Soldiers and Ghosts
Subtitle: A History of Battle in Classical Antiquity
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: June 15, 2005
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 480
ISBN-13: 9780300106633
Subjects: Battles & campaigns; History; History - Military / War; History: World; Ancient World; Ancient - Greece; Ancient - Rome; Military - General; History / General; General; Military art and science; Military history, Ancient
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.