Brill's companion to military defeat in ancient Mediterranean society /

Brill's companion to military defeat in ancient Mediterranean society /

In Brill's Companion to Military Defeat in Ancient Mediterranean Society , Jessica H. Clark and Brian Turner lead a re-examination of how Near Eastern, Greek, and Roman societies addressed - or failed to address - their military defeats and casualties of war. Original case studies illuminate no...

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Other Authors: Clark, Jessica Homan, 1980-, Turner, Brian (Historian)

Format: eBook

Language: English

Published: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2018]

Series: Brill's Companions to Classical Studies 2.
Brill's Companions in Classical Studies Online IV, ISBN: 9789004360280.

Subjects:

To 1500
Defeat (Psychology) > Case studies.
Military history, Ancient.
Defeat (Psychology)
Mediterranean Region > History, Military > To 1500.
Mediterranean Region.
Case studies.
Military history.

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Call Number: DE84 .B753 2018

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Table of Contents:
  • Preliminary Material
  • Thinking about Military Defeat in Ancient Mediterranean Society /
  • Brian Turner and Jessica H. Clark
  • Ideology, Politics, and the Assyrian Understanding of Defeat /
  • Sarah C. Melville
  • The Assassination of Tissaphernes: Royal Responses to Military Defeat in the Achaemenid Empire /
  • Jeffrey Rop
  • Achaemenid Soldiers, Alexander's Conquest, and the Experience of Defeat /
  • John O. Hyland
  • Military Defeat in Fifth-Century Athens: Thucydides and His Audience /
  • Edith Foster
  • Demosthenes, Chaeronea, and the Rhetoric of Defeat /
  • Max L. Goldman
  • Spartan Responses to Defeat: From a Mythical Hysiae to a Very Real Sellasia /
  • Matthew Trundle
  • "No Strength To Stand": Defeat at Panium, the Macedonian Class, and Ptolemaic Decline /
  • Paul Johstono
  • Defeat and the Roman Republic: Stories from Spain /
  • Jessica H. Clark
  • The Ones Who Paid the Butcher's Bill: Soldiers and War Captives in Roman Comedy /
  • Amy Richlin
  • Defeated by the Forest, the Pass, the Wind: Nature as an Enemy of Rome /
  • Ida Östenberg
  • Imperial Reactions to Military Failures in the Julio-Claudian Era /
  • Brian Turner
  • "By Any Other Name": Disgrace, Defeat, and the Loss of Legionary History /
  • Graeme A. Ward
  • Recycling the Classical Past: Rhetorical Responses from the Roman Period to a Military Loss in Classical Greece /
  • Sviatoslav Dmitriev
  • The Roman Emperor as Persian Prisoner of War: Remembering Shapur's Capture of Valerian /
  • Craig H. Caldwell
  • Looking Ahead /
  • Nathan Rosenstein
  • Index.