War and Society in the Greek World

ISBN-13: 9780415121668 / Angielski / Miękka / 1995 / 288 str.

John Rich; Graham Shipley

Opis

In the ancient world, war played a crucial part in shaping and changing social and political structures. The impact of war on the ancient societies of the Mediterranean world is the subject of this book and its companion, War and Society in the Roman World. The authors have drawn together a collection which extends beyond the traditional emphasis on political causes, tactics and strategy, and military organization. Instead, warfare is viewed as a species of social action, affecting and affected by social conditions and ideology, and having social, economic, and cultural consequences. This conception of warfare as a social agency is considered through examination of the causes of war, booty, slavery and other profits of war and their effects in Greek societies; war in literature and sculpture, including ideology of victory and warrior; and the critical construction of the image of the enemy.

Spis treści

List of illustrations -- Notes on contributors -- Preface -- List of abbreviations -- 1. Introduction: The limits of war /GRAHAM SHIPLEY -- 2. War in the Hebrew Bible /ROBERT CARROLL -- 3. Hoplites and Homer: Warfare, hero cult, and the ideology of the polis /HUGH BOWDEN -- 4. War and raids for booty in the world of Odysseus /ALAST AR JACKSON -- 5. War, slavery, and settlement in early Greece /TRACEY RIHLL -- 6. Asia unmanned: Images of victory in classical Athens /EDITH HALL -- 7. Farming and fighting in ancient Greece /LIN FOXHALL -- 8. Warfare, wealth, and the crisis of Spartiate society /STEPHEN HODKINSON -- 9. Warfare, economy, and democracy in classical Athens /PAUL MILLETT -- 10. Alexander and the Macedonian invasion of Asia: Aspects of the historiography of war and empire in antiquity /MICHEL AUSTIN -- 11. The glorious dead: Commemoration of the fallen and portrayal of victory in the late classical and hellenistic world /ELLEN RICE -- Index.

O autorze

John Rich is Senior Lecturer in Classics at the University of Nottingham. Graham Shipley is Lecturer in Ancient History and Head of the Ancient History Division at the University of Leicester.