This is a 1976 study of the organization and tactics of the Seleucid armies from 312 to 129 BC. The first part of the book discusses the numerical strength of the armies, their sources of manpower, the contingents of the regular army, their equipment and historical development, the chain of command, training and discipline. The second part reconstructs the great campaigns in order to examine the Seleucid tactics. The book provides a lesson in Hellenistic and military history and discusses several questions: how did the Hellenistic armies develop after Alexander? What distinguished the Seleucid army as superior to its Hellenistic contemporaries? The answers illuminate the expansion of Hellenism as we learn how the Seleucid army was used as a military, social and cultural instrument to impose the rule of the dynasty over the vast regions of the Empire and how it helped to shape Hellenistic society in the East.
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A study of the organization and tactics of the Seleucid armies from 312-129 B.C. The Seleucid dynasty succeeded to a large portion of the Asian empire of Alexander the Great. -- Book Description
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A study of the organization and tactics of the Seleucid armies from 312-129 B.C. The Seleucid dynasty succeeded to a large portion of the Asian empire of Alexander the Great.
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This review is from: The Seleucid Army: Organization and Tactics in the Great Campaigns (Cambridge Classical Studies) (Hardcover)
The problem is: there is virtually no other book available on Seleucid armies. So what is your alternative? If the Seleucid empire fits within your scope of interest, you will appreciate this funny study for sure.So what is funny about it? Well, this is the printed version of a 1972 type-writer manuscript, published in a dark blue hardcover edition. Occasionally you might spot a correction with pen, obviously added after the writer examined his type-writer pages before publication. This gives the book a unique charm: you are for sure studying something aimed at an extremely small group of readers. But then, Bar-Kochva presents you with information that is hard if not impossible to obtain elsewhere. What I would have liked to see are more maps and illustrations (there are only three hand-drawn fold-out maps at the end of the book). Apart from that, but only for those very few people with a special or scholarly interest in the Seleucid era, it is a valuable source of information.
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Estimates of the numerical strength of armies are of doubtful validity in ancient historical literature and indeed in accounts of modern warfare even as late as the eighteenth century. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
elephant divisions, northern arena, oriental cavalry, southern arena, military settlers, upper satrapies, phalanx warfare, eastern satrapies, military settlements, heavy troops, national contingents, crack force, independent contingents, recruitment potential, military foundations, scythed chariots, various contingents, municipal status, eastern expedition, light troops, heavy infantry, battle accounts Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Judas Maccabaeus, Alexander Balas, Antiochus the Younger, Books of the Maccabees, Ras El Sadiyatt, Antiochus Epiphanes, Antiochus the Elder, Fourth Syrian War, Golan Heights, Hieronymus of Cardia, Jordan Valley, Demetrius Poliorcetes, First Syrian War, Porphyrion Pass, Ptolemaic Egypt, Seleucid Empire, Seleucid Indian, Chalchanlyan Pass, Doura Europus, John Hyrcanus, Pompeius Trogus, Ras Nebi Younes, Theodotus the Aetolian New!
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Estimates of the numerical strength of armies are of doubtful validity in ancient historical literature and indeed in accounts of modern warfare even as late as the eighteenth century. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
elephant divisions, northern arena, oriental cavalry, southern arena, military settlers, upper satrapies, phalanx warfare, eastern satrapies, military settlements, heavy troops, national contingents, crack force, independent contingents, recruitment potential, military foundations, scythed chariots, various contingents, municipal status, eastern expedition, light troops, heavy infantry, battle accounts Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Judas Maccabaeus, Alexander Balas, Antiochus the Younger, Books of the Maccabees, Ras El Sadiyatt, Antiochus Epiphanes, Antiochus the Elder, Fourth Syrian War, Golan Heights, Hieronymus of Cardia, Jordan Valley, Demetrius Poliorcetes, First Syrian War, Porphyrion Pass, Ptolemaic Egypt, Seleucid Empire, Seleucid Indian, Chalchanlyan Pass, Doura Europus, John Hyrcanus, Pompeius Trogus, Ras Nebi Younes, Theodotus the Aetolian New!
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Front Cover | Table of Contents | First Pages | Index | Back Cover | Surprise Me!
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- History of the Greek World by Max Cary in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
- Ptolemaic Alexandria (Oxford University Press Academic Monograph Reprints) (Vols 1-3) by P. M. Fraser in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
- Greek Mercenary Soldiers by H. W. Parke in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
- The Campaign of Gaugamela (Monographs in Archaeology & Oriental Study) by E.W. Marsden in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- The Greek and Macedonian Art of War by Frank E. Adcock in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
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- Greek Mercenaries: From the Late Archaic Period to Alexander by Matthew Trundle in Back Matter
- The Greek Wars: The Failure of Persia by George Cawkwell in Back Matter
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