Reinstating the hoplite : arms, armour and phalanx fighting in archaic and classical Greece / Adam Schwartz.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Schwartz, Adam, 1973- author.

Series:

Geschichte (Franz Steiner Verlag)

Historia (Wiesbaden, Germany). Einzelschriften ; Heft 207.

Geschichte

Historia : Einzelschriften ; Heft 207

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Military art and science--History--To 500.

Military art and science.

Armor, Ancient--Greece.

Armor, Ancient.

Weapons, Ancient--Greece.

Weapons, Ancient.

Greece--History, Military--To 146 B.C.

Greece.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (340 p.)

Place of Publication:

Stuttgart, [Germany] : Franz Steiner Verlag, 2009.

Summary:

Recent research into the military history of ancient Greece has questioned the central rôle traditionally ascribed to the famous hoplite phalanx by historians and suggested that even as late as the Persian Wars of 480-479 BC, Greek battles consisted essentially of open fighting and duels between individual combatants, in an almost Homeric fashion.In this meticulous study, Adam Schwartz in turn questions the new orthodoxy. Departing from a detailed scrutiny of hoplite equipment and its physical characteristics, the author demonstrates that this equipment must in fact have been develop

Contents:

CONTENTS; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; 1. INTRODUCTION; 1.1 CONVENTIONS; 1.2 AIMS AND PURPOSES; 1.3 RESEARCH HISTORY; 1.4 SOURCES AND METHODS; 2. HOPLITE EQUIPMENT AND ITS LIMITATIONS; 2.1 THE HOPLITE SHIELD; 2.2 HEADGEAR; 2.3 BODY ARMOUR; 2.4 OFFENSIVE WEAPONS; 2.5 PHYSICAL LIMITATIONS - CONCLUSIONS; 3. THE PHALANX; 3.1 THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE PHALANX: MYTH OR REALITY?; 3.2 THE SHIELD IN PHALANX FIGHTING; 3.3 DEPLOYMENT; 3.4 OTHISMOS; 4. DURATION OF HOPLITE BATTLES; 4.1 THE PROBLEM OF TEMPORAL DESIGNATIONS; 4.2 CONTRIBUTING FACTORS; 4.3 UNUSUALLY LONG BATTLES

4.4 EXCURSUS: THE POSSIBLE INFLUENCE OF LITERARY CONVENTIONS5. CONCLUSION; APPENDIX; BIBLIOGRAPHY; LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS; INDICES

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

3-515-10503-4