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War in the Hellenistic World : A Social and Cultural History
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War in the Hellenistic World : A Social and Cultural History Paperback - 2005 - 1st Edition

by Chaniotis, Angelos

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  • Title War in the Hellenistic World : A Social and Cultural History
  • Author Chaniotis, Angelos
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition number 1st
  • Edition 1
  • Condition New
  • Pages 336
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Wiley & Sons, Incorporated, John, GB
  • Date 2005-02-01
  • Illustrated Yes
  • Features Bibliography, Illustrated, Index, Maps
  • Bookseller's Inventory # 49673579-6
  • ISBN 9780631226086 / 0631226087
  • Weight 1.1 lbs (0.50 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.02 x 8.88 x 0.99 in (22.91 x 22.56 x 2.51 cm)
  • Themes
    • Chronological Period: Ancient (To 499 A.D.)
    • Cultural Region: Greece
    • Cultural Region: Middle Eastern
    • Cultural Region: North Africa
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 2004008897
  • Dewey Decimal Code 938.08

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First line

If we are to believe the healing miracles of Epidauros, inscribed in the Asklepieion around the mid-fourth century BC, a visitor to that most famous Greek sanctuary would not only admire the newly-built temple and the sumptuous dedications, but also see, among the pilgrims seeking healing in that place, men whose bodies and faces had been marked by the wounds inflicted in war (LiDonnici 1995): "Euhippos bore a spear head in his jaw for six years" (A12); "Gorgias of Herakleia . . . was wounded in the lung by an arrow in some battle, and for a year and six months it was festering so badly, that he filled sixty-seven bowls with pus" (B10); "Antikrates of Knidos . . . had been struck with a spear through both his eyes in some battle, and he became blind and carried around the spearhead with him, inside his face" (B12).

From the rear cover

In the 300 years between the conquest of Alexander the Great and the battle at Actium, continual warfare had a dramatic effect on Hellenistic society and culture. Exploiting the abundant primary sources available, this book examines the many different ways in which war shaped the Hellenistic world.


The volume shows how war was intimately connected with economic, social and political life, looking at the connections between war and religion, the ideology of Hellenistic monarchy, the rule of elites, and technological change. At the same time, the book continually draws attention to the experience of war, both from the battlefield perspective of professional soldiers, and from that of its victims - non-combatants, women and children.

About the author

Angelos Chaniotis is Professor of Ancient History at the University of Heidelberg. He is the author of Historie und Historiker in den griechischen Inschriften (1988), Die Vertrge zwischen kretischen Stdten in der hellenistischen Zeit (1996) as well as numerous articles on Hellenistic and Roman history and Greek epigraphy. Together with P. Ducrey he has edited Army and Power in the Ancient World (2002).

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