War and society in the Greek world / edited by John Rich and Graham Shipley.

Contributor Rich, John, 1944-

Imprint:London ; New York : Routledge, 1993.

Descriptionxiii, 263 p. : ill., map ; 23 cm.

Note:Rev. versions of papers presented at meetings held in Leicester and Nottingham 1988-1990.

Note:Introduction: the Limits of war / Graham Shipley -- War in the Hebrew Bible / Robert Carroll -- Hoplites and Homer: warfare, hero cult, and the ideology of the polis / Hugh Bowden -- War and raids for booty in the world of Odysseus / Alastar Jackson -- War, slavery, and settlement in early Greece / Tracey Rihll -- Asia unmanned: images of victory in classical Athens / Edith Hall -- Farming and fighting in ancient Greece / Lin Foxhall -- Warfare, wealth, and the crisis of Spartiate society / Stephen Hodkinson -- Warfare, economy, and democracy in classical Athens / Paul Millett -- Alexander and the Macedonian invasion of Asia: aspects of the historiography of war and empire in antiquity / Michel Austin -- The Glorious dead: commemoration of the fallen and portrayal of victory in the late classical and hellenistic world / Ellen Rice.

Bibliography Note:Includes bibliographical references and index.

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