Philip Sabin is Professor of Strategic Studies in the Department of War Studies at King's College London, having previously held Research Fellowships at Harvard University and the International Institute of Strategic Studies. His main academic interest concerns the analytical modelling of conflict, and especially of the great land battles of the ancient world. He teaches and writes about the strategy and tactics of warfare from ancient times to the twenty-first century.
Hans Van Wees is Professor of Greek History at University College London. He is the author of Status Warriors: War, Violence and Society in Homer and History (1992) and Greek Warfare: Myths and Realities (2004) and editor of War and Violence in Ancient Greece (2000). He has coedited (with Nick Fisher) Archaic Greece: New Approaches and New Evidence (1998), (with Egbert Bakker and Irene de Jong) Brill's Companion to Herodotus (2002) and (with Kurt Raaflaub) A Companion to Archaic Greece (forthcoming).
Michael Whitby is Professor of Classics and Ancient History at the University of Warwick. He is the co-editor of Volume XIV of The Cambridge Ancient History (2001) and author of Rome at War, AD 293-696 (2002), and has made several television appearances talking about ancient warfare from the Graeco-Persian Wars to the collapse of the Roman Empire.
Introduction: the historiography of ancient warfare: 1. The modern historiography of ancient warfare Victor Davis Hanson
2. Warfare in ancient literature: the paradox of war Simon Hornblower
3. Reconstructing ancient warfare Michael Whitby
Part I. Archaic and Classical Greece: 4. International relations Jonathan Hall
5. Military forces Peter Hunt
6. War Peter Krentz
7. Combat. (1) Land battles Everett Wheeler
(2) Naval combat and sieges Barry Strauss
8. Warfare and the state Vincent Gabrielsen
9. War and society Hans van Wees
Part II. The Hellenistic World and the Roman Republic: 10. International relations Richard Billows
11. Military forces Nicholas V. Sekunda
12. War Jonathan Roth
13. Combat. (1) Land battles Philip Sabin
(2) Naval battles and sieges Philip de Souza
14. Warfare and the state John Serrati
15. War and society J. E. Lendon
Chronological table
Glossary
List of ancient authors.
