Product details

Art.No:

95912

Author / Artist:

Wees, Hans van

Title:

Subtitles / Reproduction:

War and violence in ancient Greece.

Keyword:

Militaria-Kriegsgeschichte, Geschichte - Antike

Binding / Picture Size:

Kart. m. OU

Publisher:

Duckworth

Place of publishing:

London

Year of publication:

2000

Book Details / Size:

Gr.8°, X, 389 S., einige Abb.

Condition:

Tadell.

Description:

Contents: Introduction -- Keith Hopwood -- 1. The Mafia of early Greece: Violent exploitation in the seventh and sixth centuries bc -- Hans van Wees (University College London) -- 2. Workshops of villains : Was there much organised crime in classical Athens? -- Nick Fisher (University of Wales Cardiff) -- 3. Condottieri and clansmen: Early Italian raiding, warfare and the state -- Louis Rawlings (University of Wales Cardiff) -- 4. The revolt of the Boukoloi: Geography, history and myth Richard Alston (King s College London) -- 5. Native rebellion in the Pisidian Taurus -- Stephen Mitchell (University of Wales Swansea) -- 6. Bandits between grandees and the state:The structure of order in Roman Rough Cilicia -- Keith Hopwood (University of Wales Lampeter) -- 7. You speculate on the misery of the poor : Usury as civic injustice in Basil of Caesarea s second homily on Psalm 14 Susan R, Holman (Brown University) -- 8. The violence of the circus factions -- Michael Whitby (University of Warwick) -- 9. Crime and control in Aztec society -- Frances F. Berdan. Text: engl.