War: Antiquity and Its Legacy

by Phiroze Vasunia and Alfred S. Bradford

By one estimate, humans have fought wars in ninety-four out of every hundred years for the past 5,000. Despite radical differences in the prosecution of warfare between ancient and modern societies, there remains a linear connection to the ways that Greco-Roman cultures thought about war--its conduct, aims, tactics, and ethics. This is epitomized most obviously in the Greek and Latin derivatives that dot our language of war--"army,"military, "strategy."...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0195380908
• ISBN13: 9780195380903
• Release Date: March 2015
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.4" x 8.5"