Brill's Companion to Greek Land Warfare Beyond the Phalanx

Erscheinungsjahr 2021
ISBN: 978-90-04-50172-0
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 4, 360 Seiten, Format (B × H): 157 mm x 236 mm, Gewicht: 680 g

Reihe: Brill's Companions to Classical Studies / Brill's Companions to Classical Studies: Warfare in the Ancient Mediterranean World

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 Greek warfare beyond its traditional focus on hoplites and the phalanx. We expand the chronological limits back into the Iron Age, the geographical limits to the central and eastern Mediterranean, and the operational limits to include cavalry, light-armed troops, and sieges. We also look beyond the battlefield at integral aspects of warfare including religion, the experiences of women, and the recovery of the war dead.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Weitere Mitwirkende

Konijnendijk, Roel

Kucewicz, Cezary

Lloyd, Matthew

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Alte Geschichte & Archäologie Geschichte der klassischen Antike Griechische Geschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Antike Kriegsführung

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments

List of Figures and Table

Abbreviations and Spellings

1 Introduction: Beyond the Phalanx

Matthew Lloyd, Roel Konijnendijk, and Cezary Kucewicz

2 Men of Iron Pre-Archaic Greek Warfare in Context

Matthew Lloyd

3 The Anatolian Roots of Archaic Greek Warfare

Josho Brouwers

4 The War Dead in Archaic Sparta

Cezary Kucewicz

5 Women, Diversity, and War off the Battlefield in Classical Greece

Jennifer Martinez Morales

6 Worshipping Violence

A.T. Millington

7 Cavalry and the Character of Classical Warfare

Roel Konijnendijk

8 ‘Not Many Bows’? Light-Armed Fighters of the Tenth through Fourth Centuries

Cezary Kucewicz, Matthew Lloyd, and Roel Konijnendijk

9 Assaults and Sieges Rewriting the Other Side of Greek Land Warfare

Fernando Echeverría

10 The Western Greeks and the ‘Greek Warfare’ Narrative

Joshua R. Hall

11 The First Greek Soldiers in Egypt Myths and Realities

Hans van Wees

Epilogue

Matthew A. Sears

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Roel Konijnendijk, Ph.D. (2015), University College London, is a Departmental Lecturer in Ancient History at the University of Oxford. He is the author of Classical Greek Tactics: A Cultural History (2018). He now works on the historiography of Greek warfare.

Cezary Kucewicz, Ph.D. (2018), University College London, is a Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Gdansk and Wolfson College, University of Cambridge. He is the author of The Treatment of the War Dead in Archaic Athens: An Ancestral Custom (2021).

Matthew Lloyd, D.Phil (2014), University of Oxford, is a museum curator in Canada. He has written chapters on weapons and warrior burials in the Cambridge Guide to Homer and A Companion to the Archaeology of Early Greece and the Mediterranean.


Contributors are Josho Brouwers, Fernando Echeverría, Joshua R. Hall, Jennifer Martinez Morales, Alexander T. Millington, Matthew A. Sears, Hans van Wees.