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    Acarnanian archers150
    Achaean mercenaries204
    Achilles in Vietnam (Shay)280
    Acidinus, L. Manlius553
    Actium, Battle of (31 B.C.)386, 549
    Adams, J. P.354
    Ada of Caria677
    Aegospotami, Battle of (405 B.C.)377, 462
    Aelian
      on Archilochus50
      on Attic cuirass406
      on horse nosebands506
      on linen corselet414
      on lunging of horses526
    Aelius Dubitatus269
    Aeneid (Virgil)282
    aerarium militare
      during Second Punic War691
    Aeschines
      on his dutiful service54
      on his ephebic training as peripolos200
    Aeschylus
      Eberhart and Rodman on731
      on Greek-Persian dichotomy570
      on importance of spear and shield395
    Aetius of Amida296
    Against Alcibiades (Lysias)54
    Against Eubulus (Demosthenes)54–55
    Against Leocrates (Lycurgus)54
    Against Timothes (Demosthenes)54
    Agamemnon (Aeschylus)727
    Agesilaus208
      at Battle of Coronea665
      booty taken from Persian territory209
      and Common Peace of 371 B.C.658
      foraging of army of209
      and manufacture of equipment in Ephesus396
      and new demands of leadership461
      use of plaision formation157
    Agricola (Tacitus)75, 87
    Agricola, Gnaeus Julius242, 390
    agricultural lands
      Sasanian protection of611
      as targets of Hellenistic conquests180
    agriculture
      in Punic North Africa706
      Sasanian irrigation infrastructure712
      toll of war on130
    Agrippa, M. Vipsanius
      at Battle of Actium386
    Ahenobarbus, Gnaeus Domitius422
    Aï Khanoum, Afghanistan123
    Airs Waters Places (Hippocratic Corpus)309n, 10
    Akragas, army of145
    Akragas, Battle of (472/1 B.C.)143
    Albinus, Clodius264
    Alcaeus of Lesbos (Alcaeus of Mytilene)15, 49, 203
      on linen corselets407
      on service of his brother Antimenides to the Babylonians330
    Alcibiades
      siege of Byzantium647
    Alesia, siege of (52 B.C.)
      Caesar on76
      shields used at423
      use of field fortification233
    Alexander Romance137
    Alexander the Great4, 13, 137
      Argyraspids and172
      collection of strategic intelligence357
      infantry
        amount carried by soldiers356
      as inspiration for Romans737
      killing of Cleitus299
      military resources of16
      modern studies of738
      political marriage677
      reform of Macedonian army463
      and siege warfare193
        literary descriptions438
      stereotypes in speech before battle of Issus586
      studies on logistics problems in Asian campaigns353
      study by Dodge738
      use of mercenaries336
    Alimentus, L. Cincius689
    alliances330
      erosion of equal status of Roman33
      pan-Hellenic10
      provision of supplies and356
    Altar of Augustan Peace (Pax Augusta)545
    amphibious strike operations, fleets of classical antiquity and369, 375, 384, 387
    Amphipolis
      Brasidas’s army at461
      inscription on military discipline319
      as timber port134
    Amphitryo (Plautus)562
    Amyntas (king of Macedonia)134
    Anabasis (Xenophon)739
      on discipline and good order316
      included in Men at War732
      on military leadership64
      on use of Democrates son of Temnus as scout478
    Anastasius (Roman Emperor)718
    Andrewes, A.532
    Andromache (Euripides)53, 584
    Andronicos, Manolis409
    Annals (Tacitus)75, 85–87
      on conditions to avoid for the Roman armies246
      example of fleet action390
      on remains of Varus’s army in Teutoburg forest291
    antagonists of Greek and Rome, information about109–12
    Antalcidas, Peace of (387/6 B.C.)536
    Antigenes
      burned alive by Antigonus176
      as chiliarch167
      commander of hypaspists164
      and murder of Perdiccas172
    Antigonus I Monophthalmus (the One-Eyed)
      at battle of Ipsus676
      Demetrius Poliorcetes son of671
      fleet of377
        ambushed by Polyclitus379
      hiring of mercenaries343
    Antigonus II Gonatas17, 191
    Antioch
      captives deported by Kusro I to Asorestan609, 611
      captives deported by Shapur I to Kuzestan609, 611
      reduced status of264
    Antiochus Hierax338
    Antiochus III the Great338
      campaigns of353
      fleet of
        defeat at Battle of Side379
        limits on in treaty with Rome385
      introduction of kataphraktoi on the battlefield189
      and problems of billeting soldiers211
      siege of Bactras440
    “Antonine revolution” in Roman military dress119–21, 121, f
    Antonius Primus244
    Aornos, siege of (327 B.C.)440
    Apollonios, archives of264
    Apology (Plato)56
    Apophthegmata Lakonika50
    Appian
      on soldiers’ terms of service468
      as source on Second Punic War689, 704
    Apulia as ally of Hannibal691
    Arcadians
      aid to Syracuse during Sicilian Expedition634
      military practices145
    Archidamian War651
    Archidamus of Sparta131
    archihypaspistes166
    Archilochus of Paros
      on abandoning shield398
      on epikouros331
      on Lydian ruler Gyges574
    Archimedes
      in service of Hieron II of Syracuse446
      siege weapons194
    Areus (King of Sparta)450
    Arginusae, Battle of461
    Argive shield397
    Argos
      Kegelhelm helmet from401
      military court in316
    Aristarchus of Samothrace496
    aristocracy
      affinity opposing unity among Greeks586
      Greek and Greek/barbarian dichotomy575
      Roman
        and military virtues467
        relationship with army in Imperial era262
      and Sasanian army604
    Aristophanes
      on agrarian population during sieges442
      on Peloponnesian War53
      on trauma of war281
    Aristotle
      on gift of spear and shield after ephebic training395
      on light infantry22
      on military training200
      on pelte shield400
      on tactical system for infantry18
      on war debates in frontier regions8
      on war-mad man5
    Armenia/Armenians
      revolt against Sasanians (450/451)612
      in Sasanian cavalry606
      Sasanian peace with614
    armies, Carthaginian339
    armies, sizes of
      at battle of Ipsus676
      Greek forces in Sicilian Expedition623–25
    armies and appearance117
    armor, Roman
      manufacturing of cavalry armor716
      shoulder protection428
    army, Macedonian23
      little knowledge on campaign infrastructure108
    army, Roman. See also cavalry, Roman See also legions
      allegiance of soldiers to individual commanders40
      Ammianus on flexibility of79
      bureaucracy of262
      change in Imperial era261
      cohors ix Batavorum, documents on94
      cohors xx Palmyrenorum, documents on94
      commands
        delegation of225
        length of38
      conscription of farmers132
      consular armies32
      deployment
        on eastern frontier in late antiquity716
        of manipular battle line226
        on the northern frontiers248
      differences between armies of the Principate and those of the Punic Wars240
      entrenched marching camps102, 232
      flexibility of the manipular formation467
      foreign troops in231
      growing reliance on recruitment of barbarians41
      hunting and provisioning of the troops129
      invasion of Germany east of the Rhine River364
      legal privileges of soldiers267
      and local administration270
      loyalties of soldiers37
      lustration of547
      and means necessary to defeat elephants192
      military command function of political office466
      military traditions468
      organization of
      payment of allies with plunder348
      personal and collective identity as soldiers117–18
      reconstructions of soldiers116, f
      representations of Roman soldiers115, f
      studies on logistics of354
      use of elephants136
      use of professional allies and auxiliaries340
    Arrhidaeus13
    Ars Tactica (Arrian)
      on throwing lances from horseback523
    Ars Veterinaria (Pelagonius)503
    art. See also sculpture
      on Persian army155
      representation of warfare in92
      Sumerian, on warfare135
      tomb paintings of war chariots151
    Artaxata (Armenia)249
    Artemisium, Battle of (480 B.C.)374, 377, 582
    Arthahastra (Kautilya)517
    Asclepiodotus66–67
      on light cavalry191
      on subdivisions of the Macedonian phalanx183
    Asorestan developed by Sasanians611
    Aspis (Menander)53
    Assembly of Centuries (Comitia Centuriata)37
    Assyria
      siege techniques642
      two-level galleys372
    Atarrhias son of Deinomenes167
    Athenaion Politeia (Aristotle)58, 200
    Athens. See also armies, Greek See also hoplites See also navy, Athenian
      acclaiming Antigonus and Demetrius as divine saviors683
      classical army of145
      Demetrius and684
        acclaimed as divine savior683
        liberation from Cassander by675
        siege of Athens682
      discovery of silver at Laurium201–2
      effect of losses of wealthier citizens due to war212
      excavations and evidence of plague in Athens138
      gift by Antigonus to682
      hoplites in19
      identification of aristocrats with Persians575
      impact of destruction of countryside in Peloponnesian War131–32
      inscriptions relating to warfare55
      military commanders460
      mustering of archers150
      penalties for acts relating to military service316
      promoting stereotype of barbarians584
      prosecutions over alleged military misconduct54–55
      wages of soldiers and sailors15
      war and peace129
    Atratinus, L. Sempronius556
    augurium salutis544
    Augustus (Roman Emperor). See also Octavian
      closure of the shrine of Janus545
      exploitation of spolia opima tradition559
      Prima Porta image709, f
      revival of augurium salutis544
      Roman army under34
        auxiliary cavalry514
        binded to the Emperor261
        military bases along the Rhine590
      triumphal theme of funeral of557
    Aulus Atticus508
    Aurelian (Roman Emperor)717
    Aurelius Marcianus267
    Aurelius Sarapion267
    Ausculum, Battle of (279)186
    auxiliary forces, Roman340
      award of Roman citizenship268
      in imperial armies236
      Trajan’s Column on341
    Azerbaijan developed by Sasanians611
    Bacchylides of Ceos51
    Bactra, siege of440
    Baculus, P. Sextius287
    Badian, Ernst360
    Balacrus son of Nicanor170
    Balash (Sasanian king)612
    Balearic archers150
    Baris horses501
    Barsauma, bishop of Nisibis608
    basileis (kings) in Homer313
    Basilica Exercitatoria518
    battlefields
      fertilizing fields130
      post-conflict clearance101
    Battle of Blenheim, The (Southey)290
    Battle of the Champions8, 9, 280
    Battle of the Frogs and the Mice49
    Battle of the Weasel and the Mice49
    Belisarius341
      at battle of Callinicum720
      Procopius secretary to711
    Bellum Civile (Caesar)470
    Bellum Judaicum (Josephus)523
    beneficiarii269
    Bharam Chobin (Parthian general)614–15
    Bible on forbidding cutting down of fruit trees while besieging a city131
    Biton
      Construction of War Engines, The446, 447
      on siege engines of Alexander675
    Blackbourn, D.364
    Blackhawk Down (Bowden)734
    Blackhawk Down (film)734
    Blaesus, Ti. Semprenius384
    Boardman, John399
    Boeotia, invasion of by Spartans658–59
    Boeotian Confederacy, army of659
    Boeotians145
      aid to Syracuse during Sicilian Expedition634
      and large-force reconnaissance476
      light infantry156
    bog deposits, Scandinavian, and information on ancient warfare123
    bonds, creation of by Philip II and Alexander464
    border spats157
    Bowden, Mark734
    Brasidas (Spartan general)
      hoplite formation by156
      social class of459
      on stratagems9
      and timber supply134
    bravery
      acts of courage283
      honors bestowed in Roman army320
      and prestige in Roman and Italian culture466
      in Sparta4
    Britain
      hill forts overcome by Romans241
      Roman conquest of
        archaeological evidence for operation in Northern Scotland103, f
        archaeology on102
      Sarmatian cavalry unit in263, 515
    British Way in Warfare, The (Liddell Hart)47
    Brooke, Rupert728
    Bruttians in Hannibal’s army691
    Busta Gallorum, battlefield of290
    Caesar, Julius74, 75–77, 739
      army of
        deployment of cohorts230
        use of allied cavalry to monitor the Helvetii477
        use of cohorts229
        use of Numidian cavalry514
      building erected by555
      campaigns against the Gauls589–90
        studies on logistics of354
      collection of strategic intelligence76, 357
      combining Roman and Hellenistic traditions470
      on consilium468
      cutting water supply to Cadurci135
      on differences between Gauls and Germans590
      establishment of Rhine-Danube frontier589
      and feast after triumph555
      on good leadership320
      on mutilation during Spanish War of 46/5 B.C.289
      use of field fortifications233
      use of term exploratores480
      Velleius Paterculus on78
      writing included in Men at War731
    Cagniart, P.477
    Callias of Aradus446
    Callinicum, Battle of (A.D. 531)718, 720
    Callisthenes658
    Camillus, M. Furius247
    campaigns
      and objective evaluation242
    Camp Fortifications (Pseudo-Hyginus)479
    camps, Roman
      and future cities271
      Vegetius on maintaining good conditions in camps309
    Çan sarcophagus150
    Cape Taenarum as hiring center for mercenaries343
    Capitoline Fasti551
    Capture of Miletus (Phrynichus)52
    Caracalla (Roman Emperor)262
    Carthage
      heavy infantry of149
      and horsemanship514
      impact of Second Punic War705
      invaders of Punic Africa701
      reforms by Hannibal after Second Punic War705
      reliance on mercenaries339
      return to prosperity after Second Punic War705–6
      use of elephants191
      war chariots151
    Carus (Roman Emperor)717
    Cassius, C. Avidius264
    catapults
      of Demetrius Poliorcetes194
      early use by Dionysius of Syracuse157, 205
      Ephyra catapult447, f
      invention of446
    cats in Roman forts367
    Cavalry Commander, The (Xenophon)516, 739
    Cawkwell, G. L.536
    Celts as mercenaries338
    “Cenotaph of the Julii” (Saint-Remy de Provence)423
    censors, Roman36
    Cephisosotus the Younger169, f
    Cerealis, Governor of Britain102
    Cerealis, Q. Petilius245
    Chaeronea, Battle of (338 B.C.)
      Alexander as commander of Macedonian cavalry at463
      Macedonian cavalry at23
      remains from286
      Theban soldier killed at286, f
      use of sarissa by Philip II’s cavalry410
    Chaeronea, Battle of (86 B.C.)
      burning of enemy arms by Sulla550
      Roman trenches and towers at233
      use of chariots192
    chain of command
      development in Sparta459
    chalcaspides187
    Chalcidians, cavalry of151, 512
    Chaldaeans, heavy infantry of149
    Chamberlin, J. Edward135
    Chester indoor riding school518
    chest wounds298
    Chians
      slave in army of145
    Chigi vase illustration of spears409
    chiliarchies of Macedonians164
    Chios, Battle of (201 B.C.)195
    Chios, siege of645
    Christians
      in Sasanian empire614
      on western frontier of Sasanians612
    Chronicle (Malalas)720
    Churchill, Winston59
    Cicero, M. Tullius
      on Corinthian cavalry201
      on divination by birds548
      on good leadership320
      on medicus in the army307
      preconception on Roman wars562
      on Roman piety and religion542
    Cimon
      disguise of his force158
      siege of Phaselis647
    circumvallation
      as Greek method of siege642
      of Plataea by Spartans648, 650
    citizenship
      open attitude in enrolling new citizens during Hellenistic period213
      Roman32
        awarded to auxiliary forces268
    city-states, Greek
      association with the feminine450
      emergence of199
      given military equipment by Hellenistic rulers201
      polis patriotism576, 578
        versus vision of panhellenic unity586
    clades Variana263
    Classicus, Julius245
    classis (service as heavy infantry)219
    classis Misenatium386
    classis Ravennatium386
    Claudius (Roman Emperor)
      donative on accession262
      revival of augurium salutis544
      revival of fetial treaty ceremonies560
    Claudius Pulcher, Ap.552
    Claudius Pulcher, P.548
    Claudius Terentianus433
    Cleochares of Cephisia516
    Cleombrotus660
      army deployment at Leuctra661
      invasion of Boeotia658
    Cleomenes I (Spartan king)133, 579
      and mercenaries332
    Cleon (Athenian general)652
    close combat, valorization of155
    Clouds (Aristophanes)53
    “Cohesion and disintegration in the Wehrmacht in World War II” (Shils and Janowitz)538
    cohorts
      as basic tactical unit229
      deployment of230
      replacing maniples228
      scouting assignments along the limes484
    coinage
      as military potential for the future15
      naval finances and382
      and payment of mercenaries332
    Colophon, cavalry of151
    combined arms warfare
      coordination of fleet and land army359, 360
    comedies
      Hellenistic on sieges451
      professional soldiers as type of character in Greek337
    Commentaries on the Civil War (Caesar)74, 75
    Commentaries on the Gallic War (Caesar)74, 75
    Commodus (Roman emperor)41
    “common peace,” concept of6
    communities around Roman military bases273–74
    Connolly, J.363
    Connolly, Peter113
      replica of scutum423
      saddle reconstruction507
    Connor, Robert537
    Constantia, Roman fort at716
    Constantine (Roman Emperor)
      cavalry under516
    Constantinople
      Sasanian armies and615
      siege by Sasanians in 626718
    Constantius (Roman emperor)96
    Constantius II (Roman Emperor)716, 717
    Constitution of the Lacedaemonians (Xenophon)65
    Construction of Arrows, The (Heron of Alexandria)447
    Construction of Artillery, The (Heron of Alexandria)447
    Construction of War Engines, The (Biton)447
    consuls, Roman545
      and command in battle225
      and conduct of war36
    Cookson, G. M.731
    Corbulo, Cn. Domitius
      meeting Paetus’s army
      on the Parthian frontier249
      reputation of471
    Corinth
      and Syracuse during Sicilian Expedition626, 632, 634
    Corinthian War (394–386 B.C.)11
    Corupedium, Battle of (280 B.C.)201
    Cossus, A. Cornelius557
    Coulston, J. N. C.119
    cowardice, penalties for316
    Crassus, L. Licinius553
    Crassus, M. Licinius (i)
      after battle of Carrhae257
    Crassus, M. Licinius (ii)
      killing of enemy commander Deldo558
    Cratesipolis677
    Cremona, Second Battle of (A.D. 69)244, 256
    Croesus of Lydia500
    Ctesibius of Alexandria446
    cuirass
      bell cuirass405
      description by Statius431
      effectiveness of414
    culture
      as dividing line between Rome and its enemies86
      Roman army as conduit of29
    Cunaxa, Battle of (401 B.C.)151
      appointment of physicians after defeat at306
      Cyrus the Younger
      Greeks left after333
      infantry formation at153
      mutilation of Persian dead288
    Curtius Lupus390
    Curtius Rufus, Q.164, 165
      on reorganization of command of hypaspists166–67
      on silver-plating of shields166
      on treatment of wounds297
    Cynegetica (Pseudo-Oppian)496
    Cynegeticus (“On Hunting with Dogs”) (Xenophon)64
    Cynoscephalae, Battle of (197 B.C.)185, 477
      burial of cavalry killed at221
      defeat of Philip V at214
      Roman deployment at226
      Roman tactics at233
    Cyropaedia (Education of Cyrus) (Xenophon)65, 207, 586
      on qualities of successful leader462
    Cyrus the Great579
    Cyrus the Younger
      address before Battle of Cunaxa569, 571
      mercenary remuneration offered by344
    Danube front248
    Darius III
      cavalry at Gaugamela513
      chase by Companion Cavalry of Alexander502
      loyalty of Greek mercenaries to348, 349
      served by Rhodian generals342
    Daylamites in Sasanian army607
    deception and stratagem9, 462
    declaration of war
      Greek7
      Roman fetial561
    decorations in Roman Imperial army326
    deforestation
      effect of wars132
      wood need of military forces and133
    Delbrück, H.279
    Delian League
      Athenian control of584
      compared to Latin League31
      financial contributions to15
      in war against Persia10
    Delium, Battle of (424 B.C.)158, 669
      Athenian defeat at290
      Boeotian horses at512
      light troops at22
      opening moves of476
      Theban tactics at664
    deos (apprehension)535
    De re militari (Vegetius)217
    Diadoch War, Second173
    Dictionary of Military and Naval Quotations (Heinl)735
    Dio, Cassius
      on arrowheads301
      on Claudius in Britain242
      on Crassus’s killing of Deldo558
      on revolts against Rome264
      on Septimius Severus against Parthians251
      on siege of Hatra255
      as source on Second Punic War689
      on wounded at Tapae256
    Diocletian (Roman Emperor)
      cavalry under516
      and eastern defenses715
      edict on prices136
      Persian peace settlement717
    Diodorus Siculus165, 170, 174, 739
      on Archimedes’s siege weapons194
      distinction between hypaspists and argyraspides187
      erroneous passage on hoplites334
      on fleet of Antigonus Monophthalmus377
      on Greek mercenaries of Agathocles337
      on high payment offered by Phocians344
      on mercenaries332
      on money and war349
      on new development in siege warfare650
      on payments to Balearic Islanders345
      on Roman reluctance to hiring mercenaries340
      on Sicilian Expedition
      on sieges of Tyre and Rhodes444
      on Spartan sieges650
      on spears thrown by hoplites409
      on swords of peltasts411
      on Syracuse after Athenian Sicilian Expedition640
      on term hoplite397
    Diogenes Laertius58
    Dionysius of Alexandria194
    Dionysius of Halicarnassus
      on fetial res repetere procedure562
      on fetials’ demands for satisfaction before a war562
      on manipular legion223
      on military reform of Servius Tullius219
      on treatment of the wounded in Roman army307
    Dionysius of Syracuse133, 157, 205
      looting of sanctuaries210
      mercenaries employed by338
      production of equipment for infantry200
      quadriremes and quinqueremes of194
      and siege artillery193
      and siege warfare
        siege engines675
        technical innovation446
    Dioscorides, Pedanius295
    diplomacy and provision of supplies356
    diplomatic intelligence before Sicilian Expedition639
    Discourses (Epictus)266
    Dodge, T. A.738
    Domitian (Roman emperor)41, 262
    Dorylaus of Pontus343
    Douglass, Keith730
    Dover, Kenneth534
    Dracon’s law on homicide12
    Drepana, naval defeat at (249 B.C.)548
    Drusenheim helmet432
    Ducetius (Sicel king)145
    “Dulce Et Decorum Est” (Owen)727
    Eberhart, R.731
    Egypt
      allotment of land to military settlers346
      early ship transport of military forces370
      use of Greek mercenaries203
    elaphroi (light cavalry)191
    Eleans, army of146
    elephants136
      at battle of Ipsus676
      reintroduction in Hellenistic warfare191–92
      in Sasanian army714
    “Elephant Victory” (275)191
    Encomium of Helen (Gorgias)281
    endurance, Hellenistic commanders and465
    enemy, locating479
    engineering
      Philon of Byzantium treatises on447
      in sieges97
      Suetonius on soldiers as engineers and builders271
      units at siege of Jotapata253
      units of Trajan’s army250
    Epaminondas
      death at Mantinea156
      extreme discipline by317
      influence on Philip II of Macedon463
      invasion of the Peloponnese345
      spear wound to the chest298
      tactics
        changes in hoplite phalanx396
        use of cavalry in combined arms battle157
    ephebeia (military training of young men)200, 284
    epheboi
      equipment of200
      garrison and duty patrol of483
    Ephorus of Cyme739
    Epidamnus, siege of (434 B.C.)651
    Epidaurus, Argives investment of645
    Epidemics (Hippocratic Corpus)309n, 10
    epilektoi (picked, or elite, troops)182, 202
    Epimachus of Athens446
    Eranshar (land of the Aryans)604–5
      Sasanian offensive warfare as defense of609
    Etruria
      adoption of hoplite equipment218
      traditional equestrian society514
    Eumenes II of Pergamum137, 378
    Euripides52–53
      on madness of Heracles283
      on peace6
      on rituals for the war dead290
      on trauma of war281
    experience in selection of Athenian commanders460
    extortion by Roman soldiers267, 270
    Fabius Pictor, Quintus689
    Face of Battle, The (Keegan)279
    fear
      as motivator of war77
    Ferrill, Arthur352
    finances, Hellenistic wars and government180, 181
    Findlow, Frank J.130
    Finley, Moses536
    fire use in warfare133
      flamethrowers445
    Flaccus, Q. Fulvius703
      use of Numidian cavalry514
    Flamininus, L. Quinctius384
    Flaminius, C.
      defeat at Lake Trasimene282, 697
      triumph approved by popular assembly552
    Flavius Abbinnaeus516
    Florus, revolt of263
    Florus on origin of triumphs551
    Flower, H. I.557
    food
      foraging of armies209
      growing at Roman military bases272
      as important logistic factor355
      Philon of Byzantium on storage of food for besieged cities448
    Foot Companions463
    Forum Augustum557
    Frederick the Great737
    freedom for Greeks as justification of war678, 685
    freedom of speech
      at camp contio324
      in the Republican Roman army323
    freedoms
      of Greek soldiers317
      of Macedonian soldiers318
    friends/guest-friends
      in armies of the ancient world330
      and mercenary service342
    Frisian horse496
    Frogs, The (Aristophanes)52, 53
    From the Founding of the City (Livy)75, 82–83
    Frontinus74, 79–80, 471, 739
      on interference with enemies’ water supply135
      on logistics42
      mention of velites with Sulla at Orchomenus231
      on Roman generalship470
    frugality, Hellenistic commanders and465
    Fulvius Centumalus696
    fustuarium (cudgeling to death)285, 322
    Gabiene, Battle of (316 B.C.)675
      baggage train of Eumenes seized by Antigonus680–81
    Gabriel, R. S.114
    Gaius Gracchus232
    Galen
      on abdominal wounds299
      on hemostasis301
      on plague during reign of Marcus Aurelius138
    Galerius (Roman Emperor)609, 717
    Galloway, J. L.734
    Gates of fire (Pressfield)735
    Gaugamela, Battle of (331 B.C.)164, 476
      Macedonian cavalry at188
      use of a Macedonian reserve force186
    Gauls
      archaeological evidence on110
      employed in Hellenistic armies190
      head-taking in war111
      influence on Roman soldiers’ clothing120
      as martial societies111
      splendor of arms of117
    Gela, ally of Syracuse632
    Gelon of Syracuse
      help sent to Greeks against Persians in 480204
      hiring of mercenaries341
      military dictator204
    Gemellus, Lucius Bellenus266
    Geminus, Gnaeus Servilius383
    General, The (Onasander)471
    generals
      supervision and prosecution of Greek13
      technical skills of Hellenistic465
    Generalship of Alexander the Great, The (Fuller)738
    Germanicus238
      battlefield tour257
      burial of remains of Varus’s army256, 291
      marching order of army of238
      mutinous riots against256
      pursuit of Arminius239
      Tiberius and471
      use of military intelligence357
      use of North Sea365
    Germans
      as auxiliary forces of Romans593, 595
      at beginning of first century A.D.592
      effect of Roman world on590, 593
      Tacitus on86
    Gillespie, Alexander728
    Gladiator (film)726
    Göktürk Khaganate614
    Goldberg, Neil J.130
    Gordian III (Roman Emperor)545, 717
    Gracchus, Ti. Sempronius703
    Granicus River, Battle of (334 B.C.)164, 476, 513
    Grass (Sandburg)290
    Gratian (Roman emperor)79
    Grattius Faliscus493
    Great Jewish War, victory of Titus in254, f
    Great Ludovisi battle sarcophagus420, f
    Great Plains, Battle of (203 B.C.)700
    Greece, Classical (map), xxxiii
    Greek-barbarian dichotomy569–70
      beginning in archaic poetry575
      laid out first in Persae576
    Greek State at War, The (Pritchett)527–28
    Grumentum, Battle of (207 B.C.)698
    Grundy, G. B.739
    Gurgan developed by Sasanians611
    Hadrian (Roman emperor)
      armored cavalry under509
      cost of revolts under264
      establishment of forest reserve134
      exploratores under480
      military skill of471
    Hagemann, Arnold405
    Hagnon (Athenian general)652
    Halicarnassus, siege of (334)164
    Haltern, legionary fortress of364, 590
    Hammond, N. G. L.740
    Hannibal33, 696–99
      admired by Scipio Africanus700
      in Battle of Side379
      commanding fleet of King Prusias of Bithynia378
      debate on possible march on Rome703
      land devastation by132
      requisition of horses in Italy514
      in Second Punic War688
        losses in crossing the Pyrenees701–2
      size of army of690
      studies on logistics of campaigns of354
      study by Dodge738
      tactics of43
      use of elephants136
      use of serpents137
      use of Spanish cavalry at Cannae496
      and welfare of his men698
    Hansen, M. H.13
    Harrington, James737
    Hart, B. H. Liddell47
    Hasdrubal son of Gisco703
    Hasdrubal the Fair696
    hastati220, 223
      withdrawal and replacement by principes228
    hatred as motivator of war77
    Hecuba (Euripides)53
    Heddernheim helmet435
    Heinl, R. D.735
    Hellenica (Xenophon)739
    Hellenic League678
    Hephthalites
      kingdoms eliminated by Kusro I614
      as threat to Sasanians612
    Heraclea, Battle of (280 B.C.)191
    Heracleitus5
    Heracles (Euripides)281
    Heraclitus of Ephesus51
    Herdonea, second battle of (210 B.C.)697, 698
    Herodotus8–9, 49, 61–62, 129
      on Athenians at Marathon396
      on battlefield of Plataea290
      on “Battle of the Champions,”280
      on Battle of Thermopylae580
      on battles between Greeks and Persians154–55
      on Carians and Ionians in service to the pharaoh330
      connection to Homer61
      contrast between hard and soft cultures579, 582
      on freedom and fighting582
      on Greek ethnic solidarity572
      on hysterical blindness279, 280
      idea of sea power376
      justification of war536
      on mercenaries331
      on Miltiades5
      on rituals
        on questions asked of Oracle at Delphi528
      on ritual sacrifices529
      on scythed chariots192
      on size of Xerxes’s army352
      on Thracian peltasts149
      on trierarchoi381
      on triremes of Polycrates of Samos372–73
      on tyranny and mercenaries332
      on use of camels by Cyrus of Persia136
    Hieron of Syracuse143, 204
      Archimedes in service of446
      mercenaries employed by338
      military dictator204
    Himera, Battle of (480 B.C.)151, 204
    Himera as ally of Syracuse632
    hipparch, spies and488
    Hipparchios (“The Duties of a Cavalry Commander”) (Xenophon)64
    Hipponax of Ephesus372
    Histories (Amianus Marcellinus)74
    Hitler’s Army (Bartov)538
    Hölscher, Tonio537
    honor
      Greek code5
      matters of as justification for war536
      of mercenaries349
      as Roman strategic objective under Germanicus240
    hoplite panoply of Roman centuries219
    “Hoplite Revolution,”19, 199
    Hormizdagan, Battle of the plain of (A.D. 224)601, 602
    Hormizd IV (Sasanian king)614
    Howard, Michael740
    Howe, Timothy133
    “H. S. Mauberley (Life and Contacts)” (Pound)729
    hunting as form of warfare129
    Hyccara, capture of city by Athenians629
    Hynes, Samuel732
    hypaspistai basilikoi164
    Idavisto, Battle of240
    identity, civic, in Latin League31
    identity, concept of685
      and homeland679
    identity, Greek572, 572n, 4
      and development of Greek/barbarian dichotomy575
      repulse of Xerxes and development of575
    ideology, military
      in Roman society74
    If I die in a combat zone, box me up and ship me home (O’Brien)733
    Ilerda, Battle of (49 B.C.)230
    Iliad (Homer)728
      Achilles’s battle against the river Scamander128–29
      on armor
        on lack of effectiveness412, 413
        on linen corselet407
      army organization and methods in458
      defining medical treatment301
      differences between elite and commoners574
      on Greek vows before combat528
      justification of war in536
      on military discipline313
      nature of Homeric warfare573n, 8
      similitude of Greeks and Trojans in573, 573n, 7
    imago, Augustus’s use of in military context470–71
    In Command of History (Reynolds)59
    infamia (disgrace)258
    infra classem (service as light infantry)219
    inner war, Greek preoccupation with56
    innovations
      in design of pilum186
      by Dionysius of Syracuse205
      in infantry tactics186
      military needs and445
      in siege warfare446
    Instructions (Frederick the Great)737, 738
    insurrections against Sasanian kings610–11
    Ionian Revolt152
    Ipsus, Battle of (301 B.C.)185
      Athenian mercenaries in343
      elephants at191
      Macedonian cavalry at188
    Isaeus, speeches of54
    Isaura Vetus inscription on evocatio549
    Isidore of Seville431
    Italians
      defection of states to Hannibal701
      and Hannibal’s invasion691, 695
      as Roman allies341
      and Roman cavalry514
    ius-iurandum321
    Jamasp (Sasanian king)612
    Jameson, Michael529
    Jarhead (Swofford)735
    Jewish Antiquities (Josephus)190
    Jewish revolt263
    John the Baptist on Roman soldiers267
    John the Lydian543
    Josephus
      on fear and discipline in Roman army326
      on imperial legionary430
      on prodromoi190
      on Roman cavalry435
      on Roman unit cohesion244
      on Roman way of war285
      on siege of Jotapata253
      on Vespasian’s march into Galilee230, 236
    Jovian (Roman Emperor)717
    Jugurtha of Numidia343
    Jugurthine War, The (Sallust)81
    Julian (Roman emperor)
      campaign into Sasanian Babylonia610
      cavalry in vanguard478
      Persian expedition in 363711
      ravaging Sasanian lands609
      in Roman-Persian warfare717
      victory over Alamanni at Strasbourg594
    Junius Blaesius, Quintus247
    Justinian (Roman Emperor)138, 718
    Justin II (Roman Emperor)718
    Justus, C. Trebius269
    Kagan, Donald131
    Kallet-Marx, Lisa539
    Kasr al-Harit (Egypt) shield321
    katapaltaphetai446
    Kavad (Sasanian king)606, 608
      father’s hostage to the Hephthalites613
      siege of Amida in 502/503718, 721
    Khuzestan developed by Sasanians611
    Kimmig, Wolfgang321
    Knights (Aristophanes)281
    koine eirene (common peace)536
    Kolax (Menander)53
    Koptos Tariff inscription269
    Krasilnikoff, Jens202
    Kuhnen, H.-P.594
    Kusro I (Sasanian king)608
      conflict against the Roman Empire614
      invasion of Syria in 540718
      peace settlement with Rome in 532718
      revolt of Bet Lafat under610
    Kusro II (Sasanian king)608
      defeat of Bahram’s rebellion615
      invasion of Roman Empire614, 718
      patronage of Christian shrines and institutions614
    Lade, Battle of (494 B.C.)374, 378
    Lakhmids in Sasanian army607
    Lapis Satricanus218
    law codes, military
      appearance of first Greek319
    Laws (Plato)57
    Lazenby, J. F.740
    leadership in Roman imperial army35
    Lechaeum, Battle of (391 B.C.)156, 334
    Lelantine War10
    Lendon, J. E.489
    Leuctra, Battle of (371 B.C.)657–70
      citizen losses of Lacedaemonians213
      fate of survivors of315
      map of battlefield663, f
    Library of History (Diodorus Siculus)672
    Liburnians391
      in classis Britannica387
    Libyans in Carthaginian army340, 705
    Licinius (Roman Emperor)391
    Life of Demetrius (Plutarch)673
    Life of Eumenes (Plutarch)162
    Life of Pyrrhus (Plutarch)223
    Lindeman, G.289
    linen used in body armor406, 407
    literature, impact of classical warfare on727–36
    Lives of the Philosophers (Diogenes Laertius)58
    Livius (Roman general)703
    Livius Andronicus223
    Livy75, 82–85
      on Aetolian mercenaries338
      anachronisms in228
      on arms and armor419
        on identical equipment of Romans and Latins225
        on use of pila427
        on use of shields at Battle of Zama422
      on battlefield trauma279
      on Battle of Cannae287
      on Battle of Side379
      on debate about dedication of spolia opima by Cossus558
      description of manipular army221n, 9
      on drilling of recruits222
      on military reform of Servius Tullius219
      mistake based on word thyreos423
      Polybius as source for739
      on Roman assault on Gytheum384
      on Roman battle line at Magnesia224
      on Roman reaction to mercenaries340
      on senatorial debates on triumphs553
      on structure of a magistrate’s year545
      on treatment of the wounded in Roman army307
      on victims of defeat at Lake Trasimene282
      writing included in Men at War731, 732
    Lock, Robert165
    Longthorpe, England106
    Longus, Ti. Sempronius694
    long walls
    long wars
      sieges as alternative to251
    Loomis, W. T.344
    lorica hamata431
    lorica squamata432
    louage, system of342
    loyalty, concept of685
      for Diadochs and their troops680
    loyalty, personal
      Agesilaus and461
      importance of462
      during Roman Republic470
      Successor kings and465
      of troops to Hannibal698
    Lycurgus of Athens54
    Lyncestians as hoplites147
    Lysander
      at Battle of Aegospotami289, 462
      Gylippus under640
    Lysias, speeches of54
    MacArthur, Douglas734
    Macedon
      advantages of kings over Greek generals317–18
      as ally of Carthage in Second Punic War701
      Macedonian society180
    Macedonian War, First (214–205 B.C.)384
    machairophoroi208
    MacNiece, Louis731
    Macrobius
    Magister Equitum516
    Magister Peditum516
    magistrates
      prerogative of taking the auspices548
      vow of departing546
    Magnesia, Battle of (190 B.C.)185
      loss of Macedonian lives at214
      use of war chariots at192
    Maiden Castle (Britain)
      excavations at286
    Mainz, Roman military base in590
    Maishan developed by Sasanians611
    Malalas, John720
    Malene, Battle of (494 B.C.)155
    Mamertinus, M. Petronius266
    Mantinea, battles of158
    Mantinea, First Battle of (418 B.C.)208, 284
      Argives in20
      Athenian cavalry at476
    Mantinea, Second Battle of (362 B.C.)585, 661
      Epaminondas fatally wounded at298
      trials for cowardice after316
    Mantineans
      in Sicilian Expedition624
    Marathon, Battle of (490 B.C.)158, 284, 570
      Athenian army in20
      burial of Spartan dead532
      commemoration of533
      festival of Carneia and534
      Greek rituals before and after527
      phalanxes at152
      pre-battle behavior530
      violence during285
    Marcellus, M. Claudius
      dedication of spolia opima by557
      ovation after capture of Syracuse553
      siege of Syracuse444
      tactics against Hannibal698
    Marcus Antonius
      and Battle of Actium386
      Velleius Paterculus on78
    Marcus Aurelius (Roman Emperor)
      donative on accession262
      and long wars248
      plague during reign of138
      ritual of initiation of war561
      threat from the Marcomanni and Quadi tribes263
    Marcus Caelius, tombstone of237, f
    Mardonius (Persian general)8
      breeding of horses494
      Pausanias respecting body of288
    Marinovic, Ludmilla342
    Marius, Gaius39, f, 229, 285, 469
      amount carried by soldiers356
      army reform39
        disappearance of velites231
      influence on Roman generalship469
      innovation in design of the pilum427
      Sallust on82
    “Marius’s Mules,”39, 356
    Markle, M. M.410
    marriage
      of Roman soldiers267
    Mars, Roman festivals of543
    Masada, siege of251
    masculinity and siege warfare narrative450–51
    Massalia, battle of130
    Mauretania, Romans in247
    mausoleum of Munatius Plancus423
    Mayor, Adrienne137
    medical instruments302, f
      found in valetudinaria309
    Medical Questions (Rufus of Ephesus)295–96
    medical services305, f
    medical writing
      as source on treatment of wounds294–96
      on wound remedies303
    Megarians in Sicilian Expedition624
    Megellus, L. Postumius552
    Melos, Athenian siege of (415 B.C.)440, 645, 650
      massacre of the Melians651
    Memorabilia (“Reminiscences of Socrate”) (Xenophon)65
      on military leadership462
    Men against Fire (Marshall)538
    Menander
      on bodies left on the battlefield at Delium290
      comedies of53
    Mende, siege of647
    Merton, Robert537
    Messana, capitulation of (426)645
    Metaurus, Battle of the (207 B.C.)703
    Metellus, Lucius Caecilius135
    Metellus, Quintus Caecilius
      campaign against Jugurtha231, 469
    Methymna siege by Mytilene647
    metics in Athenian army145
    Middleton, Paul273
    Miles gloriosus (Plautus)451
    military bases
      Roman
        dating of archaeological sites104
        growing food at272
        storage and protection of supplies366–67
    military courts319
    military intelligence474–92
      Alexander and464
      Caesar on acquisition of76, 357
      collection of supplies and357
      weakness of Athenian intelligence during Sicilian Expedition626
    military manuals
      in Imperial Rome471
      of Roman Empire217
      on siege warfare446
    military tribunes225
    Miller, Frank735
    Miller, H. F.344
    Miller, William283
    Millett, Paul737
    Miltiades5
    mines and quarries, Roman soldiers working in271–72
    Minucius Rufus, Marcus383, 697
    Minucius Thermus, Quintus222
    missile, extraction or excision of301
    misthophoros, as word for mercenaries331
    Mithridates Euergetes343
    Mithridates VI of Pontus
      adoption of kataphraktoi189
      use of war chariots192
    Mnesimachus53
    monetary fines326
    monetization of warfare332
    Mons Prophyrites, Egypt108
    monuments built from triumphing commanders’ spoils555
    moon
      effect of lunar eclipse on Athenians at Syracuse637
    Moore, H. G.734
    morale issues256
    Mossynoecians145
    Motya, siege of (397)157
    Munda, Battle of
      Caesar’s Tenth at234
      mutilation of the dead at289
    Mus, P. Decius550
    mutiny
      in Roman Republican army324
    Mycale, Battle of (479 B.C.)155
    Nabis (tyrant of Sparta)384
    naming and ritualized relationships342
    Naqsh-i-Rustam
      Shapur I (Sasanian king) inscription at711, 714n, 8, 717
      victory monument of Shapur710, 710, f
    navies, infrastructure and costs379–82
    navy, Athenian145, 624
      naval expeditions without funding202
      treaties on wood for shipbuilding134
      of triremes17
      two-level galleys372
    navy, Carthaginian695
      in Second Punic War704
    Nemea River, Battle of the (394 B.C.)665
    Nepos, Cornelius689
    Nereid Monument (Xanthus)439, 439, f
    Nero (Roman emperor)41
      closure of the shrine of Janus545
      Paulinus and242
    New Carthage, capture by Scipio Africanus700
    Nicias7, 452
      request for help from Athens during Sicilian Expedition633–34
      against Sicilian Expedition624
    Niederbieber helmet435
    Notitia Dignitum716
    Octavian. See also Augustus
      and Battle of Actium386
      ovation for defeat of Sex. Pompeius554
      ritual initiation of war against Cleopatra561
      in sea battles385
      Velleius Paterculus on78
    Odenathus (ruler of Palmyra)717
    Odyssey (Homer)
      contrast between Other and humans573n, 6
      influence of60
      on military discipline313
    Oeconomicus (“The Estate Manager”) (Xenophon)65
    Oenoe, Spartan siege of648n, 5
    Oldfather, W. A.67
    Old Oligarch376
    Olympic Games as Greek preparation for battle284
    Olynthiacs (Demosthenes)54
    On Horsemanship (Xenophon)284
    On Hunting (Xenophon)284
    On Materia Medica (Pedanius Dioscorides)295
    On Medicine (Celsus)
    On the Estate of Menecles335
    On the Navy Boards (Demosthenes)54
    On The Peace (Isocrates)335
    opponents, Roman243
    oracles528
      and Theban army at Leuctra659
    Orchomenus, siege of645
    organization, military
      in Achaemenid Persia147
      fortifications as information about106
      in Persian empire147
      Roman
        antiquarian writing on216
      of tribal armies145
    ornamenta triumphalia556
    Other, the
      development of in archaic era poetry574–75
      Herodotus on579
    overland transportation
      use in invasions of Germania364
    pack animals135
      mules in Vespasian army236
    Paetus, L. Caesennius
      on the Armenian front250
    Paktolos River, battle at the (395 B.C.)666–67
    Palmyra
      camel corps of136
    Pamphylians, hoplite equipment of147
    Panegyricus (Isocrates)335
    pan-Hellenic unity
      alliances10
    Parade of Daphnae (166)214
    Paraetacene, Battle of (317 B.C.)24, 162, 180
      Demetrius as cavalry commander at674
      victory of Eumenes187
    Park, Robert537
    Parthians
      Arsacid regime overthrown by Sasanians708
      influence on Roman equipment120
      and siege warfare714
      Tacitus on86
      threat to Roman empire40
    “Parthian shot,”609
    Paternus, P. Taruttienus327
    Paullus, L. Aemilius (229?–160 B.C.)323.185
      representation of equipment on monument of221n, 8
      Servius Galba and468
      during Third Macedonian War469
      victory monument at Delphi422
    Paullus, L. Aemilius (d. 216 B.C.)225, 697
    Pausanias
      on Battle of Leuctra658
      on muscle cuirass428
      treatment of body of Mardonius288
    Peithon son of Crateuas173
    Pelagonius
      on cures for horses503
      on endemic illnesses of horses504
    Peloponnese and mercenaries204, 342
    Peloponnesian League10
      help from Syracuse640
      Spartan leadership of459
      Syracuse and626
    Peloponnesian War, Second (431–404 B.C.)461
      cavalry in22
      inability to break into fortified places during193
    Peloponnesian Wars
      Athenian costs of naval warfare in382
      Athens and plague during138
      booty taken by Boeotians209
      combined arms warfare during156
      development of disciplinary systems316
      environmental warfare during131
      psiloi during150
      ship-to-ship combat during377
    pentakosiarchia184
    Pentecontaetia, sieges during644, 653
    “performance culture” of Athens48
    Pergamum
      inscription on contractual relationship between mercenaries and commanders347
      as Roman maritime ally384
    Pericles36, 138
      and citizenship212
      and siege of Athens442
      use of battering rams650
    Peri hippikes (“On Horsemanship”) (Xenophon)64, 135
    Perikeiromene (Menander)53
    peripoloi (patrollers)200
    Persepolis Fortification Tablets501
    Perseus of Macedon185
      training of horses500
    Persia. See also Sasanian Persia
      imperialism as catalyst in warship development373
      as power broker in Greece after Peloponnesian War585
      role in Greek affairs332
    Persian army
      Achaemenid art on155
      Aeschylus on578
      battles against Greeks155
      cavalry formation153
      Herodotus on581
      medium infantry149
      siege techniques642
    Persian Empire
      army organization147
      and power of money15
      use of elephants in battle136
      war chariots151
    Persian invasion (480–479 B.C.)10
      estimates of size of352
    Persians, stereotype of570, 574
    Persians, The (Aeschylus)52, 731
    Persian Wars (499–479 B.C.)
      Greek success in570
      hoplites in20
      victories of Greek hoplites in152
    Pescennius Niger264
    Pharnabazus (Satrap of Phrygia)
      admired by Xenophon586
      and Spartan access to timber134
      war chariots of151
    Phaselis, siege by Cimon647
    Philetaerus of Pergamon201
    Philip (Mnesimachus)53
    Philip III Arrhidaeus170
    Philip II of Macedon13
      Argyraspids and172
      arms in tomb of123
      Demosthenes on way of fighting of46
      Isocrates and586
      pezhetairoi of163
      political marriages677
      resources of16
      siege warfare193
        siege engines675
        technical innovation446
    Philip V of Macedon185, 195
      awareness of demographic base214
      light infantry and cavalry leading army of477
      military law code319
      siege of Abydos438
      treaty with Hannibal in 215694
    Philippics (Demosthenes)54
    Philippus, Q. Marcius467
    Phillips, G.322
    Philon of Byzantium
      advice concerning besiegers451
      on hiring doctors when preparing for a siege305–6, 448
      and psychology of the besieged452
      on storage of food for besieged cities448
      treatises on engineering447
    Philotas the Augaean167
    Phleious, siege of (369 B.C.)440
    Phocaea, siege of645
    Phoenicia, navy of17
    phrourarkhos482
    Phrynichus52
    piaculum (expiation)258
    pilum (pila)
      effect on depth of the maniple227
      of Imperial era433
      surviving examples of425
      use by maniples228
      use in Roman legion221
    Piraeus, naval infrastructure at379–80
    Pisistratids
      mercenaries of332
    plagues
      brought back from Ctesiphon251
      spread to the enemy138
    Plataea, Battle of (479 B.C.)155, 570
      Athenian combined arms warfare at156
      number of Lacedaemonians212
      phalanxes at152
      remains from290
      shortage of Greek supplies at353
      spoils in Persian horses from494
    Plataea, remaining walls of649, f
    Plataea, Spartan siege of (429–427 B.C.)647–51
      fate of defeated651
      inventiveness during444
    Plato
      on acts of courage283
      on Eastern ruler570
      on inner war56
      on internalized conflict57
      on war5
    Plautius, Aulus242
    Plautus
      comedies of88
      Miles gloriosus451
      on Roman demand for satisfaction562
    Pliny the Elder
      on Archagathus307
      on Arsacid Great King603
      on medicinal qualities of substances303
      as prefect of the Misenum fleet389
      on throwing missiles from horseback434–35
    Pliny the Younger
      on Pliny the Elder389
    plunder
      mercenaries and345
      Roman allies paid with348
      of sanctuaries by Dionysius of Syracuse210
    Plutarch
      on Agesilaus’s austerity461
      on Antigonus and Demetrius promoting freedom for Greeks678
      on Apophthegmata Lakonika50
      on Archilochus of Paros50
      on Archimedes and siege of Syracuse444
      on arms and armor
        on iron cuirass405
      on Athenian triremes374
      on battle of Ipsus676
      on Battle of Lechaeum334
      on Battle of Leuctra658
      on betrayal of Eumenes175
      on Demetrius Poliorcetes673
      on Gedrosian disaster of Alexander358
      on hemithorakia407
      on murder of Eumenes176
      on Phocion at Battle of Tamynae529
      on population of Sicilian cities205
      on Roman fighting at Asculum223
      as source for Second Punic War689
      on Spartans and fear534
      on treatment of wounds297
      on war in Boeotia657
    poets, Roman, on war88
    police force, hypaspists as165
    political class and military class, correlation of36
    political inclusion, path to in Rome31
    Politics (Aristotle)58, 59
    Pollux
      on Attic cuirass406
      on corselets407
      on hemithorakia407
      on Laconian dagger412
    Polyaenus471
      on Battle of Leuctra658
      on hemithorakia407
      on tactic used against Hellenistic phalanx185
    Polybius48
      on Archimedes “iron hand,”194
      on Battle of Asculum225
      on battle of Chios195
      on Battle of Cynoscephelae185, 477
      on Battle of Leuctra658
      on Carthaginian army
      on generalship465
      on growth of sophistication and wealth among Greeks337
      on Hellenistic armies190
      as hostage in Rome after Pydna514
      information about Rome during the Republic216
      on logistics42
      on people’s consent for war546
      on Po valley Gauls110
      on Prusias II of Bithynia451
      on Ptolemaic forces346
      on Roman army285
        age of troops223
        allied forces in224
        fustuarium for sleeping on guard duty320
        manipular formation221
        payment of allies348
      on Roman hegemony30
      on Roman military traditions468
      on Roman readiness to adapt120
      on Roman treaty ceremonies560
      on sacrifice before battle529
      on sarissa phalanx24
      on triumphs of victorious commanders551
    Pompey the Great
      at Battle of Pharsalus227, 230
      building erected by555
      combining Roman and Hellenistic traditions470
    Poroi (“Ways and Means”) (Xenophon)64
    Porus, King of the Pauravas500, 513
    pottery
      Greek
        illustrations of prisoners289
        representations of violence on20
      vase paintings on corselets407
    practices of war, Demetrius Poliorcetes and673–81
    Praetorian Guard265
    prisoners289–90
      possible medical treatment of310
      Roman taken by Sasanians609
      as sacrificial victims289
      Sasanians settled in agricultural regions611
      as source of intelligence488
    “Private Speeches” in Athens54
    proconsular armies, Roman32
    Procopius
      on battle of Callinicum720
      on Justinian’s spies487
      on Roman-Persian warfare711
        details on pitched battles719
      on Sasanian army606
    profit, as justification for war536
    propaganda justifying war678, 685
    property and military obligations in Rome37
    Prusias of Bithynia378
    Pseudo-Hyginus217
      on duties of legions268
      on exploratores480
    Pseudo-Joshua the Stylite
      on Sasanian army606
    Pseudo-Oppina496
    Ptolemies
      adoption of Roman army system187
      mercenaries and346
        Greek mercenaries338
      use of elephants191
    Ptolemy I Soter378, 682
      protection of soldiers’ families347
    Ptolemy II Philadelphus
      Ctesibius of Alexandria and446
      as good paymaster346
    Ptolemy IV Philopater
      use of elephants in battle of Raphia136
    Ptolemy of Mauretania, King247
    Ptolemy son of Lagus171
    Punica (Silius Italicus)689
    Punic War, First (264–241 B.C.)30
      necessity for Rome to build up fleet383
      revolt of Carthaginian mercenaries after339
    Punic Wars32
      Roman shipbuilding during133
    purification practices530
    Pydna, Battle of (168 B.C.)24, 185, 186
      army of Paullus at233
      beginning of224
      and Greece as Roman province307
      Paullus’s victory monument at Delphi422
    Pylos, Battle of (425 B.C.)133
    Pylos, Spartan siege of (425 B.C.)650
    Pyrrhus4, 24, 561
      aiding the city of Tarentum383
      Demetrius’s troops defecting to680
      innovation in infantry tactics186
      Roman war with32
      and shields of Macedonian cavalry189
      siege of Sparta450
      solving payment problems with war346
    Pythia’s Prophecies, The (Plutarch)531–32
    quaestors36
    queens, importance in Hellenistic kingdoms678, 685
    rams
      at siege of Jotapata253
      at siege of Plataea648
      at siege of Samos157
      use by Pericles650
    Raphia, Battle of (217 B.C.)24, 181
      Egyptian soldiers at346
      elephants in136
      Greek mercenaries of Ptolemy at337
    rations of soldiers14
      on long campaigns208
      supply system208
      words used for202
    Reilly, Charlie732
    relationships between states6
    Republic (Plato)56
    Res Gestae (Augustus)263
      on closure of the shrine of Janus545
      on Parthians709
    retirement benefits for Roman veterans325
    revenge
      as honorable Roman motive251
      as Roman strategic objective under Germanicus240
    Reveries (Maurice of Saxe)737
    rewards
      in Macedonian army319
      in Roman Republican army320
    Reynolds, David59
    Rhegium626
      conference of Athenian generals during Sicilian Expedition627
    Rhodes
      archers from150
      as Roman maritime ally384
    Rhodes, siege of (305/4 B.C.)440
      Diodorus’s narrative of444, 449
      inventiveness during445
      military technology in675
      scientists at446
      social measures taken during443
    Ribemont-sur-Ancre, France111
    Richardson, J. H.560
    Richer, Nicholas534
    ritual, meaning in classical scholarship537
    roads, Roman42
      placement of builders in imperial marching column237
    Roman Emperors
      assuring loyalty of the army262
      use of mercenaries332
    Roman empire. See also Roman Imperial era See also Roman Republic
      benefits of being part of264
      declining supply of timber134
      establishment of40
      foreign incursions in263
      military training in285
      provinces
        economic effect of soldiers in272
        role of soldiers in administration of270
        Roman army and infrastructure of271
      rituals in time of peace544
      Sasanian raids on territories of608
      taxes on agricultural sector132
      war and peace129
      warfare in third century A.D.130
    Roman Histories (Velleius Paterculus)74
    Roman History (Dio)689
    Roman Imperial era236–59
      challengers to emperors264
      change in nature of war during261, 263
      Eastern cities presence of army in265
      integration of soldiers and veterans in the provinces265–66
      material evidence of warfare from92
      provincial administration483
        role of army in the provinces268
      relations between soldiers and civilians266–67
    Romanization, army and29
    Roman military studies92n, 1
    Roman Republic
      armies during34
      difficulties in tracing history of military formations and tactics during216
      war and peace during543
    Rome (city)
      adoption of hoplite equipment219
      population increase at end of 7th century218
    Roots of Strategy (Phillips)279
    Rufus, Rutilius469
    Rufus of Ephesus
      on cranial fractures301
      on removal of arrows301
    “running out,” tactic of156
    Ruspina, Battle of (46 B.C.)234
    Rustius Barbarus272
    Sacred War, First10
    Sacred War, Third (356–346 B.C.)
      Delphi sanctuary wealth and210
      mercenaries in336
    sacrifices, Roman
      and divination547
    Sacrovir, revolt of263
    Sakas
      in Sasanian cavalry607
    Salamis, Battle of570
      Aeschylus on fighting at577
      Athenian fleet at374
      commemoration of533
      Greek rituals after527
      ship-to-ship combat377
      shortage of Greek supplies at353
    Salamis, Demetrius siege of
      machinery used675
    Salinator, M. Livius700
    Salinger, J. D.736
    Samnites
      archaeological evidence on110
      in Hannibal’s army691
      influence on Roman fighting methods222
      splendor of arms of117
      warrior graves123
    Samos, siege of157
    sanctuaries
      tithe of 10 percent of the booty at pan-Hellenic210
    Sandburg, Carl290
    Sandracottus (Chandragupta)517
    Sântana-de-Mures-Černjachov Culture596
    Santayana, George735
    Sappho on Lydian cavalry575
    Sardis, battle in158
    Scapula, P. Ostorius241
    scientists, Greek, and siege warfare445–46
    Scione
      escaped Plataeans settled at650
    Scipio, L. Cornelius226
    Scipio, P. Cornelius (consul 218 B.C.)694
    Scipio, P. Cornelius Aemilianus Africanus467
      on decoration of shields423
      Velleius on78
      victory at Numantia469
    Scipio, P. Cornelius Africanus38, 699, f
      battles in Spain226
      institution of training222
      requisition of equipment by429
      use of cohorts at Ilipa229
      use of non-Italians in army231
      use of Numidian cavalry by514
    Scipio, P. Cornelius Nasica Corculum225
    Scotland, Flavian installations103, f, 104
    Scullard, H. H.740
    sculpture
      horses on frieze of Parthenos494, f
      on lustration of Roman army547
      Prima Porta Augustus709, f
      on Sasanian cavalryman607, f
      Shapur I victory monument710, f
    Scythians
      armored horses of513
      early development of cavalry135
    Second World War, The (Churchill)59
    Seleucids
      adoption of Roman army system187
      camel cavalry of192
      Celt mercenaries and338
      expulsion from Babylonia by Parthians602
      and Greek mercenaries338
      horse archers192
      kataphraktoi189
      use of elephants191
      use of peltasts190
    self-control, Hellenistic generals and465
    self-enrichment through booty5
    Sentinum, Battle of (295 B.C.)550
    Septimius Severus (Roman Emperor)137
      challengers to264
      military pay raise262
      and siege of Hatra255
    Servius Galba468
    Servius Tullius219
    Severus Alexander (Roman Emperor)717
    Sextus Pompeius Magnus385
    shame, dread of, as impetus of discipline315
    Shapur I (Sasanian king)
      invasions of Roman east717
      sack of Antioch603
      siege of Amida in 359721
      victory monuments of710, f
    Shapur II (Sasanian king)605
      invasion of 359711
      revolt of Susa under610
      and Roman-Persian warfare717
    shipbuilding and deforestation133
    Sicels, hoplite equipment of147
    Sicily
      horse raising latifundia514
      mercenary service in338
    Side, Battle of (190 B.C.)379
    siege engines and weapons445
      artillery
        development in Sicily157
        emergence of144
      of Batavians245
      of Demetrius675
    sieges, descriptions as small dramas452
    Silius Italicus
      cuirass description432
    Simonides (Athenian general)647
    Simonides of Ceos51
    Singara, Roman fortification at716
    single combats
      Bahram Chobin in614
      challenges before battle of Dara720
      on decorated tombs110
      Pyrrhus in4
      in Sasanian art601
      Scipio Aemilianus in467
    slaves
      accompanying male citizens on campaigns in Greek armies207
      as mercenaries205
    Smbat Bagratuni (Armenian general)614, 615
    Smyrneis (Mimnermus of Smyrna)51
    snakebites, specialists in treatment of308, 308n, 8
    Snyder, Zack726
    Socrates
      effects of war on291
      on environmental warfare131
    soldiers, Roman
      as citizens vested with certain important rights322
      complaints of323
      distinguished from citizens321
    Soldiers’ Tale, The (Hynes)732
    “Song of Hybrias the Cretan, The,”203
    Sophanes4
    Southern, P.489
    Southey, Robert290
    South Shields (England)434
    Spain
      impact of Second Punic War705
      incursions in263
      and Roman cavalry518
      Scipio Africanus in700
      use of cohorts in229
    Spaniards as Roman allies341
    Sparta, siege of (272 B.C.)450
    Sparta and Spartans
      Acrotatus and defense of450
      after Athenian Sicilian Expedition640
      agent of mercenary recruitment343
      control of the flow of mercenaries from the Peloponnese342
      correlation of political class and military class36
      modern fascination with military regimen of735
      peace treaty with Persia in 412/11536
      penalties for cowards316
      and permanent warriors10
      Persian support of585
      religious practice in warfare529
      stance as liberators in Peloponnesian War585
      stand at Thermopylae580
      subjugation of Messenia9
      and Syracuse during Sicilian Expedition626, 634
    Spartolus, Battle of (429 B.C.)156
    spear rite, Roman561
    specialization in Greek warfare21–24
    Specimen Days (Whitman)65
    speeches
      Athenian on warfare54
      use by Tacitus86
    Speidel, M. P.489
    Sphacteria, Battle of (425/4 B.C.)150, 158
      fate of survivors of315
      Messenian helots during442
    Spiller, Roger538
    Spithridates209
    spoils
      dedications of531
      displayed in triumphs554
      monuments built from555
      in Persian horses from Plataea494
    standards, battlefield155
    Statius Rufinus, Quintus389, f
    status, warfare and commanders’ personal682
    stereotypes
      in Alexander’s speech before battle of Issus586
      of barbarians
        corrected by archaeological research110–11
        promoted by Athens584
    stones of psiloi150
    Strasbourg, Battle of (A.D. 357)504
    strata Diocletiana715
    stratagem, use of word462
    Strategikon (Demetrius of Phalerum)58–59
    strategy
      Livy on importance of unity of83
      Roman soldiers’ freedom to criticize323
    stripping the dead531
    study of war
      focus on strategy and tactics279
      Sallust on importance of81
    Successors
      Argyraspids and165
      lack of investment in cavalry188
      new Greek cities in kingdoms of347
      wars of the171, 336
        wages of mercenaries during344
    Suetonius
      on soldiers as engineers and builders271
    Sulpicius Gallus469
    Suppliant Women (Euripides)
      on peace6
      on rituals for the war dead290
    supplies, Roman42
      civilian transport of273
      record keeping in Imperial era273
      storage and protection at army bases366–67
    supplies of armies145
      alliances and356
      military intelligence and357
    surveyors in Roman army237
    Swofford, Anthony735
    symmetrical warfare by Roman legions243–45
    Symposium (Plato)281
    Syracuse628, f
      after Athenian Sicilian Expedition640
      as ally of Carthage in Second Punic War701
      Carthaginian siege of138
      civil wars in13
      naval struggle in Great Harbor (413 B.C.)377
      Roman siege of194
      tyrants of
        and mercenaries338
        and transfers of populations204
      war aims against Athens627
    Syria
      invasion by Kusro I in A.D.540, 718
      and Roman cavalry515
    Tabaristan developed by Sasanians611
    Tacitus75, 85.  See also Agricola (Tacitus) See also Annals (Tacitus)
      on conditions to avoid for the Roman armies246
      distinguishing types of swords434
      on ending opposition242
      on environmental warfare131
      example of fleet action390
      on Germania364
        Germanicus’s burial of remains of Varus’s army256
        remains of Varus’s army in Teutoburg forest291
      on mutinous riots against Germanicus256
      on numbness in the aftermath of battle257
      on Paulinus
        at first battle of Cremona244
      on treatment of the wounded in Roman army307
      on value of fleet as strike force390
    Tactica (Arrian)217
    Tagus, battle at the river (220 B.C.)697
    Tamynae, Battle of (349/8 B.C.)529
    Tanagra, Battle of (458/7 B.C.)153, 157
    Tarentum
      impact of Second Punic War on704
    Tarichaeae, seige of254
    Tarrant, R. J.282
    tax collection, Roman soldiers and270
    tax grain, Roman soldiers supervising weighing of270
    tax in kind, Roman34
    Taylor, I. D.354
    Tegea appeal for Spartan assistance646
    Telamon, Battle of (225)233
    Teleutias5
    telos (merarches)184
    Temple of Peace545
    The Ten Thousand333
    Teos, commanders for defense of482
    territorium legionis265
    terror
      Roman campaigns of243
        preceding sieges252
      as Roman strategic objective under Germanicus240
    tetrarchs and discipline319
    thalassocracy376
    Thapsus, Battle of
      elephants in136
      slaughtering of men surrendering289
    Thebes
      destruction of hostile surrounding neighbors213
      Hegemony after Leuctra662
      leader of the Boeotian Confederacy army659
      participation in Spartan siege of Plataea651
      refusal of the Common Peace of 371 B.C.658
      Sacred Band of three hundred men146, 659
    Themistocles
      and expansion of Athenian fleet202, 374
      and naval infrastructure at Piraeus379
    Theodosius (Roman Emperor)36, 42n, 6
    Theognis of Megara50
    Theophrastus
      on the character of the coward46–47
      on effect of armies marching over fields130
    Thermopylae, Battle of (480 B.C.)158, 570
      excavation of286
      festival of Carneia and534
      Herodotus on580
    Thessalians
      fighting with Persians in Greek-Persian wars570n, 1
      as mercenaries338
    Thibron
      recruitment of the leftover Ten Thousand333
      remuneration of mercenaries344
    Third Philippic (Demosthenes)46
    Thomas Aquinas535
    Thrasybulus205
      during civil war in 403664
    Thrasydaios of Akragas143
    Thucydides60, 62–64, 133
      on arming soldiers396
      on Athenian Sicilian Expedition
      on Athenian triremes374
      on battle of Mantinea740
      on brutality of Peloponnesian War643–44
      on hoplites19
      idea of sea power376
      influence on Livy83
      on inner war56
      justification of war in536
      on men not returning home291
      on mercenaries331
      on money and war349
      on Peloponnesian War585
      on Phormio’s campaign against Spartans460
      on questions asked of Oracle at Delphi528
      relationship to Herodotus62
      on sacrifices529
      on shields with wicker399
      on Sicilian Expedition623
        on true intent of Athens627
      on siege of Syracuse by Athenians442, 452
      as soldier appraising realities of war739
      on Spartan army organization146
      on Themistocles379
      on trials for cowardice after Battle of Mantinea316
      on war and self-enrichment5
    thureophoroi
      introduction by Pyrrhus186
      replacing phalanxes187
    Tiberius (Roman Emperor)
      establishment of Rhine-Danube frontier246, 589, 590
      and Germanicus471
      revolt of Tacfarinas under263
      Velleius Paterculus on78
    Tigranocerta (Armenia)249
    timber
      armies’ use of135
      forests as target of conquests180
      needed for fleets381
      supply as factor in naval strategy133
    Titus
      at siege of Jerusalem255
    tombstones
      of Insus in Lancaster, England93, f
      representation of arms and armor on430
    torsion artillery96
    towers, wheeled157
    trade
      between German communities592
      between Italy and the north589
      presence of soldiers and272
      of Sasanian Persia712
    Trajan (Roman Emperor)
      establishment of province Dacia591
      and Parthians250
      siege of Hatra255
    Trajan’s Column
      on environmental damage
        of countryside132
      on fleets in Germania387
      on foreign auxiliaries spearheading attacks341
      on lustration ceremony547
      representation of imperial legionary on430
      on Romans tortured by Dacian women257
      as source on Roman armor419
    transfrontier peoples
      east of the Rhine and north of the Upper Danube592–94
      north of the Middle and Lower Danube595–97
      shared values and practices of warrior elites among597
    Trasimene, Battle of (217 B.C.)
      neglect of unfavorable auspices548
    treaties
      Greek
        of Athens with Sicilian cities623
        on ration subsidies for allied troops145
      on payments to soldiers345
      written6
    Trebia, Battle of (218 B.C.)477, 696
      Hannibal’s elephants at697
      Numidian horsemen at514
    triage after battles300
    tribunes, military322
    tribuni celerum217
    tribuni militum218
    tribute, power of15
    trierarchoi381
      personal financial responsibilities of381
    Trojan Women (Euripides)53
    Tropaium Traiani431, f
      representation of imperial legionary on430
    Tyre
      siege by Alexander (333 B.C.)440, 674
        missile-firing machines on ships677
      siege by Antigonus (314/313)675
    Tyrtaeus of Sparta18, 49
      on aspis shield398
      on brutality of classical infantry battle312, 315
      on infantry22
      on lower body wounds413
      on martial excellence4
      on military glory459
      on phalanx in battle20
    Ulbert, Gunter433
    urban warfare
      analysis of urban battle at excavated sites158
    Uzita, Battle of233
    Valens (Roman emperor)36, 78
    Valens, M. Vettius489
    Valerian (Roman Emperor)717
    valetudinarium (army hospital)308–9
    Valkenburg, tegimentum found at435
    Van Driel-Murray, Carol113
    van Wees, Hans399
    Varro, C. Terentius225
    Varro, M. Terentius
      definition of armor427
      on fetials enacting treaties560
      on Gallica armor431
      on spolia opima557
    Varus, P. Quintilius
      Arminius and240
      lack of military intelligence357
      supply problems364
    Vercingetorix75
    Vergina
      iron cuirass found in405
      spear found at409
      sword from royal tomb at411
    Versnel, H. S.550
    Veseris, Battle of (340 B.C.)550
    Vespasian (Roman Emperor)
      closure of the shrine of Janus545
      march into Galilee230, 236–37
        compared to Arrian’s march in Cappadocia238
      second battle of Cremona244
    vexillations516
    Vindolanda writing tablets273
    Virgil
      on acts of courage283
      on battlefield trauma279
      portrait of Aeneas the general470
      on war and violence88, 282
      writing included in Men at War732
    vows
      Greek military before combat528
      of Roman commanders during battles549
    Walbank, Frank W.563
      on epistrophai520
    war, Roman votes for546
    War against Catiline (Sallust)75
    War against Jugurtha (Sallust)75
    War and the Poet (Eberhart and Rodman)731
    war chariots
      reintroduction in Hellenistic warfare191, 192
      as troop transport151
      used for Roman triumphs554
    warfare. See also naval warfare
      importance for Sarmatians596
      lack of interest in technical aspects in Roman manuals217
    War of Catiline, The (Sallust)81
    water supply
      interference with enemy’s supply135
      in Sasanian defensive systems610
    wealth
      association with the East575
      military command and460
    Weiler, Roman helmet found at435
    Weisenau, helmet from433
    Western Way of War, The (Hanson)143
    We were soldiers once … and young (Moore and Galloway)734
    Wheeler, E. L.669
    Whitman, Walt65
    Wiesehöfer, Josef536
    Wilmanns, J.308
    women
      importance of queens in Hellenistic kingdoms678, 685
      role in Hellenistic time677
      in urban combat158
    Woodhead, Arthur Geoffrey730
    Works and Days (Hesiod)50
    Xanten (Vetera), legionary fortress of364, 590
    Xanthus, siege of (42 B.C.)440
    Xenophon64–65
      on Agesilaus586
        on sale of captives by209
      on arms and armor
        Chalybian linen corselets407
        corselets of cavalry force407
        cuirass for horsemen405
        ideal helmet404
        on pelte shield400
        on thigh guards for horsemen409
      on battlefield trauma279
      on Battle of Mantinea585
      biography of Clearchus282, 283
      on Chalybian heavy infantry149
      on discipline and good order316
      on diversion of the Euphrates135
      on Eastern ruler570
      on hunting as training in the art of war129, 284
      leading the Ten Thousand333
      Liddell Hart compared to739
      on mercenaries
        daily remuneration344
        importance of networks of relationships342
      on military leadership462
      on Persian saddlery507
      on place of doctors in marching order of Spartan army305
      on reconnaissance489
        scouts disguised as brigands479
      on sacrifice before battle529
      on scythed chariots192
      on Spartan army organization146
      speech to the army after Cunaxa317
      on the Ten Thousand333
      on training of cavalry516
      on use of Democrates son of Temnus as scout478
      on war and peace6
    Xerxes
      estimates of numbers in expedition352
      mutilation of body of Leonidas288
      provisioning of army during invasion of Greece in 480/79352
    xyston (lance)189
    Yazdgard II (Sasanian king)612
    Yazgard III (Sasanian king)616
    Yonge, Charlotte731
    Zakeri, Mohsen613
    Zama, Battle of (202 B.C.)691, 698
      land grants to Roman veterans of704
      maniples of triarii at226
      Scipio Africanus at700
      use of Numidian cavalry by Romans514
    Zenobia, queen136
    Zobel, James735
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