Bibliograph

Makers of ancient strategy, from the Persian wars to the fall of Rome, edited and introduced by Victor Davis Hanson

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Makers of ancient strategy, from the Persian wars to the fall of Rome, edited and introduced by Victor Davis Hanson

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references and index

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Makers of ancient strategy

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

435711006

Responsibility statement

edited and introduced by Victor Davis Hanson

Sub title

from the Persian wars to the fall of Rome

Table Of Contents

From Persia with love : propaganda and imperial overreach in the Greco-Persian Wars / Tom Holland -- Pericles, Thucydides, and the defense of empire / Donald Kagan -- Why fortifications endure : a case study of the walls of Athens during the classical period / David L. Berkey -- Epaminondas the Theban and the doctrine of preemptive war / Victor Davis Hanson -- Alexander the Great, nation building, and the creation and maintenance of empire / Ian Worthington -- Urban warfare in the classical Greek world / John W. I. Lee -- Counterinsurgency and the enemies of Rome / Susan Mattern -- Slave wars of Greece and Rome / Barry Strauss -- Julius Caesar and the general as state / Adrian Goldsworthy -- Holding the line : frontier defense and the later Roman Empire -- Peter J. Heather

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