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Brill's Companion to Greek Land Warfare Beyond the Phalanx
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Edited by:
Roel Konijnendijk
Language:
English
Published/Copyright:
2021
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About this book
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.
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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 Gdańsk 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.
Cezary Kucewicz, Ph.D. (2018), University College London, is a Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Gdańsk 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.
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eBook published on:
November 29, 2021
eBook ISBN:
9789004501751
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Main content:
360
eBook ISBN:
9789004501751
Keywords for this book
Early Iron Age Greece; Archaic Greece; Classical Greece; Pre-Roman Italy; Hoplite warfare; Historiography of Greek warfare; Homeric epic; Greek lyric poetry; Greek armour and weapons; Cavalry; Light-armed fighters; Combined-arms warfare; Greek tragedy; Women and war; Siege warfare
Audience(s) for this book
Ancient history, archaeology, and Classics institutes and departments; academic libraries; undergraduate and postgraduate students and subject specialists in Greek warfare and the relationship between war and society.
