New Perspectives on Ancient Warfare

✍ Scribed by Garrett G. Fagan, Matthew Trundle (eds.)

• Publisher: BRILL
• Year: 2010
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 406
• Series: History of Warfare 59
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Ten leading scholars of ancient warfare offer new insights on several aspects of military activity from the Later Bronze Age to the Roman Empire. They make significant contributions to understanding warfare on land and sea, to the social and economic aspects of war, and to battlefield experience. The studies illustrate the ways in which technology, innovation, cultural exchange and tactical developments transformed ancient warfare. Papers survey the armies of Assyria and Persia, the important role of navies and money in transforming Greek warfare, and how Romans learned to fight as soldiers and generals. New Perspectives on Ancient Warfare will inspire debate for years to come about the military systems of the ancient world.Contributors are Garrett Fagan, Matthew Trundle, Fernando Rey, Robin Archer, Chris Tuplin, Hans Van Wees, Louis Rawlings, Peter Krentz, Nathan Rosenstein and David Potter

✦ Table of Contents

New Perspectives on Ancient Warfare......Page 4
Copyright......Page 5
Contents
......Page 6
Acknowledgements......Page 8
Abbreviations......Page 10
List of Illustrations......Page 12
Introduction......Page 16
1. Weapons, Technological Determinism, and Ancient Warfare......Page 36
2. Chariotry to Cavalry: Developments in the Early First Millennium......Page 72
3. “I Fell upon Him like a Furious Arrow”: Toward a Reconstruction of the Assyrian Tactical System......Page 96
4. All the King’s Horse: In Search of Achaemenid Persian Cavalry......Page 116
5. A Cup by Douris and the Battle of Marathon......Page 198
6. “Those Who Sail Are to Receive a Wage”: Naval Warfare and Finance in Archaic Eretria......Page 220
7. Coinage and the Transformation of Greek Warfare......Page 242
8. The Carthaginian Navy: Questions and Assumptions......Page 268
9. Phalanges In Rome?......Page 304
10. Caesar and the Helvetians......Page 320
Bibliography......Page 346
Index......Page 374