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MAKERS OF ANCIENT STRATEGY

Victor Davis Hanson, ed.

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

 
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Reviewer's Comments: This is an excellent survey of some examples of strategic ideas and some of the most famous practicioners. It includes individuals and also categories such as fortifications, urban warfare, and counter insurgency. Each chapter is written by a specialist in the subject

 
 

Introduction - Makers of Ancient Strategy: from the Persian Wars to the Fall of Rome, Victor D. Hanson

 

Chapter 1- From Persia with Love: Propaganda and Imperial Overreach in the Greco-Persian Wars, Tom Holland

 
 

Chapter 2 - Pericles, Thucydides, and the defense of Empire, Donald Kagan

 
 

Chapter 3 - Why Fortifications Endure: A Case Study of Walls of Athens during the Classical Period, David Berkey

 
 

Chapter 4 - Epaminondas the Theban and the Doctrine of Preemptive War, Victor Hanson

 

Chapter 5 - Alexander the Great, Nation Building, and the Creation of Mainenance of Empire, Ian Worthington

 

Chapter 6 - Urban Warfare in the Classical Greek World, John W. Lee

 

Chapter 7 - Counterinsurgency and the Enemies of Rome, Susan Mattern

 

Chapter 8 - Slave Wars of Greece and Rome, Barry Strauss

 

Chapter 9 - Julius Caesar and the General as State, Andrian Goldsworthy

 

Chapter 10 - Holding the Line: Frontier Defense and the Later Roman Empire, Peter Heather

 
 

 
 

 
 

 
 




 
 

 
 

 
 

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