Soldiers and Ghosts: A History of Battle in Classical AntiquityYale University Press, 1 בינו׳ 2005 - 468 עמודים This book demands a response from its readers. It is impossible not to be drawn in to the provocative (often contentious) discussion that Harvey Mansfield sets before us. This is the first comprehensive study of manliness, a quality both bad and good, mostly male, often intolerant, irrational, and ambitious. Our 'gender-neutral society' does not like it but cannot get rid of it. Drawing from science, literature, and philosophy, Mansfield examines the layers of manliness, from vulgar aggression, to assertive manliness, to manliness as virtue, and to philosophical manliness. He shows that manliness seeks and welcomes drama, prefers times of war, conflict, and risk, and brings change or restores order at crucial moments. Manly men in their assertiveness raise issues, bring them to the fore, and make them public and political - as for example, the manliness of the women's movement. After a wide-ranging tour from stereotypes to Hemingway and Achilles, to Nietzsche, to feminism, and to Plato, the author returns to today's problem of 'unemployed manliness'. Formulating a reasoned defence of a quality hardly obedient to reason, he urges men, and especially women, to understand and accept manliness, and to give it honest and honourable employment. |
תוכן
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| 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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