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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 ever soldier of fortune, and inscriptions prohibiting Athenians from taking service with their neighbours. The result is a fresh look at the significance of mercenaries in ancient Greek society, economy and politics, and their part in the process that shaped the great Empire of Alexander the Great and the Hellenistic world.

This paper explores the reasons why employers hired mercenaries in the Classical Greek World of the fifth and fourth century BCE . lt discusses the rise of mercenary activity against the backdrop of socio-economic and political phenomena that created the conditions for a large number of men to find service overseas especially in the Persian Empire. Mercenary service in an ancient Greek context is complicated by traditions that valued heroic service of aristocrats and rulers abroad in the past, for example as extolled in the poems of Homer, and that 'mercenary' is perhaps notan accurate label for men serving others abroad. Ultimately, the paper affirms the demand driven nature of such service and the wars of the fourth century in which Greeks served as products of great events extraneous to the mercenary service itself. ; Este artículo explora las razones por las que los distintos empleadores contrataban los servicios de mercenarios en la Grecia Clásica durante los siglos V y IV a.C. Analiza el aumento de la actividad mercenaria teniendo como telón de fondo los fenómenos de índole política y socioeconómica que crearon las condiciones para que un gran número de hombres pudieran encontrar empleos como tal en el extranjero, especialmente en el Imperio Persa . El mercenariado en el contexto Antigua Grecia es una cuestión complejizada por la existencia de tradiciones que valoraban servir heroicamente a aristócratas y gobernantes extranjeros, como por ejemplo se ensalzaba en los poemas de Homero, algo para lo que el término "mercenario" no sería quizá una definición adecuada. En última instancia, el presente artículo afirma que el mercenariado estaba claramente impulsado y respondía a una demanda existente que se tradujo en la presencia de griegos en buena parte de las guerras del siglo IV a.C., siendo protagonistas de eventos que iban más allá del propio servicio mercenario. ; Aquest article explora les raons per les quals els diferents ocupadors contractaven els serveis de mercenaris en la Grècia Clàssica durant els segles V i IV a. de C. Analitza l'augment de l'activitat mercenària tenint com a teló de fons els fenòmens d'índole política i socioeconòmica que van crear les condicions per a que un gran nombre d'homes poguessin trobar ocupacions coma tal a l'estranger, especialment en l'lmperi Persa. El mercenariat en el context Antiga Grècia és una qüestió. complexa per l'existència de tradicions que valoraven servir heroicament a aristòcrates i governants estrangers, com per exemple s'enaltia en els poemes d'Homer, cosa pera la que el terme "mercenari" no seria potser una definició adequada. En última instància, el present article afirma que el mercenariat estova clarament impulsat i responia a una demanda existent que es va traduir en la presència de grecs en bona part de les guerres del segle IV a. de C., sent protagonistes d'esdeveniments que anaven més enllà del propi servei mercenari.

"Brill's Companion to Sieges in the Ancient Mediterranean is a wide-ranging exploration of sieges and siege warfare as practiced and experienced by the cultures which lived around the ancient Mediterranean basin. From Pharaonic Egypt to Renaissance Italy, and from the Neo-Assyrian Empire to Hellenistic Greece and Roman Gaul, case studies by leading experts probe areas of both synergy and divergence within this distinctive form of warfare amongst the cultures in this broadly shared environment"--

"Brill's Companion to Sieges in the Ancient Mediterranean is a wide-ranging exploration of sieges and siege warfare as practiced and experienced by the cultures which lived around the ancient Mediterranean basin. From Pharaonic Egypt to Renaissance Italy, and from the Neo-Assyrian Empire to Hellenistic Greece and Roman Gaul, case studies by leading experts probe areas of both synergy and divergence within this distinctive form of warfare amongst the cultures in this broadly shared environment"

Preliminary Material /G. Fagan and M. Trundle -- Introduction /Garrett G. Fagan and Matthew Trundle -- 1. Weapons, Technological Determinism, And Ancient Warfare /Fernando Echeverría Rey -- 2. Chariotry To Cavalry: Developments In The Early First Millennium /Robin Archer -- 3. "I Fell Upon Him Like A Furious Arrow": Toward A Reconstruction Of The Assyrian Tactical System /Garrett G. Fagan -- 4. All The King's Horse: In Search Of Achaemenid Persian Cavalryby Christopher Tuplin /G. Fagan and M. Trundle -- 5. A Cup By Douris And The Battle Of Marathon /Peter Krentz -- 6. "Those Who Sail Are To Receive A Wage": Naval Warfare And Finance In Archaic Eretria /Hans Van Wees -- 7. Coinage And The Transformation Of Greek Warfare /Matthew Trundle -- 8. The Carthaginian Navy: Questions And Assumptions /Louis Rawlings -- 9. Phalanges In Rome? /Nathan Rosenstein -- 10. Caesar And The Helvetians /David Potter -- Bibliography /G. Fagan and M. Trundle -- Index /G. Fagan and M. Trundle -- Illustrations /G. Fagan and M. Trundle.

"Brill's Companion to Sieges in the Ancient Mediterranean is a wide-ranging exploration of sieges and siege warfare as practiced and experienced by the cultures which lived around the ancient Mediterranean basin. From Pharaonic Egypt to Renaissance Italy, and from the Neo-Assyrian Empire to Hellenistic Greece and Roman Gaul, case studies by leading experts probe areas of both synergy and divergence within this distinctive form of warfare amongst the cultures in this broadly shared environment"