Cargando…
Brill's companion to military defeat in ancient Mediterranean society /
"In Brill's Companion to Military Defeat in Ancient Mediterranean Society, Jessica H. Clark and Brian Turner lead a re-examination of how Near Eastern, Greek, and Roman societies addressed - or failed to address - their military defeats and casualties of war. Original case studies illumina...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
|---|---|
| Otros Autores: | , |
| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
| Publicado: |
Leiden ; Boston :
Brill,
[2018]
|
| Colección: | Brill's companions in classical studies. Warfare in the ancient Mediterranean world ;
v. 2. |
| Temas: | |
| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Intro; Contents; Preface; List of Figures, Maps, and Tables; Notes on Abbreviations; Notes on Contributors; Part 1 Introduction; Chapter 1 Thinking about Military Defeat in Ancient Mediterranean Society; Part 2 The Ancient Near East; Chapter 2 Ideology, Politics, and the Assyrian Understanding of Defeat; Chapter 3 The Assassination of Tissaphernes: Royal Responses to Military Defeat in the Achaemenid Empire; Chapter 4 Achaemenid Soldiers, Alexander's Conquest, and the Experience of Defeat; Part 3 Classical Greece and the Hellenistic World
- Chapter 5 Military Defeat in Fifth-Century Athens: Thucydides and His AudienceChapter 6 Demosthenes, Chaeronea, and the Rhetoric of Defeat; Chapter 7 Spartan Responses to Defeat: From a Mythical Hysiae to a Very Real Sellasia; Chapter 8 "No Strength To Stand": Defeat at Panium, the Macedonian Class, and Ptolemaic Decline; Part 4 The Roman World; Chapter 9 Defeat and the Roman Republic: Stories from Spain; Chapter 10 The Ones Who Paid the Butcher's Bill: Soldiers and War Captives in Roman Comedy; Chapter 11 Defeated by the Forest, the Pass, the Wind: Nature as an Enemy of Rome
- Chapter 12 Imperial Reactions to Military Failures in the Julio-Claudian EraChapter 13 "By Any Other Name": Disgrace, Defeat, and the Loss of Legionary History; Chapter 14 Recycling the Classical Past: Rhetorical Responses from the Roman Period to a Military Loss in Classical Greece; Chapter 15 The Roman Emperor as Persian Prisoner of War: Remembering Shapur's Capture of Valerian; Part 5 Epilogue; Looking Ahead; Index