A companion to Greek warfare

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Title
"A companion to Greek warfare"
Statement of Responsibility
edited by Waldemar Heckeln ... [et al.]
Publisher
  • Wiley Blackwell
Publication Year
  • 2021
Book size
27 cm
Series Name / No
  • : hardback

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Other editors: F.S. Naiden, E. Edward Garvin, John Vanderspoel

Summary: "The first part of the book, a "Historical Survey," focuses on changing issues in strategy and grand strategy-on Greek motives, goals, and responses to military success and failure, the Macedonians, Persians, Romans, and Carthaginians being given due weight. These five chapters cover chronological fundamentals, but deal with modalities and patterns more than with campaigns, and with campaigns more than with battles. Johannes Heinrichs, in "Bronze Age and Early Greek Wars," sees Mycenaean warfare in terms of "the centralized organization of life," then deals with Homer as evidence of an ideological rather than sociological character. Among late Archaic Wars, Sparta's efforts to dominate the southern Peloponnesus illustrate a grand strategy that evolves from annexation to domination. The next chapter, Sabine Müller's "The Persian Wars to Alexander," gives a holistic account of the conflicts between the Achaemenids and both the Greeks and Macedonians, one that dismantles propaganda ..."

Includes bibliographical references (p. [416]-463) and index

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