Soldiers and Ghosts
Subtitle: A History of Battle in Classical Antiquity
Edition: New Ed edition
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: August 22, 2006
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 480
ISBN-13: 9780300119794
Subjects: History of specific subjects; BCE to c 500 CE; History; History - Military / War; History: World; Ancient - Greece; Ancient - Rome; Military - General; History / General; Reference; World - General
First sentence: They built long citadels, the eldest of the Greeks, and they built them low and strong, not thrusting into the sky but clinging to the rocks, with walls of great stones piled up and cisterns dug deep.