THE ANCIENT GREEKS AT WAR

First edition. Publisher's original black cloth with silver titles to the spine, in dustwrapper. A very near fine copy, the binding square and firm, the cloth fresh, with a touch of rubbing to the tail of the spine. The contents, with a light mark to the fore-edge of the text block, are clean throughout, and without previous owners' inscriptions or stamps. Complete with the near fine dustwrapper, which is bright and fresh, with a small mark to the head of the spine and rear panel.

'Drawing on a wealth of literary, epigraphic and archaeological material, this wide-ranging synthesis looks at the practicalities of Greek warfare and its wider social ramifications from the Late Bronze Age (c. 1600 BC) to Alexander the Great (323 BC). Alongside discussions of the nature and role of battle, logistics, strategy and equipment are examinations of other fundamentals of war: religious and economic factors, militarism and martial values, and the relationships between the individual and the community, before, during and after wars' (publisher's blurb).