War, warlords, and interstate relations in the ancient Mediterranean / / editors, Toni Ñaco del Hoyo, Fernando López Sánchez.

• Superior document: Impact of Empire : Roman Empire, C. 200 B.C.-A.D. 476, Volume 28
• Author: Institució Catalana de Recerca i Estudis Avançats.
• TeilnehmendeR: Ñaco del Hoyo, Toni,; López Sánchez, Fernando, 1974-; Institució Catalana de Recerca i Estudis Avançats.
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden, Netherlands : : Brill,, 2018.; ©2018
• Year of Publication: 2018
• Language: English
• Series: Impact of Empire (Roman Empire, c. 200 B.C.-A.D. 476) (Series) ; 28.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (xiv, 504 pages).
• Notes: "Proceedings from an ICREA Conference held in Barcelona (2013)."
• Other title: Front Matter --; Copyright page --; List of Abbreviations --; List of Contributors --; Introduction: ‘Multipolarity’ and ‘Warlords’ prior to the Roman Empire /; Achaemenid Persia, Fourth Century Greece, and Carthage --; Mercenaries and Warlords in the Achaemenid Empire /; State and Warlord in Classical Greece: From Bipolarity to Multipolarity /; A Spartan Warlord: Lysander and the Creation of a New Greek Empire /; The lochagoi of Iphicrates: Forming a Mercenary Army in the Fourth Century bc /; Commanders and Warlords in Fourth Century bc Central Greece /; The Network of Melqart: Tyre, Gadir, Carthage and the Founding God /; Warlords, Carthage and the Limits of Hegemony /; The Hellenistic World and Rome --; Galatians in Macedonia (280–277 bc): Invasion or Invitation? --; Prolegomena to the Study of ‘Warlordism in Later Hellenistic Anatolia’ /; Rome, Empire, and the Hellenistic State-system /; Conquest, Liberation, Protectionism, or Enslavement? Mid-Republican Rome from a Greek Perspective /; Warlords and the Roman Republic /; Why No Warlords in Republican Rome? /; Italy and Sicily in the Second Punic War: Multipolarity, Minor Powers, and Local Military Entrepreneurialism /; Imperialism and Multipolarity in the Far West: Beyond the Lusitanians (237–146 bc) /; Sulla, the Army, the Officers and the poleis of Greece: A Reassessment of Warlordism in the First Phase of the Mithridatic Wars /; Q. Sertorius: A Warlord in Hispania? /; Warlordism and the Making of the Roman Imperial Army /; A Necessary Epilogue --; Generalissimos and Warlords in the Late Roman West* /; Contemporary Warlordism, Armed Conflicts and the International System: An International Relations Perspective /
• Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and indexes.
• ISBN: 9004354050
• ISSN: 1572-0500
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: editors, Toni Ñaco del Hoyo, Fernando López Sánchez.

During the final four centuries BC, many political and stateless entities of the Mediterranean headed towards anarchy and militarism, while stronger powers -Carthage, the Hellenistic kingdoms and Republican Rome- expanded towards State formation, forceful military structures and empire building. Edited by T. Ñaco del Hoyo and F. López Sánchez, this volume presents the proceedings from an ICREA Conference held in Barcelona (2013), addressing the connection between war, warlords and interstate relations from classical studies and social sciences perspectives. Some twenty scholars from European, Japanese and North American Universities consider the scope of ‘multipolarity’ and the usefulness of ‘warlord’, a modern category, in order to feature some ancient military and political leaderships.