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...
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 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...
Osprey Publishing, 2002. — 95 p. In the early third century CE the Roman Empire was a force to be reckoned with, controlling vast territories and wielding enormous political power from Scotland to the Sahara. 400 years later this mighty Empire was falling apart in the face of successive problems that the rulers failed to deal with. In this challenging new volume Michael Whitby...
Известия АлтГУ. — 2021. — №2 (118). — с. 60-65. Статья посвящена одной из военных операций Римской империи на побережье среднего Дуная, которая проходила ранней весной 170 г., во втором веке новой эры. Основной целью статьи является реконструкция одного из важнейших событий римских войн против германского племени маркоманнов, занимающих в древности территорию современной Чехии...
Известия высших учебных заведений. Северо-Кавказский регион. — 2022. — №2. — с. 53-59. Анализируются социальные характеристики высшего командного состава римской армии периода ранней Римской империи в связи с проблемой его профессионализации. Рассматриваются некоторые особенности карьеры и служебной деятельности легатов легионов и военных трибунов как выражение данной...
Евразийский научный журнал. — 2017. — №1. — с. 104-114. Римское военное дело может считаться одним из самых значимых достижений римской цивилизации. Благодаря армии, Рим распространил свое влияние на все Средиземноморье, что повлияло на все дальнейшее развитие населявших его народов. Армия Рима являлась естественным продолжением государственной системы и изменялась вместе с...
Вестник экономической безопасности. — 2020. — №5. — с. 80-85. Рассмотрена проблематика устройства вооруженных сил Древнего Рима периода домината. Автор статьи анализирует суть процессов, которые происходили в сфере устройства военных структур и всех сопутствующих этой сфере государственных институтов. Настоящая статья не претендует на масштабное исследование указанной...
Charles River Editors, 2018. — 100 p. Most historians believe that the hoplite became the dominant infantry soldier in nearly all the Greek city-states around the 8th century BCE. Hoplites were responsible for acquiring their own equipment, so not every hoplite might have been equally armed, but considering the style of warfare, they needed as much uniformity as possible. Like...
Charles River Editors, 2017. — 59 p. The Roman army is one of the most famous fighting forces in history. Through its power and prowess, a once obscure Italian city forged an empire that encircled the Mediterranean and covered half of Europe. The physical remains of its presence can be traced from the mountainous borders of Scotland to the arid deserts of Egypt, but its legacy...
Oxford University Press, 2017. — 416 p. — (Ancient Warfare and Civilization). In 431 BC, the long simmering rivalry between the city-states of Athens and Sparta erupted into open warfare, and for more than a generation the two were locked in a life-and-death struggle. The war embroiled the entire Greek world, provoking years of butchery previously unparalleled in 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...
Pen and Sword Military, 2017. — 288 p. Many books have been written on the Second Punic War and Hannibal in particular but few give much space to his campaigns in the years from 213 – 203 BC’. Most studies concentrate on Hannibal’s series of stunning victories in the early stages of the war, culminating at Cannae in 216 BC, then refocus on the activities of his nemesis, Scipio...
Исторический журнал: научные исследования. — 2021. — № 3. — с. 16-26. В середине III в. в Римской империи начался период затяжного кризиса. Чтобы противостоять варварским вторжениям и мятежам узурпаторов, требовались военные преобразования, пересмотр сложившейся в предыдущие периоды римской военной машины. В конце 250-х-начале 260-х гг. император Галлиен создаёт мобильный...
Peeters, 2022. — 801 p. Ce livre consacre a l'histoire de la cavalerie romaine s'interesse principalement a l'evolution du recrutement, de l'organisation, du deploiement tactique et des modes de combat des troupes montees entre la fin de l'epoque republicaine et le VIe siecle ap. J.-C. L'importance croissante de la cavalerie marque en effet une rupture essentielle dans...
Античный мир и археология. — 2023. — Вып. 21. — с. 207–224. В статье рассматривается деятельность Тита Лабиена, легата Цезаря в Галлии и видного военачальника в армии Помпея во время гражданской войны. Его биография известна с большими пробелами, как и его политические пристрастия. В галльских кампаниях Цезаря Лабиен служил у Цезаря в качестве legatus pro praetore и проявил...
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...
University of Chicago Press, 2020. — 400 p. The Roman army was the greatest fighting machine in the ancient world. More than that, it was the single largest organization in Western antiquity, taking in members from all classes, from senators to freed slaves. The Roman Empire depended on its army not just to win its wars, defend its frontiers, and control the seas, but to act as...
Pen and Sword, 2010. — 208 p. In the late 3rd century BC, while Rome struggled for her very survival against the Carthaginians in the Second Punic War, Philip V of Macedon allied with Hannibal in pursuit of his dream for a new Macedonian empire. Once Carthage was defeated, however, the Roman army for the first time turned its full attention to the Greek world. The stage was set...
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...
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...
Pen and Sword Military, 2023. — 274 p. There is no doubt that Rome developed one of the most efficient and successful military systems of the ancient world. The famous legions conquered from the Atlantic to the Euphrates, from the Scottish Highlands to the sands of the Sahara, defeating all manner of enemies. Although their victories were many, they were never invincible 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...
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...
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...
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...
BAR Publishing, 2006. — 295 p. This study of legio XX Valeria Victrix combines a personal, historical and archaeological approach to the study of the legion (roughly the first four centuries after Christ) as a whole. Epigraphic and historical evidence is presented for all those individuals known to have served with the Twentieth Legion in their various capacities. Sources are...
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...
Salerno, 2018. — 232 p. La storia spesso trascura di raccontare in modo adeguato la vita di uomini illustri che restano singolarmente sullo sfondo degli avvenimenti, e questo è il caso di Ezio, l'ultimo grande generale di Roma, la cui biografia può essere si ricostruita ma con forti lacune che ne lasciano spesso intravvedere soltanto un'arida successione di avvenimenti. Non...
Pen and Sword Books, 2017. — 288 p. In a single volume, Roman Republic at War catalogues and offers a brief description of every significant battle fought by the Roman Republic between 480 and 31 BC (and most of the minor ones too). The information in each entry is drawn exclusively from Ancient texts, in order to offer a brief description of each battle based solely on the...
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...
Left Coast Press, 1983. — 184 p. This volume describes the pattern of recruitment of soldiers to the Roman legions and the settlement of legion veterans in Roman colonies during the period of the principate. This work began as a study of the settlement of legionary veterans during the Principate. Its aim was to discover why legionary veterans were settled in colonies, when such...
Pen and Sword, 2013. — 208 p. When, after a brutal civil war, the dictator Sulla took power in Rome (82 BC), among the many who refused to accept his rule was a young army officer called Quintus Sertorius. Sertorius fled, first to Africa and then to Spain, where he made common cause with the native people who had been savagely oppressed by a succession of corrupt Roman...
University of California Press, 1992. — 304 p. The growth and stability of the Roman world depended, to a large degree, on the continuing success of its armies. Emperors could rise and fall through the intervention of the military, by whom new territories were conquered, an extensive empire acquired, its frontiers guarded and external enemies repulsed. The remarkable success...
Ozymandias Press, 2018. — 350 p. Hardly had Pyrrhus turned his back for the last time on Italy when the first note of war between the Romans and the Carthaginians, who had so recently formed an alliance against him, was sounded. It came, as was to be expected, from that fair island which, by its position, seemed to belong half to Europe, half to Africa, and from that point in...
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.
Akadémiai Kiadó, 1983. — 332 p. Epithets formed from the names of reigning emperors, which are known to have been awarded in great numbers between the start of the sole reign of Caracalla, C.E. 212, and the period of Diocletian present a source for the military history of the 3rd century which has hitherto been largely unexploited. The practice followed in awarding these...
Vij Books India, 2016. — 290 p. Warfare of the early modern period is associated with the start of the widespread use of gunpowder and the development of suitable weapons to use the explosive, including artillery and handguns; for this reason the era is also referred to as the age of gunpowder warfare (a concept introduced by Michael Roberts in the 1950s). Shock weapons that...
Pen and Sword, 2018. — 208 p. Why are some battles remembered more than others? Surprisingly, it is not just size that matters, nor the number of dead, the decisiveness of battles or their effects on communities and civilisations. It is their political afterlife the multiple meanings and political uses attributed to them that determines their fame. This ground-breaking series...
Courier Corporation, 2003. — 390 p. Thorough, highly informative and exhaustive study presents an exceptional collection of cases examining such topics as warfare as the business of one sex, religion as a cause of war, and war for the sake of glory. Cannibalism, human sacrifice, blood-revenge, and other factors in warfare among primitive peoples are also expertly examined.
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...
Cambridge University Press, 1930. — 352 p. There has recently appeared a book which deals with Scipio's military campaigns in the Second Punic War from the angle of modern war, but which is perhaps not based on a very critical use of the sources. The importance of Scipio's Spanish campaign has not always been adequately emphasised in recent literature or its difficulties...
Pen and Sword Military, 2023. — 208 p. Partly as a result of poor commanders and partly because the Romans had an innate and misguided belief in the invincibility of their legions, the first battles against the Cimbri were a series of disasters. These culminated in the Battle of Arausio in 105 BC when two Roman armies were utterly destroyed. Rome finally realized that their...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
The History Press, 2016. — 128 p. In 218 BC, Hannibal Barca, desperate to avenge the defeat of Carthage in the First Punic War, launched an ambitious ground invasion of Italy. With just a small force, he crossed the Alps – a feat reckoned to be impossible – and pitted his polyglot army against Rome's elite citizen infantry. At Cannae, in 216, Hannibal destroyed an 80,000-strong...
Frontline Books, 2017. — 287 p. Challenging the common modern distinction between Romans as organized, professional soldiers and their opponents as individualistic warriors, this history of Roman warfare focuses on the part-time legionaries who served only for the duration of a campaign and sought glory in single combat. The author explores these warriors deeds, beliefs and...