[PDF] Brills Companion To Military Defeat In Ancient Mediterranean Society eBook

Author : Jessica H. Clark
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 44,5 MB
Release : 2018-04-03
Category : History
ISBN : 9004355774

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In Brill's Companion to Military Defeat in Ancient Mediterranean Society, Jessica H. Clark and Brian Turner lead a re-examination of how Near Eastern, Greek, and Roman societies addressed – or failed to address – their military defeats and casualties of war. Original case studies illuminate not only how political and military leaders managed the political and strategic consequences of military defeats, but also the challenges facing defeated soldiers, citizens, and other classes, who were left to negotiate the meaning of defeat for themselves and their societies. By focusing on the connections between war and society, history and memory, the chapters collected in this volume contribute to our understanding of the ubiquity and significance of war losses in the ancient world.

Author : Jeremy Armstrong
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 371 pages
File Size : 28,63 MB
Release : 2019-11-26
Category : History
ISBN : 900441374X

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This volume offers an overview of current directions in the study of siege warfare from around the ancient Mediterranean world.

Author : Timothy Howe
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 386 pages
File Size : 23,32 MB
Release : 2015-11-24
Category : History
ISBN : 9004284737

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In Brill's Companion to Insurgency and Terrorism in the Ancient Mediterranean, Tim Howe and Lee Brice challenge the view that these forms of conflict are specifically modern phenomena by offering an historical perspective that exposes readers to the ways insurgency movements and terror tactics were common elements of conflict in antiquity. Assembling original research on insurgency and terrorism in various regions including, the Ancient Near East, Greece, Central Asia, Persia, Egypt, Judea, and the Roman Empire, they provide a deep historical context for understanding these terms, demonstrate the usefulness of insurgency and terrorism as concepts for analysing ancient Mediterranean behavior, and point the way toward future research.

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Publisher : BRILL
Page : 372 pages
File Size : 22,59 MB
Release : 2021-11-29
Category : History
ISBN : 9004501754

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Brill’s Companion to Greek Land Warfare Beyond the Phalanx brings together emerging and established scholars to build on the new consensus of multiform Greek warfare, on and off the battlefield, beyond the usual chronological, geographical, and operational boundaries.

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Publisher : BRILL
Page : 410 pages
File Size : 30,55 MB
Release : 2017-09-25
Category : History
ISBN : 9004352856

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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 offer an introduction to Aineias and his work, and then discuss the work’s historical and intellectual context, his qualities as a writer, and aspects of his work as a historical source for the Greek polis of the fourth century BC. Several chapters discuss Aineias’ approach to warfare, specifically light infantry, mercenaries, naval operations, fortifications and technology. Finally, we include a lengthy study of the reception of ancient military treatises, specifically Aineias’ Poliorketika, in the Byzantine period.

Author : James T. Chlup
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 319 pages
File Size : 32,64 MB
Release : 2020-09-07
Category : History
ISBN : 0429813686

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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 scholars, the chapters examine military manuals from early Archaic Greece to the Byzantine period, covering a wide range of topics including readership, siege warfare, mercenaries, defeat, textual history, and religion. Coverage includes most of the major contemporary siege manual writers, including Xenophon, Frontinus, Vegetius, and Maurice. Close examination of these texts serves to reveals the complex ways in which ancient Greeks, Romans, and Byzantines sought to understand better, and impose order upon, the seemingly irrational phenomenon known as war. Providing insight into the multifaceted collection of texts that constituted military manuals, this volume is a key resource for students and scholars of warfare and military literature in the classical and Byzantine periods.

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Publisher : BRILL
Page : 318 pages
File Size : 20,42 MB
Release : 2022-12-19
Category : History
ISBN : 9004527680

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Brill’s Companion to Bodyguards in the Ancient Mediterranean is the first scholarly volume dedicated to examining the political, religious, social and cultural role bodyguards played in civilizations across the ancient Mediterranean world.

Author : Jeremy Armstrong
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 286 pages
File Size : 28,73 MB
Release : 2024-01-11
Category : History
ISBN : 1350283789

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Money, Warfare and Power in the Ancient World offers twelve papers analysing the processes, consequences and problems involved in the monetization of warfare and its connection to political power in antiquity. The contributions explore not only how powerful men and states used money and coinage to achieve their aims, but how these aims and methods had often already been shaped by the medium of coined money – typically with unintended consequences. These complex relationships between money, warfare and political power – both personal and collective – are explored across different cultures and socio-political systems around the ancient Mediterranean, ranging from Pharaonic Egypt to Late Antique Europe. This volume is also a tribute to the life and impact of Professor Matthew Trundle, an inspiring teacher and scholar, who was devoted to promoting the discipline of Classics in New Zealand and beyond. At the time of his death, he was writing a book on the wider importance of money in the Greek world. A central piece of this research is incorporated into this volume, completed by one of his former students, Christopher De Lisle. Additionally, Trundle had situated himself at the centre of a wide-ranging conversation on the nature of money and power in antiquity. The contributions of scholars of ancient monetization in this volume bring together many of the threads of those conversions, further advancing a field which Matthew Trundle had worked so tirelessly to promote.

Author : Łukasz Różycki
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 341 pages
File Size : 21,5 MB
Release : 2021-06-22
Category : History
ISBN : 9004462554

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Battlefield Emotions in Late Antiquity is the first work to offer a comprehensive analysis of morale and fear. Różycki examines Roman military treatises to illustrate the methods of manipulating the human psyche.

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Publisher : BRILL
Page : 467 pages
File Size : 43,52 MB
Release : 2023-12-04
Category : History
ISBN : 9004687181

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The adage that an army “marches on its stomach” finds renewed emphasis in this collection of essays. Focusing on military diet and supply from Homer through the Roman Empire, Diet and Logistics in Greek and Roman Warfare explains regional dietary options and reassesses traditional notions of “provisioning” while exploring topics ranging from strategy and subterfuge to trade and terror. Through fresh insights drawn from current research and excavation spanning the Greco-Roman world, contributors confirm how providing food and drink for soldiers was critical to every army’s success and survival. This volume stimulates reevaluation of ancient militaries and encourages new research.