This superbly illustrated volume traces the evolution of the art of warfare in the Greek and Roman worlds between 1600 B.C. and A.D. 800, from the rise of Mycenaean civilization to the fall of Ravenna and the collapse of the Western Roman Empire. John Warry tells of an age of great military commanders such as Alexander the Great, Hannibal, and Julius Caesar - men whose feats of generalship still provide material for discussion and admiration in the military academies of the world.
Chapter 1. THE PRONUNCIATION OF ANCIENT LANGUAGES
Chapter 2. HOMERIC AND MYCENAEAN WARFARE
Chapter 4. THE PELOPONNESIAN WAR
Chapter 5. THE DECLINE OF SPARTA AND ASCENDANCY OF THEBES
Chapter 6. ALEXANDER THE GREAT
Chapter 7. ALEXANDER’S SUCCESSORS AND THE LATER GREEK WORLD
Chapter 8. PYRRHUS OF EPIRUS AND THE ROMAN REPUBLIC
Chapter 9. THE PUNIC WARS AND ROMAN EXPANSION
Chapter 11. POMPEY AND HIS EPOCH
Chapter 13. THE WARS OF THE TRIUMVIRATE
Chapter 14. THE MILITARY TASK OF IMPERIAL ROME
Chapter 15. THE COMING OF THE BARBARIANS