Brill's companion to military defeat in ancient Mediterranean society / / editors, Jessica H. Clark, Brian Turner.
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 illuminate no...
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| Superior document: | Brill's companions in classical studies warfare in the ancient Mediterranean world ; Volume 2 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Leiden : : Brill,, [2018] |
| Year of Publication: | 2018 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Brill's companions in classical studies warfare in the ancient Mediterranean world ;
Volume 2. |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xviii, 382 pages) :; illustrations, maps. |
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Table of Contents:
- Preliminary Material
- Thinking about Military Defeat in Ancient Mediterranean Society / Brian Turner and Jessica H. Clark
- Ideology, Politics, and the Assyrian Understanding of Defeat / Sarah C. Melville
- The Assassination of Tissaphernes: Royal Responses to Military Defeat in the Achaemenid Empire / Jeffrey Rop
- Achaemenid Soldiers, Alexander’s Conquest, and the Experience of Defeat / John O. Hyland
- Military Defeat in Fifth-Century Athens: Thucydides and His Audience / Edith Foster
- Demosthenes, Chaeronea, and the Rhetoric of Defeat / Max L. Goldman
- Spartan Responses to Defeat: From a Mythical Hysiae to a Very Real Sellasia / Matthew Trundle
- “No Strength To Stand”: Defeat at Panium, the Macedonian Class, and Ptolemaic Decline / Paul Johstono
- Defeat and the Roman Republic: Stories from Spain / Jessica H. Clark
- The Ones Who Paid the Butcher’s Bill: Soldiers and War Captives in Roman Comedy / Amy Richlin
- Defeated by the Forest, the Pass, the Wind: Nature as an Enemy of Rome / Ida Östenberg
- Imperial Reactions to Military Failures in the Julio-Claudian Era / Brian Turner
- “By Any Other Name”: Disgrace, Defeat, and the Loss of Legionary History / Graeme A. Ward
- Recycling the Classical Past: Rhetorical Responses from the Roman Period to a Military Loss in Classical Greece / Sviatoslav Dmitriev
- The Roman Emperor as Persian Prisoner of War: Remembering Shapur’s Capture of Valerian / Craig H. Caldwell
- Looking Ahead / Nathan Rosenstein
- Index.