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)."

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.

Table of Contents

Front Matter -- Copyright page -- List of Abbreviations -- List of Contributors -- Introduction: ‘Multipolarity’ and ‘Warlords’ prior to the Roman Empire / Toni Ñaco del Hoyo and Fernando López Sánchez -- Achaemenid Persia, Fourth Century Greece, and Carthage -- Mercenaries and Warlords in the Achaemenid Empire / Christopher Tuplin -- State and Warlord in Classical Greece: From Bipolarity to Multipolarity / Polly Low -- A Spartan Warlord: Lysander and the Creation of a New Greek Empire / Daniel Gómez-Castro -- The lochagoi of Iphicrates: Forming a Mercenary Army in the Fourth Century bc / Nicholas V. Sekunda -- Commanders and Warlords in Fourth Century bc Central Greece / José Pascual González -- The Network of Melqart: Tyre, Gadir, Carthage and the Founding God / Manuel Álvarez Martí-Aguilar -- Warlords, Carthage and the Limits of Hegemony / Louis Rawlings -- The Hellenistic World and Rome -- Galatians in Macedonia (280–277 bc): Invasion or Invitation? -- Prolegomena to the Study of ‘Warlordism in Later Hellenistic Anatolia’ / Altay Coşkun -- Rome, Empire, and the Hellenistic State-system / Arthur M. Eckstein -- Conquest, Liberation, Protectionism, or Enslavement? Mid-Republican Rome from a Greek Perspective / Craige B. Champion -- Warlords and the Roman Republic / John W. Rich -- Why No Warlords in Republican Rome? / Nathan Rosenstein -- Italy and Sicily in the Second Punic War: Multipolarity, Minor Powers, and Local Military Entrepreneurialism / Michael P. Fronda and François Gauthier -- Imperialism and Multipolarity in the Far West: Beyond the Lusitanians (237–146 bc) / Eduardo Sánchez Moreno -- Sulla, the Army, the Officers and the poleis of Greece: A Reassessment of Warlordism in the First Phase of the Mithridatic Wars / Sophia Zoumbaki -- Q. Sertorius: A Warlord in Hispania? / Toni Ñaco del Hoyo and Jordi Principal -- Warlordism and the Making of the Roman Imperial Army / Boris Rankov -- A Necessary Epilogue -- Generalissimos and Warlords in the Late Roman West* / Jeroen W.P. Wijnendaele -- Contemporary Warlordism, Armed Conflicts and the International System: An International Relations Perspective / Rafael Grasa.