new edition of Connolly\'s "Greece and Rome at War"

[Neuraleanus]

What is changed from the old edition?

[Tarbicus]

What is changed from the old edition?

It's a lot cheaper!

Did Adrian Goldsworthy have anything to do with the original? He's in it this time around it seems.

[Ross Cowan]

Aside from an extra preface by Goldsworthy (it doesn't replace Scullard's), the Samnites section has been revised and the Caudine Forks painting reworked. I don't think there is anything else new. The pagination remains the same but the Samnites section is substantially different.

[Virilis]

Guys, can you please be more specific? Is there a more up-to-date edition than the 1998 one with appendixes?

[D B Campbell]

Aside from an extra preface by Goldsworthy (it doesn't replace Scullard's), the Samnites section has been revised and the Caudine Forks painting reworked. I don't think there is anything else new. The pagination remains the same but the Samnites section is substantially different.

Thanks for the heads-up, Ross! Greenhill claim that it's a "new revised edition", but (as you said) the only substantial alteration appears to be the eight-page section on the Samnites.

(btw The Caudine forks painting is the same one, but cropped more generously this time around.)

Guys, can you please be more specific? Is there a more up-to-date edition than the 1998 one with appendixes?

Strictly speaking, the 1998 version was just a reprint of the 1981 original (although, again, Greenhill claimed that it was "reprinted with revisions"). The only "revisions" that I could see were in the bibliography, which included some newer works (and omitted some works which were expected in 1981 but which never appeared).

I suspect Greenhill included the Goldsworthy introduction as a marketing device. But, quite frankly, a book of this quality doesn't need any sweeteners to ensure that it sells. Books on ancient warfare don't come much better than this one.

[Ross Cowan]

(btw The Caudine forks painting is the same one, but cropped more generously this time around.)
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Hi Duncan,

I should have made that clear. It is the same painting, but some of the equipment in the scene has been changed and the 'banners' have become tunics hung from the Samnites' spears as spoils. The changes are neatly done but it hardly justifies buying the new ed.

[D B Campbell]

It is the same painting, but some of the equipment in the scene has been changed and the 'banners' have become tunics hung from the Samnites' spears as spoils.

You're quite right, Ross! I hadn't noticed the subtle changes.
(I wonder why Connolly changed the helmet of the figure at bottom right?)

[Tarbicus]

It's still far cheaper than the secondhand copies I've ALMOST managed to buy (that suddenly turn out to be unavailable, including WHSmith)

[Dan Diffendale]

Updated Samnites, eh? Hmmm... guess I'll have to keep my eyes open.

[D B Campbell]

Updated Samnites, eh?

It may even be your helmet that Connolly has changed, Dan!

[Conal]

Hasn't he added some Hispaniensis blade pictures too ?