Classical Greek tactics : a cultural history /

Classical Greek tactics : a cultural history /

What determined the choices of the Greeks on the battlefield? Were their tactics defined by unwritten moral rules, or was all considered fair in war? In Classical Greek Tactics: A Cultural History , Roel Konijnendijk re-examines the literary evidence for the battle tactics and tactical thought of th...

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Main Author: Konijnendijk, Roel.

Format: eBook

Language: English

Published: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2017.

Series: Mnemosyne, Supplements 409.
Mnemosyne Supplements Online, Supplement 2018, ISBN: 9789004363922.

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Military art and science > Greece > History.

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Call Number: U33

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Table of Contents:
  • Front Matter
  • Introduction
  • The Prussian Model of Hoplite Battle
  • 'Improvisers in Soldiering': Training for War
  • 'The Finest, Flattest Piece of Land': Where to Fight
  • 'Deployed to Fit the Need': Forming Up for Battle
  • 'Utterly Outmatched in Skill': Battle Tactics
  • 'No Shortage of People to Kill': The Rout and Its Aftermath
  • Conclusion
  • Indexes.