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MAKERS OF ANCIENT STRATEGY

Victor Hanson (ed)

 

Subtitle: from the Persian Wars to the Fall of Rome, Princeton Univ. Press, 2010, 265pgs., index, paperback

 
 

Reviewer comments - This is a selection of ten essays by various authors on specific topics related to strategy or strategic thought during the period indicated. The authors are listed with their chapters.

 
 

Victor Hanson - Introduction

 
 

Tom Holland - From Persia with Love

 
 

Donald Kagan - Pericles, Thucydides, and the Defense of Empire

 
 

David Berkey - Why Fortifications Endure

 
 

Victor Hanson - Epaminondas the Theban and the Doctrine of Preemptive War

 
 

Ian Worthington - Alexander the Great, Nation Building, and the Creation and Maintenance of Empire

 
 

John Lee - "Urban Warfare in the Classical Greek World

 
 

Susan Mattern - Counterinsurgency and the Enemies of Rome

 
 

Barry Strauss - Slave Wars of Greece and Rome

 
 

Adrian Goldsworthy - Julius Caesar and the General as State

 
 

Peter Heather - Holding the Line- Frontier Defense and the Late Roman Empire

 

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