Soldiers and Ghosts: A History of Battle in Classical Antiquity (Hardback)
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Short Description for Soldiers and Ghosts This study of military changes across Greece and Rome is designed to appeal to the general reader. Soldiers and Ghosts seeks to explore why changes in warfare took place set against the backgrounf of a slow process of technological change.
Full description- Publisher: Yale University Press
- Published: 03 June 2005
- Format: Hardback 468 pages
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- Categories: Battles & Campaigns | Classical History / Classical Civilisation | Military History
- ISBN 13: 9780300106633 ISBN 10: 0300106637
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Full description for Soldiers and Ghosts
This study of military changes across Greece and Rome is designed to appeal to the general reader. Soldiers and Ghosts seeks to explore why changes in warfare took place set against the backgrounf of a slow process of technological change. Lendon emphasises the role of discipline, heroism, patriotism, military obedience, loyalty, and recollection and emulation of a heroic past in the history of warfare and discusses how both Greeks and Romans built on the 'ghosts of tradition', the cultural traditions and heroes of the past. From Homer's Iliad , the origins of the phalanx, hoplite warfare, the Persian Wars, Alexander the Great, Hellenistic warfare, through to Roman warfare up until the 4th century AD, the book covers a wide period of history.
