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Greek military service in the ancient Near East, 401-330 BCE / Jeffrey Rop.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Rop, Jeffrey, 1982- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Greece--History, Military--To 146 B.C.
- Greece.
- History, Military.
- Greek mercenaries.
- Military history, Ancient.
- Genre:
- Military history.
- Physical Description:
- xxvi, 265 pages ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2019.
- Summary:
- This is the first monograph dedicated to the history of Greek military service for the Achaemenid Persian Empire and the Kingdom of Egypt from the rebellion of Cyrus the Younger to the conquests of Alexander the Great. Through careful analysis of the political contexts of their recruitment and detailed reconstructions of their performances as soldiers and generals on the battlefield, Jeffrey Rop overturns the traditional view that the Greeks who fought in the Near East were mercenaries hired for their superior military skills as heavily armored hoplites. The presence of unprecedented numbers of Greek infantry in the armies of Persia and Egypt is not evidence that the levies of these states were militarily inferior or deficient, but a clear sign of unprecedented foreign political influence among the most powerful leaders and cities of Greece for much of the fourth century.
- Contents:
- The Greek thesis
- The Battle of Cunaxa
- Greece and the rebellion of Cyrus the Younger
- Greeks in Persia and Egypt, ca. 400-360
- The revolt of Artabazus
- The Persian conquest of Egypt
- The Greco-Persian defense of Western Anatolia
- The fall of the Achaemenid Persian Empire
- Conclusion: The other Persian Wars.
- Notes:
- "This book is a substantially revised version of my dissertation, itself based on a research paper I wrote at the end of my first year of graduate school in the spring of 2007"-- Author's preface.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Other Format:
- ebook version :
- ISBN:
- 9781108499507
- 1108499503
- OCLC:
- 1085946063
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