Berkeley: University of California Press, 1957. — 109 p. — ISBN: 0-520-00005-6. This informal history traces battle tactics and military strategy from the time of the city-states’ phalanxes of spearmen to the far-reaching combined operations of specialized land and sea forces in the Hellenistic Age. The author first describes the attitude of the Greek city-state toward war, and...
Ariel, 2003. — 321 p. El libro estudia los principios de la guerra protohistórica, organización de los ejércitos, tipologías del armamento, principios estratégicos, etcétera y las consecuencias políticas, económicas y sociales de la guerra en la Ancient Protohistoria.
Pen and Sword, 2017. — 208 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 Massegatae and Scythians, they were adopted and adapted by several major empires. The Achaemenid Persians, Seleucids, Sassanians...
University of California Press, 1970. — 430 p. Xenophon of Athens was an Athenian-born military leader, philosopher, and historian. At the age of 30, Xenophon was elected a commander of one of the biggest Greek mercenary armies, the Ten Thousand, that marched on and came close to capturing Babylon in 401 BC. As the military historian Theodore Ayrault Dodge wrote, "the centuries...
Brill, 2024. — 348 p. — (Brill's Companions to Classical Studies: Warfare in the Ancient Mediterranean World 10). This Companion whose contributions come from an outstanding array of experts deals exclusively with the military campaigns of Philip II and his son Alexander the Great and the forces that fought in them. In addition to discussions of the strategy and tactics of the...
This book is a wonderful introduction to the armies of ancient Egypt and Assyria. First off is a list of major battles of the period, 3200 BC to 1185 BC for Egypt, and 1300 BC to 612 BC for Assyria. Next follows a series of short chapters on the tactics employed by the title powers and their enemies, their organization and formations, and the composition of their armies. The...
The Armies and Enemies of Imperial Rome spans the period from 150 BC to 600 AD and describes the forces of the later Roman Republic and the Byzantine wars as well as the armies of the heyday of the Roman Empire. Coverage of Rome's enemies includes Gallic, British, Pictish, Scots/Irish, German, Dacian, Sarmatian, Frankish, Saxon, Vandal, Visigothic, Ostrogothic, Hunnic, Pontic,...
Brill, 2016. — 320 p. — (Mnemosyne, Supplements: History and Archaeology of Classical Antiquity; Vol. 388). — ISBN: 978-90-04-28484-5. Circum Mare: Themes in Ancient Warfare presents a thematic approach to current directions in ancient military studies with case studies on topics including the economics of warfare, military cohesion, military authority, irregular warfare, and...
Leiden: Brill, 2019. — 371 p. — (Brill's Companions to Classical Studies 3; Brill's Companions to Classical Studies: Warfare in the Ancient Mediterranean World 3). Brill’s Companion to Sieges in the Ancient Mediterranean is a wide-ranging exploration of sieges and siege warfare as practiced and experienced by the cultures which lived around the ancient Mediterranean basin. From...
Bloomsbury Academic, 2015. — 448 p. War as Spectacle examines the display of armed conflict in classical antiquity and its impact in the modern world. The contributors address the following questions: how and why was war conceptualized as a spectacle in our surviving ancient Greek and Latin sources? How has this view of war been adapted in post-classical contexts and to what...
McFarland & Company, 2016. — 244 p. It has been 2500 years since the Greek heavy infantry known as hoplites dominated the battlefield. Yet they still capture the imagination today, through a wave of successful action films, novels and documentaries. The mass-media popularity of these famed warriors has, however, helped spawn a number of misconceptions about them. Drawing on...
Cornell University Press, 2020. — 168 p. Greek Warfare beyond the Polis assesses the nature and broader significance of warfare in the mountains of classical Greece. Based on detailed reconstructions of four unconventional military encounters, David A. Blome argues that the upland Greeks of the classical mainland developed defensive strategies to guard against external aggression....
Archaeopress Archaeolog, 2021. — 226 p. Liburnians and Illyrian Lembs: Iron Age Ships of the Eastern Adriatic explores the origins of two types of ancient ship which appear in the written sources connected with the protohistoric eastern Adriatic area: the ‘Liburnian’ ( liburna or liburnica ) and the southern Adriatic (Illyrian) ‘lemb’. The relative abundance of written sources...
Oxbow Books, 2023. — 272 p. This is a study of the commemoration of Classical Greek battles, approaching monuments and other mnemonic practices as vital elements in the creation and curation of memories. It analyzes the diachronic development of battlefield, sanctuary, and city spaces, as evidenced by archaeological remains and ancient literary sources. In addition, it explores...
Wiley-Blackwell, 2019. — 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,...
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....
Pen and Sword Military, 2022. — 224 p. Warfare was a crucial aspect of Celtic society, deeply linked to the spreading of their culture through all Europe. Between the fifth century BC, when La Tène Culture Celts developed in Europe, and the first century AD, when they faced the complete subjugation or annihilation of most of their communities, their approach to warfare was...
Penn and Sword Books, 2005. — 224 p. Warfare in the Ancient World explores how civilizations and cultures made war on the battlefields of the Near East and Europe between the rise of civilization in Mesopotamia in the late fourth millennium BC and the fall of Rome. Through an exploration of twenty-six selected battles, military historian Brian Todd Carey surveys the changing...
Pen and Sword Military, 2024. — 257 p. Ancient accounts of battle often neglected the role of lightly-armed infantry, presenting the deeds of the heavy infantry, such as Greek hoplites or Roman legionaries, or dashing cavalry charges as the decisive battle winners. This bias was partly due to the light infantry typically being drawn from the poorer sections of society, who...
Charles River Editors Press, 2019. — 143 p. Dominated to this day by the sprawling white marble complex of the Acropolis, Athens is a city which is immensely and rightly proud of its past. For a period of roughly three centuries, the polis of Athens stood, if not in a position of unchallenged supremacy among the cities of Hellas, then at the very least among its three most...
Routledge, 2020. — 308 p. This volume explores the enigmatic primary source known as the ancient military manual. In particular, the volume explores the extent to which these diverse texts constitute a genre (sometimes unsatisfactorily classified as "technical literature"), and the degree to which they reflect the practice of warfare. With contributions from a diverse group of...
Pen and Sword Military, 2020. — 240 p. Еven though war, and conflict generally, feature prominently in Greek mythology, comparatively little has been written on the subject. This is surprising because wars and battles in Greek mythology are freighted with symbolism and laden with meaning and significance – historical, political, social and cultural. The gods and goddesses of...
Osprey Publishing, 2018. — 288 p. — (Osprey General Military). From the time of Ancient Sumeria, the heavy infantry phalanx dominated the battlefield. Armed with spears or pikes, standing shoulder to shoulder with shields interlocking, the men of the phalanx presented an impenetrable wall of wood and metal to the enemy. Until, that is, the Roman legion emerged to challenge them...
Osprey Publishing, 2021. — 464 p. The story of the Spartans is one of the best known in history, from their rigorous training to their dramatic feats of arms - but is that portrait of Spartan supremacy true? Renowned novelist and popular historian Myke Cole goes back to the original sources to set the record straight. The Spartan hoplite enjoys unquestioned currency as...
Abrams Press, 2005. — 352 p. Rich in historical anecdote and narrative, Chariot offers riveting descriptions of the military confrontations in which the deployment of chariots heavily influenced the outcome of battles and changed the fates of countries and empires. With nearly a hundred illustrations depicting the chariot's influence in warfare, and as a religious symbol of...
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...
Princeton University Press, 2023. — 563 p. Origins of the Just War reveals the incredible richness and complexity of ethical thought about war in the three millennia preceding the Greco-Roman period, establishing the extent to which ancient just war thought prefigured much of what we now consider to be the building blocks of the Western just war tradition. In this incisive and...
Cassell, 2001. — 226 p. — ISBN: 0304352888. When did mankind invent war, and has violence always decided human arguments? When did ritualized tribal conflict become organized and hunting expeditions turn into armies? And, are we genetically programmed for combat? From Stone Age warriors to the savage cruelty of the Assyrian Empire, embark on an investigation of the origins of...
Gangemi Editore, 2016. — 208 p. Gli studi sulle armi antiche stanno conoscendo negli ultimi anni un enorme incremento e diversificazione. Dagli studi di tradizione storico-artistica, museologica o di catalogazione sull’oggetto-arma, fino a quelli di storia militare, economica e produttiva, l’abbondanza e la varietà di libri e articoli ha reso complessa la realizzazione di...
New York: Metro Books, 2007. — 224 p. — ISBN: 978-0-7607-8668-0. Introduces 20 key battles from Europe and the Middle East in a 2000-year period defined by the great empires of the Ancient world. - An information-packed, highly-illustrated guide to 20 battles of the Ancient period, including Kadesh, Marathon, Salamis, Gaugamela, Cannae, Alesia, Actium, Adrianople, Catalaunian...
ELTE Eötvös Kiadó/Eötvös University Press, 2012. — 268 p. One of the most important chapters in the military history of Assyria and the Near East is the development of the cavalry as an independent arm of the army. 1 Although the art of horse riding was known as early as the beginning of the 2nd millennium B.C. 2 the cavalry as an independent, regular arm of an army can be...
ELTE Eötvös Kiadó/Eötvös University Press, 2016. — 335 p. Following the first two volumes of this project, the aim of this study is to discern the logic behind the social and economic background of the military service. The areas to be explored in this volume are (1) the recruitment system of the imperial army, including the social background of the individual soldiers and the...
Pen and Sword Military, 2020. — 320 p. Religion was integral to the conduct of war in the ancient world and the Greeks were certainly no exception. 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...
Brill Academic, 2023. — 467 p. — (Brill's Companions to Classical Studies: Warfare in the Ancient Mediterranean World 8). This volume treats diet and supply in the Greco-Roman military from Homer through the Roman Empire. These essays reassess “provisioning” and “supply” from multiple perspectives to add fresh focus to a critical, yet often overlooked, feature of ancient...
Pen and Sword Military, 2022. — 360 p. The Seleucid Empire was a superpower of the Hellenistic Age, the largest and most powerful of the Successor States, and it’s army was central to the maintenance of that power. Antiochus III campaigned, generally successfully, from the Mediterranean to India, earning the sobriquet 'the Great'. Jean Charl Du Plessis has produced the most in...
Pen & Sword Military, 2021. — 272 p. In the annals of ancient history the lights of Alexander the Great and Gaius Julius Caesar shine brighter than any other, inspiring generations of dynasts and despots with their imperial exploits. Each has been termed the greatest military leader of the ancient world, but who actually was the best? In this new book Dr Simon Elliott first...
Casemate Publishers, 2021. — 290 p. — ISBN 978-1-61200-998-8. Ancient Greeks at War is a lavishly illustrated tour de force covering every aspect of warfare in the Ancient Greek world from the beginnings of Greek civilization through to its assimilation into the ever expanding world of Rome. As such it begins with the onset Minoan culture on Crete around 2,000 BC, then covers...
Casemate Publishers, 2021. — 162 p. The period covered by the Old Testament - beginning in approximately 3000 BC - was one of great technological development and innovation in warfare, as competing cultures clashed in the ancient Middle East. The Sumerians were the first to introduce the use of bronze into warfare, and were centuries ahead of the Egyptians in the use of the...
Pen and Sword, 2023. — 185 p. Much has been written about the Roman army and the mighty legions that conquered their empire and then defended it for centuries against all comers. But little has been written about the men and units employed when something more subtle than the march of legions into pitched battle was required. This is the only book available dedicated to Roman...
Pen and Sword Military, 2024. — 200 p. Uncover the intricacies of ancient warfare from unit commanders' perspectives, with an overview of equipment, tactics, formations, and leadership through detailed case studies, accompanied by expert analysis and illustrations. Traditional military history of battles focussed on the strategies of great leaders, though in modern times many...
Submitted for the Degree of PhD Department of Classics and Ancient History. — Durham: University of Durham 2009. — 268 p. The purpose of this thesis is an examination of the military career of Alexander the Great. The intention is to reconstruct and examine every campaign of Alexander's brief reign, and to determine what the tactics and strategies were that allowed his...
Pen and Sword Military, 2020. — 224 p. Conflict was rife among the Greeks of the Classical period, including some of the most famous wars and battles of the whole ancient period, such as the defeat of the Persians at Marathon, the Spartans’ heroic last stand at Thermopylae, the gruelling Pelopponesian War and the epic March of the Ten Thousand. The Greek heavy infantry...
Pen and Sword Military, 2019. — 184 p. Although comprised of many distinct tribes and groupings, the Celts shared a distinctive culture that dominated much of Europe for centuries. They enjoyed a formidable reputation as fierce and brave warriors, skilled horsemen and fine metalworkers. In 390 BC an alliance of Celtic tribes defeated a Roman army at the River Allia and went on...
Pen and Sword Military, 2021. — 192 p. Gabriele Esposito presents an overview of the military history of the Germanic peoples of this period and describes in detail the weapons and tactics they employed on the battlefield. He starts by showing how, from very early on, the Germanic communities were heavily influenced by Celtic culture. He then moves on to describe the major...
Pen and Sword Military, 2019. — 168 p. This book provides a complete and detailed analysis of the organization and equipment employed by the armies of the Hellenistic States. After Alexander the Great’s death in 323 BC, his immense Macedonian empire was divided between his ambitious generals, who in turn formed their own monarchies across Eastern Europe, Asia and North Africa....
Pen and Sword Military, 2024. — 161 p. The Scythians were a horse nomads from the central Eurasian steppes who migrated south and west into the region around the Black Sea from the seventh century BC which they dominated until replaced and absorbed by the very similar Sarmatians from the third century BC. A harsh life spent riding, herding and hunting on the steppes made them...
Pen and Sword Military, 2021. — 192 p. The Thracians are mentioned as early as in the epic poems by Homer and were fundamental in the evolution of the Greek military systems across the ages. They fought in the Persian Wars, were part of Alexander the Great's army, were used as mercenaries in many Hellenistic armies and resisted Roman conquest for a long time. In addition, they...
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...
Edinburgh University Press, 2022. — 375 p. Considers the ideals and realities of generalship across the Greek, Roman and Byzantine military worlds. This volume is unique in addressing a key aspect of ancient warfare across a broad chronological and cultural span, focusing on generalship from Archaic Greece to the Byzantine Empire in the twelfth century CE. Across this broad...
Pen and Sword, 2013. — 256 p. Richard Evans revisits the sites of a selection of Greek and Roman battles and sieges to seek new insights. The battle narratives in ancient sources can be a thrilling read and form the basis of our knowledge of these epic events, but they can just as often provide an incomplete or obscure record. Details, especially those related to topographical...
The History Press, 2005. — 240 p. In this first comprehensive study of Ancient Greek warfare for over 35 years, Tim Everson discusses clearly and thoroughly the background, weapons and tactics of the ancient Greeks. He describes the weapons, armour, helmets, chariots and other military equipment used in from c. 1550 to 150 BC and traces how and when various pieces of equipment...
Brill, 2010. — 372 p. — (History of Warfare 59). 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...
Teaching Company, 2005. — 152 p. What were ancient battles really like? What weapons, tactics, armor, training, and logistics were used? And what were the crucial factors that could turn the tide of battle, giving one side victory and consigning the other to slaughter, capture, or, at best, escape to fight another day? To answer these questions the course describes and...
Agorà, 2002. — 570 p. Libro molto esaustivo in merito ad una tematica poco toccato dai libri di storia in genere, l'organizzazione dell'esercito Cartaginese. E' un validissimo supporto per ogni appassionato di storia militare antica ed è scritto in maniera chiara e di facile comprensione.
Revised edition. — Westview Press, 1997. — 241 p. — ISBN: 0-8133-3302-4. When did war begin? Standard military accounts tend to start with the Graeco-Persian wars, laying undue emphasis on the preeminence of Greek heavy infantry. But, as this strikingly original and entertaining book shows, the origins of war can be traced back not to the Iron Age, or even to the Bronze Age,...
Pen and Sword, 2010. — 234 p. The third in the Roman Conquests series will briefly cover Rome's first forays into the dark continent during the First and Second Punic Wars, then cover in detail her vindictive final conquest and destruction of Carthage in the Third Punic War. The subsequent long wars against the slippery Numidian prince, Jugurtha, which tested the Roman military...
McFarland, 2014. — 240 p. This is a thorough historiographic review of the Battle of Marathon. Full use is made of the major ancient sources and the debate over the value of Herodotus. The book covers the rise of the Persian Empire, relations between the Greeks and the Persian Empire and the Ionian revolt that set the stage for the Persian expedition in 490 that led to the...
University of Leiden, 2012. — 63 p. No war has cost Italy more than the Second Punic War. The Carthaginian general, Hannibal Barcas, led his army from the Iberian peninsula, across the alps into Roman lands. There he wreaked havoc upon the Romans and their allies. His attacks pushed the Roman resources to their limits. But Rome did not falter. And while Hannibal regrouped in...
Oxford University Press, 2012. — 204 p. Xenophon's Anabasis, or The Expedition of Cyrus, is one of the most exciting historical narratives--as well as the most important autobiographical work--to have survived from ancient Greece. It tells the story of Cyrus, a young and charismatic Persian prince, who in 401 BC enlisted more than ten thousand Greek mercenaries in an attempt to...
Newton Compton Editori, 2014. — 257 p. L'antica Grecia è nota per essere la culla della civiltà occidentale, patria di artisti e intellettuali, eminenti filosofi che tuttora influenzano il nostro pensiero. Meno nota, invece, è l'eredità lasciata dalle polis greche nella risoluzione dei contrasti in politica estera, attraverso sanguinose battaglie, guerra totale, conflitti...
Newton Compton Editori, 2014. — 257 p. Fino alle soglie dei tempi moderni, e in alcuni casi anche in seguito, qualunque generale che aspirasse a lasciare una traccia di sé nella Storia si è posto come modello Alessandro Magno. Il sovrano macedone fu un conquistatore impareggiabile, in grado di costituire in soli otto anni un impero che andava dalla Grecia all’odierno Pakistan;...
Da Capo Press, 1987. — 586 p. Major General J. F. C. Fuller, a pioneer of mechanized warfare in Great Britain, was one of this century's most renowned military strategists and historians. In this magisterial work he spans military history from the Greeks to the end of World War II, describing tactics, battle lines, the day-to-day struggles while always relating affairs on the...
Greenwood Publishing Group, 2000. — 261 p. To gain a true understanding of wars in their political setting and of battles within the strategy of war, it is incumbent upon us to conduct their study, in all its multifaceted complexity, according to their various components. These may be grouped under the headings of human, geographical, social, administrative, and technical. Of...
Fernand Nathan, 1972. — 223 p. Depuis la Renaissance, nombreux ont été les traités sur l'art militaire des Grecs et des Romains mais peu d'historiens se sont véritablement intéressés à la guerre elle-même en tant que mode d'expression, de structuration et de développement des sociétés antiques. Telle est la voie, nouvelle et par là même périlleuse, sur laquelle s'est engagé...
Routledge, 2022. — 168 p. This book aims to reconceptualise the Graeco-Roman military phenomenon of the "war cry"; the term itself is inadequate for defining an ancient military practice that has been misrepresented in modern media and understudied by contemporary scholars. Gersbach introduces the term and paradigm "battle expression" to replace "war cry", which acknowledges...
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. — 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. — 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, 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 fighting men...
Halgo Inc., 1985. — 213 p. A collection of Egyptological essays devoted to one of the first properly documented battles in human history - the Battle of Kadesh on the Orontes River in Syria (late May 1275 or 1274 BCE) in which the Egyptian army of Ramses II met that of the Hittite Empire led by Muwatali II. The battle ends virtually without a winner, regardless of the...
Montvert Publications, 1998. — 48 p. History of the warriors of the steppe from the VIII century BC until the 17th century. Summarized history of various nomad peoples from Europe and Asia, in chronological order. From sarmatians to siberian people. It includes color plates with every civilization. In ancient and medieval times the lands of what is now referred to as the former...
Wargames Research Group, 1982. — 195 p. Greek, Macedonian, Thracian, Persian, Indian, Successor, Gallic, Carthaginian, Spanish, Roman and African armies. Organisation, tactics, dress and weapons.
Pen and Sword Military, 2023. — 336 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, 2023. — 195 p. This book explores unit cohesion in ancient armies, and how this contributed to the making of war in the Mediterranean world. It takes a varied approach to the subject, from looking at individual groups within larger armies to juxtaposing vertical and horizontal types of cohesion, providing a more detailed understanding of how groups were kept...
Cassell, 2000. — 224 p. The Ancient Greeks - who believed that war is the most important thing humans do - bequeathed to the West an incomparable military legacy that still influences the structure of armies and doctrine. Understand the reasons why their unique approach to fighting was so successful and so relentless, its role at the heart of classical culture, the rise of the...
Virgin, 2004. — 160 p. — ISBN: 978-0-753509-28-8. Time Commanders, the TV game show from the BBC and Lion Television, features teams of contestants battling against a computer loaded with the tactics of the greatest military minds of all time. With famous battles from history and contestants from all walks of life - while members of the public try to control one army through a...
Osprey Publishing, 2023. — 322 p. — (Osprey General Military). — ISBN 9781472848093. Drawing on 30 years of scholarship, this is a unique, richly illustrated history of the Ancient Assyrian Army and Empire. For the greater part of the period from the end of the 10th century to the 7th century BC, the Ancient Near East was dominated by the dynamic military power of Assyria. This...
Routledge, 2016. — 399 p. — ISBN 978-1-138-93469-6; ISBN 978-1-315-67778-1. This substantially revised and updated second edition of The Marshals of Alexander’s Empire (1992) examines Alexander’s most important officers, who commanded army units and were involved in military and political deliberations. Chapters on these men have been expanded, giving greater attention to...
Wiley-Blackwell, 2021. — 496 p. — (Blackwell Companions to the Ancient World). — ISBN 978-1119438816 A 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...
BAR Publishing, 2020. — 158 p. — (BAR International Series 2967). The Newcastle-led Bronze Age Combat project presents its results from innovative combat experiments with replica Bronze Age swords, spears and shields. The original experimental methodologies used authentic replica weapons in extensive rigorous field experiments, and actualistic combat based on historical...
Franz Steiner Verlag, 1997. — 191 p. — (Historia - Einzelschriften 102). The basis of this book is Heskel's belief that Philip II's policies regarding Athens cannot be properly understood without a thorough investigation of the preceding events of the 360s, and what Heskel describes as the `hitbed of diplomatic and military activity' that was the North Aegean in that period. By...
Brill, 2024. — 704 p. — (Brill's Companions to Classical Studies: Warfare in the Ancient Mediterranean World 9). Brill’s Companion to War in the Ancient Iranian Empires examines military structures and methods from the Elamite period through the Achaemenid, Seleucid, Arsacid, and Sasanian empires. War played a critical role in Iranian state formation and dynastic transitions,...
Pen and Sword Military, 2021. — 320 p. A study of the Ptolemaic army as an institution reconstructed through a wide range of ancient sources, from histories to documentary papyri and inscriptions to archaeological finds. The Ptolemaic Dynasty ruled Egypt and much of the eastern Mediterranean basin for nearly 300 years. As a Macedonian dynasty, they derived much of their...
Pen and Sword, 2022. — 265 p. The dramatic conclusion to this trilogy explains the reversal of fortunes and final defeat of Xerxes’ Persian invasion of Greece; not as unlikely as usually presupposed. The focus is on the successful repulse of the Persian massive armada at Salamis, a resounding naval victory with parallels to the English defeat of the Spanish Armada. Along with...
Pen & Sword Military, 2020. — 320 p. This book is a bold and controversial reinterpretation of one of the most famous and decisive battles of the ancient world, overturning a number of long-held assumptions and myths about the Greek army. The Battle of Marathon in 490 BC, where an Athenian-led Greek force defeated a Persian invasion, is one of the most decisive battles in...
Pegasus Books, 2022. — 480 p. The year 2022 marks 2,500 years since Athens, the birthplace of democracy, fought off the mighty Persian Empire. This is the story of the three epic battles—Marathon, Thermopylae and Salamis—that saved democracy, forever altering the history of Europe and the West. In 2022 it will be 2,500 years since the final defeat of the invasion of Greece by...
Routledge, 2020. — 176 p. In The Greek and Roman Trophy: From Battlefield Marker to Icon of Power , Kinnee presents the first monographic treatment of ancient trophies in sixty years. The study spans Archaic Greece through the Augustan Principate. Kinnee aims to create a holistic view of this complex monument-type by breaking down boundaries between the study of art history,...
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...
Toruń: Wydawnictwo Adam Marszałek, 2008. — 242 s. — (Scripta Militaris). — ISBN 978-83-7611-144-5. Skrypt ten prezentuje najciekawsze, zdaniem autora, momenty w rozwoju sztuki wojennej, co pozwala na zasygnalizowanie ważnych momentów w historii wojskowości powszechnej. Praca ta swoim zakresem obejmuję historię sztuki wojennej starożytnego Bliskiego Wschodu, starożytnej Grecji,...
Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2024. — 322 p. This volume demonstrates the wide array of topics in ancient warfare currently studied by researchers around the world. Arranged chronologically in Greek and Roman history sections, the book takes readers through all manner of current research topics on ancient warfare, from traditional battle narratives or strategic analyses of...
Warszawa: Akon, 2005. — 176 s. — ISBN: 83-7452-001-9, 83-89487-10-1. W 490 roku p.n.e. na równinie maratońskiej walczyły wojska imperium perskiego i niewielkiej ateńskiej polis. Naprzeciwko siebie stanęli żołnierze-poddani, wykonujący rozkazy rezydującego w odległych o tysiące kilometrów Suzach króla Dariusza, i obywatele Aten, walczący w obronie leżących kilkadziesiąt...
Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2015. — 375 р. This volume provides chapters on current research into ancient warfare. It is a collection with a wide-range, covering a long chronological spread, with many historical themes, including some that have recently been rather neglected. It has wide academic relevance to a number of on-going debates on themes in ancient warfare. Each...
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...
Sidestone Press, 2022. — 226 p. One day, sometime around 1700 BC, a bronzesmith made the first sword. This marked a technological turning point, giving rise to an arms race that has never since ceased. Soon, over a vast area between the Baltic Sea and the Atlantic Ocean, thousands of weapons were manufactured. They were used in combat, then laid to rest, whole or broken, often...
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...
Ecole Française de Rome, 1990. — 325 p. A travers un corpus de presque un millier de vases, s'étalant de 560 à 460, F. Lissarrague cherche donc à «explorer le réseau des images qui définissent les figures du guerrier» en cette époque encore archaïque, dans leur cohérence et leur diversité. Mais plutôt que de s'attaquer de front à la figure centrale de l'hoplite et de se...
New York, London, Tylor Francis Group, 2007. — 205 p. — ISBN13: 978-0-415-35847-7. The nature of strategy is eternal. Regardless of time or place, those using military force for the purposes of policy will face the same complex phenomena. Strategy has always been, and will remain, a complex, non-linear, multidimensional, violent, and competitive activity. Thus, although every...
Gorgias Press, 2009. — 236 p. In fall, 218 BC, the Punic Army under Hannibal marched from Cartegena in Iberia across the Pyrénées to the Rhône River and over the Alps to the Po River Plains in one of the most ambitious and unorthodox mountain military operations of all time. As winter closed in, the Punic Army regrouped in the upper Guil Valley and prepared to cross the Col de...
Biblio Bazaar, 2008. — 257 p. I doveri parlamentari e gli uffici governativi non distolsero il conte Manfrin dai suoi studi; i quali dalle materie sociali e politiche estese agli argomenti storici, con il vantaggio della cognizione perfetta delle lingue moderne; e trovò tempo e lena dal 1869 al 1903 a lodate pubblicazioni. Emergono fra le opere sue storiche i quattro volumi:...
Pen & Sword Military, 2013. — 192 p. The Battle of Thermopylae in 480 BC is one of the most famous battles in history. The heroism of the 300 Spartans who opted to remain behind to face the full might of the Persian host while their Greek allies made good their escape has become the stuff of legend. The story still inspires novelists and film-makers today (Frank Miller's fanciful...
Overlook Books, 2003. — 336 p. Weapons of biological and chemical warfare have been in use for thousands of years, and Greek Fire, Poison Arrows & Scorpion Bombs, Adrienne Mayor's exploration of the origins of controversial weaponry, draws extraordinary connections between the mythical worlds of Hercules and the Trojan War, the accounts of Herodotus and Thucydides, and modern...
Princeton University Press, 2022. — 432 p. Flamethrowers, poison gases, incendiary bombs, the large-scale spreading of disease: are these terrifying agents of warfare modern inventions? Not by a long shot. In this riveting history of the origins of unconventional war, Adrienne Mayor shows that cultures around the world have used biological and chemical weapons for thousands of...
Rizzoli, 2003. — 174 p. Dal 264 a. C. al 146 a. C., anno della distruzione di Cartagine, si combatté nel bacino del Mediterraneo una guerra senza esclusione di colpi che decise la sorte di Roma ma, soprattutto, del mondo. Se, infatti, avesse vinto Cartagine è lecito supporre che il centro motore della storia sarebbe stato, per molti secoli, la costa ellenizzata dell'Africa...
Сэр Сэмюэль Раш Меирик. Критическое исследование доспехов, как оно существовало в Европе, особенно в Англии, от нормандского завоевания до царствования короля Карла II. в 3 т. Т. 1. — London: Printed by G. Schulze, 13, Poland-street, Oxford-street, 1824. — 206 p. William the Conqueror : 1066 William Rufus : 1087 Henry the First : 1100 Stephen : 1135 Henry the Second : 1154...
Сэр Сэмюэль Раш Меирик. Критическое исследование доспехов, как оно существовало в Европе, особенно в Англии, от нормандского завоевания до царствования короля Карла II. в 3 т. Т. 2. — London: Printed by G. Schulze, 13, Poland-street, 1824. — 297 p. Edward the Third : 1327 Richard the Second : 1377 Henry the Fourth : 1399 Henry the Fifth : 1413 Henry the Sixth : 1422 Edward the...
Сэр Сэмюэль Раш Меирик. Критическое исследование доспехов, как оно существовало в Европе, особенно в Англии, от нормандского завоевания до царствования короля Карла II. в 3 т. Т. 3. — London: Printed by G. Schulze, 13, Poland-street, 1824. — 147 p. Глоссарий военных терминов средневековья. — London: Printed by G. Schulze, 13, Poland-street, Oxford-street, 1824. — 133 p. Edward the...
Lodz: Officyna Naukowa MS, 1993. — 124 p. A fully documented study of the heavy armoured cavalry of the ancient world. The author reviews the ancient sources, discusses the tactics involved in the use of such cavalry, and then describes the arms and armour as used by the Parthians and Sassanians, the Seleucids, the Romans and Palmyrenes. An appendix considers also the Samaritan...
Greenhill Books, 2000. — 260 p. This comprehensive reference book on the battles of the ancient world covers events from the eighth century BC down to 31BC, when Octavian defeated Antony and Cleopatra at the battle of Actium. The author presents, in an exciting and vivid style and complete with battle plans and maps, all of the land and sea battles of the Greek and Roman...
Ohio State University, 2011. — 68 p. This thesis examines the introduction of unconventional siege tactics, namely the use of chemical and biological weapons, during the Peloponnesian War in an effort to add to an existing body of work on conventional and unconventional tactics in Greek hoplite warfare. The thesis argues that the characteristics of siege warfare in the...
War Games Research Group, 1978. — 84 p. В книге представлены организация, тактика, основные битвы, одежда и вооружение армий Древней Греции, Персии и Македонии (500 – 350 г. до н. э.). В книге 80 иллюстраций воинов и диаграмм, и 22 карты (схемы).
I.B. Tauris, 2016. — 320 p. The ancient Greeks attributed great importance to the sacred during war and campaigning, as demonstrated from their earliest texts. Among the first four lines of the Iliad, for example, is a declaration that Apollo began the feud between Achilles and Agamemnon and sent a plague upon the Greek army because its leader, Agamemnon, had mistreated...
Concord Publications Company, 2000. — 48 p. The book includes a full commentary and 20 color plates with detailed explanations of the events depicted. There is a special section on the helmets worn by the ancient warriors. This series focuses on the soldiers and warriors of specific historic conflicts. The in-depth text and illustrations will not fail to inspire modelers,...
Pen and Sword Military, 2015. — 240 p. The domestication of the horse revolutionized warfare, granting unprecedented strategic and tactical mobility, allowing armies to strike with terrifying speed. The horse was first used as the motive force for chariots and then, in a second revolution, as mounts for the first true cavalry. The period covered encompasses the development of...
Submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences. — Columbia University, 2011. — 700 p. Study examines a category of data—the logistics of classical Greek warfare—that has not been used before for ancient Greek economic history. This examination provides much new evidence for Greek economies in...
Osprey Publishing, 2007. — 96 p. — (Osprey Essential Histories, 67). — ISBN: 978-1846030369. Complex and unstable, in 922 BC the kingdom of Ancient Israel was divided into Judah, in the South, and Israel, in the North. For the next 200 years, there was almost constant warring between these kingdoms and their neighbors. These bitter feuds eventually led to the collapse of Israel,...
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...
Brill, 2017. — 402 p. — (Brill's Companions to Classical Studies). Brill's Companion to Aineias Tacticus is a collection of articles on the significance of the earliest Greek handbook on military tactics. Aineias' (Aeneas) wrote his Poliorketika in the mid-fourth century BC, offering a unique perspective on contemporary Greek city-states, warfare and intellectual trends. We...
Da Capo Press, 2001. — 255 p. When he left his Spanish base one spring day in 218 B.C. with his 100,000-man army of mercenaries, officers and elephants, Hannibal was launching not just the main offensive of the Second Punic War but also one of the great military journeys in ancient history. His masterful advance through rough terrain and fierce Celtic tribes proved his worth as...
Da Capo Press, 2001. — 256 p. When he left his Spanish base one spring day in 218 B.C. with his 100,000-man army of mercenaries, officers, and elephants, Hannibal was launching not just the main offensive of the Second Punic War but also one of the great military journeys in ancient history. His masterful advance through rough terrain and fierce Celtic tribes proved his worth...
University of California Press, 1975. — 177 p. The volumes of The Greek State at War are an essential reference for the classical scholar. Professor W. Kendrick Pritchett has systematically canvassed ancient texts and secondary literature for references to specific topics; each volume explores a unique aspects of Greek military practice.
University of California Press, 1975. — 325 p. The volumes of The Greek State at War are an essential reference for the classical scholar. Professor W. Kendrick Pritchett has systematically canvassed ancient texts and secondary literature for references to specific topics; each volume explores a unique aspect of Greek military practice.
University of California Press, 1985. — 278 p. The volumes of The Greek State at War are an essential reference for the classical scholar. Professor W. Kendrick Pritchett has systematically canvassed ancient texts and secondary literature for references to specific topics; each volume explores a unique aspect of Greek military practice.
Lateinisch und deutsch. Mit Einleitung, Erläuterung und Indices herausgegeben von Friedhelm L. Müller. — Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag, 1997. — 357 p. Vegetius schrieb zwischen 383 und 450 n. Chr. aus patriotischem Verantwortungsbewußtsein heraus eine kleine Denkschrift über Auswahl und Übung der Rekruten, weil nach seiner Überzeugung „die Rettung des Staates“ von einer...
Harvard University Press, 1999. — 491 p. This social history of war from the third millennium BCE to the 10th-century CE in the Mediterranean, the Near East and Europe (Egypt, Achaemenid Persia, Greece, the Hellenistic World, the Roman Republic and Empire, the Byzantine Empire, the early Islamic World and early Medieval Europe) with parallel studies of Mesoamerica (the Maya and...
McFarland, 2020. — 234 p. The Hellenistic Period (323-31 BCE) saw the Grecian phalanx--long dominant in Mediterranean warfare--challenged by legionary formations from the rising city-state of Rome. The Roman way of war would come to eclipse phalanx-based combat by the 160s yet this was not evident at the time. Rome suffered numerous defeats against the phalanxes of Pyrrhus and...
McFarland & Company, 2011. — 322 p. In the 5th century B.C., Greece was a patchwork country of small, independent city-states whose tendency to fight each other was offset only by strong ties to common cultural elements such as language and a unique style of warfare. While surviving myths emphasize heroics and honor, the reality of ancient Greek warfare was that of regular men...
McFarland & Company, 2012. — 244 p. With its mixture of famous battles and storied commanders, warfare in 4th century B.C. Greece has long held a fascination for military enthusiasts and the general public alike. Histories, biographies, and popular culture have turned the exploits of noted generals like Xenophon and Iphicrates of Athens, Epaminondas of Thebes, and the...
Pen and Sword Military, 2019. — 248 p. Naval warfare is the unsung hero of ancient Greek military history, often overshadowed by the more glorified land battles. Owen Rees looks to redress the balance, giving naval battles their due attention. This book presents a selection of thirteen naval battles that span a defining century in ancient Greek history, from the Ionian Revolt and...
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1989. — 261 p. — ISBN: 9780521339292 The second book of Thucydides' history is of particular literary interest, containing as it does such important sections as the funeral oration, the account of the plague at Athens and the obituary of Pericles. Professor Rusten's commentary aims to assist the students to learn to read Thucydides. It...
La Esfera de los Libros, SL, 2010. — 302 p. «¡Aman más sus armas y sus caballos que a la propia vida!». Así se espantaron los propios escritores romanos del feroz apego que los antiguos hispanos mostraban a sus armas, símbolos de su condición de hombres libres. Los aristócratas de Tartesos, «el Dorado» de la Antigüedad, y más tarde los Iberos y los Celtíberos, crearon las armas...
Brill, 2013. — 1120 p. — (Late Antique Archaeology 8). This two-volume publication explores the key factors determining the course and outcome of war in Late Antiquity. Volume 8.1 includes a detailed review of strategic and tactical issues and eight comprehensive bibliographic essays, which provide an overview of the literature. In Volume 8.2, thematic papers examine strategy and...
Basic Books, 2011. — 576 p. The history of China is a history of warfare. Rarely in its 3,000-year existence has the country not been beset by war, rebellion, or raids. Warfare was a primary source of innovation, social evolution, and material progress in the Legendary Era, Hsia dynasty, and Shang dynasty - indeed, war was the force that formed the first cohesive Chinese empire,...
Pen & Sword, 2019. — 168 p. Evan Schultheis reconsiders the evidence for Attila the Hun's most famous battle, the climax of his invasion of the Western Roman Empire that had reached as far as Orleans in France. Traditionally considered one of the pivotal battles in European history, saving the West from conquest by the Huns, the Catalaunian Fields is here revealed to be...
Franz Steiner Verlag, 2009. — 340 p. — (Historia-Einzelschriften 207). Recent research into the military history of ancient Greece has questioned the central rôle traditionally ascribed to the famous hoplite phalanx by historians and suggested that even as late as the Persian Wars of 480–479 BC, Greek battles consisted essentially of open fighting and duels between individual...
Poznań: Rebis, 2014. — 368 s. — ISBN 978-83-7818-463-8 Doskonałe wprowadzenie do historii Sparty i jej nieprzemijającego symbolu chwały: wojny! Państwo spartańskie niemal dwa stulecia było największą potęgą militarną starożytnej Grecji. Jego jedyny w swoim rodzaju ustrój społeczno-polityczny stworzył niepokonaną przez długi czas obywatelską armię hoplitów. Scott Rusch śledzi...
Routledge, 2019. — 234 p. Understanding Greek Warfare offers a wide-ranging survey of Greek warfare, from the Mycenaeans through to the Hellenistic kingdoms’ clashes with Rome. Each chapter provides an overview of a particular theme and historical period, and a detailed discussion of the relevant sources, both ancient and modern. This volume covers not only the development of...
Publishing Carnegie, 2006. — 376 p. Cavalry were an important part of almost every ancient army, yet modern writers have neglected them in favour of the infantry of the Greek phalanx and the Roman legions. Warhorse seeks to correct this injustice. Phil Sidnell challenges the common view that ancient cavalry were useful for scouting and raiding but left the real fighting to the...
Pen and Sword, 2023. — 220 p. This is the first in depth study on the history of Legio VI Victrix in Britain. Brought over from Germany in 122 to assist in the building of Hadrian’s Wall the Sixth Legion remained in Britain until the end of Roman rule. The book will investigate the changing military organisation, weapons and warfare as well as the many auxiliary units posted in...
Pen and Sword Military, 2020. — 320 p. A careful study of the Greek and Latin sources that shed fresh light on how these formations were organized, reevaluating many conventional notions and leading to some surprising conclusions. Justin Swanton examines the principal battle-winning formations of the Ancient world, determining their composition, function and efficacy. An...
UPH Siedlce, 2018. — 151 p. The book The Military History of the Third Century Iran is the result of several years of collaboration between the authors who undertake daily research on the history of pre-Islamic Iran. The present work is primarily addressed to students of history who acquire their first experiences in exploring the history of the Near East. We hope that it will...
Cambridge University Press, 1974. — 235 p. Dispatched to Sicily in 344 BC as an elderly man at the head of a small, motley band of mercenaries, Timoleon had no experience of the island. Yet, in less than eight years Timoleon overthrew tyrants, expelled during long war the Carthaginians, and introduced peace, prosperity and constitutional government to an area which for decades...
Pen & Sword Military, 2021. — 560 p. The Greek hoplite and the phalanx formation in which he fought have been the subject of considerable academic debate over the past century. Dr Richard Taylor provides an overview of the current state of play in the hoplite debate in all its aspects, from fighting techniques to the social and economic background of the ‘hoplite revolution’,...
Pen & Sword Military, 2020. — 482 p. — ISBN:1526748150 The Macedonian pike phalanx dominated the battlefields of Greece and the Near and Middle East for over two centuries. It was one of the most successful infantry formations of the ancient world, only rivaled by the manipular formation of the Roman legions. The phalanx was a key factor in the battlefield success of Alexander...
Routledge, 2022. — 230 p. The invention and development of the chariot around the third millennium revolutionized the art of warfare and dominated the battlefields for some 3000 years. It seems to have evolved in the borderlands between the steppes and the riverlands. It is believed that the Āryan borrowed the idea of chariot from Sumerians around 2000 bc. It is presumed that...
Manohar Publishers, 2010. — 430 p. This book tries to present a complete picture of the Indian military system from the earliest times. Topics covered include military organization, conduct of war, strategical and tactical concepts, weapons and armor, fortification, education, training and ceremonies. Ancillary aspects are also covered, such as defense production, logistics,...
LRT editions, 2012. — 66 p. Hellenistic Egypt, with its many papyrus preserved by the dry climate, is the natural starting point for studies of Alexander the Great’s successors’ institutions. No other Hellenistic kingdom has as many sources, even in the military field. This book details the Ptolemaic organization and equipment over the period covering the 3rd to the 1st century...
Edinburgh University Press, 2022. — 378 p. Considers the ideals and realities of generalship across the Greek, Roman and Byzantine military worlds. This volume is unique in addressing a key aspect of ancient warfare across a broad chronological and cultural span, focusing on generalship from Archaic Greece to the Byzantine Empire in the twelfth century CE. Across this broad...
Society of Biblical Literature Press, 2017. — 762 p. Fighting for the King and the Gods provides an introduction to the topic of war and the variety of texts concerning many aspects of warfare in the ancient Near East. These texts illustrate various viewpoints of war and show how warfare was an integral part of life. Trimm examines not only the victors and the famous battles,...
London; New York: Routledge, 2004. — 196 p. — ISBN: 0-203-32347-5 Master e-book ISBN, ISBN: 0–415–33812–3. This book provides a detailed picture of the life of these Greek mercenaries, analyzing who they were and from what section of society they came. It explores their motivations, their relationships and connections, both with each other and those with whom they served, and...
University of Oklahoma Press, 1995. — 224 p. This superbly illustrated volume traces the evolution of the art of warfare in the Greek and Roman worlds between 1600 B.C. and A.D. 800, from the rise of Mycenaean civilization to the fall of Ravenna and the collapse of the Western Roman Empire. John Warry tells of an age of great military commanders such as Alexander the Great,...
Pen and Sword Military, 2021. — 192 p. How can we attempt to understand the experience of those involved in ancient battles, sieges and campaigns? What was the visual impact of seeing the massed ranks of the enemy approaching or the sky darkened with their arrows? How did it feel to be trapped in the press of bodies as phalanxes clashed shield to shield? What of the taste of...
Brill, 1988. — 140 p. Wheeler's book is invaluable--as much for providing the ancient Greek and Latin terms for stratagems as for his discussions of the Odysseus and Achilles ethos. While this is supposed to be a primer in the strategies of war, it functions amazingly well as a primer in understanding the rhetoric and writings of such political philosophers and essayists as...
Bloomsbury Academic, 2002. — 218 p. With the Greekless reader firmly in mind, this text provides a fresh modern translation of Aineias Tacitus' "How to Survive Under Siege", a comprehensive introduction to Aineias and his military practical work, and a full historical commentary from editor.
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...
Beck, 2019. — 128 p. Wolfgang Will erläutert unsere wichtigste Quelle zu den Perserkriegen - Herodot -, stellt die Kombattanten auf griechischer und persischer Seite vor, erklärt ihre Interessen und erhellt die Ursachen des Konflikts. Darüber hinaus werden die wichtigen Schlachten bei Marathon, den Thermopylen, bei Salamis und Plataiai geschildert und das militärisch-politische...
Runestone Press, 2000. — 102 p. Examines ancient weapons and their uses in Mesopotamia, Egypt, China, India, Greece, Rome, and Mesoamerica. Ancient Technology provides a fascinating look at a particular area of technology as it developed in ancient times, from the first humans to the fall of the Western Roman Empire in A.D. 476. Each chapter covers a different ancient...
Westview Press, 1994. — 241 p. — (History and Warfare). The achievements of Greek cavalry—hippeis—on the field of battle should be legendary. However, in most military histories of ancient Greece, the hoplite has received by far the most attention and praise. The modern preoccupation with the heavy infantry of Greece has led to a disregard of the important role played by...
Routledge, 2021. — 262 p. Combined Arms Warfare in Ancient Greece examines the timelines of military developments that led from the hoplite-based armies of the ancient Greeks to the hugely successful and multi-faceted armies of Philip II, Alexander the Great, and his Successors. It concentrates on the introduction and development of individual units and their tactical...
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...
Pen and Sword Military, 2024. — 208 p. This is a fascinating and thoroughly researched study of these dramatic events that adds fresh insight to the question of the legion's supposed innate supremacy over the phalanx. The Third Roman-Macedonian War was a disaster for Macedon, a defeat leading to the end of that kingdom's independence. This is usually attributed to an innate...
Gdańsk: Wydawnictwo Morskie, 1992. — 473 s. Książka przedstawia wszystkie większe lub ciekawsze bitwy, o których mówią źródła antyczne, w takim zakresie, na jaki pozwala materiał źródłowy. Opisy poszczególnych bitew morskich zostały oparte przede wszystkim na źródłach. One stanowią główną podstawę narracji całej książki. Centralne miejsce w każdym rozdziale książki zajmują...
Επικοινωνιεσ α.ε., 2001. — 80 σ. Σύγκρουση αντιπάλων οπλιτών, όπως εικονίζεται σε αγγείο των αρχών του 5ου αιώνα π.Χ. Η φάλαγγα των οπλιτών παρέμεινε, ως τον 3ο περίπου αιώνα, ο βασικός σχηματισμός μάχης των νοτιοελληνικών. στρατών. Στη Σικελία οι αντίπαλες φάλαγγες διασταύρωσαν πολλές φορές τα δόρατά τους. Τόσο οι Αθηναίοι όσο και οι Συρακούσιοι πολέμησαν γενναία, οι μεν κατά...
Монография. — В 4-х частях. — М.: Академический проект; Фонд "Мир", 2017. — ISBN: 978-5-8291-2023-8; 978-5-919840-27-5. Часть вторая. От Александра Великого до 2-й Пунической войны (356–218 гг. до Р.Х.). — М.: Академический проект; Фонд "Мир", 2017. — 375 с. — ISBN: 978-5-8291-2021-4; 978-5-919840-31-2. Свой капитальный труд "Всеобщая военная история" Николай Сергеевич Голицын...
Монография. — В 4-х частях. — М.: Академический проект; Фонд "Мир", 2017. — ISBN: 978-5-8291-2023-8; 978-5-919840-27-5. Часть первая. От древнейших времен до Александра Великого (356 г. до Р.Х.). — М.: Академический проект; Фонд "Мир", 2017. — 395 с. — ISBN: 978-5-8291-2020-7; 978-5-919840-28-2. Свой капитальный труд "Всеобщая военная история" Николай Сергеевич Голицын создал в...
Монография. — В 4-х частях. — М.: Академический проект; Фонд "Мир", 2017. — ISBN: 978-5-8291-2023-8; 978-5-919840-27-5. Часть третья. От начала 2-й Пунической войны до начала войны Юлия Цезаря в Галлии (218–58 гг. до Р.Х.). — М.: Академический проект; Фонд "Мир", 2017. — 416 с. — ISBN: 978-5-8291-2024-5; 978-5-919840-29-9. Свой капитальный труд "Всеобщая военная история"...
Монография. — В 4-х частях. — М.: Академический проект; Фонд "Мир", 2017. — ISBN: 978-5-8291-2023-8; 978-5-919840-27-5. Часть четвертая. От начала войн Юлия Цезаря до Августа (58–30 гг. до Р.Х.). — М.: Академический проект; Фонд "Мир", 2017. — 432 с. — ISBN: 978-5-8291-2027-6; 978-5-919840-30-5. Свой капитальный труд "Всеобщая военная история" Николай Сергеевич Голицын создал в...
Автореферат дис... кандидата исторических наук : 07.00.06. — М.: Институт археологии РАН, 1998. — 22 с. Цель и задачи исследования. Сбор и систематизация археологических источников, свидетельствующих о военных конфликтах и столкновениях на Боспоре, в указанный период. Сопоставление их с сохранившимися в письменных источниках сведениями; уточнение, по возможности, датировок этих...
Смоленск: Русич, 2005. — 416 с. Сочинение Г. де Бира - авторитетное исследование биографии известного полководца древности Ганнибала (242/246-183 гг. до н.э.). На страницах книги читатель познакомится с событиями Первой и Второй Пунических войн, найдет описание похода Ганнибала из Испании в Италию и его знаменитого перехода через Альпы, побед карфагенского полководца при...
М.: Эксмо, 2009. — 224 с.: ил. — 978-5-699-34309-6.
Подробное описание 20 знаменитых сражений легендарного периода истории, именуемого "библейскими временами". Ареной этих жестоких битв был Ближний Восток, испокон века являющийся местом эпических столкновений цивилизаций. Филистимляне, ханааниты, израильтяне, ассирийцы, вавилоняне, греки и римляне — все эти великие народы,...
Via in tempore. История. Политология. — 2023. — Том 50, № 2. — с. 315–322. В статье рассматривается вопрос о значении действий полководца второй Пунической войны Марка Клавдия Марцелла в 210-209 гг. до н. э. В этот период происходят два заметных сражения между Марцеллом и Ганнибалом - при Нумистроне и при Канузии. Исследуются вопросы о результатах этих сражений, о значении их...
Новосибирск: Наука. Сиб. отд-ние, 1988. — 120 с. — (История и культура Востока Азии). Монография посвящена одному из важнейших разделов материальной культуры древности — оружию. В ней обобщены итоги исследований китайских археологов за последние десятилетия, выделены эталонные памятники и дан археологический очерк эпохи поздней бронзы Китая. Показано своеобразие этого периода —...
Via in tempore. История. Политология. — № 49 (1). — 2022. — с. 51-56. В титуле «Тактики» полководца Никифора Урана (ок. 950 - после 1007) среди источников этого труда упомянуто сочинение знаменитого Ганнибала Барки. Скорее всего, это сочинение Ганнибала по жанру могло быть обычной для опытного полководца стратегикой, или навмахией, или даже полиоркетикой. Все данные темы...
Теория и практика общественного развития. — 2014. — № 3. — С. 178-180. Статья посвящена одной из самых спорных проблем истории древнего мира – численности армий иранских народов. В работе приведены все сообщения античных письменных источников по поводу размеров иранских армий в наиболее крупных военных кампаниях. Здесь же приводятся мнения наиболее значимых специалистов в области...
Традицii та новацii у вищiй архiтектурно-художнiй освiтi, Випуск 1/2013. — С.110-112 Линия оборонительных укреплений в эпоху античности и средневековья играла не последнюю роль в формировании функциональной структуры и архитектурного облика поселения. Степень сохранности фортификационных сооружений на объектах различна, местами утрачена значительная часть ключевых узлов обороны....
М.: Эксмо, 2011. — 104 с. — (Великие битвы, изменившие ход истории). — ISBN: 978-5-699-47326-7. Самое раннее из сражений мировой истории, которое поддается детальной реконструкции, - Кадеш стал местом, где встретились два великих царя-воителя - хеттский государь Муваталли и легендарный фараон Рамсес II. Это была грандиозная битва, когда в ожесточенной схватке сошлись тысячи...
М.: АСТ, Neoclassic, 2015. — 320 с. — (История войн и военного искусства). Борьба с терроризмом и сепаратизмом. Восстания и мятежи. Превентивная война. Военизированная колонизация. Зачистка территорий. Все это - далеко не изобретения ХХ и XXI веков. Основы того, что мы называем «искусством войны» сегодня, были заложены еще гениальными полководцами Греции и Рима. Мудрый Перикл,...
М.: Эксмо, 2014. — 584 с. — (Всемирная военная история). — ISBN: 978-5-699-69413-6. История знает не так много примеров, когда в столь короткий срок сравнительно небольшое государство стало доминирующей силой в мире. Такой пример дала потомкам древняя Македония, а основой ее мощи была самая сильная армия своего времени. Эта книга посвящена истории войска, созданного отцом...
М.: Изд-во Эксмо, 2004. — 272 с.: илл. — (Энциклопедия военной истории). Авт.: Саймон Энглим, Филлис Дж. Джестис, Роб С. Райс, Скотт М. Раш, Джон Серрати. Пер. с англ. Т. Сенькиной, Т. Баракиной, С. Самуенко, Е. Никитиной, Л. Смирновой. В книге «Войны и сражения древнего мира» рассматриваются военное искусство, боевая техника, вооружение, стратегия и тактика армий древнего мира...
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