Soldiers & Ghosts: A History of Battle in Classical AntiquityWhat set the successful armies of Sparta, Macedon, and Rome apart from those they defeated? In this major new history of battle from the age of Homer through the decline of the Roman empire, J. E. Lendon surveys a millennium of warfare to discover how militaries change--and don't change--and how an army's greatness depends on its use of the past. |
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ביקורת משתמש - janerawoof - LibraryThingNot so much a history of battle in classical antiquity as why and how it developed as it did. Covers the millennium from the Age of Homer until Julian in Persia and Valens at Adrianople [300s A.D ... קרא סקירה מלאה
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ביקורת משתמש - Shrike58 - LibraryThing"In the end, the soldiers did not overcome the ghosts of the past. In the end, it was the ghosts who won." It is with that epithet that Lendon passes judgement on the Roman military in this cultural ... קרא סקירה מלאה
תוכן
Fighting in the Iliad | 20 |
The Last Hoplite | 39 |
Two Stubborn Spartans in the Persian War | 58 |
The Guile of Delium | 78 |
The Arts of War in the Early Fourth Century BC | 91 |
Alexander the Great at the Battle of Issus | 115 |
Hellenistic Warfare 32331 BC | 140 |
The Greeks Conclusion | 156 |
Scenes from the Jewish War AD 6770 | 233 |
Shield Wall and Mask | 261 |
Julian in Persia AD 363 | 290 |
The Romans Conclusion | 310 |
Authors Note and Acknowledgments | 317 |
Chronology of Greek and Roman Warfare | 321 |
Life of Abbreviations | 331 |
Notes | 335 |
THE ROMANS | 163 |
Early Roman Warfare | 172 |
The Wrath of Pydna | 193 |
Caesars Centurions and the Legion of Cohorts | 212 |
Glossary | 389 |
Bibliographical Notes | 393 |
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Soldiers and Ghosts: A History of Battle in Classical Antiquity <span dir=ltr>J. E. Lendon</span> תצוגה מקדימה מוגבלת - 2005 |
Soldiers & Ghosts: A History of Battle in Classical Antiquity <span dir=ltr>J. E. Lendon</span> אין תצוגה מקדימה זמינה - 2005 |
Soldiers and Ghosts: A History of Battle in Classical Antiquity <span dir=ltr>J. E. Lendon</span> אין תצוגה מקדימה זמינה - 2005 |