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UNINA9910450786903321 |
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Autore |
Trundle Matthew <1965, > |
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Titolo |
Greek mercenaries : from the late archaic period to Alexander / / Matthew Trundle |
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London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 2004 |
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1-134-30433-1 |
1-280-10391-4 |
0-203-32347-5 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (219 p.) |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Greek mercenaries |
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Greece History, Military To 146 B.C |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 173-187) and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Images and sources -- What motivated mercenary service -- Paying Greek mercenaries -- Hiring Greek mercenaries -- Networks and relationships. |
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This book provides a detailed picture of the life of these Greek mercenaries, analyzing who they were and from what section of society they came. It explores their motivations, their relationships and connections, both with each other and those with whom they served, and shows how mercenaries were recruited, paid and maintained.Matthew Trundle reviews a variety of evidence, including Xenophon's detailed account of how over ten thousand Greeks tried and failed to establish the Persian prince Cyrus on his brother's Imperial throne, the fragments of a fourth century play about the first |
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UNISA996390468003316 |
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Autore |
Thucydides |
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Proposals for subscription to Thucydides Gr. Lat. folio [[electronic resource] ] : now printing at the Theater in Oxford. Three of the eight books of this history are already printed; copies of which may be seen at the undertaker's: and the whole is design'd, God willing, to be finish'd and ready for publication in Trinity term, 1695 |
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Greece History Peloponnesian War, 431-404 B.C Early works to 1800 |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Reproduction of the original in the Bodleian Library. |
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