Makers of ancient strategy : from the Persian Wars to the fall of Rome

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Makers of ancient strategy : from the Persian Wars to the fall of Rome

edited and introduced by Victor Davis Hanson

Princeton University Press, c2010

  • : hbk
  • : [pbk.]

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Includes bibliographical references and index

Contents of Works

  • 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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