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The adage that an army "marches on its stomach" finds renewed emphasis in this collection of essays. Focusing on military diet and supply from Homer through the Roman Empire, Diet and Logistics in Greek and Roman Warfare explains regional dietary options and reassesses traditional notions of "provisioning" while exploring topics ranging from strategy and subterfuge to trade and terror. Through fresh insights drawn from current research and excavation spanning the Greco-Roman world, contributors confirm how providing food and drink for soldiers was critical to every army's success and survival. This volume stimulates reevaluation of ancient militaries and encourages new research

Inhaltsverzeichnis: Ancient warfare and moving beyond "new military history" / Lee L. Brice -- Wealth and the logistics of Greek warfare : food, pay, and plunder / Matthew Trundle -- Early Greek siege warfare / Michael Seaman -- Daily life in classical Greek armies, ca. 500-330 BCE / John W.I. Lee -- Soldier's home : life after battle / Lawrence A. Tritle -- Greek cavalry in the Hellenistic world : review and reappraisal / Glenn Bugh -- Skeletal evidence for the impact of battle on soldiers and non-combatants / Maria A. Liston -- Financing imperialism in the Roman Republic / Nathan Rosenstein -- Indiscipline in the Roman army of the late Republic and Principate / Lee L. Brice -- The neurophysiology of panic on the ancient battlefield / Susan Heidenreich and Jonathan P. Roth -- Roman siege warfare : moral and morale / Josh Levithan -- Roman military communities and the families of auxiliary soldiers / Elizabeth M. Greene -- Approaching 'ethnic' communities in the Roman auxilia / Alexander Meyer -- Health, wounds and medicine in the late Roman army (250-600 CE) / Philip Rance.

Battle of Aegospotami -- Agesilaus II -- Agis III -- Alcibiades -- Alexander the Great -- Amphipolis -- Anabasis -- Antipater -- Battles of Artemisium -- Artillery -- Athens -- Bactria -- Brasidas -- Greek Cavalry -- Persian Cavalry -- Battle of Chaeronea -- Cimon -- Cleon -- Conon of Athens -- Corinth -- League of Corinth -- Corinthian War -- Darius I -- Darius III -- Delian League -- Battle of Delium -- Dionysius I -- Epameinondas -- Battle of Eurymedon River -- Battle of Gaugamela -- Siege of Gaza -- Battle of Granicus River -- Causes of Greco-Persian wars -- Consequences of Greco-Persian wars -- Greco-Persian wars, overview -- Hellenic Alliance -- Herodotus -- Battle of the Hydaspes -- Ionian revolt -- Iphicrates -- Battle of Issus -- Jason of Pherae -- King's peace -- Battle of Leuctra -- Long walls -- Lysander -- Macedon -- Battles of Mantinea -- Battle of Marathon -- Mardonius -- Mercenaries -- Miltiades the Younger -- Mutiny -- Battle of Mycale -- Nicias -- Pilopidas -- Peloponnesian League -- Causes of Peloponnesian war -- Consequences of Peloponnesian war -- Peloponnesian war, overview -- Peltasts -- Penteconter -- Pericles -- Persian empire -- Hoplite Phalanx -- Macedonian Phalanx -- Philip II of Macedon -- Piraeus -- Battle of Plataea -- Sacred wars.

Front Matter /Jeremy Armstrong -- War and Society in the Ancient World: An Introduction /Jeremy Armstrong -- Simple Words, Simple Pictures: The Link between the Snapshots of Battle and the War Diary Entries in Ancient Egypt /Anthony Spalinger -- Caesar's Exempla and the Role of Centurions in Battle /David Nolan -- Coinage and the Economics of the Athenian Empire /Matthew Trundle -- Tributum in the Middle Republic /Nathan Rosenstein -- The Ties that Bind: Military Cohesion in Archaic Rome /Jeremy Armstrong -- Sacramentum Militiae: Empty Words in an Age of Chaos /Mark Hebblewhite -- Circumscribing Imperium: Power and Regulation in the Republican Province /Ralph Covino -- The Delian and Second Athenian Leagues: The Perspective of Collective Action /James Kierstead -- 'Warlordism' and the Disintegration of the Western Roman Army /Jeroen W.P. Wijnendaele -- The Significance of Insignificant Engagements: Irregular Warfare during the Punic Wars /Louis Rawlings -- 'Siege Warfare' in Ancient Egypt, as Derived from Select Royal and Private Battle Scenes /Brett H. Heagren -- Tissaphernes and the Achaemenid Defense of Western Anatolia, 412–395 BC /John W.I. Lee -- Bibliography /Jeremy Armstrong -- Index /Jeremy Armstrong.

"In People and Institutions in the Roman Empire colleagues honor Garrett Fagan for his contributions to our understanding and appreciation of Roman history and culture. In addition to reviewing and contextualizing Fagan's works and legacy, contributing authors pursue in their chapters topics and methodologies that interested Fagan - the experiences of individuals within Roman state and social institutions from the end of the Republic through the Empire and into Late Antiquity. Part One contextualizes Fagan's scholarship, demonstrating the diversity of his interests and his impact. Part Two considers the intersection between people and core state institutions: army, law, and religion. Part Three examines Roman social and cultural institutions such as the baths, arena, historiography, and provincial elite society"--

"An expanded edition of the leading text on military history and the role of culture on the battlefield Ideas matter in warfare. Guns may kill, but ideas determine when, where, and how they are used. Traditionally, military historians attempted to explain the ideas behind warfare in strictly rational terms, but over the past few decades, a stronger focus has been placed on how societies conceptualize war, weapons, violence, and military service, to determine how culture informs the battlefield. Warfare and Culture in World History, Second Edition, is a collection of some of the most compelling recent efforts to analyze warfare through a cultural lens. These curated essays draw on, and aggressively expand, traditional scholarship on war and society through sophisticated cultural analysis. Chapters range from an organizational analysis of American Civil War field armies, to an exploration of military culture in late Republican Rome, to debates within Ming Chinese officialdom over extermination versus pacification. In addition to a revised and expanded introduction, the second edition of Warfare and Culture in World History now adds new chapters on the role of herding in shaping Mongol strategies, Spanish military culture and its effects on the conquest of the New World, and the blending of German and East African military cultures among the Africans who served in the German colonial army. This volume provides a full range of case studies of how culture, whether societal, strategic, organizational, or military, could shape not only military institutions but also actual battlefield choices."--

Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of Maps and Figures -- Preface to the Second Edition -- 1. Warfare and Culture -- 2. The Last Campaign: The Assyrian Way of War and the Collapse of the Empire -- 3. Disciplining Octavian: A Case Study of Roman Military Culture, 44- 30 BCE -- 4. Herding the Enemy: Culture in Nomadic Warfare -- 5. How Spanish Was the Spanish Conquest? Reexamining Spanish Success in the New World -- 6. Of Bureaucrats and Bandits: Confucianism and Antirebel Strategy at the End of the Ming Dynasty -- 7. The Battle Culture of Forbearance, 1660- 1789 -- 8. Success and Failure in Civil War Armies: Clues from Organizational Culture -- 9. Imagining African Warfare: War Games and Military Cultures in German East Africa -- 10. German Military Culture and the Colonial War in Southwest Africa, 1904- 1907 -- 11. Connecting Culture and the Battlefield: Britain and the Empire Fight the Hundred Days -- 12. The American Culture of War in the Age of Artificial Limited War -- About the Contributors -- Index