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By Philip Sabin, Hans van Wees, Michael Whitby
I've got simply entire interpreting the 1st quantity of the 2, and the assessment is written established upon the 1st booklet. regardless of the identify this isn't a background of Greek and Roman battle, yet relatively a chain of essays geared up in response to subject. the standard of the writing varies greatly, from the wonderful prose of Lendon to the tricky and nearly unreadable essays via Hornblower and corridor. the simplest essays are these by means of Hanson(historiography of historic war) Whitby (reconstructing historic Wrfare) Strauss (Naval strive against and sieges) Billows (international family) Sekunda (Land forces) Roth(War) Sabin(land battles) Serrati (Warfare and the state). The association of this quantity is ordinary, and to me non-intuitive (yet it sort of feels to be the hot type followed through Cambridge college Press as might be visible of their volumes on seventeenth century philosophy) since it is split into sections and every into chapters that replicate the former part there's a vacuum of history info or continuity. it is crucial to have a deep wisdom of the interval (as good as deep wallet to come up with the money for the book!) and a instruction manual corresponding to Montagu's "Battles of the Greek and Roman Worlds" available.
The bibliography is great, the maps are sturdy, the illustrations negative. At this rate it truly is disgraceful that they're black and white, and a few of include of the poorest caliber of copy. P. 384 has a photograph of the through Appia that appears as though it used to be photocopied out of a 1950's institution textbook!P.427 "Legion vs Phalanx at Pydna" is simply too small and missing not like comprehend the aspect, and the reproductions of Greek pottery are sad.
Yet it is a very illuminating quantity.
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1 Page from a tenth-century Byzantine copy of Asclepiodotus’ Art of Tactics, with drawings of ‘chequerboard’ and other formations. Although Greek philosophers accepted both the ubiquity and inevitability of state conflict, no single analytical or philosophical monograph on the nature of warfare exists in either Greek or Latin literature. The lamentable absence of such systematic ancient discussions in part may explain the treatise that outlines the structure of civilian and military governance of the Empire, see Goodburn and Bartholomew (1976); Hoffmann (1969–70).
1 Page from a tenth-century Byzantine copy of Asclepiodotus’ Art of Tactics, with drawings of ‘chequerboard’ and other formations. Although Greek philosophers accepted both the ubiquity and inevitability of state conflict, no single analytical or philosophical monograph on the nature of warfare exists in either Greek or Latin literature. The lamentable absence of such systematic ancient discussions in part may explain the treatise that outlines the structure of civilian and military governance of the Empire, see Goodburn and Bartholomew (1976); Hoffmann (1969–70).
K. Anderson, R. Davies, L. Keppie, J. Lazenby, R. E. Smith, G. R. Watson and G. Webster follow in this hallowed tradition of identifying key vocabulary, reviewing recruitment and equipment with attention to archaeological finds, reconstructing tactical and strategic practices from ancient texts and then interpreting war largely as an affair of the state. In none of these fine surveys is there any expressed need to identify the purpose of ancient military history. , the reliance on practical considerations concerning logistics: Adams (1976); Engels (1978); Roth (1999); agriculture and warfare: Hanson (1998), (1999c); shipbuilding: Morrison and Coates (1996).