New perspectives on ancient warfare
By: edited by Garrett G. Fagan, Matthew Trundle
Series: History of warfare
Publisher: Brill
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Leiden; Boston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 372
ISBN-13: 9789004185982
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Weapons, technological determinism, and ancient warfare / Fernando Echeverria Rey; title: Developments in Near-Eastern chariotry and chariot warfare in the early first millennium BCE and their contribution to the rise of cavalry / Robin Archer; title: "I fell upon him like a furious arrow" : toward a reconstruction of the Assyrian tactical system / Garrett G. Fagan; title: All the king's horse : in search of Achaemenid Persian cavalry / Christopher Tuplin; title: A cup by Douris and the Battle of Marathon / Peter Krentz; title: "Those who sail are to receive a wage" : naval warfare and finance in Archaic Eretria / Hans van Wees; title: Coinage and the transformation of Greek warfare / Matthew Trundle; title: The Carthaginian navy : questions and assumptions / Louis Rawlings; title: Phalanges in Rome? / Nathan Rosenstein; title: Caesar and the Helvetians / David Potter.