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Greek Warfare Paperback - 2004

by Hans Van Wees


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From the soldier's eye view of combat to the broad social and economic structures which shaped campaigns and wars, ancient Greek warfare in all its aspects has been studied more intensively in the last few decades than ever before. This book ranges from the concrete details of conducting raids, battles and sieges to more theoretical questions about the causes, costs, and consequences of warfare in archaic and classical Greece. It argues that the Greek sources present a highly selective and idealised picture, too easily accepted by most modern scholars, and that a more critical study of the evidence leads to radically different conclusions about the Greek way of war.

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'A war-lover',said Xenophon, himself an enthusiastic mercenary in his younger days, is 'someone who likes to spend money on war as if on a boyfriend or some other pleasure'.

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  • Title Greek Warfare
  • Author Hans Van Wees
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition [ Edition: First
  • Pages 380
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing PLC, United Kingdom
  • Date 2004-08-19
  • Features Bibliography, Index
  • ISBN 9780715629673 / 0715629670
  • Weight 1.19 lbs (0.54 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.1 x 6.1 x 0.9 in (23.11 x 15.49 x 2.29 cm)
  • Themes
    • Chronological Period: Ancient (To 499 A.D.)
    • Cultural Region: Greece
  • Library of Congress subjects Military art and science - Greece - History, Greece - History, Military - To 146 B.C
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 2004463695
  • Dewey Decimal Code 355.009

About the author

Hans van Wees is Reader in Ancient History at University College London. He is the author of Status Warriors: war, violence, and society in Homer and history, editor of War and Violence in Ancient Greece and joint editor of the Cambridge History of Greek and Roman Warfare.

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