The Cambridge History of Greek and Roman Warfare 2 Volume Hardback Set

The Cambridge History of Greek and Roman Warfare 2 Volume Hardback Set

ISBN-10:
0521857791
ISBN-13:
9780521857796
Pub. Date:
12/06/2007
Publisher:
Cambridge University Press
ISBN-10:
0521857791
ISBN-13:
9780521857796
Pub. Date:
12/06/2007
Publisher:
Cambridge University Press
The Cambridge History of Greek and Roman Warfare 2 Volume Hardback Set

The Cambridge History of Greek and Roman Warfare 2 Volume Hardback Set

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Overview

Warfare was the single biggest preoccupation of historians in antiquity. In recent decades fresh textual interpretations, numerous new archaeological discoveries and a much broader analytical focus emphasising social, economic, political and cultural approaches have transformed our understanding of ancient warfare. This two-volume History reflects these developments and provides a systematic account, written by a distinguished cast of contributors, of the various themes underlying the warfare of the Greek world from Archaic Greece to the Arab conquests of the seventh century AD. For each broad period developments in troop-types, equipment, strategy and tactics are discussed. These are placed in the broader context of developments in international relations and the relationship of warfare to both the state and wider society. Numerous illustrations, a glossary and chronology, and information about the authors mentioned supplement the text. This will become the primary reference work for specialists and non-specialists alike.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780521857796
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication date: 12/06/2007
Pages: 1328
Product dimensions: 5.98(w) x 9.21(h) x 3.23(d)

About the Author

Philip Sabin is Professor of Strategic Studies in the Department of War Studies at King's College London. His main academic interest concerns the analytical modelling of conflict, and he is the author of Lost Battles: Reconstructing the Great Clashes of the Ancient World (2007) and co-editor (with Tim Cornell and Boris Rankov) of The Second Punic War: A Reappraisal (1996). He teaches and writes about the strategy and tactics of warfare from ancient times to the twenty-first century.

Hans Van Wees is Professor of Ancient History at University College London. He is the author of Status Warriors: War, Violence and Society in Homer and History (1992) and Greek Warfare: Myths and Realities (2004) and editor of War and Violence in Ancient Greece (2000). He has co-edited (with Nick Fisher) Archaic Greece: New Approaches and New Evidence (1998), (with Egbert Bakker and Irene de Jong) Brill's Companion to Herodotus (2002) and (with Kurt Raaflaub) A Companion to Archaic Greece (forthcoming).

Michael Whitby is Professor of Classics and Ancient History at the University of Warwick. He is the co-editor of Volume XIV of The Cambridge Ancient History (2001) and author of Rome at War, AD 293–696 (2002) as well as several articles on late Roman warfare, and has made several television appearances talking about ancient warfare from the Graeco-Persian Wars to the collapse of the Roman Empire.
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