Author: Calum Gilmour
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781877332890
Category : Greece
Languages : en
Pages : 44

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Author: Nic Fields
Publisher: Osprey Publishing
ISBN: 9781846032585
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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Osprey's study of one of the most important battles of the Peloponnesian War (431 - 404 BC). In 415 BC Athens launched a large expeditionary force, its goal the rich, grain-producing island of Sicily. This was in response to a call for help in a minor war from an old ally but the true objectives were the powerful city of Syracuse, suspected of supporting Athens' Peloponnesian enemies, and imperial expansion. The Athenians won an inconclusive victory over the Syracusans late in the year and renewed their attack in the spring of 414. After a period of energetic siege warfare and a series of large-scale battles on land and sea, the Syracusans gained the upper hand and the expedition ended in total disaster with grave consequences for the future of Athens. Nic Fields explores the background of this foolhardy venture in which Athens took on a nation that was militarily and financially strong and over 700 miles distant. Then, following the narrative of Thucydides, the chronicler of the Peloponnesian War, he describes and explains the long and violent campaign that pitted the two largest democracies of the Greek world against each other.

Author: Donald Kagan
Publisher: Cornell University Press
ISBN: 0801467241
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 402

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Why did the Peace of Nicias fail to reconcile Athens and Sparta? In the third volume of his landmark four-volume history of the Peloponnesian War, Donald Kagan examines the years between the signing of the peace treaty and the destruction of the Athenian expedition to Sicily in 413 B.C. The principal figure in the narrative is the Athenian politician and general Nicias, whose policies shaped the treaty and whose military strategies played a major role in the attack against Sicily.

Author: Peter GREEN
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780340024669
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :

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Author: Frank D'Earmo
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 346

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Drawing on John Keegan's Face of Battle approach, this MA thesis reconstructs the soldiers' experience during the final phase of the Athenians' Sicilian Expedition (415-413 BC). By integrating a thorough analysis of the extant historiographical sources (Thucydides, Diodorus Siculus, Plutarch's Life of Nicias) with the intrinsic aspects of ancient Greek naval and land warfare, the topography around Syracuse, and the Athenian soldiers' psychological condition, I seek to improve our understanding of how and why the Athenians and their allies lost the decisive naval engagement in the Great Harbour and failed to escape the Syracusans during their final retreat overland. I make the case that the Athenian defeat is largely caused by factors outside of their control such as access to resources, geography, and Syracusan preparedness. However, the Athenian s also suffered owing to their own inaction caused by demoralization.

Author: Richard Evans
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317181352
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 235

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Syracuse possesses a unique place in the history of the ancient Mediterranean because of its contribution to Greek culture and political thought and practice. Even in the first century BC Cicero could still declare ’You have often heard that of all the Greek cities Syracuse is the greatest and most beautiful.’ Sicily’s strategic location in the Mediterranean brought the city prosperity and power, placing it in the first rank of states in the ancient world. The history and governance of the city were recorded from the fifth century BC and the volume of literary sources comes close to matching the records of Athens or Rome. Combining literary and material evidence this monograph traces the history of Syracuse, offering new arguments about the date of the city’s foundation, and continues through the fifth century when, as a democracy, Syracuse’s military strength grew to equal that of Athens or Sparta, surpassing them in the early fourth century under the tyrant Dionysius I. From ca. 350 BC, however, the city’s fortunes declined as the state was wracked with civil strife as the tyranny lost control. The result was a collapse so serious that the city faced complete and imminent destruction.

Author: PHILIP. MATYSZAK
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781399024846
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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Author: Peter R. Mansoor
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107136024
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 417

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A broad-ranging study of the relationship between alliances and the conduct of grand strategy, examined through historical case studies.

Author: Thucydides
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 0226801055
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 635

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"Thomas Hobbes's translation of Thucydides brings together the magisterial prose of one of the greatest writers of the English language and the depth of mind and experience of one of the greatest writers of history in any language. . . . For every reason, the current availability of this great work is a boon."—Joseph Cropsey, University of Chicago

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Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004501754
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 372

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Brill’s Companion to Greek Land Warfare Beyond the Phalanx brings together emerging and established scholars to build on the new consensus of multiform Greek warfare, on and off the battlefield, beyond the usual chronological, geographical, and operational boundaries.