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Brill's Companion to Military Defeat in Ancient Mediterranean Society
Intro -- Contents -- Preface -- List of Figures, Maps, and Tables -- Notes on Abbreviations -- Notes on Contributors -- Part 1 Introduction -- Chapter 1 Thinking about Military Defeat in Ancient Mediterranean Society -- Part 2 The Ancient Near East -- Chapter 2 Ideology, Politics, and the Assyrian U...
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| Document Type: | Online Resource Book |
| Language: | English |
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Boston
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, 2017
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| Series: | Brill's Companions to Classical Studies: Warfare in the Ancient Mediterranean World Ser
Brill's Companions to Classical Studies |
| Online Access: | http://proxy.fid-lizenzen.de/han/proquest-ebook-central-altertum/ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/bsbfidaltertumswissenschaften/detail.action?docID=5357026 |
| Related Items: | Erscheint auch als:
Brill's Companion to Military Defeat in Ancient Mediterranean Society |
| E-Book Packages: | ProQuest Ebook Central : Classical Studies Collection |
| Summary: | Intro -- Contents -- Preface -- List of Figures, Maps, and Tables -- Notes on Abbreviations -- Notes on Contributors -- Part 1 Introduction -- Chapter 1 Thinking about Military Defeat in Ancient Mediterranean Society -- Part 2 The Ancient Near East -- Chapter 2 Ideology, Politics, and the Assyrian Understanding of Defeat -- Chapter 3 The Assassination of Tissaphernes: Royal Responses to Military Defeat in the Achaemenid Empire -- Chapter 4 Achaemenid Soldiers, Alexander's Conquest, and the Experience of Defeat -- Part 3 Classical Greece and the Hellenistic World -- Chapter 5 Military Defeat in Fifth-Century Athens: Thucydides and His Audience -- Chapter 6 Demosthenes, Chaeronea, and the Rhetoric of Defeat -- Chapter 7 Spartan Responses to Defeat: From a Mythical Hysiae to a Very Real Sellasia -- Chapter 8 "No Strength To Stand": Defeat at Panium, the Macedonian Class, and Ptolemaic Decline -- Part 4 The Roman World -- Chapter 9 Defeat and the Roman Republic: Stories from Spain -- Chapter 10 The Ones Who Paid the Butcher's Bill: Soldiers and War Captives in Roman Comedy -- Chapter 11 Defeated by the Forest, the Pass, the Wind: Nature as an Enemy of Rome -- Chapter 12 Imperial Reactions to Military Failures in the Julio-Claudian Era -- Chapter 13 "By Any Other Name": Disgrace, Defeat, and the Loss of Legionary History -- Chapter 14 Recycling the Classical Past: Rhetorical Responses from the Roman Period to a Military Loss in Classical Greece -- Chapter 15 The Roman Emperor as Persian Prisoner of War: Remembering Shapur's Capture of Valerian -- Part 5 Epilogue -- Looking Ahead -- Index. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 Online-Ressource (400 pages) |
| ISBN: | 9789004355774 |
