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The Battles of Antiochus the Great: The Failure of Combined Arms at Magnesia That Handed the World to Rome by [Graham Wrightson]

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Antiochus III, the king of the Seleucid Empire for four decades, ruled a powerful state for a long time. He fought and won many battles from India to Egypt, and he lost almost as many. Compared with most of the other Hellenistic monarchs of Macedonian-founded kingdoms, Antiochus had a greater variety of units that he could field in his army. He was in a unique position among the other kings because he had access to the traditional infantry-based Greek cultures in Asia Minor as well as the cavalry-dominant cultures of Mesopotamia and Western Asia. Yet, despite these advantages, Antiochus repeatedly came up short on the battlefield and his tactical shortcomings were no more obviously laid bare than at the Battle of Magnesia-ad-Sipylum in 190 BC. There his huge combined army, one of the largest ever fielded by Hellenistic rulers, was soundly thrashed by the smaller Roman force. Through an analysis of the Seleucid army, the inherited standard tactics of Macedonian-style armies reliant on the sarissa phalanx, and a detailed examination of the three main battles of Antiochus III, this book will show how it was his failure to utilise combined arms at its fullest realization that led to such a world-changing defeat at Magnesia.

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“This well-written analysis of Macedonian and Successor warfare examines the strengths and weaknesses of the sarissa-armed phalanx using Antiochus' campaigns as a focus… It's a gem of a book on phalanx warfare.”
Historical Miniatures Gaming Society --This text refers to the hardcover edition.

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Graham Wrightson is Assistant Professor of Ancient Greek Military History at South Dakota State University (USA). His research interests focus on ancient warfare and military, in particular ancient Greek military history (Alexander and his successors) and the Crusades, as well as medieval history and medieval England. --This text refers to the hardcover edition.

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ASIN ‏ : ‎ B09VVD325Y
Publisher ‏ : ‎ Pen & Sword Military (March 18, 2022)
Publication date ‏ : ‎ March 18, 2022
Language ‏ : ‎ English
File size ‏ : ‎ 5692 KB
Text-to-Speech ‏ : ‎ Enabled
Screen Reader ‏ : ‎ Supported
Enhanced typesetting ‏ : ‎ Enabled
X-Ray ‏ : ‎ Not Enabled
Word Wise ‏ : ‎ Enabled
Sticky notes ‏ : ‎ On Kindle Scribe
Print length ‏ : ‎ 179 pages
Page numbers source ISBN ‏ : ‎ 1526793466

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- #200 in Ancient Military History (Kindle Store)
- #461 in Ancient Greek History (Kindle Store)
- #1,099 in Ancient Greek History (Books)

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Extremely accessible book and very interesting. If you're interested in the Selucid empire, even just a little bit I recommend this book.

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