Warfare in the classical world : war and the ancient civilisations of Greece and Rome /

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Main Author: Warry, John Gibson (Author)

Format: Book

Language: English

Series: Classic conflicts.

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Call Number: U33 .W3723 1998

Table of Contents:
  • The pronunciation of ancient languages
  • Homeric and Mycenaean warfare
  • The Persian wars
  • The Peloponnesian War
  • The decline of Spart and the ascendancy of Thebes
  • Alexander the Great
  • Alexander's successors and the later Greek world
  • Pyrrhus of Epirus and the Roman Republic
  • The Punic Wars and Roman expansion
  • Marius and Sulla
  • Pompey and his epoch
  • Julius Caesar
  • The wars of the triumvirate
  • The military task of imperial Rome
  • The coming of the barbarians.