Catalog - The City Library

Why study battles? What is war? -- The problem of warfare's origins -- Sumer, Akkad, and early Mesopotamian warfare -- Egyptian warfare from the old to new kingdoms -- The battles of Megiddo and Kadesh -- The Trojan war and Homeric warfare -- The Assyrian war machine -- The sieges of Lachish and Jerusalem -- A peculiar institution? Hoplite warfare -- The battle of Marathon -- The battle of Thermopylae -- Naval warfare and the battle of Salamis -- The Athenian expedition to Sicily -- The march of the ten thousand -- Macedonian military innovations -- Alexander's conquest of Persia -- The legions of Rome -- The battles of Cannae and Zama -- Legion versus Phalanx: six pitched battles -- The sieges of Alesia and Masada -- Caesar's world war -- The battle of the Teutoburg forest -- Catastrophe at Adrianople -- Reflections on warfare in the ancient world.

ISBN:

9781490678481

1490678484

Publisher Number:

GC0647

3757

Other Number:

919216932

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1

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0

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1

Control Number:

661490

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Call Number:

GREAT CD 930 Fagan