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• Publisher : Routledge
• File Size : 38,9 Mb
• Release Date : 01 November 2002

Incorporating research found in ancient literary, iconographic, epigraphic, and archaeological sources, this book explores the experiences of the soldiers who conducted battle on the small plains of ancient Greece. The

• Publisher : McFarland
• File Size : 49,6 Mb
• Release Date : 14 September 2016

It has been 2500 years since the Greek heavy infantry known as hoplites dominated the battlefield. Yet they still capture the imagination today, through a wave of successful action films, novels

• Publisher : Princeton University Press
• File Size : 42,7 Mb
• Release Date : 24 November 2015

A major contribution to the debate over ancient Greek warfare by some of the world's leading scholars Men of Bronze takes up one of the most important and fiercely debated

• Publisher : Pen and Sword Military
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• Release Date : 31 January 2022

The Greek hoplite and the phalanx formation in which he fought have been the subject of considerable academic debate over the past century. Dr Richard Taylor provides an overview of

• Publisher : Routledge
• File Size : 46,7 Mb
• Release Date : 01 November 2002

Incorporating research found in ancient literary, iconographic, epigraphic, and archaeological sources, this book explores the experiences of the soldiers who conducted battle on the small plains of ancient Greece. The

• Publisher : Cambridge University Press
• File Size : 23,6 Mb
• Release Date : 02 August 2012

Throughout the Classical period, the Athenian hoplite demonstrated an unwavering willingness to close with and kill the enemies of Athens, whenever and wherever he was required to do so. Yet,

• Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
• File Size : 25,8 Mb
• Release Date : 21 January 2021

The Peloponnesian War (431–404 BC), waged between Athens and Sparta and their respective allies, involved some of the most important developments in ancient warfare. A life-and-death struggle between the two most

• Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
• File Size : 20,6 Mb
• Release Date : 09 March 2018

The Greco-Persian Wars (499–449 BCE) convulsed Greece, Asia Minor and the Near East for half a century. Through a series of bloody invasions and pitched battles, the mighty Persian Empire pitted

• Publisher : The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc
• File Size : 28,8 Mb
• Release Date : 15 December 2018

While Achilles and the other heroes who fought in the Trojan War are, as far as we know, fictional, the warriors of Ancient Greece are nearly as fascinating. The volume

• Publisher : Grub Street Publishers
• File Size : 31,7 Mb
• Release Date : 09 May 2012

A “practical and thought provoking” study of the ancient military tactic known as the phalanx—the classic battle formation used in historic Greek warfare (The Historian). In ancient Greece, warfare