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Soldiers & ghosts : a history of battle in classical antiquity / J.E. Lendon.

by Lendon, J. E.

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New Haven : Yale University Press, c2005.

Military history, Ancient.

Military art and science -- History.

Electronic Resource

http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip0422/2004021273.html

0300106637 (alk. paper) :

xii, 468 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm.

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.

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