Battle in Antiquity

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Battle in Antiquity is written by Alan B. Lloyd and published by Classical Press of Wales. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 1910589381 (ISBN 10) and 9781910589380 (ISBN 13).

How do fighting men act and feel in battle? How do they deal with the trauma of conflict? What determines the outcome of battle? Modern research on war, notably that of John Keegan and Victor Hanson, has posed these questions with a new acuteness. In the ancient world, warfare was a constant reality. Much ancient literature deals with it. The present collection of original studies applies the new methods, for the first time, to the warriors of Greece, Rome and Pharaonic Egypt. The contributors demonstrate that the battle-experience of Homer's heroes and of Alexander's infantrymen compares surprisingly with that of Wellington's redcoats.