Format:
1 Online-Ressource (xii, 323 pages)
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digital, PDF file(s)
ISBN:
9780511482830
Content:
Professor Lee provides a social and cultural history of the Cyreans, the mercenaries of Xenophon's Anabasis. While they have often been portrayed as a single abstract political community, this book reveals that life in the army was mostly shaped by a set of smaller social communities: the formal unit organisation of the lochos ('company'), and the informal comradeship of the suskenia ('mess group'). It includes full treatment of the environmental conditions of the march, ethnic and socio-economic relations amongst the soldiers, equipment and transport, marching and camp behaviour, eating and drinking, sanitation and medical care, and many other topics. It also accords detailed attention to the non-combatants accompanying the soldiers. It uses ancient literary and archaeological evidence, ancient and modern comparative material, and perspectives from military sociology and modern war studies. This book is essential reading for anyone working on ancient Greek warfare or on Xenophon's Anabasis
Content:
Introduction -- The march route -- The army -- Unit organization and community -- The things they carried -- Marching -- Resting -- Eating and drinking -- The soldier's body -- Slaves, servants, and companions -- Beyond the battlefield
Note:
Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015)
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780521870689
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe ISBN 9780521870689
Language:
English
Subjects:
History
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Ancient Studies
Keywords:
Xenophon v430-v354 Anabasis
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Rebellion des Kyros
DOI:
10.1017/CBO9780511482830
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