A Companion to Greek Warfare

ISBN-13: 9781119438816 / Angielski / Twarda / 2021 / 496 str.

Waldemar Heckel;E. Edward Garvin

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Notes on Contributors xAbbreviations and Short Titles xviList of Maps and Figures xviiIntroduction 1Waldemar Heckel and F.S. NaidenPart I Historical Survey 91. Bronze Age and Early Greek Wars 11Johannes Heinrichs2. The Persian Wars to Alexander 21Sabine Müller3. Internal Wars from the "First Peloponnesian War" to Chaeronea 31Frances Pownall4. Hellenistic Land Warfare 42Edward M. Anson5. Greek Warfare in Sicily 58Melanie JonaschPart II Military Operations 736. The Nature of Hoplite Warfare 75Fernando Echeverría7. Cavalry Battle in Greece and the Hellenistic East 88Carolyn Willekes 888. Siege Warfare 99David WhiteheadPart III Military Personnel 1179. The Organization of Greek Armies 119F.S. Naiden10. Generalship 137Joseph Roisman11. Greek Camps and Camp Followers 148Mauricio G. Álvarez12. Greeks in Foreign Service: The Case of the Achaemenid Empire 160Jeffrey RopPart IV War with Non-Greeks 17113. The Royal Elite of the Achaemenid Army 173Michael B. Charles14. Parthian Warfare Under the Early Arsacids 185Marek Jan Olbrycht15. Elephants in Hellenistic Warfare 202Christopher Epplett16. Thracian Warfare 214Emil NankovPart V Technical and Economic Context of Greek Warfare 22517. Logistics 227Stephen O'Connor18. Fortifications 241Silke Müth19. Military Intelligence 252Frank Russell20. The Economics of War 261Johannes Heinrichs21. War and Slavery in the Greek World 271Peter Hunt22. Agriculture and Greek Warfare 286Jeanne Reames and Ann HaverkostPart VI Social and Political Context of Greek Warfare 29923. Battle Trauma in Ancient Greece 301Lawrence Tritle24. Religion and Warfare 312F.S. Naiden25. Women and War in the Greek World 329Elizabeth D. Carney26. Piracy, Brigandage, and Terrorism 339Sheila L. Ager27. Civil War in Greece: Forgetting as the Path to Reconciliation 358Gordon ShrimptonPart VII Warfare in Art and Literature 36728. The Iconography of War 369Olga Palagia29. War Monuments and Memorials 384Lawrence A. Tritle30. War in Greek Poetry 394J. Vela-Tejada31. War and Propaganda 406Sabine MüllerBibliography 416Index 464

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Waldemar Heckel is Research Fellow, Centre for Military and Strategic Studies, University of Calgary, Canada, where he taught numerous courses in Greek and Hellenistic history over his thirty-six-year career in the Department of Classics. He has published, edited, and co-edited more than 20 books, including Who's Who in the Age of Alexander the Great: Prosopography of Alexander's Empire.F. S. Naiden is Professor of History, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA. He is author of Soldier, Priest, and God: A Life of Alexander the Great and Smoke Signals for the Gods: Ancient Greek Sacrifice from the Archaic through the Roman Periods, as well as numerous other publications in the fields of Greek law, Greek religion, and Greek relations with the ancient Near East.E. Edward Garvin is Lecturer, History & Classics, University of Alberta, Canada. He is co-editor of Greece, Macedon and Persia: Studies in Social, Political and Military History in Honour of Waldemar Heckel, and has worked in the production of other volumes as an editorial consultant. Most recently, Garvin contributed several articles to ABC Clio's Conflict in Ancient Greece and Rome: The Definitive Political, Social and Military Encyclopedia.John Vanderspoel is Professor Emeritus of Greek & Roman Studies, Department of Classics and Religion, University of Calgary, Canada. He has published numerous articles and chapters on ancient history, primarily the late Roman world, but also on the Roman Empire generally, Republican Rome and Roman Macedonia. He is author of Themistius and the Imperial Court and co-editor of The Cambridge Dictionary of Classical Civilization.