A Companion to Greek Warfare

Jeanne Reamesis Director of the Ancient Mediterranean Studies Program at the University of Nebraska-Omaha, where she also served as the History Graduate Program Chair until recently. She specializes in Argead Macedonia up through the court of Alexander the Great, including areas of social history (both Macedonian and Greek): religion, ethnicity, military, and sexuality. In addition, she has a long-time interest in Alexander’s portrayal in modern pop culture. Her Ph.D. is from the Pennsylvania State University, 1998.

Joseph Roismanis a Professor Emeritus of Classics at Colby College. His main publications deal with Greek political, social, and military history and the Attic orators. They include Lycurgus, Against Leocrates. Introduction and Commentary by Joseph Roisman. Translation by Michael Edward (2019), The Classical Art of Command: Eight Greek Generals Who Changed the History of Warfare (2017), Alexander’s Veterans and the Early Wars of the Successors (2012), and The General Demosthenes and His Use of Military Surprise (1993). He edited Ancient Greece from Homer to Alexander: The Ancient Evidence . Translation by John Yardley (2011), and co-edited with Ian Worthington A Companion to Ancient Macedonia (2010).

Jeffrey Ropis Associate Professor of History at the University of Minnesota, Duluth. His publications include Greek Military Service in the Ancient Near East, 401–330 BCE (2019), and articles on the military and political history and historiography of ancient Greece and Persia.

Frank Russellreceived his B.A. in Classics from Loyola Marymount, and his M.A. and Ph.D. in Classics from UCLA. His areas of research are Greek and Roman intelligence, frontier zones, and counterinsurgency. He teaches at Transylvania University, where he is Professor of History.

Gordon Shrimptonis Professor Emeritus at the University of Victoria, British Columbia. His books include Theopompus the Historian (1991) and History and Memory in Ancient Greece (1997). The chapter in this collection explores the remarkable way one city, Athens, was able to suppress its bitter memory of civil conflict.

J. Vela-Tejadais Professor of Classics at University of Zaragoza (Spain). He has written extensively on Greek warfare and military literature from his dissertation on the language of Aeneas Tacticus (1991). He is author of articles on “Warfare, History and Literature in the Archaic and Classical Periods,” Historia 53, 2004, and “Creating Koiné: Aineias Tacticus in the History of the Greek Language” (in M. Pretzler and N. Barley (eds.), Brill's Companion to Aineias Tacticus , 2017). His research area also covers the scope of Xenophon ( Post H.R. Breitenbach: tres décadas de estudios sobre Jenofonte (1967–1997) , Zaragoza, 1998; he is co-author of Xenophontis operum Concordantiae, vols. I: Hellenica, II: Anabasis , 2002 ; III: Cyrupaedia , 2003 ; V: Opuscula , 2008), and Plutarch (“Atticism in Plutarch: a or diglossia?,” Euphrosyne 47, 2019).

Lawrence Tritleis Professor Emeritus of History at Loyola Marymount University, Los Angeles, California (1978–2017); in 2012 he was selected as Daum Research Professor of History and in 2014 received the Rains Award for Distinguished Research and Scholarship. An ancient historian by training (Ph.D., University of Chicago, 1978), his publications include From Melos to My Lai. War and Survival (2000), A New History of t he Peloponnesian War (2010), The Oxford Handbook of Warfare in the Classical World (edited with B. Campbell, 2013), and most recently The Many Faces of War (edited with J.W. Warren, 2018). Tritle’s research focuses on comparative war and violence. His investigations center on the experience of war, investigating war’s impact on the individuals who fight and the wider consequences of violence on culture and society. A combat veteran of the Vietnam War, Tritle supported South Vietnamese forces in ground operations. His decorations include the Combat Infantrymen’s Badge, Bronze Star, and Vietnamese Cross of Gallantry.

David Whitehead, a one-time pupil of M.I. Finley, is Emeritus Professor of Ancient History at Queen’s University, Belfast, and an elected Member of the Royal Irish Academy. After monographs on the metics (1977) and the demes (1986) of Athens, his research output has focused on two main fields: Athenian courtroom oratory—commentaries on Hyperides (2000) and Isocrates (forthcoming); and, as exemplified in the present volume, Greek military history and military writers, with particular reference to siege warfare.

Carolyn Willekesis a Senior Lecturer in the Department of General Education at Mount Royal University. She received her Ph.D. in Greek and Roman Studies from the University of Calgary. Her research focuses primarily on the horse–human relationship in the ancient world, with a particular interest in the use of horses in warfare. She is author of The Horse in the Ancient World: From Bucephalus to the Hippodrome (2016) and Greek Warriors: Hoplites and Heroes (2017), as well as several chapters and articles, including “A Tale of Two Games: Cirit, Buzkashi, and the Horsemen of the Ancient Asiatic Steppe” ( Nomadic Peoples , 2017) and “Breeding Success: The Creation of the Racehorse in Antiquity” ( Mouseion , 2019).

With a few exceptions, journal titles in the bibliography follow the standard abbreviations specified in L’Année Philologique . Abbreviations in the notes follow the Oxford Classical Dictionary , ed. S. Hornblower, A. Spawforth, and E. Eidinow. 4th ed., Oxford, 2012.

AOAT = Alter Orient und Altes Testament .

Barrington Atlas = Barrington Atlas of the Greek and Roman World , ed. R.J.A. Talbert, Princeton, and Oxford, 2000.

CAH = The Cambridge Ancient History , multiple editors, volumes and editions, Cambridge, 1970–2005.

JÖAI = Jahrshefte des Osterreichischen Archaologischen Instituts .

ML = Russell Meiggs and David Lewis. 1969. A Selection of Greek Historical Inscriptions to the end of the Fifth Century BC , Oxford; 2nd revised ed. Oxford 1988.

RE = Real-Encyclopädie der classischen Altertumswissenschaft .

SEG = Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum .

Map 1 Greece and Anatolia

Map 2 Sicily and Magna Graecia

Map 3 The Hellenistic East

14.1 An Arsacid Gorytos

14.2 The Prince of Shami

14.3 Antiochus I of Commagene

14.4 Parthian Leg Armor

14.5 The Defenses of Merv

28.1 Hoplites on the Chigi Vase

28.2 Block from the South Frieze of the Temple of Athena Nike

28.3 Block from the South Frieze of the Temple of Athena Nike

28.4 The Alexander Mosaic

28.5 Alexander as He Appears in the Mosaic

28.6 Alexander on the Attack in the Mosaic

28.7 Darius as He Appears in the Mosaic

28.8 Darius’ Horses in the Mosaic

28.9 The Pursuit of Darius on an Apulian Vase

28.10 A Cavalry Attack According to a Funeral Relief

28.11 The Battle of Pydna According to a Relief on a Statue Base

29.1 The Funeral Relief in Honor of Dexileus

12.1 Greek Military Service in the Persian Empire