Title: Hellenistic land battles 300-167 BCE : a history and analysis of 130 engagements /
Authors: Ray, Fred Eugene, 1949-
Year: 2020
Subjects: Military art and science Greece History; Soldiers Greece History; Battles Greece History.; Armies Greece.; Armies; Battles; Military art and science; Soldiers; Greece History, Military; Greece History; Greece
Abstract: "The Hellenistic Period (323-31 BCE) saw the Grecian phalanx-long dominant in Mediterranean warfare-challenged by legionary formations from the rising city-state of Rome. The Roman way of war would come to eclipse phalanx-based combat by the 160s yet this was not evident at the time. Rome suffered numerous defeats against the phalanxes of Pyrrhus and Hannibal, its overseas campaign against the brilliant Spartan mercenary Xanthippus met disaster, and several Roman victories over Hellenistic foes were not decisive. The story of combat in this pivotal era is not well documented. This book for the first time provides detailed tactical analyses for all 130 significant land engagements of Hellenistic armies 300-167 BCE."
Contents: Instruments of War: Last of the Successors (300-281 BCE) -- Phalanx Versus Legion: Sicilian Tyrants and Pyrrhic Wars (280-275 BCE) -- Gauls, Pyrrhus, Carthage and Rome: Gallic Invasions, Last of Pyrrhus and the First Punic/Mercenary War (279-237 BCE) -- Sundered Realms: Achaean, Illyrian, Anatolian, Cleomenean and Syrian Wars (245-217 BCE) -- Phalanx Triumphant: The Second Punic War, Phase 1 (c. 236-211 BCE) -- The Road to Zama: The Second Punic War, Phase 2 (210-202 BCE) -- Twilight of the Phalanx: Antiochus III, Philopoemen and the First/Second Macedonian Wars (214-196 BCE) -- An End to the Greek Way of War: Seleucia in Decline and the Fallbof Macedonia (195-167 BCE)