11-27-2020, 03:52 AM
(This post was last modified: 11-27-2020, 05:06 AM by Sean Manning.
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Why hasn't there been a book on Achaemenid armies and warfare since 1992? Why do so many of those books focus on Greek texts and art and have little to say about indigenous texts or archaeological finds? What kinds of thinking and analogies are behind many of the things that most books and chapters agree on? An all-sources approach has been standard in Roman Army Studies since the 1980s, after all. I have just published a book which answers these questions
Armed Force in the Teispid-Achaemenid Empire: Past Approaches, Future Prospects contains most of what was in my free-to-read PhD thesis, as well as:
You can find more information at http://www.steiner-verlag.de/titel/9783515127752.html
Armed Force in the Teispid-Achaemenid Empire: Past Approaches, Future Prospects contains most of what was in my free-to-read PhD thesis, as well as:
- New material on archaeology, cuneiform and biblical sources, and artwork
- English translations of all long quotes from languages other than English
- Three maps covering most of the cities and archaeological sites mentioned
- Two illustrations of period artwork
- Indices of sources cited, words in ancient languages, and people, places, and technical terms
- Extensively revised footnotes and bibliography
You can find more information at http://www.steiner-verlag.de/titel/9783515127752.html
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I have not checked this forum frequently since 2013, but I hope that these old posts have some value. I now have a blog on books, swords, and the curious things humans do with them.
I have not checked this forum frequently since 2013, but I hope that these old posts have some value. I now have a blog on books, swords, and the curious things humans do with them.