Slaves, Warfare, and Ideology in the Greek Historians by Hunt, Peter

Cambridge,, 1998. First Edition. Hardback. Dust Jacket.. Fine in fine dust jacket.. 8vo. pp xiv, 246. Black and white illustrated dust jacket. Original publisher's blue cloth with gilt lettering at spine. ISBN: 0521584299

Cambridge University Press, 1998. Hardcover. New/New. New hardcover in new dust jacket. 8vo. (6.25 x 9.25 inches) Text is clean and free of marks or underlining. Includes bibliography and index. xiv, 246 pp.Fast shipping in a secure book box mailer with tracking. This book challenges conventional opinion byarguing that slaves and Helots played an important part in classical Greek warfare. Althoughrival city-states often used these classes in theirown forces or tried to incite their enemies' slavesto rebellion or desertion, such recruitment wasideologically awkward: slaves or Helots, despisedand oppressed classes, should have had no part in the military service so closely linked with citizen-ship, with rule, and even with an individual'sbasic worth. Consequently, their participationhas tended to drop out of the historical record.Focusing on Herodotus, Thucydides, andXenophon, this study attempts to demonstratethe actual role played by slaves and Helots inwarfare, the systematic neglect of the subject… Read More

NY: Cambridge University Press, 2003 ISBN 0-521-58429-9 Octavo (9.25 in. by 6.25 in.); 246pp.; very good hardcover; bumped corner; crisp; clean; bright..

Cambridge Univ Pr, 1998. Hardcover. New. 246 pages. 9.25x6.25x0.75 inches.

Hardback. New. The warring Greek city-states of the classical period often found it advantageous to use slaves in their armed forces and to encourage rebellion or desertion amongst the slaves of their enemies. This book examines the actual role of slaves in war, the neglect of it by historians, and the reasons for this reticence.

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