Hoplites: The Classical Greek Battle ExperienceVictor Davis Hanson Routledge, 2002 - 304 sivua Incorporating research found in ancient literary, iconographic, epigraphic, and archaeological sources, this book explores the experiences of the soldiers who conducted battle on the small plains of ancient Greece. The volume, which draws on the accumulated expertise of nine American and British scholars, emphasizes the actual techniques of fighting and practical concerns as the use of commands, music in warfare, the use of "dog-tags", and ritual on the battlefield. |
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Hoplites: The Classical Greek Battle Experience Victor Davis Hanson Esikatselu ei käytettävissä - 1991 |
Hoplites: The Classical Greek Battle Experience Victor Davis Hanson Esikatselu ei käytettävissä - 1993 |
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Ages Agesilaus Anab ancient Anderson appears Archaic Argive Arist arms and armor assault Athenian Athens attack battle-line battlefield body Brasidas bronze butt-spike Cartledge casualties cavalry century BC Cleisthenes combat commander corpses dead death dedications defeat Delion Diod enemy enemy’s Epameinondas equipment Eteocles Euripides evidence example fifth century fighting force fought fourth century front rank Garlan general’s gods Greece Greek warfare Hanson Hell Hellenistic helmet Heracl Herodotus hiera Homeric warrior hoplite armies hoplite battle hoplite phalanx hoplite shield hoplite’s Iliad infantry Iphicrates killed Koroneia Latacz Lazenby Leuktra Mantineia Marathon mass mercenaries military normal sacrifice offer Olympia op.cit panoply Paus Pausanias Pelopidas Peloponnesian peltasts perhaps Persian phalanx Plataia Plut Plutarch polemarch Polyaenus Polyb Polybius Pritchett rites ritual Roman salpinx side soldiers Spartan army Spartan king sphagia spoils strategos sword tactics taxiarchs Theban Thuc Thucydides troops Tyrtaeus Tyrtaios vase victim victory walls weapons wounded Xenophon