ABSTRACT

Warfare in Ancient Greece assembles a wide range of source material and introduces the latest scholarship on the Greek experience of war. The author has carefully selected key texts, many of them not previously available in English, and provided them with comprehensive commentaries.
For the Greek polis, warfare was a more usual state of affairs than peace. The documents assembled here recreate the social and historical framework in which ancient Greek warfare took place - over a period of more than a thousand years from the Homeric Age to Alexander the Great. Special attention is paid to the attitudes and feelings of the Greeks towards defeated people and captured cities.
Complete with notes, index and bibliography, Warfare in Ancient Greece will provide students of Ancient and Military History with an unprecedented survey of relevant materials

chapter 1|24 pages

EARLY GREEK WARFARE: HOMER AND THE

Homer and the Dark Ages

chapter 2|110 pages

THE AGE OF HOPLITE WARFARE

chapter 3|27 pages

THE FOURTH CENTURY

chapter 4|35 pages

THE RISE OF MACEDONIA: PHILIP AND

Philip and Alexander

chapter 5|43 pages

HELLENISTIC WARFARE