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THE CAMBRIDGE HISTOR Y OF GREEKAND ROMAN WAR FARE
Warfare was the single biggest preoccupation of historians in antiquity. In recentdecades fresh textual interpretations, numerous new archaeological discoveries anda much broader analytical focus emphasizing social, economic, political and cul-tural approaches have transformed our understanding of ancient warfare. Volumei of this two-volume History reflects these developments and provides a systematicaccount, written by a distinguished cast of contributors, of the various themesunderlying the warfare of the Greek world from the archaic to the Hellenisticperiod and of early and middle Republican Rome. For each broad period devel-opments in troop-types, equipment, strategy and tactics are discussed. These areplaced in the broader context of developments in international relations and therelationship of warfare to both the state and wider society. Numerous illustrations,a glossary and chronology, and information about the ancient authors mentionedsupplement the text. This will become the primary reference work for specialistsand non-specialists alike.
philip sabin is Professor of Strategic Studies in the Department of War Studiesat King’s College London. His main academic interest concerns the analyticalmodelling of conflict, and he is the author of Lost Battles: Reconstructing the GreatClashes of the Ancient World (2007) and coeditor (with Tim Cornell and BorisRankov) of The Second Punic War: A Reappraisal (1996). He teaches and writesabout the strategy and tactics of warfare from ancient times to the twenty-firstcentury.
hans van wees is Professor of Ancient History at University College London.He is the author of Status Warriors: War, Violence and Society in Homer and History(1992) and Greek Warfare: Myths and Realities (2004) and editor of War and Violencein Ancient Greece (2000). He has coedited (with Nick Fisher) Archaic Greece: NewApproaches and New Evidence (1998), (with Egbert Bakker and Irene de Jong) Brill’sCompanion to Herodotus (2002) and (with Kurt Raaflaub) A Companion to ArchaicGreece (forthcoming).
michael whitby is Professor of Classics and Ancient History at the Universityof Warwick. He is the coeditor of Volume XIV of The Cambridge Ancient History(2001) and author of Rome at War, ad 293–696 (2002) as well as several articleson late Roman warfare, and has made several television appearances talking aboutancient warfare from the Graeco-Persian Wars to the collapse of the Roman Empire.
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THE CAMBRIDGE
HIS TORY OF GREEK
AND ROMAN WARFARE
VOLUME I
Greece, the Hellenistic world and the rise of Rome
Edited by
PHILIP SABIN
Department of War Studies, King’s College London
HANS VAN WEES
Department of History, University College London
MICHAEL WHITBY
Department of Classics and Ancient History, University of Warwick
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CONTENTS
List of figures page viiiList of maps xivEditors’ preface xvAcknowledgements xvii
INTRODUCTION: THE HIS TORIOGRAPHY OFANCIENT WARFARE
1 The modern historiography of ancient warfare 3victor davis hanson (Senior Research Fellow at theHoover Institution, Stanford)
2 Warfare in ancient literature: the paradox of war 22simon hornblower (Grote Professor of Ancient History,University College London)
3 Reconstructing ancient warfare 54michael whitby (Professor of Ancient History, Universityof Warwick)
PAR T I : ARCHAIC AND CL ASSICAL GREECE
4 International relations 85jonathan m. hall (Phyllis Fay Horton Professor in theHumanities, Professor of Classics and Professor of History,University of Chicago)
5 Military forces 108peter hunt (Professor of Classics, University of Colorado)
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6 War 147peter krentz (W. R. Grey Professor of Classics andHistory, Davidson College, North Carolina)
7 Battle 186A. Land battles 186everett l. wheeler (Duke University)
B. Naval battles and sieges 223barry strauss (Professor of Classics and History, CornellUniversity)
8 Warfare and the state 248vincent gabrielsen (Professor of Ancient History,University of Copenhagen)
9 War and society 273hans van wees (Professor of Ancient History, UniversityCollege London)
PAR T II : THE HELLENIS TIC WORLD ANDTHE ROMAN REPUBLIC
10 International relations 303richard billows (Professor of History, ColumbiaUniversity)
11 Military forces 325A. Land forces 325nicholas sekunda (Professor of Ancient History,University of Gdansk)
B. Naval forces 357philip de souza (College Lecturer in Classics, UniversityCollege Dublin)
12 War 368jonathan p. roth (Professor of History, San Jose StateUniversity)
13 Battle 399A. Land battles 399philip sabin (Professor of Strategic Studies, King’s CollegeLondon)
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B. Naval battles and sieges 434philip de souza (College Lecturer in Classics, UniversityCollege Dublin)
14 Warfare and the state 461john serrati (Professor of History and Classics, McGillUniversity, Quebec)
15 War and society 498j . e . lendon (Professor of History, University of Virginia)
Chronological table 517Glossary 533List of ancient authors 545Bibliography 555
Abbreviations 555Main bibliography 558
Index of ancient passages cited 603General index 628
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FIGURES
1. Page from a tenth-century Byzantine copy of Asclepiodotus’Art of Tactics, with drawings of ‘chequerboard’ and otherformations. Florence, Bibliotheca Mediceo-Laurenziana(Plut. 55.4 c.141e). page 4
2. Illustrations from the pamphlet Mars his Field, first printedby Roger Daniell in 1595, showing drill positions forpikemen equipped with shield and spear, a type of infantryrecently introduced under the influence of ancient militarytreatises. 6
3. Scythian archers engaged in long-range missile combatwhile their hoplite companions crouch behind their shields,on a late sixth-century Athenian amphora. Berlin,Antikensammlung (F 1865). C© Copyright Staatliche Museenzu Berlin Preußischer Kulturbesitz. 41
4. Commemoration of female casualties of war.(a) Monument set up in the centre of Messene,
c. 200–150 bc, to honour those who had fallenin one of several recent attempts to capture the city. 45
(b) Part of the inscription on the capping stones whichrecorded six male and four female names, of which thelatter are shown here. C© Photos courtesy of ProfessorPetros Themelis. 4545
(5) Death of Decebalus from Trajan’s column in Rome.C© Copyright DAI Rom (neg. 89.14). 56
(6) Mosaic depicting Alexander and Darius at the battle ofIssus. Naples, Museo Nazionale. Photo: Scala/Art Resource,NY. 63
(7) Column of Arcadius: the Goths expelled fromConstantinople with divine assistance. Drawing in theFreshfield folder, Library of Trinity College, Cambridge. 72
(8) The southern watergate at Dara (early sixth century ad).Gertrude Bell Photographic Archive, University ofNewcastle upon Tyne (R 106) 73
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(9) The replica trireme Olympias. Photo courtesy of the TriremeTrust. 75
(10) Cohort strength report on a writing tablet from Vindolanda(c. ad 100, north Britain). Tabulae Vindolandenses ii.154,front. C© Copyright Oxford, Centre for the Study of AncientDocuments and the British Museum, 2004. 79
(11) Terracotta symbola from Athens. Courtesy of the AmericanSchool of Classical Studies – Agora Excavations. 91
(12) Alabaster vase given as a token of recognition by the Persianking Xerxes, whose name is inscribed on it in fourlanguages: Old Persian, Elamite, Akkadian and Egyptian.London, British Museum. C© Copyright The Trustees of theBritish Museum. 92
(13) Grave monument for Pythagoras of Selymbria, a proxenosburied with public honours in the Cerameicus cemeteryat Athens, c. 460–450 bc. C© Copyright DAI Athen(neg. Kerameikos 5999). 93
(14) Earliest-known hoplite panoply, from Argos. Late eighthcentury. Photo courtesy of the Syndics of the CambridgeUniversity Library. 112
5.2 (a)–(c) Hoplite armour and the sideways-on stance adoptedby hoplites in combat represented by a statuette fromDodona, c. 500 bc. Berlin, Antikensammlung.C© Copyright Staatliche Museen zu Berlin PreußischerKulturbesitz (Misc. 7470). Photos: (a)–(b) JuttaTietz-Glagow, (c) Ingrid Geske. 114
(15) Two slave attendants assisting four hoplites as they armthemselves, on an Attic cup of c. 480 bc. Vatican City,Museo Etrusco Gregoriano (inv. 16583). Photo courtesy ofthe Syndics of the Cambridge University Library. 115
(16) A light form of hoplite equipment common in the classicalperiod as represented on the grave monument of Lisas ofTegea, buried in Attica in the late fifth century bc. 116
(17) Charging cavalrymen with light round single-grip shieldsand javelins on an archaic terracotta plaque from Thasos.Reproduced from L. J. Worley, Hippeis: The Cavalry ofAncient Greece (Boulder 1994), fig. 3.3. 118
(18) Peltast with characteristic crescent-shaped shield, carrying aspear underarm as if for thrusting rather than throwing, andwearing Thracian-style boots and a fox-fur cap, with a furwrap around the waist. (Attic vase of c. 480 bc found in agrave in Boeotia and now in Thebes.) 121
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(19) Hoplite performing a pyrrhic dance to the music of adouble pipe, on an Attic cup of c. 480 bc. Paris, Musee duLouvre (G 136). C© Photo RMN/ C© Herve Lewandowski. 134
(20) Cavalrymen competing in target practice, on afourth-century bc Attic crater. Paris, Musee du Louvre(G 528). C© Photo RMN/ C© Herve Lewandowski. 136
(21) A hoplite on the point of departure for war consults theomens by inspecting the liver of a sacrificial animal(hepatoscopy) brought to him by a slave attendant, on anAttic amphora of c. 490–480 bc. Martin vonWagner-Museum der Universitat Wurzburg,Antikenabteilung (Kat. L507, neg. PF 13/14). 157
(22) Chalcidian black-figure amphora of c. 540 bc depicting anight raid on an enemy camp in which Odysseus massacresa group of sleeping Thracians. Malibu, J. Paul GettyMuseum (96.AE.1). 166
(23) One of the earliest representations of a tropaion, on an Atticred-figure vase of c. 450 bc. Museum of Fine Arts, Boston(20.187), Francis Bartlett Donation of 1912. Photograph C©Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. 174
(24) Torture or execution by drowning of men who may beeither victims of pirates or prisoners of war after a navalbattle, on an Attic vase of c. 490–480 bc. 181
(25) The sack of a city: soldiers killing women and children inscenes from the sack of Troy, on a large storage jar fromMykonos, c. 670 bc. Photo courtesy of the Syndics of theCambridge University Library. 182
(26) Prisoners of war, with hands tied behind their backs andkept on leads, led away by two hoplites, with a pair of spearseach, and an archer, on a late sixth-century bc Attic vase.Compiegne, Musee Antoine Vivenel (V 1031). 184
(27) Mixed troops in combat over a fallen soldier, on aGeometric vase from Paros, c. 700 bc. 194
7.2 (a)–(c) Early hoplites in action, on the Chigi vase fromCorinth, c. 640 bc. Rome, Villa Giulia (22679). Photoscourtesy of Museo di Villa Giulia. 198
7.3 (a)–(d) Mixed troops in combat, on an early sixth-centurybc Attic cup. Paris, Musee du Louvre (F 72). PhotoRMN/ C© Herve Lewandowski. 200
(28) Rowers, tightly packed in three tiers, inside the replicatrireme Olympias. Reproduced from H. van Wees, GreekWarfare: Myths and Realities (London 2004), pl. xxiv(original by John Coates). 225
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(29) Bronze head of a battering ram, decorated with a ram’shead motif, dedicated at Olympia, c. 450 bc. C© CopyrightDAI Athen (neg. Olympia 2800). Photo: Herrmann. 238
(30) Hoplites in full gear climbing a scaling ladder, whilesquatting archers aim covering fire at the defenders on thecity wall. Nereid Monument, from Xanthus, c. 400 bc.London, British Museum. C© Copyright The Trustees ofthe British Museum. 242
(31) Fighting around a beached warship, on a lateeighth-century Attic vase. New York, The MetropolitanMuseum of Art, Fletcher Fund, 1934 (34.11.2).Photograph, all rights reserved, The MetropolitanMuseum of Art. 251
(32) Early fifth-century Laconian statuette which reflects theideal of the leisure-class soldier. Wadsworth AtheneumMuseum of Art, Hartford, Conn. (1917.815). Gift ofJ. Pierpont Morgan. 275
(33) An early Greek symposium, on a Corinthian vase ofc. 600 bc. Paris, Musee du Louvre (E 629). C© PhotoRMN/ C© Herve Lewandowski. 281
(34) Ornate armour from Afrati in Crete, c. 650–600 bc.Hamburg, Museum fur Kunst und Gewerbe(inv. 1970.26a). 294
(35) Damaged right hand of bronze, from southern France,second century bc, inscribed ‘symbolon with theVelaunians’, and evidently designed to commemorate aformal treaty between a Greek and a native community.Paris, Bibliotheque nationale de France (2503687). 308
(36) Red-figure oinochoe depicting a Greek hoplite fighting anAchaemenid takabara infantryman. Late fifth century bc.Paris, Musee du Louvre (G 571). C© Photo RMN/ C© HerveLewandowski. 327
(37) Stone base depicting an Athenian cavalryman riding downa Greek infantryman. Athens, National ArchaeologicalMuseum (inv. 3708). 328
11.3 (a)–(d) Diagrams of the rhomboid and wedge cavalryformations copied from ancient tactical manuscripts. AfterH. Kochly and W. Rustow, Griechische Kriegsschriftsteller(Leipzig 1855), vol. 2.1, figs. 3–6. 332
(38) Bronze strip found at Pergamum depicting infantryequipped with the larger type of Macedonian shield.Drawing from Altertumer von Pergamon (Berlin 1912).Image courtesy of DAI Istanbul. 337
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(39) Representation of a Macedonian heavy infantryman fromthe Monument of Aemilius Paullus at Delphi. C© EcoleFrancaise d’Athenes (R.1071.03). Photo: Philippe Collet. 338
(40) Pompeian copy of a Hellenistic painting showing the fallof Troy, possibly by Theoros of Samos. House of theMenander, Pompeii I 10, 4, exedra 23. Photo: Scala. 340
(41) Terracotta group depicting two ephebes from a Greek cityof Asia Minor, competing in the thureomachia. Berlin,Antikensammlung (TC 7696). C© Copyright StaatlicheMuseen zu Berlin Preußischer Kulturbesitz,Antikensammlung. 342
(42) Tombstone of Eubolos from Tanagra, c. 275–250 bc.C© Copyright DAI Athen (neg. Tanagra 10). 342
(43) Roman copy, made in the Severan period, of a lateHellenistic statue of a non-oriental, possibly Greek,horse-archer. Reproduced courtesy of the Museo Egizio diTorino. 346
(44) Coin depicting the original type of light leather cavalryshield used by Romans. Courtesy of the Syndics of theFitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge. 352
(45) Roman denarius, struck by C. Servilius, to commemoratethe military exploits of his ancestors. Courtesy of theSyndics of the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge. 352
(46) Grave-stele of Salamas son of Moles from Adada from the‘Soldiers Tomb’ in Sidon. Istanbul, ArchaeologicalMuseum. Photo: Turhan Birgili. 355
(47) A section of the Via Appia, leading from Rome toCampania and Brundisium. Photo courtesy of the Syndicsof the Cambridge University Library. 384
(48) Frieze showing Carthaginian armour and shield from atriumphal monument in Tunisia. Trier, RheinischesLandesmuseum. Photo courtesy of the Syndics of theCambridge University Library. 412
(49) Gravestone from Padua showing a Celtic chariot with adouble-hoop side, c. 300 bc. Drawing in Peter Connolly,Greece and Rome at War (London 1981), 124. C© CopyrightPeter Connolly through akg-images. 418
(50) Decadrachm minted in Babylon showing Alexanderattacking Porus on an elephant. London, BritishMuseum. C© Copyright The Trustees of the BritishMuseum. 419
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(51) Painting of a legion versus a phalanx at Pydna. From PeterConnolly, The Roman Army (London 1975), 8–9. C©Copyright Peter Connolly through akg-images. 427
(52) Bronze triple-finned triple bolt head inscribed for Philip ofMacedon. London, British Museum. C© Copyright TheTrustees of the British Museum. 452
(53) The walls of Heraclea under Latmos in Asia Minor.Reproduced from Ducrey, Warfare in Ancient Greece(Schocken 1986), 155. Photo courtesy of the Syndics of theCambridge University Library. 455
(54) Tower at Perge with three large artillery ports. Reproducedfrom Winter, Greek Fortifications (Toronto 1971), pl. 67.Photo courtesy of the Syndics of the Cambridge UniversityLibrary. 456
(55) Hellenistic inscription from Locri which includes at thebottom a simple sketch plan of a defensive towerconstructed with the money listed in the text above.Museo Nazionale Archeologico di Reggio Calabria.Reproduced courtesy of the Soprintendenza per i BeniArcheologici della Calabria. 465
14.2 (a)–(e) Macedonian coinage: (a) a bronze coin ofCassander; (b) and (c) silver tetradrachms of DemetriusPoliorcetes; (d) and (e) silver tetradrachms of AntigonusGonatas Courtesy of the Syndics of the FitzwilliamMuseum, Cambridge. 467
14.3 (a)–(f ) Early Roman coinage: aes signatum (‘signedbronze’) of the third century bc. London, British Museum.C© Copyright The Trustees of the British Museum. 490
(56) Third-century terracotta statuette carrying a sword andother kit, representing a caricature mercenary of a type alsocommon in contemporary comedy. Berlin,Antikensammlung (TC 7820). C© Copyright StaatlicheMuseen zu Berlin Preußischer Kulturbesitz,Antikensammlung. 499
(57) Sarcophagus of Lucius Cornelius Scipio Barbatus, consulof 298 bc, with an inscription dating to c. 200 bc whichillustrates the competitiveness of the Roman elite. MuseiVaticani. Photo reproduced courtesy of the Syndics of theCambridge University Library. 511
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1. The western Mediterranean xviii2. The eastern Mediterranean xxi3. The Near East xxii4. Greece xxiv5. Central Greece and the Peloponnese xxv6. Western Asia Minor and the Hellespont xxvi7. Crete xxvii8. Italy and Sicily xxviii9. Central Italy xxix
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EDITORS ’ PREFACE
Warfare was the single biggest preoccupation of historians in antiquity,but modern academic interest in the subject has revived only in the lastfew decades. The narrowly focused studies of war written before the FirstWorld War by Delbruck, Kromayer, Veith and others have now been super-seded by a much wider spectrum of work, ranging from the individualsoldier’s experience of battle to the place of ancient warfare within widersocial, economic, political and cultural structures. Partly as a result of thisbroader focus, and partly through richer textual analysis and a flood of newarchaeological discoveries, our understanding of ancient warfare has beentransformed.
With the exception of popular survey works, however, there is no compre-hensive overview of this burgeoning field of study. The Cambridge Historyof Greek and Roman Warfare aims to fill this gap: its two volumes surveythe advances made since the 1970s in all aspects of research on ancientwarfare, and provide an opportunity for a distinguished group of expertsin the field to take the subject further still by presenting an array of newideas and suggesting many new directions. Our aim in this work is not toprovide a narrative account of the countless wars which took place across aperiod spanning fifteen centuries – such accounts are readily available fromany number of other sources, not least the Cambridge Ancient History – butto offer a thematic analysis of the main aspects of warfare in the ancientworld.
Three important introductory chapters set the scene: the first puts thepresent volumes in their historiographical context and explains further therationale for their publication; the other two address the nature of evidenceand the problems of its interpretation, two issues which are fundamentalto a new and better understanding of ancient warfare. The bulk of thevolumes is divided into four chronologically ordered parts, each covering aspan of three or four centuries. These chronological divisions serve to drawattention to the broad changes which occurred in warfare and the societiesin which this warfare was practised and pursued. Detailed chronologicaltables at the end of each volume also help readers to place the discussionin its proper historical frame. The first part of volume i covers the earliest
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centuries of Greek society, which generated our most famous accounts ofancient warfare, Homer’s Iliad and Odyssey, as well as the first ‘proper’historical accounts of conflicts, with Thucydides’ record of the Pelopon-nesian War often regarded as the acme of ancient historiography. In thesecond part, early Rome and the Hellenistic world are dealt with in parallel,a rather unusual combination designed to stimulate a fresh analyticalperspective and to overcome the common tendency to keep the Greekand Roman worlds in entirely separate compartments. The first part ofvolume ii bridges one of the great political transitions of the ancient world,that from the Roman Republic to the Principate of Augustus and his suc-cessors, with the intention of highlighting continuing issues and recurrentthemes. The final part deals with the later Empire, a period long seenthrough the prism of ‘Decline and Fall’ but one in which most scholarsnow identify a robust and protracted defence of imperial interests in aworld which was experiencing profound changes, internally through theadoption of Christianity and externally through the arrival of the Huns.
Within each chronological part, the sub-divisions are thematic and reflectthe key aspects of ancient warfare identified in modern historiography:(1) the role of war and peace in international relations; (2) the nature, com-position and status of different kinds of armed forces; (3) the practicalitiesand ethics of the conduct of wars and campaigns; (4) the nature and experi-ence of combat in pitched battles and sieges; (5) the political and economicdimensions of war; and (6) the social and cultural dimensions of war. Thesame sub-divisions are applied in each of the four parts, so as to enablereaders to make comparisons and to pursue particular themes throughoutantiquity. (All dates in volume i are bc unless indicated.)
‘War is terrible’, said Polybius, ‘but not so terrible that we should put upwith anything to avoid it’ (4.31.3). These volumes examine both the formstaken by the terror of war in the ancient world and the forces which alltoo often made it seem necessary to resort to violence at the cost of givingup ‘the thing which we all pray that the gods may give us . . . the onlyincontestable blessing among the so-called good things in life – I meanpeace’ (4.74.3).
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The inspiration for these volumes came from Pauline Hire, former classicseditor at Cambridge University Press, and we are very grateful for her helpand advice in the early stages of this work. Thanks are also due to AshleyClements for his careful subeditorial work and to Nancy-Jane Rucker,Alison Powell, Michael Sharp and Sinead Moloney for their many andvaried contributions in bringing this project to completion. We also wishto thank Barbara Hird for her work in producing the indexes.
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