War As A Cultural And Social Force Essays On Warfare In Antiquity Tnnes Bekkernielsen by Tønnes Bekker-nielsen, Lise Hannestad 9788778761873, 8778761875 instant download after payment.

The present volume owes its origin to a conference held in January 1998. Three contributions (Morgan, van Wees, and Gabrielsen) deal with the interaction between warfare and the structural development o f the Greek city state. From the late fifth century a change in the attitude to war can be perceived, for example in Attic funerary reliefs (L. Hannestad). Internationalization and professionalization of warfare is characteristic o f the hellenistic period (Austin, Bekker-Nielsen). The relation between army and civil society in the Roman Empire is explored from very different perspectives in three contributions (Keppie, Link and N. Hannestad). Parallels between warfare in the Mediterranean world and in contemporary northern Europe and warfare in later European societies are at the focus in the last two contributions.