Brill's Companion to Diet and Logistics in Greek and Roman Warfare
The adage that an army “marches on its stomach” finds renewed emphasis in this collection of essays. Focusing on military diet and supply from Homer through the Roman Empire, Diet and Logistics in Greek and Roman Warfare explains regional dietary options and reassesses traditional notions of “provisioning” while exploring topics ranging from strategy and subterfuge to trade and terror. Through fresh insights drawn from current research and excavation spanning the Greco-Roman world, contributors confirm how providing food and drink for soldiers was critical to every army’s success and survival. This volume stimulates reevaluation of ancient militaries and encourages new research.
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Brill's Companion to Diet and Logistics in Greek and Roman Warfare
The adage that an army “marches on its stomach” finds renewed emphasis in this collection of essays. Focusing on military diet and supply from Homer through the Roman Empire, Diet and Logistics in Greek and Roman Warfare explains regional dietary options and reassesses traditional notions of “provisioning” while exploring topics ranging from strategy and subterfuge to trade and terror. Through fresh insights drawn from current research and excavation spanning the Greco-Roman world, contributors confirm how providing food and drink for soldiers was critical to every army’s success and survival. This volume stimulates reevaluation of ancient militaries and encourages new research.
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Brill's Companion to Diet and Logistics in Greek and Roman Warfare

Brill's Companion to Diet and Logistics in Greek and Roman Warfare

Brill's Companion to Diet and Logistics in Greek and Roman Warfare

Brill's Companion to Diet and Logistics in Greek and Roman Warfare

Overview

The adage that an army “marches on its stomach” finds renewed emphasis in this collection of essays. Focusing on military diet and supply from Homer through the Roman Empire, Diet and Logistics in Greek and Roman Warfare explains regional dietary options and reassesses traditional notions of “provisioning” while exploring topics ranging from strategy and subterfuge to trade and terror. Through fresh insights drawn from current research and excavation spanning the Greco-Roman world, contributors confirm how providing food and drink for soldiers was critical to every army’s success and survival. This volume stimulates reevaluation of ancient militaries and encourages new research.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9789004686618
Publisher: Brill Academic Publishers, Inc.
Publication date: 12/06/2023
Series: Brill's Companions to Classical Studies: Warfare in the Anci , #8
Pages: 468
Product dimensions: 6.20(w) x 9.30(h) x 1.10(d)

About the Author

John F. Donahue is Professor of Classical Studies at the College of William & Mary. He has written numerous books, articles, chapters, and reviews on ancient food and drink, as well as health, diet and Latin epigraphy.

Lee L. Brice is Distinguished University Professor of History at Western Illinois University. He has published multiple books including New Approaches to Greek and Roman Warfare (Wiley 2020), and articles and chapters on military history, Corinthian coinage, pedagogy, and film.

Contributors are: Jeremy Armstrong, Bret Devereux, Fernando Echeverria, Paul Erdkamp, Eduardo Garcia-Molina, Marc Kleijwegt, Kelsey Koon, Sarah Murray, Nikolas Overtoom, Thomas Rose, Matthew Sears, Gregory Viggiano.

Table of Contents

Preface
List of Maps
Abbreviations
List of Contributors


1 Diet and Logistics in Ancient Greek and Roman Warfare, a Consideration
 John F. Donahue and Lee L. Brice


2 Diet, Preparation, and Consumption in Homer
 Sarah C. Murray

3 Nutrition and Diet: Archaic and Classical Greece
 Fernando Echeverría

4 Nutrition and Diet: Hellenistic Greece
 Eduardo García-Molina

5 Diet and Nutrition in the Roman Republican Army
 Jeremy Armstrong

6 The Diet of Roman Soldiers in the Northwest Provinces of the Roman Empire
 Paul Erdkamp

7 Dining in the Desert
 The Roman Military Diet in Egypt and the East in the Imperial Period
 Kelsey Koon


8 Organization of the Military Food Supply: Greece
 Matthew Sears

9 Provisioning and the Logistics of Occupation and Resistance in Early Hellenistic Greece
 Thomas C. Rose

10 Logistics and Strategy in the Hellenistic World: Parthians and Seleucids
 Nikolaus Leo Overtoom

11 Sieges, Deception and Bioterrorism: Logistics and Strategy of Food and Drink during the Republic
 John F. Donahue

12 Organization of the Military Food Supply: Rome
 Bret C. Devereaux


13 Logistics and Strategy in the Greek Army: A Case Study of Diet and Logistics in Herodotus and Thucydides
 Gregory Francis Viggiano

14 Equestrian Officers, Food Supply, and Military Campaigns in the Reigns of Trajan and Marcus Aurelius
 Marc Kleijwegt


15 Assessing Military Logistics and Diet in Ancient Greece and Rome
 Lee L. Brice

Index of Places
General Index
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