Warfare in Ancient Greece: A Sourcebook

by Michael Sage and Michael M. Sage

Book Overview

Warfare in Ancient Greece assembles a wide range of source material and introduces the latest scholarship on the Greek experience of war. The author has carefully selected key texts, many of them not previously available in English, and provided them with comprehensive commentaries.
For the Greek polis, warfare was a more usual state of affairs than peace. The documents assembled here recreate the social and historical framework in which ancient...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0415143551
• ISBN13: 9780415143554
• Release Date: July 1996
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 284 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.2" x 9.2"