Columbia. His books include Theopompus the Historian (1991) and History and Memory in Ancient Greece (1997). The chapter in this collection explores the remarkable way one city, Athens, was able to suppress its bitter memory of civil conflict.
J. Vela-Tejada is Professor of Classics at University of Zaragoza (Spain). He has written extensively on Greek warfare and military literature from his dissertation on the language of Aeneas Tacticus (1991). He is author of articles on “Warfare, History and Literature in the Archaic and Classical Periods,” Historia 53, 2004, and “Creating Koiné: Aineias Tacticus in the History of the Greek Language” (in M. Pretzler and N. Barley (eds.), Brill's Companion to Aineias Tacticus, 2017). His research area also covers the scope of Xenophon (Post H.R. Breitenbach: tres décadas de estudios sobre Jenofonte (1967–1997), Zaragoza, 1998; he is co-author of Xenophontis operum Concordantiae, vols. I: Hellenica, II: Anabasis, 2002; III: Cyrupaedia, 2003; V: Opuscula, 2008), and Plutarch (“Atticism in Plutarch: a
Lawrence Tritle is Professor Emeritus of History at Loyola Marymount University, Los Angeles, California (1978–2017); in 2012 he was selected as Daum Research Professor of History and in 2014 received the Rains Award for Distinguished Research and Scholarship. An ancient historian by training (Ph.D., University of Chicago, 1978), his publications include From Melos to My Lai. War and Survival (2000), A New History of the Peloponnesian War (2010), The Oxford Handbook of Warfare in the Classical World (edited with B. Campbell, 2013), and most recently The Many Faces of War (edited with J.W. Warren, 2018). Tritle’s research focuses on comparative war and violence. His investigations center on the experience of war, investigating war’s impact on the individuals who fight and the wider consequences of violence on culture and society. A combat veteran of the Vietnam War, Tritle supported South Vietnamese forces in ground operations. His decorations include the Combat Infantrymen’s Badge, Bronze Star, and Vietnamese Cross of Gallantry.
David Whitehead, a one-time pupil of M.I. Finley, is Emeritus Professor of Ancient History at Queen’s University, Belfast, and an elected Member of the Royal Irish Academy. After monographs on the metics (1977) and the demes (1986) of Athens, his research output has focused on two main fields: Athenian courtroom oratory—commentaries on Hyperides (2000) and Isocrates (forthcoming); and, as exemplified in the present volume, Greek military history and military writers, with particular reference to siege warfare.
Carolyn Willekes is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of General Education at Mount Royal University. She received her Ph.D. in Greek and Roman Studies from the University of Calgary. Her research focuses primarily on the horse–human relationship in the ancient world, with a particular interest in the use of horses in warfare. She is author of The Horse in the Ancient World: From Bucephalus to the Hippodrome (2016) and Greek Warriors: Hoplites and Heroes (2017), as well as several chapters and articles, including “A Tale of Two Games: Cirit, Buzkashi, and the Horsemen of the Ancient Asiatic Steppe” (Nomadic Peoples, 2017) and “Breeding Success: The Creation of the Racehorse in Antiquity” (Mouseion, 2019).
Abbreviations and Short Titles
With a few exceptions, journal titles in the bibliography follow the standard abbreviations specified in L’Année Philologique. Abbreviations in the notes follow the Oxford Classical Dictionary, ed. S. Hornblower, A. Spawforth, and E. Eidinow. 4th ed., Oxford, 2012.
AOAT = Alter Orient und Altes Testament.
Barrington Atlas = Barrington Atlas of the Greek and Roman World, ed. R.J.A. Talbert, Princeton, and Oxford, 2000.
CAH = The Cambridge Ancient History, multiple editors, volumes and editions, Cambridge, 1970–2005.
JÖAI = Jahrshefte des Osterreichischen Archaologischen Instituts.
ML = Russell Meiggs and David Lewis. 1969. A Selection of Greek Historical Inscriptions to the end of the Fifth Century BC, Oxford; 2nd revised ed. Oxford 1988.
RE = Real-Encyclopädie der classischen Altertumswissenschaft.
SEG = Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum.
List of Maps and Figures
Maps
Map 1 Greece and Anatolia
Map 2 Sicily and Magna Graecia
Map 3 The Hellenistic East
Figures
14.1 An Arsacid Gorytos
14.2 The Prince of Shami
14.3 Antiochus I of Commagene
14.4 Parthian Leg Armor
14.5 The Defenses of Merv
28.1 Hoplites on the Chigi Vase
28.2 Block from the South Frieze of the Temple of Athena Nike
28.3 Block from the South Frieze of the Temple of Athena Nike
28.4 The Alexander Mosaic
28.5 Alexander as He Appears in the Mosaic
28.6 Alexander on the Attack in the Mosaic
28.7 Darius as He Appears in the Mosaic
28.8 Darius’ Horses in the Mosaic
28.9 The Pursuit of Darius on an Apulian Vase
28.10 A Cavalry Attack According to a Funeral Relief
28.11 The Battle of Pydna According to a Relief on a Statue Base
29.1 The Funeral Relief in Honor of Dexileus
Table
12.1 Greek Military Service in the Persian Empire
Map 1 Greece and Anatolia.
Map 2 Sicily
