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Book Synopsis The Seleucid Army by : Bezalel Bar-Kochva
Download or read book The Seleucid Army written by Bezalel Bar-Kochva and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1976-05-13 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a 1976 study of the organization and tactics of the Seleucid armies from 312 to 129 BC. The first part of the book discusses the numerical strength of the armies, their sources of manpower, the contingents of the regular army, their equipment and historical development, the chain of command, training and discipline. The second part reconstructs the great campaigns in order to examine the Seleucid tactics. The book provides a lesson in Hellenistic and military history and discusses several questions: how did the Hellenistic armies develop after Alexander? What distinguished the Seleucid army as superior to its Hellenistic contemporaries? The answers illuminate the expansion of Hellenism as we learn how the Seleucid army was used as a military, social and cultural instrument to impose the rule of the dynasty over the vast regions of the Empire and how it helped to shape Hellenistic society in the East.
Book Synopsis The Seleucid Army of Antiochus the Great by : Jean Charl Du Plessis
Download or read book The Seleucid Army of Antiochus the Great written by Jean Charl Du Plessis and published by Pen and Sword Military. This book was released on 2022-04-06 with total page 480 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: *The Seleucid Empire was a superpower of the Hellenistic Age, the largest and most powerful of the Successor States, and it’s army was central to the maintenance of that power. Antiochus III campaigned, generally successfully, from the Mediterranean to India, earning the sobriquet 'the Great'. Jean Charl Du Plessis has produced the most in depth study available in English devoted to the troop types, weapons and armor of Antiochus’ army. He combines the most recent historical research and latest archaeological evidence with a strong element of reconstructive archaeology, that is the making and using of replica equipment. Sections cover the regular, Hellenistic-style core of the army, the auxiliaries from across the Empire and mercenaries, as well as the terror weapons of elephants and scythed chariots. Weapons and armor considered in great detail, including, for example, useful data on the performance of slings and the wounds they could inflict, drawing on modern testing and the author’s own experience. The army’s performance in its many battles, sieges and campaigns is analysed and assessed.
Book Synopsis The Seleucid Army by : Beṣal'ēl Bar-Kôkvâ
Download or read book The Seleucid Army written by Beṣal'ēl Bar-Kôkvâ and published by . This book was released on 1979 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis New Perspectives in Seleucid History, Archaeology and Numismatics by : Roland Oetjen
Download or read book New Perspectives in Seleucid History, Archaeology and Numismatics written by Roland Oetjen and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2019-12-16 with total page 876 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dedicated to Getzel M. Cohen, a leading expert in Seleucid history, this volume gathers 45 contributions on Seleucid history, archaeology, numismatics, political relations, policy toward the Jews, Greek cities, non-Greek populations, peripheral and neighboring regions, imperial administration, economy and public finances, and ancient descriptions of the Seleucid Empire. The reader will gain an international perspective on current research.
Book Synopsis The Seleucid Army by : Bezalel Bar-Kochva
Download or read book The Seleucid Army written by Bezalel Bar-Kochva and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2012-03-29 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a 1976 study of the organization and tactics of the Seleucid armies from 312 to 129 BC. The first part of the book discusses the numerical strength of the armies, their sources of manpower, the contingents of the regular army, their equipment and historical development, the chain of command, training and discipline. The second part reconstructs the great campaigns in order to examine the Seleucid tactics. The book provides a lesson in Hellenistic and military history and discusses several questions: how did the Hellenistic armies develop after Alexander? What distinguished the Seleucid army as superior to its Hellenistic contemporaries? The answers illuminate the expansion of Hellenism as we learn how the Seleucid army was used as a military, social and cultural instrument to impose the rule of the dynasty over the vast regions of the Empire and how it helped to shape Hellenistic society in the East.
Book Synopsis Army and Society in Ptolemaic Egypt by : Christelle Fischer-Bovet
Download or read book Army and Society in Ptolemaic Egypt written by Christelle Fischer-Bovet and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2014-04-10 with total page 475 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines how the army developed as an engine of socio-economic and cultural integration in Egypt under Greco-Macedonian rule.
Book Synopsis Judas Maccabaeus by : Bezalel Bar-Kochva
Download or read book Judas Maccabaeus written by Bezalel Bar-Kochva and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2002-08-08 with total page 694 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An account of Judas Maccabeus' battles against the Seleucid empire between 166 and 160 B.C.
Book Synopsis Comparing the Ptolemaic and Seleucid Empires by : Christelle Fischer-Bovet
Download or read book Comparing the Ptolemaic and Seleucid Empires written by Christelle Fischer-Bovet and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2021-09-30 with total page 409 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First comparative analysis of the role of local elites and populations in the formation of the two main Hellenistic empires.
Book Synopsis The Battles of Antiochus the Great by : Graham Wrightson
Download or read book The Battles of Antiochus the Great written by Graham Wrightson and published by Pen and Sword Military. This book was released on 2022-03-18 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A scholar of ancient warfare examines the great Seleucid ruler’s many victories and losses—revealing why his mighty empire was defeated by Rome. Antiochus III, the king of the Seleucid Empire for four decades, fought and won many battles from India to Egypt. And he lost almost as many. In The Battles of Antiochus the Great, Graham Wrightson examines the strategies and tactics employed in three of the Seleucid Empire’s most historically significant conflicts. Under Antiochus, the Seleucids had a greater variety of army units than most other Macedonian-founded kingdoms. This was because he had access to traditional infantry-based Greek cultures in Asia Minor as well as the cavalry-dominant cultures of Mesopotamia and Western Asia. Yet, despite these advantages, Antiochus repeatedly came up short on the battlefield. His tactical failures were laid bare at the Battle of Magnesia-ad-Sipylum in 190 BC. At Magnesia, his huge, combined army was soundly thrashed by the smaller Roman force. Through an analysis of the Seleucid army, the standard tactics of Macedonian-style armies, and a detailed examination of the three main battles of Antiochus III, this book will show how his failure to utilize combined arms at their fullest potential led to such a world-changing defeat at Magnesia.
Book Synopsis Military Service and the Integration of Jews into the Roman Empire by : Raúl González-Salinero
Download or read book Military Service and the Integration of Jews into the Roman Empire written by Raúl González-Salinero and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2022-02-28 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Even though relations between the Jewish people and the Roman state were sometimes strained to the point of warfare and bloodshed, Jewish military service between the 1st century BCE to the 6th century CE is attested by multiple sources.
Book Synopsis Armies of the Hellenistic States, 323 BC–AD 30 by : Gabriele Esposito
Download or read book Armies of the Hellenistic States, 323 BC–AD 30 written by Gabriele Esposito and published by Pen and Sword. This book was released on 2019-02-28 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This fully illustrated history chronicles the evolution of Hellenistic warfare from the death of Alexander the Great to Rome’s conquest of the region. This book provides a complete and detailed analysis of the organization and equipment employed by the armies of the Hellenistic States. After Alexander the Great’s death in 323 BC, his immense Macedonian empire was divided between his generals, who in turn formed their own monarchies across Eastern Europe, Asia and North Africa. This work will follow the development of the Hellenistic military forces from the army bequeathed by Alexander to the complex military machines that succumbed one by one in the wars against the expanding Romans. Fully illustrated with color photographs, this volume also shows how Hellenistic forces were strongly influenced by Roman models during the last years of independence of their kingdoms. The states analyzed are: Macedon, Seleucid Empire, Ptolemaic Egypt, The Greco-Bactrian Kingdom, Armenia, Pergamon, Pontus, Cappadocia, Galatia, The Bosporan Kingdom, Epirus, Sicily, The Achaean League and The Aetolian League.
Book Synopsis From Samarkhand to Sardis by : Susan M. Sherwin-White
Download or read book From Samarkhand to Sardis written by Susan M. Sherwin-White and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1993-01-01 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Persian empire and earlier Middle Eastern states. They investigate the economies, social structures, political systems and cultures of the many peoples making up the empire, and analyse, in the context of colonialism and imperialism, such evidence as exists for cultural changes, including Hellenisation. The book makes accessible the great variety of new and important documents, Greek and non-Greek, that have been recently discovered. It will be of interest to students,
Book Synopsis The Army of Ptolemaic Egypt 323 to 204 Bc by : Paul Johstono
Download or read book The Army of Ptolemaic Egypt 323 to 204 Bc written by Paul Johstono and published by Pen & Sword Military. This book was released on 2020-12-19 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Ptolemaic Dynasty ruled Egypt and much of the eastern Mediterranean basin for nearly 300 years. As a Macedonian dynasty, they derived much of their legitimacy from military activity. As an Egyptian dynasty, they derived much of their real wealth and power from maintaining a secure hold on their new homeland. As lords of a far-flung empire, they maintained much of their authority through garrisons and the threat of military action. To achieve this they devoted much of their activity to the development and maintenance of a large army and navy.This work focuses on the period of the first four Ptolemies, from the acquisition of Egypt after the death of Alexander the Great to the great battle of Raphia more than a century later. It offers a study of the Ptolemaic army as an institution, and of its military operations, both reconstructed through a wide range of ancient sources, from histories to documentary papyri and inscriptions to archaeological finds. It examines the reasons for Ptolemaic successes and failures, the causes and nature of military change and reform, and the particular details of the Ptolemaic army's soldier classes, unit organization, equipment, tactics, and the Ptolemaic state's strategy to compile a military history of the golden age of one of the classical world's significant forces.
Book Synopsis The Economy of Late Achaemenid and Seleucid Babylonia by : Reinhard Pirngruber
Download or read book The Economy of Late Achaemenid and Seleucid Babylonia written by Reinhard Pirngruber and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2017-03-06 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book devises an innovative way to analyse Babylonian commodity price data in its historical context using formal statistical analysis.
Book Synopsis Antioch in Syria by : Kristina M. Neumann
Download or read book Antioch in Syria written by Kristina M. Neumann and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2021-09-02 with total page 439 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Combines ancient coins and innovative digital technologies to study the citizens of Syrian Antioch and their imperial conquerors.
Book Synopsis The Art of Siege Warfare and Military Architecture from the Classical World to the Middle Ages by : Michael Eisenberg
Download or read book The Art of Siege Warfare and Military Architecture from the Classical World to the Middle Ages written by Michael Eisenberg and published by Oxbow Books. This book was released on 2021-01-31 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The papers in this book present, for the first time, the world of warfare, both defensive and offensive, from the Classical periods to end of the Middle Ages in one collection. These scholarships have attracted ancient writers and generals and nowadays historians, archaeologists and researchers poliorcetics. Military historiography and ancient manuals are well familiar from the Classical period throughout the Hellenistic great battlefields until the end of the Middle Ages, the chronological scope of this codex. The current book is the first to encompass this long array of time while trying to enrich the reader with the continuity, development and regression in the different periods and spheres of the ancient poliorcetics and beyond; the papers presented here are focusing on the physical fortifications, besieging and defense techniques, development and efficiency of ancient projectiles and sieging machinery, battlefields and the historiographical evidence. The X papers of the book, are written by some of the best scholars in their field, presenting here for the first time the results of their research, in the west and in the east.
Book Synopsis The Seleukid Empire of Antiochus III by : John D Grainger
Download or read book The Seleukid Empire of Antiochus III written by John D Grainger and published by Pen and Sword. This book was released on 2015-03-31 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The second volume in John Grainger's history of the Seleukid Empire is devoted to the reign of Antiochus III. Too often remembered only as the man who lost to the Romans at Magnesia, Antiochus is here revealed as one of the most powerful and capable rulers of the age. Having emerged from civil war in 223 as the sole survivor of the Seleukid dynasty, he shouldered the burdens of a weakened and divided realm. Though defeated by Egypt in the Fourth Syrian War, he gradually restored full control over the empire. His great Eastern campaign took Macedonian arms back to India for the first time since Alexander's day and, returning west, he went on to conquer Thrace and finally wrest Syria from Ptolemaic control. ?Then came intervention in Greece and the clash with Rome leading to the defeat at Magnesia and the restrictive Peace of Apamea. Despite this, Antiochus remained ambitious, campaigning in the East again; when he died in 187 BC the empire was still one of the most powerful states in the world.
