Men of Bronze : Hoplite Warfare in Ancient Greece

Authors

Donald Kagan ed., Yale University
Gregory Viggiano ed., Sacred Heart UniversityFollow

Document Type

Book

Publication Date

2013

Abstract

"The papers published in this volume resulted from a conference on early Greek hoplite warfare held at Yale University in April 2008."

Table of contents: The hoplite debate / Donald Kagan and Gregory Viggiano -- The arms, armor, and iconography of early Greek Hoplite warfare / Gregory Viggiano and Hans van Wees -- Hoplitai/Politai : refighting ancient battles / Paul Cartledge -- Setting the frame chronologically / Anthony Snodgrass -- Early Greek infantry fighting in a Mediterranean context / Kurt A. Raaflaub -- The hoplite revolution and the rise of the polis / Gregory Viggiano -- Hoplite hell : how hoplites fought / Peter Krentz -- Large weapons, small Greeks : the practical limitations of hoplite weapons and equipment / Adam Schwartz -- Not patriots, not farmers, not amateurs : Greek soldiers of fortune and the origins of hoplite warfare / John R. Hale -- Can we see the "hoplite revolution" on the ground? : archaeological landscapes material culture, and social status in early Greece / Lin Foxhall -- Farmers and hoplites : models of historical development / Hans van Wees -- The hoplite narrative / Victor Davis Hanson.

Comments

ISBN: 9780691143019

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Recommended Citation

Kagan, D., & Viggiano, G. (Eds.). (2013). Men of bronze: Hoplite warfare in ancient Greece. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press.