Between Miltiades and Moltke : : early German studies in Greek military history / / Roel Konijnendijk.

• Superior document: Ancient history
• VerfasserIn: Konijnendijk, Roel,
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden : : Brill,, [2023]; ©2023
• Year of Publication: 2023
• Language: English
• Series: Brill research perspectives. Ancient history.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (117 pages).

How does a modern society that venerates soldiers write about ancient wars? This book explores how the intellectual environment of the German Empire left lasting militaristic traces on the way we write the history of warfare in ancient Greece.

Table of Contents

Intro -- Contents -- Abstract -- Keywords -- 1 Introduction -- 1.1 Ancient History in Imperial Germany -- 1.2 The Great General Staff and Military History -- 2 An Officer and a Gentleman: The Joint Works of Rüstow and Köchly -- 2.1 Hermann Köchly and Wilhelm Rüstow -- 2.2 The Joint Works -- 2.3 Rüstow and Köchly as Scholars of Greek Warfare -- 3 The Age of the Great Handbooks: The New Surveys of 1880-1895 -- 3.1 Greek Warfare for the War Academy -- 3.2 Bauer and the Kriegsaltertümer -- 3.3 Droysen's Survey: Reinforcing Patterns -- 3.4 Delbrück, Rüstow, and Military History -- 3.5 Bauer's Second Edition -- 3.6 The Gymnasium Teachers and Liers' Kriegswesen der Alten -- 4 The Delbrück-Kromayer Controversy -- 4.1 Delbrück's Geschichte der Kriegskunst and Its Critics -- 4.2 Kromayer's Topographical Studies -- 4.3 A Clash of Authorities -- 4.4 The End of the Matter? -- 5 Conclusion: Between Miltiades and Moltke -- Acknowledgements -- Bibliography -- Index.