The Seleucid Army: Organisation and Tactics in the Great Campaigns (Cambridge Classical Studies (Hardcover)) (Hardback)
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Short Description for The Seleucid Army A 1976 study of the organization and tactics of the Seleucid armies from 312 to 129 BC.
Full description- Publisher: CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS
- Published: 01 July 1976
- Format: Hardback 318 pages
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- Categories: General & World History | Ancient History: To C 500 CE | Military History
- ISBN 13: 9780521206679 ISBN 10: 0521206677
- Sales rank: 1,297,976
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Full description for The Seleucid Army
This is a 1976 study of the organization and tactics of the Seleucid armies from 312 to 129 BC. The first part of the book discusses the numerical strength of the armies, their sources of manpower, the contingents of the regular army, their equipment and historical development, the chain of command, training and discipline. The second part reconstructs the great campaigns in order to examine the Seleucid tactics. The book provides a lesson in Hellenistic and military history and discusses several questions: how did the Hellenistic armies develop after Alexander? What distinguished the Seleucid army as superior to its Hellenistic contemporaries? The answers illuminate the expansion of Hellenism as we learn how the Seleucid army was used as a military, social and cultural instrument to impose the rule of the dynasty over the vast regions of the Empire and how it helped to shape Hellenistic society in the East.
