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GREEK HISTORY

 
   
     
 

Greek battles An althabetical table created by John Sloan

 
 

Greek generals and admirals An althabetical table created by John Sloan

 
 

ClassicGreekwars A chronological listing created by John Sloan

 
 

This is the essay in the Encyclopedia Britannica article on our namesake, Xenophon,

 
 

An important essay on Xenophon by the late Professor Neal Wood

 
   
 

Philip de Soza, Waldemar Heckel & Lloyd Llewellyn_Jones - The Greeks at War

 
 

This is the chapter on Alexander the Great from the class booklet Great Captains before Napoleon, the text at the U. S. Military Academy in the 1950's.

 
 

This is the Encyclopedia Britannica article on Alexander II, King of Epirus

 
 

This is the article on "Alexander the Great" by Edwyn R. Bevan in the Encylopedia Britannica 11th Ed 1910 and the article by Margaret Bryant "The Romance of Alexander".

 
   
 

This is the Encyclopedia Britannica article on Alexander I, King of Epirus.

 
 

Peter Green - Armada from Athens

 
 

Review of Landmark addition of Arrian's book The Campaigns of Alexander-
list of references
- a chronology of his campaign
- and a table showing the battle casualties estimated by various authors.
These are articles on Marathon battle, book review, and references.
Review of The Landmark Herodotus Histories
Review of The Landmark Thucydides The Peloponnesian War
Review of The Landmark Xenophon - Hellinekia

 
 

Eric Voegelin - The World of the Polis

 
 

G. E. M de Ste. Croix - The Origins of the Peloponnesian War

 
 

Raphael Sealey - A History of the Greek City States 700 - 338 BC

 
 

June W. Allison - Power and Preparedness in Thucydides

 
 

Phalanx - diagram of its battle order

 
 

William T. Bluhm - Causal Theory in Thucydides' Peloponnesian War

 
 

Thomas Hobbes, ed and trans. The Peloponnesian War

 
 

George Kateb - Thucydides' history - A Manual of Statecraft

 
 

Sir Richard Livingston, ed. and trans.- A History of the Peloponnesian War

 
 

Rex Warner, ed and trans. - History of the Peloponnesian War

 
 

Josiah Ober - The Rise and Fall of Classical Greece

 
 

Josiah Ober - "Political conflicts, political debates, and political thought" in R. Osborne ed., The Shorter Oxford History of Europe I:Classical Greece, Oxford Univ. Press, 2000

 
 

Victor Davis Hanson - The Wars of the Ancient Greeks

 
 

Victor Davis Hanson - The Western Way of War

 
 

Vernad Folley - Ancient Oared Warships

 
 

William Rodgers - Ancient Greek and Roman Naval War

 
 

Donald Kagan On the Origins of War

 
 

Donald Kagan The Archidamian War

 
 

Donald Kagan The Outbreak of the Peloponnesian War

 
 

Donald Kagan The Peace of Nicias and the Sicilian Expedition

 
 

Donald Kagan The Fall of the Athenian Empire

 
 

Plutarch The Lives of the Noble Greecians and Romans

 
 

Diodorus Silicus - The Historical Library of Diodorus the Sicilian - Vol 1

 
 

Diodorus Silicus - The Historical Library of Diodorus the Sicilian, Vol 2

 
 

Cornelius Nepos - Great Generals of Foreign nations

 
 

John Warry - Warfare in the Classical World

 
 

Victor Davis Hanson - The Wars of the Ancient Greeks

 
 

G. T. Griffith - The Mercenaries of the Hellenistic World

 
 

Yvon Garlan - War in the Ancient World: A Social History

 
 

A. Andrewes - The Greek Tyrants

 

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