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.
Part I. The Late Republic and the Principate: 1. International relations Harry Sidebottom
2. Military forces Boris Rankov
3. War Adrian Goldsworthy
4. Combat Catherine M. Gilliver
5. Warfare and the state. (1) The economics of war Dominic Rathbone
(2) The military and politics Richard Alston
6. War and society Colin Adams
Part II: The Later Roman Empire: 7. International relations Mark Humphries
8. Military forces Hugh Elton
9. War Michael Whitby
10. Combat Philip Rance
11. Warfare and the state Doug Lee
12. War and society Andrew Fear
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List of ancient authors.
