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Author Lendon, J. E., author.
Title Soldiers & ghosts : a history of battle in classical antiquity / J.E. Lendon.
Alternative Title Soldiers and ghosts
Publication Info New Haven : Yale University Press, ©2005.



Descript 1 online resource (xii, 468 pages) : illustrations, maps
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Contents The Greeks. Fighting in the Iliad -- The last Hoplite -- Two stubborn Spartans in the Persian War -- The guile of Delium -- The arts of war in the early fourth century BC -- Alexander the Great at the Battle of Issus -- Hellenistic warfare (323-31BC) -- The Greeks, conclusion -- The Romans. Early Roman warfare -- The wrath of Pydna -- Caesar's Centurions and the Legion of Cohorts -- Scenes from the Jewish War, AD 67-70 -- Shield wall and mask -- Julian in Persia, AD 363 -- The Romans, conclusion -- Author's note and acknowledgments -- Chronology of Greek and Roman warfare.
ISBN 9780300128994 (electronic bk.)
0300128991 (electronic bk.)
9781281729323
1281729329
9780300106633 (alk. paper)
0300106637 (alk. paper)
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Author Lendon, J. E., author.
Subject Military history, Ancient.
Military art and science -- History.
Alternative Title Soldiers and ghosts
Descript 1 online resource (xii, 468 pages) : illustrations, maps
Content text txt
Media computer c
Carrier online resource cr
Descript text file rdaft
Contents The Greeks. Fighting in the Iliad -- The last Hoplite -- Two stubborn Spartans in the Persian War -- The guile of Delium -- The arts of war in the early fourth century BC -- Alexander the Great at the Battle of Issus -- Hellenistic warfare (323-31BC) -- The Greeks, conclusion -- The Romans. Early Roman warfare -- The wrath of Pydna -- Caesar's Centurions and the Legion of Cohorts -- Scenes from the Jewish War, AD 67-70 -- Shield wall and mask -- Julian in Persia, AD 363 -- The Romans, conclusion -- Author's note and acknowledgments -- Chronology of Greek and Roman warfare.
ISBN 9780300128994 (electronic bk.)
0300128991 (electronic bk.)
9781281729323
1281729329
9780300106633 (alk. paper)
0300106637 (alk. paper)
Author Lendon, J. E., author.
Subject Military history, Ancient.
Military art and science -- History.
Alternative Title Soldiers and ghosts

Subject Military history, Ancient.
Military art and science -- History.
Descript 1 online resource (xii, 468 pages) : illustrations, maps
Content text txt
Media computer c
Carrier online resource cr
Descript text file rdaft
Contents The Greeks. Fighting in the Iliad -- The last Hoplite -- Two stubborn Spartans in the Persian War -- The guile of Delium -- The arts of war in the early fourth century BC -- Alexander the Great at the Battle of Issus -- Hellenistic warfare (323-31BC) -- The Greeks, conclusion -- The Romans. Early Roman warfare -- The wrath of Pydna -- Caesar's Centurions and the Legion of Cohorts -- Scenes from the Jewish War, AD 67-70 -- Shield wall and mask -- Julian in Persia, AD 363 -- The Romans, conclusion -- Author's note and acknowledgments -- Chronology of Greek and Roman warfare.
ISBN 9780300128994 (electronic bk.)
0300128991 (electronic bk.)
9781281729323
1281729329
9780300106633 (alk. paper)
0300106637 (alk. paper)

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