforse
b. The Germanic and Danubian Transfrontier Peoples
Peter Wells
c. Military and Society in Sasanian Iran
Scott McDonough
PART IV Case Studies: The Classical World at War
27. The Athenian Expedition to Sicily
Lee Brice
28. The Peloponnesian War and its Sieges
Michael Seaman
29. Epaminondas at Leuctra, 371 BC
John Buckler
30. Demetrius Poliorcetes and Hellenistic Warfare
Thomas R. Martin
31. The Second Punic War
Dexter Hoyos
32. The Eastern Frontier in Late Antiquity: Roman Warfare with Sasanian Persia
A.D. Lee
EPILOGUE: The Legacy of Classical Warfare
Thomas Palaima and L.A. Tritle
Index