War and society in the Greek world
By: edited by John Rich and Graham Shipley
Series: Leicester-Nottingham studies in ancient society -- 4; Leicester-Nottingham studies in ancient society -- v. 4.
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 1993
Place of publication: London; New York
Language: eng
Format: [electronic resource] /
Number of pages: 263
ISBN-13: 9780203292457
Subjects: Grecia (pratica militar); Historia antiga; POLITICAL SCIENCE; Electronic books; Military History; Peace; War
Notes: Rev. versions of papers presented at meetings held in Leicester and Nottingham 1988-1990.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.
Table of contents: title: Introduction : the limits of war / Graham Shipley; title: War in the Hebrew Bible / Robert Carroll; title: Hoplites and Homer : warfare, hero cult, and the ideology of the polis / Hugh Bowden; title: War and raids for booty in the world of Odysseus / Alastar Jackson; title: War, slavery, and settlement in early Greece / Tracey Rihll; title: Asia unmanned : images of victory in classical Athens / Edith Hall; title: Farming and fighting in ancient Greece / Lin Foxhall; title: Warfare, wealth, and the crisis of Spartiate society / Stephen Hodkinson; title: Warfare, economy, and democracy in classical Athens / Paul Millett; title: Alexander and the Macedonian invasion of Asia : aspects of the historiography of war and empire in antiquity / Michel Austin; title: The glorious dead : commemoration of the fallen and portrayal of victory in the late classical and hellenistic world / Ellen Rice.