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What determined the choices of the Greeks on the battlefield ? Were their tactics defined by unwritten moral rules, or was all considered fair in war ? In 'Classical Greek Tactics : A Cultural History', Roel Konijnendijk re-examines the literary evidence for the battle tactics and tactical thought of the Greeks during the 5th and 4th centuries BC. Rejecting the traditional image of limited, ritualised battle, Konijnendijk sketches a world of brutally destructive engagements, restricted only by the stubborn amateurism of the men who fought. The resulting model of hoplite battle does away with most received wisdom about the nature of Greek battle tactics, and redefines the way they reflected the values of Greek culture as a whole
Military art and science --- History --- HISTORY --- Military art and science. --- TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING --- Military --- Other. --- Military Science. --- Greece. --- History. --- Art et science militaires --- Military art and science - Greece - History
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The ancient Greeks invented democracy. They also invented political theory. This book seeks to show that these were not unrelated achievements. The development of political theory accompanied the growth of democracy at Athens in the fifth century BC. By analysing the writings of Protagoras the sophist, Thucydides the historian, and Democritus the cosmologist in the context of political developments and speculation about the universe, Dr Farrar reveals the existence of a distinctive approach to the characterisation of democratic order, and in doing so demonstrates the virtues of Thucydides' historical conception of politics. Thucydides' history is shown to be an argument for the political force of historical judgement.
Democracy --- Democratie --- Démocratie --- Inspraak in het beleid --- Overlegcultuur --- Self-government --- Democracy -- History. --- Political science -- Greece -- History. --- Political science -- History. --- Political science --- Political Science --- Law, Politics & Government --- Political Theory of the State --- History --- State, The --- History of theories --- History. --- Greece --- Arts and Humanities --- Democracy - History. --- Political science - Greece - History. --- Political science - History.
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How did ancient scientific and knowledge-ordering writers make their work authoritative? This book answers that question for a wide range of ancient disciplines, from mathematics, medicine, architecture and agriculture, through to law, historiography and philosophy - focusing mainly, but not exclusively, on the literature of the Roman Empire. It draws attention to habits that these different fields had in common, while also showing how individual texts and authors manipulated standard techniques of self-authorisation in distinctive ways. It stresses the importance of competitive and assertive styles of self-presentation, and also examines some of the pressures that pulled in the opposite direction by looking at authors who chose to acknowledge the limitations of their own knowledge or resisted close identification with narrow versions of expert identity. A final chapter by Sir Geoffrey Lloyd offers a comparative account of scientific authority and expertise in ancient Chinese, Indian and Mesopotamian culture.
Science, Ancient. --- Science --- Science. --- SCIENCE / History. --- Wissenschaft. --- Altertum. --- Autorität. --- Wissensvermittlung. --- 15.51 Antiquity. --- History. --- Greece. --- 15.51 antiquity. --- Science / history. --- Science, ancient. --- History --- Ancient science --- Science, Primitive --- Science, Ancient --- E-books --- Science - Greece - History
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The framers of the American Constitution were substantially influenced by ancient history and classical political theory, as exemplified by their education, the availability of classical readings, and their inculcation in classical republican values. This volume explores how the framing generation deployed classical learning to develop many of the essential structural aspects of the Constitution: federalism, separation of powers, a bicameral legislature, independent courts, and the war and foreign relations powers. Also examined are very contemporary constitutional debates, for which there were classical inspirations, including sovereign immunity, executive privilege, line-item vetoes, and the electoral college. Combining techniques of intellectual history, classical studies, and constitutional interpretation, this book makes a unique contribution to our understanding of contemporary constitutionalism.
Political science --- Constitutional history --- History. --- United States. --- United States --- Politics and government --- Intellectual life --- Political science - Greece - History --- Constitutional history - United States --- United States - Politics and government - 1783-1789 --- United States - Intellectual life - 18th century --- Law --- General and Others
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Complete with notes, index and bibliography, Warfare in Ancient Greece will provide students of Ancient and Military History with an unprecedented survey of relevant materials.
Military art and science --- Military history, Ancient --- Armée --- --Antiquité --- --Grèce --- --History --- Greece --- History, Military --- Antieke krijgsgeschiedenis --- Histoire militaire de l'Antiquité --- Krijgsgeschiedenis [Antieke ] --- Krijgsgeschiedenis van de oudheid --- Military history [Ancient ] --- -Ancient military history --- Fighting --- Military power --- Military science --- Warfare --- Warfare, Primitive --- Naval art and science --- War --- History --- -Greece --- -Military art and science --- Ancient military history --- History [Military ] --- Military art and science - Greece - History. --- Military history, Ancient. --- Military art and science - Greece - History - To 1500 --- Antiquité --- Grèce --- Greece - History, Military - To 146 B.C.
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Political science --- History. --- 321.01 <37/38> --- #SBIB:321H13 --- Algemene staatsleer. Politieke filosofie. Staatsleer. Staatstheorie--?<37/38> --- Geschiedenis van de politieke en sociale theorieën: de Romeinse gedachte --- -Algemene staatsleer. Politieke filosofie. Staatsleer. Staatstheorie--?<37/38> --- 321.01 <37/38> Algemene staatsleer. Politieke filosofie. Staatsleer. Staatstheorie--?<37/38> --- #SBIB:321H12 --- History --- Geschiedenis van de politieke en sociale theorieën: de Griekse gedachte --- Science politique --- Histoire --- Greece --- Rome --- Philosophy --- Political science - Greece - History --- Political science - Rome - History --- Littérature grecque --- Grèce --- Histoire et critique --- Politique et gouvernement --- Jusqu'à 395
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Scientific and technological texts have not played a significant role in modern literary criticism. This applies to Classics, too, despite the fact that a large part of the field’s extant texts deal with questions of medicine, mathematics, and natural philosophy. Focusing mostly on medical and mathematical texts, this collection aims at approaching ancient Greek science and its texts from the cross-disciplinary perspective of authorship. Among the questions addressed are: What is a scientific author? In what respect does scientific writing differ from ‘literary’ writing? How does the author present himself as an authoritative figure through his text? What strategies of trust do these authors employ? These and related questions cannot be discussed within the typical boundaries of modern academic disciplines, thus most of the sixteen authors, many of them leading experts in the fields of ancient science, bring a comparative perspective to their subjects. As a result, the collection not only offers a new approach to this vast area of ancient literature, thus effectively discovering new possibilities for literary criticism, it also reflects on our current forms of scientific and scholarly written communication.
Science --- Mathematics, Greek. --- Medicine, Greek and Roman. --- Sciences --- Mathématiques grecques --- Médecine grecque et romaine --- History. --- Histoire --- Science -- Greece -- History. --- Mathematics, Greek --- Medicine, Greek and Roman --- Natural Science Disciplines --- Western World --- Writing --- Disciplines and Occupations --- Language Arts --- Civilization --- Language --- Culture --- Communication --- Anthropology, Cultural --- Anthropology --- Information Science --- Social Sciences --- Anthropology, Education, Sociology and Social Phenomena --- Mathematics --- Greek World --- Authorship --- Physical Sciences & Mathematics --- Sciences - General --- History --- Mathématiques grecques --- Médecine grecque et romaine --- Greek medicine --- Medicine, Roman --- Medicine, Unani --- Roman medicine --- Tibb (Medicine) --- Unani medicine --- Unani-Tibb (Medicine) --- Greek mathematics --- Medicine, Ancient --- Geometry --- Greek Literature. --- History of Science. --- Rhetoric.
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Celestial divination, in the form of omens from lunar, planetary, astral, and meteorological phenomena, was central to Mesopotamian cuneiform scholarship and science from the late second millennium BCE into the Hellenistic period. Beyond the boundaries of ancient Mesopotamia, the ideas, texts, and traditions of Babylonian celestial divination are traceable in Hellenistic sciences and philosophies. This collection of essays investigates features of Babylonian celestial divination with special focus on those aspects that influenced later Greco-Roman astronomy, astrology, and theories of signs. A multi-faceted collection of philological, historical, and philosophical investigations, In the Path of the Moon offers Assyriologists, Classicists, and historians of ancient science a wide-ranging series of studies unified around the theme of Babylonian celestial divination's legacy. 'The collected essays in this volume, successive steps in an ordered path, constitute an invaluable contribution to a better understanding of Babylonian divination.' Lorenzo Verderame, 'Sapienza' Università di Roma 'The reader interested in the multifaceted presentation of the problems related to the explanation of Babylonian celestial divination and well equipped with the knowledge of Akkadian will certainly be rewarded by the study of Rochberg’s latest publication.' Henryk Drawnel, SDB
Astrology, Assyro-Babylonian. --- Astronomy, Assyro-Babylonian. --- Omens --- Horoscopes --- Akkadian language --- Cuneiform inscriptions, Akkadian. --- Philosophy, Ancient. --- Science --- Natural science --- Natural sciences --- Science of science --- Sciences --- Ancient philosophy --- Greek philosophy --- Philosophy, Greek --- Philosophy, Roman --- Roman philosophy --- Akkadian cuneiform inscriptions --- Astrology --- Portents --- Prodigies (Omens) --- Signs (Omens) --- Superstition --- Signs and symbols --- Assyro-Babylonian astronomy --- Babylonian astronomy --- Chaldean astronomy --- Assyro-Babylonian astrology --- History. --- Astrology, Assyro-Babylonian --- Astronomy, Assyro-Babylonian --- Cuneiform inscriptions, Akkadian --- Philosophy, Ancient --- Texts --- History --- Astrologie assyro-babylonienne --- Astronomie assyro-babylonienne --- Présages --- Akkadien (Langue) --- Inscriptions cunéiformes akkadiennes --- Philosophie ancienne --- Textes --- Histoire --- Texts. --- Omens - Iraq - Babylonia --- Horoscopes - Iraq - Babylonia --- Akkadian language - Texts --- Science - Greece - History --- Science - Rome - History
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Brian Campbell has selected and translated a wide range of pieces from the ancient military writers and also includes extracts from historians who have interesting comments on warfare and society.
Military art and science --- Fighting --- Military power --- Military science --- Warfare --- Warfare, Primitive --- Naval art and science --- War --- History --- Greece --- Rome --- Rim --- Roman Empire --- Roman Republic (510-30 B.C.) --- Romi (Empire) --- Byzantine Empire --- Rome (Italy) --- al-Yūnān --- Ancient Greece --- Ellada --- Ellas --- Ellēnikē Dēmokratia --- Elliniki Dimokratia --- Grčija --- Grèce --- Grecia --- Gret︠s︡ii︠a︡ --- Griechenland --- Hellada --- Hellas --- Hellenic Republic --- Hellēnikē Dēmokratia --- Kingdom of Greece --- République hellénique --- Royaume de Grèce --- Vasileion tēs Hellados --- Xila --- Yaṿan --- Yūnān --- Ελληνική Δημοκρατία --- Ελλάς --- Ελλάδα --- Греция --- اليونان --- يونان --- 希腊 --- History, Military --- Military art and science - Greece - History - To 1500 - Sources --- Military art and science - Rome - History - Sources --- Greece - History, Military - To 146 B.C. - Sources --- Rome - History, Military - 265-30 B.C. - Sources
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Men of Bronze takes up one of the most important and fiercely debated subjects in ancient history and classics: how did archaic Greek hoplites fight, and what role, if any, did hoplite warfare play in shaping the Greek polis? In the nineteenth century, George Grote argued that the phalanx battle formation of the hoplite farmer citizen-soldier was the driving force behind a revolution in Greek social, political, and cultural institutions. Throughout the twentieth century scholars developed and refined this grand hoplite narrative with the help of archaeology. But over the past thirty years scholars have criticized nearly every major tenet of this orthodoxy. Indeed, the revisionists have persuaded many specialists that the evidence demands a new interpretation of the hoplite narrative and a rewriting of early Greek history. Men of Bronze gathers leading scholars to advance the current debate and bring it to a broader audience of ancient historians, classicists, archaeologists, and general readers. After explaining the historical context and significance of the hoplite question, the book assesses and pushes forward the debate over the traditional hoplite narrative and demonstrates why it is at a crucial turning point. Instead of reaching a consensus, the contributors have sharpened their differences, providing new evidence, explanations, and theories about the origin, nature, strategy, and tactics of the hoplite phalanx and its effect on Greek culture and the rise of the polis. The contributors include Paul Cartledge, Lin Foxhall, John Hale, Victor Davis Hanson, Donald Kagan, Peter Krentz, Kurt Raaflaub, Adam Schwartz, Anthony Snodgrass, Hans van Wees, and Gregory Viggiano.
Armor, Ancient --- Weapons, Ancient --- Soldiers --- Military art and science --- Ancient weapons --- Arms and armor, Ancient --- Armed Forces personnel --- Members of the Armed Forces --- Military personnel --- Military service members --- Service members --- Servicemen, Military --- Armed Forces --- Fighting --- Military power --- Military science --- Warfare --- Warfare, Primitive --- Naval art and science --- War --- Ancient armor --- History --- Greece --- al-Yūnān --- Ancient Greece --- Ellada --- Ellas --- Ellēnikē Dēmokratia --- Elliniki Dimokratia --- Grčija --- Grèce --- Grecia --- Gret︠s︡ii︠a︡ --- Griechenland --- Hellada --- Hellas --- Hellenic Republic --- Hellēnikē Dēmokratia --- Kingdom of Greece --- République hellénique --- Royaume de Grèce --- Vasileion tēs Hellados --- Xila --- Yaṿan --- Yūnān --- Ελληνική Δημοκρατία --- Ελλάς --- Ελλάδα --- Греция --- اليونان --- يونان --- 希腊 --- History, Military --- Aristotle. --- Assyrian army. --- Etruscan Bomarzo shield. --- Greek culture. --- Greek history. --- Greek hoplites. --- Greek infantry. --- Greek mercenaries. --- Greek military history. --- Greek social status. --- Greek soldiers. --- Greek state. --- Greek values. --- Greek warfare. --- Homeric epics. --- Homeric warfare. --- Oriental influence. --- Persian army. --- Politics. --- The Other Greeks. --- The Western Way of War. --- agrarianism. --- ancient Greece. --- ancient Greek warfare. --- archaeology. --- archaic Greek arms. --- archaic Greeks. --- chronological framework. --- citizen-soldier. --- citizen-soldiers. --- double-grip shield. --- early Greek hoplite warfare. --- early Greek infantry. --- economic change. --- elite landowners. --- gentlemen farmers. --- gradualism. --- grand hoplite narrative. --- hoplite armor. --- hoplite arms. --- hoplite battle. --- hoplite class. --- hoplite debate. --- hoplite equipment. --- hoplite fighting. --- hoplite formations. --- hoplite iconography. --- hoplite ideology. --- hoplite orthodoxy. --- hoplite panoply. --- hoplite reform. --- hoplite shield. --- hoplite warfare. --- hoplite weapons. --- hoplites. --- leisure class. --- literary sources. --- lyric poetry. --- mass collision. --- material culture. --- mercenary service. --- middling farmers. --- modern historians. --- phalanx. --- poetry. --- polis. --- political development. --- revisionism. --- site survey. --- small-scale farmers. --- social change. --- sociopolitical issues. --- spear. --- survey archaeology. --- survey data. --- survey projects. --- yeomen farmers. --- Military art and science - Greece - History - To 1500 - Congresses --- Soldiers - Greece - History - To 1500 - Congresses --- Armor, Ancient - Greece - Congresses --- Greece - History, Military - To 146 BC - Congresses
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