1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910450786903321

Autore

Trundle Matthew <1965, >

Titolo

Greek mercenaries : from the late archaic period to Alexander / / Matthew Trundle

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 2004

ISBN

1-134-30433-1

1-280-10391-4

0-203-32347-5

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (219 p.)

Classificazione

15.51

Disciplina

355.3/54/0938

Soggetti

Greek mercenaries

Electronic books.

Greece History, Military To 146 B.C

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 173-187) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Images and sources -- What motivated mercenary service -- Paying Greek mercenaries -- Hiring Greek mercenaries -- Networks and relationships.

Sommario/riassunto

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



2.

Record Nr.

UNISA996390468003316

Autore

Thucydides

Titolo

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

Pubbl/distr/stampa

[Oxford, : s.n., 1695]

Descrizione fisica

[2], 161-162 p

Soggetti

Greece History Peloponnesian War, 431-404 B.C Early works to 1800

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Reproduction of the original in the Bodleian Library.

Sommario/riassunto

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