Kinsmen, friends, and allies : the society of states -- Justice, honour, and profit : causes and goals of wars -- Pleonexia : structural causes of war -- Men of bronze : the myth of the middle-class militia -- The other warriors : light infantry, cavalry, body-servants, and mercenaries -- Politics and the battlefield : ideology in Greek warfare -- Bodies of men : training and organisation of the militia -- The bare necessities : mobilisation and maintenance of armies -- Rituals, rules, and strategies : the structure of campaigns -- Ambush, battle, and siege : changing forms of combat -- The deeds of heroes : battle in the Iliad -- The archaic phalanx : infantry combat down to the Persian Wars -- The classical phalanx : infantry combat transformed -- The wall of wood : ships, men, and money -- War at sea : classical naval campaigns -- Conclusion : the development of Greek warfare : war and the state. |