Combined Arms Warfare in Ancient Greece: From Homer to Alexander the Great and His Successors

ISBN-13: 9781032093581 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 262 str.

Graham Wrightson

Opis

Combined Arms Warfare in Ancient Greece examines the timelines of military developments that led from the hoplite-based armies of the ancient Greeks to the hugely successful armies of Philip II, Alexander the Great, and his Successors.

Spis treści

List of figures; Acknowledgements; Introduction part 1: The purpose and methodology of the study; Introduction part 2: The theory of combined arms; Section 1: The Hoplite Revolution in Greece; Chapter 1: Homeric warfare and the introduction of the hoplite; Chapter 2: Archaic Greece – the dominance of the heavy infantry phalanx; Chapter 3: Persia vs. Greece - The advantages of the heavy infantryman; Section 2: The implementation of Combined arms in Greek warfare; Chapter 4: The Peloponnesian War - Combined arms innovation on the battlefield; Chapter 5: The Corinthian War and Iphicrates: Light infantry integration; Chapter 6: The Theban hegemony - the inclusion of heavy cavalry; Section 3: Macedon and Integrated Warfare; Chapter 7: Philip II – The sarissa phalanx and heavy cavalry; Chapter 8: Alexander the Great - linking the heavy cavalry and the phalanx; Chapter 9: The Successors - War elephants and integrated warfare; Conclusion - Greece, Persia and Macedon: The success of combined arms and integrated warfare; Bibliography; Index

O autorze

Graham Wrightson is Assistant Professor of History at South Dakota State University, USA. His research focuses primarily on Macedonian military history with a special focus on military manuals and the sarissa phalanx. He also examines comparative warfare between cultures and eras and their influence on each other. He has published multiple articles and papers on Macedonian warfare, has jointly edited three books, and has produced a textbook for the standard US university first-year survey course Western Civilization 1.