Antonio Santosuosso

Soldiers, Citizens, And The Symbols Of War (eBook, ePUB)

From Classical Greece To Republican Rome, 500-167 B.c.

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This is a comprehensive overview of ancient warfare, exploring how the tactical and strategic concepts changed between the beginning of the fifth century B.C. and the middle of the second century B.C. and why the West-Greece, Macedonia, and Rome-triumphed over the East-understood geographically as Persia or ideologically as Carthage.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 288
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. Mai 2019
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780429976872
• Artikelnr.: 56863189

Autorenporträt

Antonio Santosuosso is professor of history at the University of Western Ontario.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
Close Array and Pointed Spears: The Ways of the Greek Phalanx
War Among the Greeks
Weapons and Armor of the Hoplite
The Hoplite in Battle
First Blood on the Plain of Marathon
Prologue
The Battle
Greeks
Persians
and the Symbols of War
A New Invasion
Thermopylae
Salamis
Plataea
The Persian Army
Why the Persians Lost
The Symbols of the Victorious
Rich
Poor
and the Wages of War at the End of the Classical Period
Sailors and Social Status
Spartan Society
The Mercenary System
Hoplites and Light Infantrymen
Thebes's Challenge of Spartan Supremacy
Footmen
Horsemen
and the Symbols of Military Might
The Macedonian Army
The Ways of Alexander: Granicus
Issus
and Gaugamela
The Keys of Alexander's Success
Religion
Warfare
and Political Power
A Phalanx with Joints: The Romans and the Heirs of Alexander
Warfare After Alexander
The Roman Military System
War as a Social Organism
The Legion Versus the Phalanx
Hannibal as Alexander's Heir
Hannibal's Pupil: Scipio Africanus
The Deification of the Military Leader
Conclusion