Pen and Sword, 2017. — 217 p. Cataphracts were the most heavily armored form of cavalry in the ancient world, with riders and mounts both clad in heavy armor. Originating among the wealthiest nobles of various central Asian steppe tribes, such as the Massagetae and Scythians, they were adopted and adapted by several major empires. The Achaemenid Persians, Seleucids, Sassanians...
Franz Steiner, 2015. — 198 p. — (Historia – Einzelschriften 235). This book offers a new study of the political and military history of the Greek Aegean between the Peloponnesian War and the Peace of Antalcidas. Following the career of Conon, the Athenian admiral who became commander of the Persian fleet after his city's defeat by Sparta, this volume offers a new perspective on...
Cambridge University Press, 2008. — 318 p. This is a study of the organization and tactics of the Seleucid armies from 312 to 129 BC. In the first part of the book Dr Bar-Kochva discusses the numerical strength of the armies, their sources of man-power, the contingents of the regular army, their equipment and historical development, the chain of command, training and...
Wiley-Blackwell, 2020. — 216 p. New Approaches to Greek and Roman Warfare brings together essays from specialists in ancient history who employ contemporary tools and approaches to reveal new evidence and increase knowledge of ancient militaries and warfare. In-depth yet highly readable, this volume covers the most recent trends for understanding warfare, militaries, soldiers,...
Princeton University Press, 2014. — 298 p. Glenn R. Bugh provides a comprehensive discussion of a subject that has not been treated in full since the last century: the history of the Athenian cavalry. Integrated into a narrative history of the cavalry from the Archaic period through the Hellenistic age is a detailed analysis of a military and social organization the members of...
Pen and Sword Military, 2019. — 336 p. Greece was the scene of some of the most evocative and decisive battles in the ancient world. This volume brings together the ancient evidence and modern scholarship on twenty battlefields throughout Greece. It is a handy resource for visitors of every level of experience, from the member of a guided tour to the veteran military historian....
Oxford University Press, 2013. — 840 p. War lay at the heart of life in the classical world, from conflicts between tribes or states to internal or civil wars. Battles were resolved by violent face-to-face encounters: war was a very personal experience. At the same time, warfare and its conduct often had significant and wide-reaching economic, social, or political consequences....
Oxford University Press, 2013. — 240 p. The Battle of Plataea in 479 BCE is one of world history's unjustly neglected events. It decisively ended the threat of a Persian conquest of Greece. It involved tens of thousands of combatants, including the largest number of Greeks ever brought together in a common cause. For the Spartans, the driving force behind the Greek victory, the...
Brill, 2017. — 400 p. — (Brill's Companions to Classical Studies 2; Brill's Companions to Classical Studies: Warfare in the Ancient Mediterranean World 2). In Brill's Companion to Military Defeat in Ancient Mediterranean Society, Jessica H. Clark and Brian Turner lead a re-examination of how Near Eastern, Greek, and Roman societies addressed – or failed to address – their...
Stackpole Books, 2022. — 288 p. Bloody fighting between rival tribes and clans has existed since the dawn of Homo sapiens, but war as we knew it began to take the more organized forms we recognize today in the ancient Near East, starting in the vital region near the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers (modern Iraq) and ultimately extending west to the Mediterranean Sea through what...
Pen and Sword, 2019. — 320 p. Religion was integral to the conduct of war in the ancient world and the Greeks were certainly no exception. No campaign was undertaken, no battle risked, without first making sacrifice to propitiate the appropriate gods (such as Ares, god of War) or consulting oracles and omens to divine their plans. Yet the link between war and religion is an...
Pen and Sword Military, 2022. — 152 p. This book provides a complete and detailed analysis of the organization and equipment of the Macedonian army built by Philip II and later employed to world-changing effect by his son, Alexander III (the Great). This work explains how Philip took the traditional forces of Macedon and reformed them into the most modern and sophisticated...
Greenwood Press, 2007. — 305 p. Once warfare became established in ancient civilizations, it's hard to find any other social institution that developed as quickly. In less than a thousand years, humans brought forth the sword, sling, dagger, mace, bronze and copper weapons, and fortified towns. The next thousand years saw the emergence of iron weapons, the chariot, the standing...
Praeger, 2002. — 454 p. Richard A. Gabriel examines 18 Ancient army's systems, examining the organizational structure and weapons employed and the degree to which cultural values and imperatives shaped the form and application of military force. The tactical doctrines and specific operational capabilities of each army are analyzed to explain how certain technical limitations...
Pen and Sword Military, 2023. — 80 p. This in-depth visual guide, Warriors of the Ancient Greek World , boasts over 140 lavishly detailed photographed and illustrated recreations of the warrior panoplies of the fifth and fourth centuries BC. It covers the heavy infantry and cavalry of Greece and Macedonia, the light infantry and horsemen of the Thracian territories and the...
Pen and Sword Military, 2023. — 338 p. The Carthaginians are well known as Rome's great enemy of the three Punic wars and Hannibal, their greatest general, is a household name. While narrative histories of the Punic wars (especially the second) and biographies of Hannibal abound, there have been few studies dedicated to detailed analysis of Carthaginian armies and warfare...
Routledge, 2006. — 517 pp. — (Warfare and History). For many historians, military history began in Classical Greece. Chronologically, however, half of recorded military history occurred before the Greeks rose to military predominance. In this groundbreaking and fascinating study, William J. Hamblin synthesises current knowledge of early ancient Near Eastern military history in...
Brill Academic Publishers, 1998. — 248 p. — (Mnemosyne, Supplements 182). This study of the Athenian strategia is concerned with identifying the locus of military authority in the Athenian polis. Consideration of the role played by generals in the deliberative and final stages of military expeditions and of the relationship between strategoi and their subordinates, colleagues,...
Brill, 2022. — 320 p. — (Brill's Companions to Classical Studies: Warfare in the Ancient Mediterranean World 5). Brill's Companion to Bodyguards in the Ancient Mediterranean is the first scholarly volume solely dedicated to understanding bodyguards of the ancient Mediterranean world. From the Pharaohs of Egypt through to the emperors of the Early Byzantine Empire, this volume...
Wiley-Blackwell, 2021. — 496 p. — (Blackwell Companions to the Ancient World). — ISBN-13 978-1119438816. Companion to Greek Warfare is an authoritative survey of all major areas in the field of Greek and Macedonian military history, covering diverse operational, economic, social, psychological, and cultural aspects of ancient warfare. Bringing together essays by both...
Hackett Publishing, 2021. — 232 p. Hackett's Passages: Key Moments in History series titles include original-source documents in accessible editions, intended for the student-user or general audience. This edition, The Greco-Persian Wars, taps our knowledge of the Persian Empire and its interactions with the Greek world. The sources examined were created in different times and...
Pen and Sword Military, 2023. — 272 p. In The Trojan War as Military History , the author's starting point is the fact that the Iliad, notwithstanding the fantastical/mythological elements (the involvement of gods and demigods), is the earliest detailed description of warfare we have. Stripping away the myths, Manousos Kambouris analyses the epic and combines it with other...
Brill, 2021. — 372 p. — (Brill's Companions to Classical Studies 4; Brill's Companions to Classical Studies: Warfare in the Ancient Mediterranean World 4). After decades of controversy, there is now a growing consensus that Greek warfare was not singular and simple, but complex and multiform. In this volume, emerging and established scholars build on this consensus to explore...
Brill, 2017. — 270 p. — (Mnemosyne, Supplements 409; Mnemosyne, Supplements, History and Archaeology of Classical Antiquity 409). What determined the choices of the Greeks on the battlefield? Were their tactics defined by unwritten moral rules, or was all considered fair in war? In Classical Greek Tactics: A Cultural History, Roel Konijnendijk re-examines the literary evidence...
Cambridge University Press, 2008. — 336 p. Professor Lee provides a social and cultural history of the Cyreans, the mercenaries of Xenophon's Anabasis. While they have often been portrayed as a single abstract political community, this book reveals that life in the army was mostly shaped by a set of smaller social communities: the formal unit organisation of the lochos...
Yale University Press, 2006. — 480 p. What set the successful armies of Sparta, Macedon, and Rome apart from those they defeated? In this major new history of battle from the age of Homer through the decline of the Roman empire, J. E. Lendon surveys a millennium of warfare to discover how militaries change - and don’t change - and how an army’s greatness depends on its use of...
AltaMira Press, 2008. — 296 p. Are All Warriors Male? is a lively inquiry into questions of gender on the ancient Eurasian steppes. The book's contributors are archaeologists who work in eastern Europe, Central Asia, and eastern Asia, and this volume is the result of their field research in this vast. As little has been written about the evidence of gender roles in ancient - or...
Pen and Sword Military, 2020. — 208 p. Towards the middle of the third century BC, the Hellenistic kingdoms (the fragments of Alexander the Great's short-lived empire) were near their peak. In terms of population, economy and military power each individual kingdom was vastly superior to Rome, not to mention in fields such as medicine, architecture, science, philosophy and...
History Press, 2011. — 176 p. The Bronze Age, so named because of the technological advances in metalworking and countless innovations in the manufacture and design of tools and weapons, is among the most fascinating periods in human history. Archaeology has taught us much about the way of life, habits and homes of Bronze Age people, but as yet little has been written about...
Pen and Sword Military, 2021. — 312 p. The Iliad dealing with the final stages of the Trojan War and The Odyssey with return and aftermath were central to the Classical Greeks' self identity and world view. Epic poems attributed to Homer, they underpinned ideas about heroism, masculinity and identity; about glory, sacrifice and the pity of war; about what makes life worth...
Yale University Press, 2019. — 328 p. During the Persian Wars, Sparta and Athens worked in tandem to defeat what was, in terms of relative resources and power, the greatest empire in human history. For the decade and a half that followed, they continued their collaboration until a rift opened and an intense, strategic rivalry began. In a continuation of his series on ancient...
Oxford University Press, 2005. — 165 p. — (Very Short Introductions). Greek and Roman warfare was unlike that of any other culture before or since. The key difference is often held to be that the Greeks and Romans practiced a "Western Way of War," in which the aim is an open, decisive battle - won by courage instilled, in part, by discipline. Here, Harry Sidebottom looks at how...
Brill, 2019. — 408 p. — (Amsterdam Studies in Classical Philology 29). In this collected volume fourteen experts in the fields of Classics and Ancient History study the textual strategies used by Herodotus and Livy when recounting the disastrous battles at Thermopylae and Cannae. Literary, linguistic and historical approaches are used (often in combination) in order to enhance...
Amsterdam University Press, 2021. — 520 p. Mail armour (commonly mislabelled 'chainmail') was used for more than two millennia on the battlefield. After its invention in the Iron Age, mail rapidly spread all over Europe and beyond. The Roman army, keen on new military technology, soon adopted mail armour and used it successfully for centuries. Its history did not stop there and...
Pen and Sword Military, 2022. — 184 p. Antiochus III, the king of the Seleucid Empire for four decades, ruled a powerful state for a long time. He fought and won many battles from India to Egypt, and he lost almost as many. Compared with most of the other Hellenistic monarchs of Macedonian-founded kingdoms, Antiochus had a greater variety of units that he could field in his...
UVK Universitätsverlag Konstanz, 1997. — 54 p. Hannibals Feldzug in Italien, der Rom in die existenzbedrohendste Lage seiner Geschichte brachte, war nur möglich, weil Hannibal intime Kenntnisse der inneritalienischen Verhältnisse hatte. Die vorliegende Studie von Max Zlattner erschl ießt mit akribischem Scharfsinn die Methoden, mit denen der karthagische Feldherr hinter den...
Brill, 2017. — 506 p. — (Impact of Empire 28). During the final four centuries BC, many political and stateless entities of the Mediterranean headed towards anarchy and militarism, while stronger powers - Carthage, the Hellenistic kingdoms and Republican Rome - expanded towards State formation, forceful military structures and empire building. Edited by T. Ñaco del Hoyo and F....
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Книгу Джона Вэрри можно с полным правом считать энциклопедией военного искусства классической древности. Огромное количество прекрасно выполненных цветных и черно-белых иллюстраций позволяет во всех деталях проследить, как изменился внешний вид воинов и их вооружение. Значительная часть...
СПб.: Типография А. Траншеля, 1873. — [4], IV, III, [5], 234, 14 c.; 1 л. фронт. (илл.), 9 л. илл. Эта работа впервые издана в Петербурге в 1872-1878 гг. Ее автор - Николай Сергеевич Голицын (1810-1892), Генерального штаба генерал-лейтенант, член Военно-ученого комитета Главного штаба. Свой капитальный труд «Всеобщая военная история» в 15 томах князь Н.С. Голицын создал в...
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М.: Эксмо, 2008. — 224 с.
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