Ancient warfare Books
Franz Steiner Verlag Wiesbaden GmbH Conon the Athenian: Warfare and Politics in the
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£77.00
Romisch-Germanisches Zentralmuseum Cascos Hispano-Calcidicos: Simbolo de Las Elites
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£58.00
Schnell & Steiner Argentorate: Le Camp de la Viiie Legion Et La
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£999.99
Reverte Management (Rem) El Arte de la Guerra (the Art of War Spanish
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£20.97
L'Erma Di Bretschneider The Site of the Battle of the Aegates Islands at
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£285.00
Brill The Logistics of the Roman Army at War (264 B.C.
Book SynopsisRelying on a variety of literary, documentary and archaeological sources, this work explores the Roman military supply system from the Punic Wars to the end of the Principate. Each chapter is devoted to a different aspect of logistics: supply needs and rations; packs, trains and military servants; foraging and requisition; supply lines; sources of supply; administration; and the impact of logistics on Roman warfare. As a whole the book traces the development of the Roman logistics into a highly sophisticated supply system - a vital element in the success of Roman arms. In addition, it makes a critical study of important technical questions of Roman logistics, such as the size of the soldier's grain ration, the function of military servants, and the changes in logistical management under the Republic and Empire.Trade Review'...the first accessible account of this fascinating subject in English, R.'s book is guaranteed a place on every Roman military bookshelf.' Duncan B. Campbell, Journal of Roman Studies, 2000. '...a major contribution to the study of an important aspect of the functioning of the Roman army.' Israel Shatzman, Scripta Classica Israelica, 2000. '...this is the most comprehensive and detailed investigation on the subject to appear in English.' Stefan G. Chrissanthos, Ancient History Bulletin, 1999.
£52.06
Brill Circum Mare: Themes in Ancient Warfare
Book SynopsisCircum Mare: Themes in Ancient Warfare presents a thematic approach to current directions in ancient military studies with case studies on topics including the economics of warfare, military cohesion, military authority, irregular warfare, and sieges. Bringing together research on cultures from across the Mediterranean world, ranging from Pharaonic Egypt to Late Antique Europe and from Punic Spain to Persian Anatolia, the collection demonstrates both the breadth of the current field and a surprising number of synergies.Table of ContentsContents Foreword Lee L. Brice Acknowledgments Abbreviations 1 War and Society in the Ancient World: An Introduction Jeremy Armstrong Military Narratives 2 Simple Words, Simple Pictures: The Link between the Snapshots of Battle and the War Diary Entries in Ancient Egypt Anthony Spalinger 3 Caesar’s Exempla and the Role of Centurions in Battle David Nolan The Economics of Warfare 4 Coinage and the Economics of the Athenian Empire Matthew Trundle 5 Tributum in the Middle Republic Nathan Rosenstein Military Cohesion 6 The Ties that Bind: Military Cohesion in Archaic Rome Jeremy Armstrong 7 Sacramentum Militiae: Empty Words in an Age of Chaos Mark Hebblewhite Military Authority 8 Circumscribing Imperium: Power and Regulation in the Republican Province Ralph Covino 9 The Delian and Second Athenian Leagues: The Perspective of Collective Action James Kierstead Irregular Warfare 10 ‘Warlordism’ and the Disintegration of the Western Roman Army Jeroen W.P. Wijnendaele 11 The Significance of Insignificant Engagements: Irregular Warfare during the Punic Wars Louis Rawlings Fortifications and Sieges 12 ‘Siege Warfare’ in Ancient Egypt, as Derived from Select Royal and Private Battle Scenes Brett H. Heagren 13 Tissaphernes and the Achaemenid Defense of Western Anatolia, 412–395bc John W.I. Lee Bibliography Index
£999.99
Brill The Books behind the Masks: Sources of Warfare Leadership in Ancient Egypt. Ancient Warfare Series Volume 4
Book SynopsisThe study of the ancient Egyptian military and warfare now encompasses the background court society in which the various eulogies drawn up for the glorification of the kings were composed. This study proceeds from a previous analysis of the leadership characteristics of the military pharaohs to their underlying war records to the literary compositions that the pharaohs had drawn up for their glorification. A study of these court-inspired accounts fits within the overarching new perspectives of royally directed and inspired ancient Egyptian literature. The historical background covers the New Kingdom pharaohs Kamose, Thutmose III, Ramesses II and III, with Merenptah, plus Pianchy. The concentration is primarily upon the narrative structures employed in each of these king’s monumental inscriptions.Table of ContentsPreface and Acknowledgements List of Plates Introduction and Themes 1 Kamose’s War Records 2 Thutmose III and Megiddo 3 The Structure of the Kadesh Poem 4 Merenptah and the Israel Stela 5 Merenptah and Ramesses III 6 Pharaoh Pianchy and His Great Stela 7 Conclusion Bibliography Index
£999.99
Brill Brill's Companion to Greek Land Warfare Beyond the Phalanx
Book SynopsisAfter decades of controversy, there is now a growing consensus that Greek warfare was not singular and simple, but complex and multiform. In this volume, emerging and established scholars build on this consensus to explore Greek warfare beyond its traditional focus on hoplites and the phalanx. We expand the chronological limits back into the Iron Age, the geographical limits to the central and eastern Mediterranean, and the operational limits to include cavalry, light-armed troops, and sieges. We also look beyond the battlefield at integral aspects of warfare including religion, the experiences of women, and the recovery of the war dead.Table of ContentsAcknowledgments List of Figures and Table Abbreviations and Spellings 1 Introduction: Beyond the Phalanx Matthew Lloyd, Roel Konijnendijk, and Cezary Kucewicz 2 Men of Iron Pre-Archaic Greek Warfare in Context Matthew Lloyd 3 The Anatolian Roots of Archaic Greek Warfare Josho Brouwers 4 The War Dead in Archaic Sparta Cezary Kucewicz 5 Women, Diversity, and War off the Battlefield in Classical Greece Jennifer Martinez Morales 6 Worshipping Violence A.T. Millington 7 Cavalry and the Character of Classical Warfare Roel Konijnendijk 8 ‘Not Many Bows’? Light-Armed Fighters of the Tenth through Fourth Centuries Cezary Kucewicz, Matthew Lloyd, and Roel Konijnendijk 9 Assaults and Sieges Rewriting the Other Side of Greek Land Warfare Fernando Echeverría 10 The Western Greeks and the ‘Greek Warfare’ Narrative Joshua R. Hall 11 The First Greek Soldiers in Egypt Myths and Realities Hans van Wees Epilogue Matthew A. Sears Index
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Brill Between Miltiades and Moltke: Early German Studies in Greek Military History
Book SynopsisThe authors of the first serious scholarly works on Greek warfare were not free to write their surveys as they wished. In the nineteenth-century German-speaking world, the supreme authority on all military history rested with the Great General Staff, the intellectual nerve centre of the Prussian army. Officers rejected the ability of historians to understand warfare and imposed their pragmatic perspective on any attempt to study past wars. How did classicists and historians respond to this challenge? This book explores how the scope and method of the first handbooks on Greek warfare were shaped by their environment; it questions the ancient wisdom that practical expertise is the best guide to writing military history.Table of ContentsContents Abstract Keywords 1 Introduction 2 An Officer and a Gentleman: The Joint Works of Rüstow and Köchly 3 The Age of the Great Handbooks: The New Surveys of 1880–1895 4 The Delbrück-Kromayer Controversy 5 Conclusion: Between Miltiades and Moltke Acknowledgements Bibliography Index
£999.99
Brill Brill’s Companion to Diet and Logistics in Greek and Roman Warfare
Book SynopsisThe 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.Table of ContentsPreface List of Maps Abbreviations List of Contributors Part 1: Introduction 1 Diet and Logistics in Ancient Greek and Roman Warfare, a Consideration John F. Donahue and Lee L. Brice Part 2: Military Diet 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 Part 3: Logistics of Food and Drink 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 Part 4: Case Studies 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 Part 5: In Closing 15 Assessing Military Logistics and Diet in Ancient Greece and Rome Lee L. Brice Index of Places General Index
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Brill Brill's Companion to Ancient Greek and Roman Warfare on Film
Book SynopsisBrill’s Companion to Ancient Greek and Roman Warfare on Film is the first volume exclusively dedicated to the study of a theme that informs virtually every reimagining of the classical world on the big screen: armed conflict. Through a vast array of case studies, from the silent era to recent years, the collection traces cinema’s enduring fascination with battles and violence in antiquity and explores the reasons, both synchronic and diachronic, for the central place that war occupies in celluloid Greece and Rome. Situating films in their artistic, economic, and sociopolitical context, the essays cast light on the industrial mechanisms through which the ancient battlefield is refashioned in cinema and investigate why the medium adopts a revisionist approach to textual and visual sources.Table of ContentsAcknowledgments List of Figures Notes on Contributors Part 1: Introduction 1 Swords Made of Rubber: Cinematic Antiquity through the Lens of War Konstantinos P. Nikoloutsos Part 2: Cinema vs. History: Testing the Accuracy of Celluloid Battles 2 Form and Function: The Importance of Military Formations in Cinematic Depictions of the Roman Army Jeremy Armstrong 3 Alexander in Ares’ Mirror: Armed Conflict in Oliver Stone’s Historical Epic Elias Koulakiotis Part 3: The Leading Men of Celluloid Armies 4 “Hail! The Sign of the Cross”: Industrial Campaigns and Commanding Performances in The Sign of the Cross (1932) and Cleopatra (1934) Michael Williams 5 Richard Burton in Alexander the Great (1956) and the Mechanisms of Hollywood Stardom: Fashioning an Ancient Military Icon in Post-WWII American Cinema Konstantinos P. Nikoloutsos 6 Brad’s Biceps and Dwayne’s Delts: Stardom as Physicality and Digital Spectacle in Troy (2004) and Hercules (2014) Djoymi Baker Part 4: Women and Military Conflict 7 Atalanta as Celluloid Warrior in Jason and the Argonauts (2000) and Hercules (2014) Patricia Salzman-Mitchell 8 Women on the Battlefield: Ancient Warrior Queens and Female Military Commanders on the Millennial Screen Irene Berti 9 “She Wants to Be Married and Give the Children Names!”: Women and the Roman Army in Post-Gladiator Films Jorit Wintjes 10 Women in Captivity: The Human Cost of Armed Conflict from the Trojan War to Modern Greek Cinema Anastasia Bakogianni Part 5: Western Colonialism and Racist Attitudes 11 Rome vs. Carthage: Imperial and Racist Aspirations in Italian Films of the Twentieth Century Arthur J. Pomeroy 12 Porus vs. Alexander in Modi’s Sikandar (1941) and Stone’s Alexander (2004–2014) Seán Easton Part 6: Ancient Warfare on Film and Modern Politics 13 Armed Conflict in Italian Historical Films of the Fascist and Post-WWII Era (1937–1954) Óscar Lapeña Marchena 14 The Noise of War: Sound, Politics and Space in the Italian Peplum Robert A. Rushing 15 “Make Love, Not War”: Roman Soldiers and 1960s Countercultural Masculinity in Fellini-Satyricon Renata Senna Garraffoni 16 Epic Combat in Ancient and Modern History: A Comparative Analysis of The Fall of the Roman Empire (1964) and The Longest Day (1962) Jonathan Stubbs 17 Lysistrata (1972): Political and Sexual Refractions of the Peloponnesian War during the Greek Junta Kaiti Diamantakou Part 7: Ancient Battles for Millennial Spectators and the Impact of the Hollywood War Film 18 Sensational Violence: Brutality in Twenty-First-Century Cinematic Depictions of Roman Battles Hannah-Marie Chidwick 19 Rockules’ Revenge: The Portrayal of the Veteran Warrior in Brett Ratner’s Hercules Owen Rees 20 Romans and Zealots in the Global War on Terror: Asymmetric Warfare and Counterinsurgency in Risen (2016) and Ben-Hur (2016) Oskar Aguado-Cantabrana Part 8: Epilogue 21 To Be Continued: Considerations of Ancient Warfare in Film Lee L. Brice Index
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Amsterdam University Press Armed Batavians: Use and Significance of Weaponry
Book SynopsisThis study explores the use and significance of Roman weaponry and horse gear from non-military contexts in the eastern Rhine delta – the territory of the Batavians. Using a life-cycle model for Roman soldiers, the author interprets the large quantity of 1st-century finds as personal memorabilia brought home by ex-soldiers as a reminder of their 25 years of service, symbolising their newly-acquired veteran status. Underpinning the research is an extensive inventory of militaria from urban centres, rural settlements, cult places, rivers and graves, presented in 96 plates. The study not only presents a considerable body of unpublished data, but also offers an intriguing perspective on daily life in the northern frontier of the Roman Empire, with its closely interwoven military and civilian values. Amsterdam Archaeological Studies is a series devoted to the study of past human societies from the prehistory up into modern times, primarily based on the study of archaeological remains. The series will include excavation reports of modern fieldwork; studies of categories of material culture; and synthesising studies with broader images of past societies, thereby contributing to the theoretical and methodological debates in archaeology.Table of ContentsArmed Batavians - 2 Contents - 8 Preface - 10 1 Introduction - 12 2 Military equipment and horse gear: a survey - 24 3 An analysis of the finds at the regional and site level - 76 4 Production and symbolic imagery - 140 5 Military equipment and the life cycle of a Roman soldier - 168 6 Non-military use of weaponry and horse gear in urban and rural settlements - 218 7 Warriors, soldiers and civilians. Use and significance of weaponryand horse gear in a changing socio-political context - 248 Abbreviations - 270 Bibliography - 271 Appendix 1 - 298 Appendix 2 - 306 Appendix 3.1 - 310 Appendix 3.2 - 312 Appendix 3.3 - 313 Appendix 3.4 - 314 Appendix 4 - 316 About the plates and the catalogue - 322
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