LEADER 04057nam 22006254a 450 001 9910451820703321 005 20210527220824.0 010 $a1-281-72932-9 010 $a9786611729325 010 $a0-300-12899-1 024 7 $a10.12987/9780300128994 035 $a(CKB)1000000000472002 035 $a(StDuBDS)AH23049547 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000248348 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11235830 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000248348 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10201685 035 $a(PQKB)11367073 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3420208 035 $a(DE-B1597)484994 035 $a(OCoLC)1032679632 035 $a(OCoLC)952732070 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780300128994 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3420208 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10172740 035 $a(OCoLC)923590682 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000472002 100 $a20040909d2005 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur||||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aSoldiers and ghosts$b[electronic resource] $ea history of battle in classical antiquity /$fJ.E. Lendon 210 $aNew Haven $cYale University Press$dc2005 215 $a1 online resource (480 p.) 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 0 $a0-300-10663-7 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 393-403) and index. 327 $tFront matter --$tCONTENTS --$tMAPS --$tFIGURES --$tPROLOGUE --$tINTRODUCTION --$tI. Fighting in the Iliad --$tII. The Last Hoplite --$tIII. Two Stubborn Spartans in the Persian War --$tIV. The Guile of Delium --$tV. The Arts of War in the Early Fourth Century BC --$tVI. Alexander the Great at the Battle of Issus --$tVII. Hellenistic Warfare (323-31 BC) --$tThe Greeks, Conclusion --$tVIII. Early Roman Warfare --$tIX. The Wrath of Pydna --$tX. Caesar's Centurions and the Legion of Cohorts --$tXI. Scenes from the Jewish War, ad 67-70 --$tXII. Shield Wall and Mask --$tXIII. Julian in Persia, ad 363 --$tThe Romans, Conclusion --$tAuthor's Note and Acknowledgments --$tCHRONOLOGY --$tABBREVIATIONS --$tNOTES --$tGLOSSARY --$tBIBLIOGRAPHICAL NOTES --$tINDEX 330 $aWhat set the successful armies of Sparta, Macedon, and Rome apart from those they defeated? In this major new history of battle from the age of Homer through the decline of the Roman empire, J. E. Lendon surveys a millennium of warfare to discover how militaries change-and don't change-and how an army's greatness depends on its use of the past. Noting this was an age that witnessed few technological advances, J. E. Lendon shows us that the most successful armies were those that made the most effective use of cultural tradition. Ancient combat moved forward by looking backward for inspiration-the Greeks, to Homer; the Romans, to the Greeks and to their own heroic past. The best ancient armies recruited soldiers from societies with strong competitive traditions; and the best ancient leaders, from Alexander to Julius Caesar, called upon those traditions to encourage ferocious competition at every rank. Ranging from the Battle of Champions between Sparta and Argos in 550 B.C. through Julian's invasion of Persia in A.D. 363, Soldiers and Ghosts brings to life the most decisive military contests of ancient Greece and Rome. Lendon places these battles, and the methods by which they were fought, in a sweeping narrative of ancient military history. On every battlefield, living soldiers fought alongside the ghosts of tradition-ghosts that would inspire greatness for almost a millennium before ultimately coming to stifle it. 606 $aMilitary history, Ancient 606 $aMilitary art and science$xHistory 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aMilitary history, Ancient. 615 0$aMilitary art and science$xHistory. 676 $a355/.00937 700 $aLendon$b J. E$0308967 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910451820703321 996 $aSoldiers and ghosts$92471335 997 $aUNINA