
Published online:
28 January 2013
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09 January 2013
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End Matter
Index
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Published:January 2013
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'Index', in Brian Campbell, and Lawrence A. Tritle (eds), The Oxford Handbook of Warfare in the Classical World, Oxford Handbooks (2013; online edn, Oxford Academic, 28 Jan. 2013), https://doi.org/, accessed 3 May 2025.
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Index
- Acarnanian archers150
- Achaean mercenaries204
- Achilles in Vietnam (Shay)280
- Acidinus, L. Manlius553
- Acrotatus450
- Adaeus164
- Adams, J. P.354
- Ada of Caria677
- Aelian
- on Archilochus50
- on Attic cuirass406
- on horse nosebands506
- on linen corselet414
- on lunging of horses526
- Aelianus183
- Aelius Dubitatus269
- Aeneas of Stymphalus. See Aeneas Tacticus
- Aeneas Tacticus65–67. See also How to Survive under Siege (Aeneas Tacticus)
- on devices for secret communication487
- on generalship462–63
- on surprise attacks158
- on watch on the Attic frontier483
- Aeneid (Virgil)282
- Aeschylus
- Agamemnon727
- 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
- at Paktolos River666–67
- use of plaision formation157
- agoge284
- agonal warfare8–9
- Ahenobarbus, Gnaeus Domitius422
- Aï Khanoum, Afghanistan123
- akontes434
- Akragas, army of145
- Akragas, Battle of (472/1 B.C.)143
- Alans591. See also Against the Alans (Arrian)
- Albinus, Clodius264
- Alcaeus of Lesbos (Alcaeus of Mytilene)15, 49, 203
- on linen corselets407
- on service of his brother Antimenides to the Babylonians330
- on war50
- Alcibiades
- siege of Byzantium647
- Alcman574
- Aldrete, G.158
- Alexander Romance137
- Alexander the Great4, 13, 137
- Argyraspids and172
- collection of strategic intelligence357
- death170
- effect of battle on291–92
- empire of (map)xxxiv
- Gedrosian expedition358–63
- as general463–64
- horse of135
- as inspiration for Romans737
- killing of Cleitus299
- military resources of16
- modern studies of738
- political marriage677
- reform of Macedonian army463
- stereotypes in speech before battle of Issus586
- studies on logistics problems in Asian campaigns353
- study by Dodge738
- use of mercenaries336
- Alimentus, L. Cincius689
- Altar of Augustan Peace (Pax Augusta)545
- Ameinocles372
- Amida
- fortification by Constantius II at716
- Ammianus Marcellinus
- on Adrianople285
- description of a Persian clibanarius509
- on exploratores481
- on horses500–501
- on Julian’s victory over Alamanni594
- on Sasanian army712–13
- on site of Circesium715
- on speculatores485
- 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
- analgesics304
- Anastasius (Roman Emperor)718
- Anaximenes163
- Andrewes, A.532
- Andronicos, Manolis409
- Angarium501
- 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
- Antigonids338
- Antigonus I Monophthalmus (the One-Eyed)
- at battle of Ipsus676
- Demetrius Poliorcetes son of671
- and Eumenes of Cardia173–74
- hiring of mercenaries343
- Antioch
- reduced status of264
- Antiochus Hierax338
- Antiochus III the Great338
- campaigns of353
- introduction of kataphraktoi on the battlefield189
- and problems of billeting soldiers211
- siege of Bactras440
- Antiphanes335–36
- Antonius Primus244
- Aornos, siege of (327 B.C.)440
- Apollonios, archives of264
- Apology (Plato)56
- Apophthegmata Lakonika50
- Apulia as ally of Hannibal691
- Aratus478
- archaeology of war91–124. See also excavations
- battle and combat94–101
- complete mail shirt432
- evidence of exchange and interaction across cultural boundaries119–20
- experimental113–16
- of Goths596
- information about antigonists of Greek and Rome109–12
- organization of armies106–8
- pilum426
- Roman saddles112–13
- on Sasanian Persia712
- on siege warfare722
- soldiers’ dress117–19
- strengths and weaknesses of evidence93–94
- of transfontier peoples591
- Archagathus307
- Archelaus233
- archers150, 190, 338
- aboard Athenian triremes374
- Huns as597
- in Sasanian army713
- in Sicilian Expedition624
- Archidamian War651
- Archidamus of Sparta131
- archihypaspistes166
- Archilochus of Paros
- on abandoning shield398
- early personal poetry by49–50
- on epikouros331
- on Lydian ruler Gyges574
- Areus (King of Sparta)450
- Arginusae, Battle of461
- Argive shield397
- Arimnestus286
- Aristagoras579
- Aristarchus of Samothrace496
- Aristides157
- Aristocles316
- aristocracy
- affinity opposing unity among Greeks586
- cavalry and201
- Greek and Greek/barbarian dichotomy575
- and Sasanian army604
- “Aristocrats” (Douglass)730–31
- Aristophanes
- on agrarian population during sieges442
- on Peloponnesian War53
- on soldiers’ rations206–7
- 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
- Christian conversion of612–13
- Lucius Verus in250–51
- revolt against Sasanians (450/451)612
- in Sasanian cavalry606
- Sasanian peace with614
- armies, Carthaginian339
- armies, Greek. See also cavalry, Greek See also hoplites See also infantry, Greek See also navy, Athenian
- discipline in314–17
- little knowledge on campaign infrastructure108
- medical services304–7
- Spartan in 371 B.C.658–59
- Theban in 371 B.C.659
- armies, Hellenistic
- auxiliary forces190–93
- care of soldiers’ families347
- cavalry188–90
- defections of commanders and troops680
- discipline in318–20
- hiring of mercenaries343
- importance of baggage for troops680–81
- infantry182–88
- influence on Roman army468–69
- loss of lives in214
- military codes319
- siege warfare193–94
- size of180–81
- armies, sizes of
- at battle of Ipsus676
- of Caesar233
- Greek forces in Sicilian Expedition623–25
- at Raphia676
- armies and appearance117
- armor, Greek397–409. See also greaves; See also helmets See also shields
- ankle guards408
- foot guards408
- limb protection408–9
- thigh guards408–9
- armors
- effectiveness of breastplates414
- for elephants191
- of hoplites148
- of the hypaspists168
- in Sasanian army712–13
- army, Roman. See also cavalry, Roman See also legions
- allegiance of soldiers to individual commanders40
- Ammianus on flexibility of79
- awards and285
- bureaucracy of262
- change in Imperial era261
- cohors ix Batavorum, documents on94
- cohors xx Palmyrenorum, documents on94
- 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
- flexibility of the manipular formation467
- foreign troops in231
- growing reliance on recruitment of barbarians41
- hunting and provisioning of the troops129
- in Imperial era
- daily routine of268–69
- discipline325–27
- professional standing army264–65
- size of standing army325
- terms of enlistment291
- 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
- medical services307–8
- military command function of political office466
- military traditions468
- oath of allegiance to emperor261–62
- organization of
- archaeology and106–8
- payment of allies with plunder348
- personal and collective identity as soldiers117–18
- studies on logistics of354
- training285
- use of elephants136
- use of professional allies and auxiliaries340
- army, Sasanian603–4, 712–13
- compared to Roman armies609
- conquered people conscripted in605–6
- elephants in714
- organization607–8
- Arrhidaeus13
- Arrian164, 183, 471, 739
- advance in Cappadocia238–39
- on exploratores481
- on kataskopoi479
- military manual commissioned by Hadrian509
- narrative of the siege of Tyre444
- on sword of Roman cavalryman434
- Tactica217
- on thigh guards for horsemen409
- on treatment of wounds297
- Ars Veterinaria (Pelagonius)503
- art. See also sculpture
- on Persian army155
- representation of warfare in92
- on shields397
- Sumerian, on warfare135
- swords depicted in411–12
- tomb paintings of war chariots151
- Artaxata (Armenia)249
- Artayctes288
- Arthahastra (Kautilya)517
- Art of Horsemanship, The (Xenophon). See Peri hippikes (“On Horsemanship”) (Xenophon)
- Asorestan developed by Sasanians611
- Aspis (Menander)53
- Assembly of Centuries (Comitia Centuriata)37
- asthetairoi. See pezhetairoi
- Atarrhias son of Deinomenes167
- Athenian expedition to Sicily (415 B.C.)623–41
- diplomacy strategy628–29
- errors and miscalculations638–40
- retreat638
- split command in639
- Syracusan forces625–26
- war aims626–28
- Athens. See also armies, Greek See also hoplites See also navy, Athenian
- acclaiming Antigonus and Demetrius as divine saviors683
- classical army of145
- 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
- Long Walls380
- military commanders460
- mustering of archers150
- peltasts150
- penalties for acts relating to military service316
- promoting stereotype of barbarians584
- prosecutions over alleged military misconduct54–55
- spies from488
- wages of soldiers and sailors15
- war and peace129
- Atratinus, L. Sempronius556
- Attic frontier, defense of482–83
- Atticus558
- augurium salutis544
- Augustus (Roman Emperor). See also Octavian
- closure of the shrine of Janus545
- exploitation of spolia opima tradition559
- revival of augurium salutis544
- Roman army under34
- auxiliary cavalry514
- binded to the Emperor261
- and command470
- military bases along the Rhine590
- navy in386
- triumphal theme of funeral of557
- triumphs of556
- Aulus Atticus508
- Aurelian (Roman Emperor)717
- Aurelius Marcianus267
- Aurelius Sarapion267
- Ausculum, Battle of (279)186
- auspices547
- auxilia34
- auxiliary forces, Roman340
- award of Roman citizenship268
- cavalry514
- in imperial armies236
- Trajan’s Column on341
- Azerbaijan developed by Sasanians611
- Bacchylides of Ceos51
- Bactra, siege of440
- Bactria495
- Baculus, P. Sextius287
- Badian, Ernst360
- Balacrus son of Nicanor170
- Balash (Sasanian king)612
- Balearic archers150
- barbarians. See also Greek-barbarian dichotomy
- people beyond Roman frontiers as591
- Spartans portrayed as by Euripides584
- Baris horses501
- Barsauma, bishop of Nisibis608
- Bartell, S.158
- basileis (kings) in Homer313
- Basilica Exercitatoria518
- Batavians245
- battle deployments
- of cohorts230
- at Cynoscephalae226
- Macedonian23
- of manipular line226
- phalanxes deep deployment664–66
- of velites226
- battlefield trauma. See also blindness, hysterical
- Gorgias on281
- Roman257
- Shay on280
- Battle of Blenheim, The (Southey)290
- Battle of the Frogs and the Mice49
- Battle of the Weasel and the Mice49
- battles153–57
- ferocity and brutality in285–88
- between hoplites and non-hoplite infantry154–55
- length of43
- 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
- Blackbourn, D.364
- Blackhawk Down (Bowden)734
- Blackhawk Down (film)734
- black rat and Roman logistics366–67
- Blaesus, Ti. Semprenius384
- Boardman, John399
- Boeotia, invasion of by Spartans658–59
- Boeotian Confederacy, army of659
- Boeotians145
- aid to Syracuse during Sicilian Expedition634
- hoplite shield of148–49
- and large-force reconnaissance476
- light infantry156
- bog deposits, Scandinavian, and information on ancient warfare123
- bonds, creation of by Philip II and Alexander464
- Book of Golden Deeds, The731–32
- border spats157
- Bosworth, A. B.359–60
- Bowden, Mark734
- bows150
- Brasidas (Spartan general)
- cavalry of512
- hoplite formation by156
- social class of459
- on stratagems9
- and timber supply134
- wounded413
- bravery
- acts of courage283
- honors bestowed in Roman army320
- ideal of hoplites314–15
- and prestige in Roman and Italian culture466
- siege warfare and448–49
- in Sparta4
- Britain
- hill forts overcome by Romans241
- British Way in Warfare, The (Liddell Hart)47
- Brooke, Rupert728
- Bruttians in Hannibal’s army691
- Bucephalus512
- Burgundians591
- Burn, A. R.740
- Bury, J. B.352
- Busta Gallorum, battlefield of290
- Caesar, Julius74, 75–77, 739
- army of
- deployment of cohorts230
- size of233
- use of allied cavalry to monitor the Helvetii477
- use of cohorts229
- use of Numidian cavalry514
- building erected by555
- 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 Germans590
- on good leadership320
- on mutilation during Spanish War of 46/5 B.C.289
- at Ruspina234
- use of field fortifications233
- use of term exploratores480
- at Uzita233
- Velleius Paterculus on78
- writing included in Men at War731
- Cagniart, P.477
- Callias of Aradus446
- Callias of Sphettus449–50
- Callisthenes658
- Camarina204
- Camillus, M. Furius247
- Camp Fortifications (Pseudo-Hyginus)479
- Camulodunum241
- canabae265
- Çan sarcophagus150
- Cape Taenarum as hiring center for mercenaries343
- Capitoline Fasti551
- captives. See prisoners
- Capture of Miletus (Phrynichus)52
- Caracalla (Roman Emperor)262
- Carduchians145
- Carneia festival533–34
- Carney, E.321
- 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
- Cartledge, P536–37
- Carus (Roman Emperor)717
- Cassius, C. Avidius264
- Casson, L.353
- Catana628–29
- Catch-22 (Heller)732–33
- Catiline81–82
- Cato, M. Porcius216–17
- cats in Roman forts367
- cavalry22–23, 150–51. See also light cavalry See also warhorses
- auxiliary horsemen190–91
- in battle of Dara720
- of camels136
- Campanian205
- on classical battlefield157
- cost of establishing a force of201
- deployment at Leuctra667–68
- formations153
- and large-force reconnaissance476
- mounted javelin men186
- Parthian602
- Sarmatian595
- used with light infantry156
- cavalry, Greek512–14
- as integral part of an initial hoplite attack666–67
- mounts owned by troopers516
- recuitment517
- cavalry, Roman220, 220n, 5, 227, 514–16
- armor and helmets435–36
- disappearance of231–32
- under Gallienus515–16
- grades of horses of alae and cohortes equitatae518
- Imperial434–35
- late antiquity heavy716
- solid performance in armies of the Principate240
- subsidiary role in the battlefield222
- Touloutegon524–25
- training525–26
- weapons434–35
- Cawkwell, G. L.536
- Cedreiae646
- Celts as mercenaries338
- “Cenotaph of the Julii” (Saint-Remy de Provence)423
- censors, Roman36
- Cerealis, Governor of Britain102
- Cerealis, Q. Petilius245
- Chaeronea, Battle of (338 B.C.)
- Alexander as commander of Macedonian cavalry at463
- Macedonian cavalry at23
- mortuary studies and158–59
- remains from286
- 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
- chalcaspides187
- Chaldaeans, heavy infantry of149
- Chamberlin, J. Edward135
- Chaonians145
- Chares413
- Cherusci591
- Chester indoor riding school518
- chest wounds298
- Chigi vase illustration of spears409
- chiliarchia184
- chiliarchies of Macedonians164
- Chios, Battle of (201 B.C.)195
- Chios, siege of645
- chremata202
- 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
- Cilicia170
- Cilles682
- Cimbri589
- Cineas446
- Circesium715
- cities. See also city-states, Greek
- effect of friendly armies in211
- fear of revolution in besieged441
- Roman walls35
- Sasanian610
- citizen-soldier, Greek concept of199–201
- city-states, Greek
- association with the feminine450
- emergence of199
- finances of201–3
- given military equipment by Hellenistic rulers201
- Civilis245
- clades Variana263
- Classicus, Julius245
- classis (service as heavy infantry)219
- classis Misenatium386
- classis Ravennatium386
- Claudius (Roman Emperor)
- donative on accession262
- navy under387
- revival of augurium salutis544
- revival of fetial treaty ceremonies560
- Claudius Pulcher, Ap.552
- Claudius Pulcher, P.548
- Claudius Terentianus433
- Cleochares of Cephisia516
- Cleon (Athenian general)652
- Clisthenes212
- close combat, valorization of155
- closing of the shrine of Janus544–45
- Clouds (Aristophanes)53
- Coele-Syria195
- Coenus166
- cohesion. See also social cohesion, concept of
- discipline and312
- of Roman army244
- of unit as motivator in combat258–59
- “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
- Colophon, cavalry of151
- Combat zone (O’Brien)733–34
- commanders. See also chain of command See also generalship
- Ammianus on79
- in Athens460
- importance of personalities of
- Velleius Paterculus on77
- in Sparta459–60
- Commodus (Roman emperor)41
- “common peace,” concept of6
- communities around Roman military bases273–74
- Connolly, J.363
- Connor, Robert537
- consilium468
- Constantia, Roman fort at716
- Constantius (Roman emperor)96
- Constitution of the Athenians (Aristotle). See Athenaion Politeia (Aristotle)
- 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
- contiones324
- Cookson, G. M.731
- Corinthian War (394–386 B.C.)11
- Corupedium, Battle of (280 B.C.)201
- Cossus, A. Cornelius557
- Cotta468
- Coulston, J. N. C.119
- cowardice, penalties for316
- Crassus, L. Licinius553
- Crassus, M. Licinius (ii)
- killing of enemy commander Deldo558
- Cratesipolis677
- Cratinus287
- Croesus of Lydia500
- crossbows525–26
- Ctesibius of Alexandria446
- Cunaxa, Battle of (401 B.C.)151
- appointment of physicians after defeat at306
- Greeks left after333
- infantry formation at153
- mutilation of Persian dead288
- Xenophon on155
- Curtius Lupus390
- Curtius Rufus, Q.164, 165
- on reorganization of command of hypaspists166–67
- on silver-plating of shields166
- on treatment of wounds297
- customhouses, soldiers and270–71
- 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
- Cyprus
- war chariots during Ionian Revolt of499–494 B.C., 151
- Cyreans156–57
- Cyropaedia (Education of Cyrus) (Xenophon)65, 207, 586
- on qualities of successful leader462
- on spies487–88
- Cyrus the Great579
- Cyrus the Younger
- mercenary remuneration offered by344
- Dacian Wars341
- Daimachus446
- Damarion273
- Danube front248
- Darius III
- cavalry at Gaugamela513
- chase by Companion Cavalry of Alexander502
- served by Rhodian generals342
- Daylamites in Sasanian army607
- debriefing after battle257–58
- decorations in Roman Imperial army326
- decuriones217
- Deidameia678
- 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
- Delphion205
- Demetrius of Phalerum58–59
- Demetrius Poliorcetes, the “Besieger,”211, 343, 671–87
- at battle of Ipsus676
- catapults on ships378
- divinization of683–84
- fleet of17
- gift of panoplies to Athens201
- homeland and identity of679–80
- loyalty of mercenaries to348–49
- married to Phila677–78
- masculinity of451
- siege train of193–04
- sources on672–73
- Demosthenes
- on army of Philip II16
- co-commander with Cleon460
- on payments to mercenaries344
- and sieges647
- speeches of54
- on watch on the Attic frontier483
- deos (apprehension)535
- depotatoi309–10
- De re militari (Vegetius)217
- Dessau, H.558
- destructiveness of war210–12
- devotio550
- Diades446
- Diadochoi. See Successors
- Diadoch War, Second173
- diagnosis and prognosis299–300
- Dictionary of Military and Naval Quotations (Heinl)735
- dilochia184
- Dio, Cassius
- on arrowheads301
- on Boudica242
- 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 hypaspists with Perdiccas171–72
- on mercenaries332
- on money and war349
- on new development in siege warfare650
- on payments to Balearic Islanders345
- on Roman reluctance to hiring mercenaries340
- 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 religion543
- 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
- Dioscorides, Pedanius295
- diphalangia184
- diplomacy and provision of supplies356
- diplomatic intelligence before Sicilian Expedition639
- discipline, military312–28. See also punishment, military
- Hellenistic armies318–20
- incentives rewarding
- in Roman Imperial army326
- Macedonia317–18
- polis armies314–17
- Discourses (Epictus)266
- Dodge, T. A.738
- Dorians and festival of Carneia533–34
- dory435
- Dorylaus of Pontus343
- doryphoroi165
- 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
- economic structures of war14–16
- economy, passage of armies and210–11
- Education of Cyrus (Xenophon). See Cyropaedia (Education of Cyrus) (Xenophon)
- Egypt
- allotment of land to military settlers346
- early ship transport of military forces370
- hoplites in147
- horses from496
- navy17
- payments for military purposes345–46
- use of Greek mercenaries203
- elaphroi (light cavalry)191
- Eleans, army of146
- elephants136
- at battle of Ipsus676
- of Hannibal697
- horses and500
- reintroduction in Hellenistic warfare191–92
- in Sasanian army714
- “Elephant Victory” (275)191
- Eleusis483
- emperors, Roman40–41
- 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
- Ennius223
- environment, warfare and128–38
- Epaminondas
- death at Mantinea156
- extreme discipline by317
- influence on Philip II of Macedon463
- invasion of the Peloponnese345
- and spear409
- spear wound to the chest298
- Ephorus658
- Ephorus of Cyme739
- Epicrates200
- Epictus266
- Epidamnus, siege of (434 B.C.)651
- Epidaurus, Argives investment of645
- epikouros331
- Epimachus of Athens446
- Epipolae452
- espionage. See also military intelligence
- Greek487–90
- Eumenes of Cardia347
- Argyraspids in service of173
- hiring mercenaries343
- killing of Neoptolemus4
- at Magnesia192
- murder of176
- Perdiccas and171
- Eurydice678
- Euthydemus633–34
- evocatio549
- excavations. See also archaeology of war
- and evidence of plague in Athens138
- at Maiden Castle (Britain)286
- at Waldgirmes, Germany102
- executions326
- experience in selection of Athenian commanders460
- Fabius Pictor, Quintus689
- Face of Battle, The (Keegan)279
- Ferrill, Arthur352
- fetials559–64
- consultation by Senate before wars563
- and demands for satisfaction562–63
- surrendering of Roman offenders to enemies560–61
- treaty ceremony559–60
- Fick, Nathaniel735–36
- finances, military. See also aerarium militare
- in Roman Imperial era262
- Findlow, Frank J.130
- Finley, Moses536
- Flamininus, L. Quinctius384
- 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
- Foster, Patricia401–2
- Franks591
- Frederick the Great737
- Frisian horse496
- frontiers, surveillance along481–83
- 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
- frumentarii486–87
- Fulvius Centumalus696
- Fulvius Flaccus. See Flaccus, Q. Fulvius
- Gabiene, Battle of (316 B.C.)675
- Argyraspids in174–75
- 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
- on suturing303
- Gallienus (Roman Emperor)515–16
- Galloway, J. L.734
- Gamala, siege of254–55
- 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
- complex society of111–12
- employed in Hellenistic armies190
- head-taking in war111
- influence on Roman soldiers’ clothing120
- as martial societies111
- splendor of arms of117
- Gedrosian expedition358–63
- 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
- generalship457–73
- Alexander the Great463–64
- archaic and classical Greece458–61
- fourth century B.C.461–63
- Hellenistic465–66
- Homeric457–58
- Philip II of Macedon463–64
- Generalship of Alexander the Great, The (Fuller)738
- Gepids591
- Germanicus238
- battlefield tour257
- marching order of army of238
- mutinous riots against256
- pursuit of Arminius239
- Tiberius and471
- triumph of556
- use of military intelligence357
- use of North Sea365
- gerron149
- Gilgamesh128
- Gillespie, Alexander728
- Gladiator (film)726
- gladius424, 433, 594. See also Spanish sword
- Glaucias164
- Göktürk Khaganate614
- Goldberg, Neil J.130
- Gorgias281
- Gracchus, Ti. Sempronius703
- Grass (Sandburg)290
- Gratian (Roman emperor)79
- Grattius Faliscus493
- Great Plains, Battle of (203 B.C.)700
- Greece, Classical (map), xxxiii
- Greek State at War, The (Pritchett)527–28
- Greeks under siege438–56
- Grumentum, Battle of (207 B.C.)698
- Grundy, G. B.739
- Gudme598
- Guisborough helmet435–36
- 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
- Hammond, N. G. L.740
- Hannibal33, 696–99
- admired by Scipio Africanus700
- in Battle of Side379
- at Cannae233
- commanding fleet of King Prusias of Bithynia378
- debate on possible march on Rome703
- land devastation by132
- Livy on83
- requisition of horses in Italy514
- 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
- Hanson, Victor Davis131, 132, 353, 410, 737
- on Battle of Delium669
- on naval logistics353
- Western Way of War, The143
- Harpagos155
- Harpalus170
- Harrington, James737
- Hart, B. H. Liddell47
- harvests, armies and356–57
- Hasdrubal son of Gisco703
- Hasdrubal the Fair696
- hatred as motivator of war77
- Hecuba (Euripides)53
- Heddernheim helmet435
- Heinl, R. D.735
- helepolis675
- Heliodorus509
- Hellanicus164
- Hellenica (Xenophon)739
- Hellenic League678
- Heller, Joseph732–33
- helmets
- cheek-pieces on429
- Greek401–4
- archaic Cretan402–3
- Chalcidian403
- effectiveness of413–14
- found at Olympia396
- Illyrian401
- on the islands403
- Thomas414
- Thracian403–4
- Montefortino type429
- peak helmets403–4
- Hemingway, Ernest731–32
- hemostasis301
- Hephaestion300
- Heraclea, Battle of (280 B.C.)191
- Heracleitus5
- Heracleon207–8
- Heracles (Euripides)281
- Heraclitus of Ephesus51
- Herippidas209
- Hermocrates640
- Herodotus8–9, 49, 61–62, 129
- on Athenians at Marathon396
- on barbarian equipment396–97
- 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
- on freedom and fighting582
- on Greek ethnic solidarity572
- idea of sea power376
- influence on Ammianus78–79
- justification of war536
- on mercenaries331
- on Miltiades5
- on ritual sacrifices529
- on scythed chariots192
- on size of Xerxes’s army352
- on spies488
- on Thracian peltasts149
- on trierarchoi381
- on triremes of Polycrates of Samos372–73
- on tyranny and mercenaries332
- on use of camels by Cyrus of Persia136
- Hesiod50
- hetairoi. See Companions
- Hiero133
- Hieron of Syracuse143, 204
- Archimedes in service of446
- mercenaries employed by338
- military dictator204
- Hignett, C.740
- Himera as ally of Syracuse632
- Himilco703
- hipparch, spies and488
- hipparchia189
- Hipparchios (“The Duties of a Cavalry Commander”) (Xenophon)64
- Hipponax of Ephesus372
- Hipponoidas316
- Histories (Amianus Marcellinus)74
- Hitler’s Army (Bartov)538
- Hittites138
- Hölscher, Tonio537
- Homer. See also Iliad (Homer) See also Odyssey (Homer)
- and development of Greek/barbarian dichotomy573–74
- on epikouros331
- on experience of war280
- influence of59–60
- lack of hierarchy in Homeric epic457
- on martial excellence3–4
- on military discipline313
- on mutilation288
- on preparations for the conduct of war12
- on protection of limbs408
- shields mentioned in397
- use of term phalanx19
- on war48–49
- honor
- Greek code5
- matters of as justification for war536
- of mercenaries349
- as Roman strategic objective under Germanicus240
- Honorius516
- hoplite panoply of Roman centuries219
- hoplites16, 18–19, 18, f, 20, f, 147, 148, f, 284. See also phalanxes
- aboard Athenian triremes374
- effect of warfare on agricultural fields353
- equipment of Greek395
- hypaspists compared to168
- ideal of bravery of314–15
- operating outside of the phalanx21
- response to cavalry combined with light infantry156
- in Sicilian Expedition624
- spears of410
- weight of gear149
- hoplon168
- Hormizd IV (Sasanian king)614
- Howard, Michael740
- Howe, Timothy133
- How to Survive under Siege (Aeneas Tacticus)66–67, 137, 441
- on emotions451–52
- on human factor449
- on mercenaries335
- “H. S. Mauberley (Life and Contacts)” (Pound)729
- hunting as form of warfare129
- Hyccara, capture of city by Athenians629
- Hynes, Samuel732
- hypaspistai163
- hypaspistai basilikoi164
- hyperetai479
- Iazyges248, 595. See also Sarmatians
- Iceni241
- Idavisto, Battle of240
- identity, civic, in Latin League31
- identity, Greek572, 572n, 4
- breakdown of582–83
- 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
- ile189
- Ilerda, Battle of (49 B.C.)230
- Iliad (Homer)728
- Achilles’s battle against the river Scamander128–29
- army organization and methods in458
- defining medical treatment301
- differences between elite and commoners574
- on Greek vows before combat528
- interpersonal conflict in535–36
- justification of war in536
- on military discipline313
- Shay on280
- imago, Augustus’s use of in military context470–71
- Imbros682
- In Command of History (Reynolds)59
- infamia (disgrace)258
- infantry. See also heavy infantry See also light infantry
- Greek18–19 ( See also hoplites See also phalangites
- separation of light infantry from phalanx22
- Hellenistic182–88
- Persian armies and713
- Sasanian607
- 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
- during Peloponnesian Wars460–61
- in siege warfare446
- insurrections against Sasanian kings610–11
- Ionian Revolt152
- Iphicrates150, 202, 334
- extreme discipline by316–17
- mercenary service335
- and pelte shield400
- use of large-force reconnaissance476
- Ipsus, Battle of (301 B.C.)185
- Athenian mercenaries in343
- elephants at191
- Macedonian cavalry at188
- scale of676
- Isaeus, speeches of54
- Isaura Vetus inscription on evocatio549
- Isidore of Seville431
- Italians
- defection of states to Hannibal701
- as mercenaries in Sicily338–39
- as Roman allies341
- and Roman cavalry514
- ius-iurandum321
- Jacoby, F.532
- Jakuszowice598
- Jamasp (Sasanian king)612
- Jameson, Michael529
- Jarhead (Swofford)735
- javelin men190
- 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 sword433
- Joshua the Stylite. See Pseudo-Joshua the Stylite
- Jotapata, siege of252–53
- Jovian (Roman Emperor)717
- Jugurtha of Numidia343
- Jugurthine War, The (Sallust)81
- Julian (Roman emperor)
- campaign into Sasanian Babylonia610
- cavalry in vanguard478
- death35–36
- Persian expedition in 363711
- ravaging Sasanian lands609
- in Roman-Persian warfare717
- victory over Alamanni at Strasbourg594
- Junius Blaesius, Quintus247
- Justin II (Roman Emperor)718
- Justus, C. Trebius269
- Juvenal267
- Kagan, Donald131
- Kalkriese. See Teutoburg forest
- Kallet-Marx, Lisa539
- Kasr al-Harit (Egypt) shield321
- katapaltaphetai446
- Kautilya517
- Kegelhelm401
- Kent, J. H.483
- 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
- reforms by613
- revolt of Bet Lafat under610
- Kusro II (Sasanian king)608
- defeat of Bahram’s rebellion615
- patronage of Christian shrines and institutions614
- Romans and718
- Labienus234
- Labisch, A.354
- Laelius697
- Lakhmids in Sasanian army607
- Lanassa678
- Laodicea264
- Lapis Satricanus218
- Laws (Plato)57
- Lazenby, J. F.740
- leadership in Roman imperial army35
- legions31–32. See also army, Roman
- division in ten tactical units230
- imperial236
- reform under Gaius Marius34
- soldiers’ loyalty to326
- of veteran soldiers234
- Lelantine War10
- Lendon, J. E.489
- Leonymus413
- Leucas626
- Leuctra, Battle of (371 B.C.)657–70
- citizen losses of Lacedaemonians213
- fate of survivors of315
- sources on657–58
- Library of History (Diodorus Siculus)672
- Licinius (Roman Emperor)391
- Liddell Hart, B. H.738–39
- Life of Demetrius (Plutarch)673
- Life of Eumenes (Plutarch)162
- Life of Pyrrhus (Plutarch)223
- light infantry. See also psiloi; See also velites
- Hellenistic190
- peltasts and334
- thureophoros186
- use against Hellenistic phalanxes185
- limes (Roman frontier)483–87
- Lindeman, G.289
- 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
- on drilling of recruits222
- on evocatio549
- on maniples229
- 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 triumphs554
- on victims of defeat at Lake Trasimene282
- Lock, Robert165
- logades20
- logistics206–8, 351–68
- Greek armies206–7
- Hellenistic armies207
- Macedonian army207
- and military intelligence354–58
- studies of352–54
- of Xerxes’s invasion of Greece352
- Longthorpe, England106
- Longus, Ti. Sempronius694
- Loomis, W. T.344
- lorica hamata431
- lorica segmentata430–31
- lorica squamata432
- louage, system of342
- loyalty, personal
- Agesilaus and461
- importance of462
- during Roman Republic470
- Successor kings and465
- of troops to Hannibal698
- Lucilius Capito269–70
- Lucius Verus (Roman Emperor)250–51
- Lycurgus of Athens54
- Lygdamis341
- Lyncestians as hoplites147
- 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
- Macrinus251
- Maecenas282
- Magister Equitum516
- Magister Peditum516
- Magnesia, Battle of (190 B.C.)185
- camels at192
- loss of Macedonian lives at214
- Roman forces at225–26
- use of war chariots at192
- Mainz, Roman military base in590
- Maishan developed by Sasanians611
- Malalas, John720
- Malene, Battle of (494 B.C.)155
- Mamertinus, M. Petronius266
- Mancinus561
- Mantinea, battles of158
- Mantinea, Second Battle of (362 B.C.)585, 661
- Epaminondas fatally wounded at298
- trials for cowardice after316
- 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
- sights of290
- violence during285
- Marcellus, M. Claudius
- dedication of spolia opima by557
- ovation after capture of Syracuse553
- Plutarch on689
- siege of Syracuse444
- tactics against Hannibal698
- Marcus Aurelius (Roman Emperor)
- Column of387
- donative on accession262
- and long wars248
- plague during reign of138
- ritual of initiation of war561
- threat from the Marcomanni and Quadi tribes263
- Marinovic, Ludmilla342
- Marius, Gaius39, f, 229, 285, 469
- amount carried by soldiers356
- influence on Roman generalship469
- innovation in design of the pilum427
- rise of38
- Sallust on82
- and surgery304
- Markle, M. M.410
- Mars, Roman festivals of543
- martial identity, Roman117–18
- Masada, siege of251
- masculinity and siege warfare narrative450–51
- Massalia, battle of130
- Mauretania, Romans in247
- Maurice (Roman Emperor). See also Strategikon (Maurice)
- Kusro II and718
- Maurice, F.352
- mausoleum of Munatius Plancus423
- Mayor, Adrienne137
- meanings of war, Hellenistic681–84
- Medical Questions (Rufus of Ephesus)295–96
- Megarians in Sicilian Expedition624
- Megellus, L. Postumius552
- Men against Fire (Marshall)538
- Men at War (Hemingway)731–32
- Mende, siege of647
- mercenaries15, 330–50, 446
- Aeneas Tacticus on66
- army morale and use of461–62
- Celts338
- Greek203–6
- at Battle of Cunaxa333
- decline among urban Greeks338
- fighting against other Greeks348
- getting home292
- in Near Eastern states11
- payments in Archaic period204
- in service to Assyrian and Babylonian kings330
- in Successor’s Wars336
- used by Dionysius of Syracuse205
- in Hellenistic armies179, 181, 336–38
- growing percentage195
- retained regiments versus allied contingents206
- in Hellenistic navies195
- hiring of341–43
- loyalty of348–49
- in mainland Greece334–35
- punishment and316
- remuneration of344–48
- in Sicilian Expedition624
- in Successor armies331
- ubiquity in fourth century335–36
- used by tyrants204
- in the West338–40
- Merton, Robert537
- Messana, capitulation of (426)645
- Messer, W.322
- Metapontum691
- Metaurus, Battle of the (207 B.C.)703
- Metellus, Lucius Caecilius135
- Methone646
- Methymna siege by Mytilene647
- metics in Athenian army145
- Metz, K. S.114
- Middleton, Paul273
- Miles gloriosus (Plautus)451
- military bases
- archaeology of106–8
- military courts319
- military intelligence474–92
- Alexander and464
- collection of supplies and357
- speculatores and485–86
- weakness of Athenian intelligence during Sicilian Expedition626
- military service, Greek199–200
- military treasury, Roman34. See also aerarium militare
- military tribunes225
- Miller, Frank735
- Miller, H. F.344
- Miller, William283
- Millett, Paul737
- Miltiades5
- mines and quarries, Roman soldiers working in271–72
- Minucius Thermus, Quintus222
- missile, extraction or excision of301
- misthophoros, as word for mercenaries331
- Mithridates Euergetes343
- Mnesimachus53
- monetary fines326
- monetization of warfare332
- Mons Prophyrites, Egypt108
- monuments built from triumphing commanders’ spoils555
- Moore, H. G.734
- morale issues256
- mortuary studies158–59
- Mossynoecians145
- Motya, siege of (397)157
- Mus, P. Decius550
- muscle cuirass405–6
- mutilation of the dead288–89
- Mycale, Battle of (479 B.C.)155
- Nabis (tyrant of Sparta)384
- Naevius557
- naming and ritualized relationships342
- Napoleon737–38
- Naqsh-i-Rustam
- navies, infrastructure and costs379–82
- navy, Athenian145, 624
- naval expeditions without funding202
- treaties on wood for shipbuilding134
- of triremes17
- two-level galleys372
- Naxos628
- neaniskoi208
- Nearchus the Cretan360–61
- Nemea River, Battle of the (394 B.C.)665
- Nepos658
- Nepos, Cornelius689
- New Carthage, capture by Scipio Africanus700
- Nicias7, 452
- request for help from Athens during Sicilian Expedition633–34
- against Sicilian Expedition624
- Niederbieber helmet435
- nobility. See aristocracy
- North, J.543
- Notitia Dignitum716
- Nutton, V.308–9
- 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
- Odysseus313–14
- Oeconomicus (“The Estate Manager”) (Xenophon)65
- Oldfather, W. A.67
- Old Oligarch376
- Olympic Games as Greek preparation for battle284
- Olynthiacs (Demosthenes)54
- Onasander471
- On Horsemanship (Xenophon)284
- On Hunting (Xenophon)284
- On Materia Medica (Pedanius Dioscorides)295
- On Medicine (Celsus)
- Onomarchus210
- On the Estate of Menecles335
- On the Navy Boards (Demosthenes)54
- On The Peace (Isocrates)335
- opponents, Roman243
- Opsônion345
- Orchomenus, siege of645
- organization, military
- in Achaemenid Persia147
- archaeology of war and106–8
- fortifications as information about106
- Greek armies145–46
- Hellenistic cavalry189–90
- Iliad on458
- in Persian empire147
- Sasanian607–8
- of tribal armies145
- Oribasius296
- ornamenta triumphalia556
- ostracon/ostraca268–69
- Othryoneus414
- ovations553
- Ovid74
- Paktolos River, battle at the (395 B.C.)666–67
- Pamphylians, hoplite equipment of147
- pandemics138
- Panegyricus (Isocrates)335
- Pantites315
- Parade of Daphnae (166)214
- Paraetacene, Battle of (317 B.C.)24, 162, 180
- Demetrius as cavalry commander at674
- scale of674–75
- victory of Eumenes187
- Park, Robert537
- Parmenio463
- Parthian frontier248–49
- Parthians
- armies of602
- Arsacid regime overthrown by Sasanians708
- influence on Roman equipment120
- and siege warfare714
- Tacitus on86
- threat to Roman empire40
- “Parthian shot,”609
- Patermuthis269
- Paternus, P. Taruttienus327
- patronage and Roman army37–38
- patterns of warfare7–12
- Paullus, L. Aemilius (229?–160 B.C.)323.185
- at Pydna233
- Servius Galba and468
- during Third Macedonian War469
- victory monument at Delphi422
- pectorale427–28
- Peddie, J.354
- Peithon174
- Peithon son of Crateuas173
- 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
- Gorgias on281
- military innovations during460–61
- psiloi during150
- ship-to-ship combat during377
- pentakosiarchia184
- “performance culture” of Athens48
- Pergamum
- inscription on contractual relationship between mercenaries and commanders347
- as Roman maritime ally384
- Perikeiromene (Menander)53
- peripoloi (patrollers)200
- Persepolis Fortification Tablets501
- Persia. See also Sasanian Persia
- Greek peace treaties with536–37
- 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
- cavalry of150–51
- infantry formation152–53
- and power of money15
- use of elephants in battle136
- war chariots151
- Persian warfare8–9
- Pescennius Niger264
- pezhetairoi163
- phalangites21–22
- phalanxes20, f, 152
- cavalry as protection of wings of188
- deep deployment of664–66
- development of396
- in Hellenistic army180, 182
- decline in training of182
- as highly organized component184
- subdivisions183–84
- tactics used against185
- Homeric heroic values and314–15
- initial use of458
- Macedonian396
- mechanics of battle between153–54
- organization in battle19–21
- at Plataea152
- Polybius on effectiveness of412
- studies of740
- phalgarchia184
- Pharnabazus (Satrap of Phrygia)
- admired by Xenophon586
- and Spartan access to timber134
- war chariots of151
- Phaselis, siege by Cimon647
- Phasians145
- Phayallus210
- Phila677–78
- 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
- as general463–64
- Isocrates and586
- pezhetairoi of163
- political marriages677
- resources of16
- Philip V of Macedon185, 195
- awareness of demographic base214
- edict on booty209–10
- 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
- philoi330
- Philon of Byzantium
- advice concerning besiegers451
- on catapult194
- 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
- Phobos (deity of Panic Fear)534–35
- Phocaea, siege of645
- Phocion529
- Phocylides575
- Phoenicia, navy of17
- Phoenicides337
- phrourarkhos482
- Phrynichus52
- phylarch479
- piaculum (expiation)258
- pilum (pila)
- effect on depth of the maniple227
- of Imperial era433
- in Roman Republic425–27
- surviving examples of425
- use by maniples228
- use in Roman legion221
- Pindar51
- Piraeus, naval infrastructure at379–80
- Pisidians170
- Placidus252
- plaision156
- Plataea, Battle of (479 B.C.)155, 570
- archers in150
- Athenian combined arms warfare at156
- cavalry at157
- number of Lacedaemonians212
- phalanxes at152
- remains from290
- shortage of Greek supplies at353
- spoils in Persian horses from494
- violence during285–86
- Plato
- on acts of courage283
- on Eastern ruler570
- on inner war56
- on internalized conflict57
- on military training55–56
- on war5
- Plautius, Aulus242
- 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
- on triumphs554
- Plutammon516
- 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 Athenian triremes374
- on battle of Ipsus676
- on Battle of Lechaeum334
- on Battle of Leuctra658
- on betrayal of Eumenes175
- on Caesar737
- on Demetrius Poliorcetes673
- on Eumenes162
- 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
- on Solon50–51
- as source for Second Punic War689
- on Spartans and fear534
- on tithing of booty531–32
- on treatment of wounds297
- on war in Boeotia657
- poetry, archaic. See also Alcaeus of Lesbos (Alcaeus of Mytilene) See also Archilochus of Paros See also Callinus of Ephesus See also Mimnermus of Smyrna See also Tyrtaeus of Sparta
- on Greek-barbarian dichotomy574–75
- on war49–50
- poets, Roman, on war88
- police force, hypaspists as165
- policing the battlefield290–91
- political class and military class, correlation of36
- political inclusion, path to in Rome31
- politics, Hellenistic war and681–82
- Polyaenus471
- on Battle of Leuctra658
- on hemithorakia407
- on spies487
- on tactic used against Hellenistic phalanx185
- Polybius48
- on Archimedes “iron hand,”194
- on arms and armor
- on Gaullish swords111
- on pilum425–26
- Roman helmets429
- Roman panoply421
- on shields423
- Spanish sword123
- spearheads410
- on Battle of Asculum225
- on battle of Chios195
- on Battle of Leuctra658
- on cavalry190
- on generalship465
- on growth of sophistication and wealth among Greeks337
- on Hannibal696
- as hostage in Rome after Pydna514
- information about Rome during the Republic216
- on light infantry221–22
- 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
- cohorts229
- 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
- on trophies530
- Polyclitus379
- Polycrates of Samos372–73
- Pompey the Great
- building erected by555
- combining Roman and Hellenistic traditions470
- fleet of385
- triumphs of553
- Poroi (“Ways and Means”) (Xenophon)64
- post-traumatic stress disorders. See battlefield trauma
- practices of war, Demetrius Poliorcetes and673–81
- Praetorian Guard265
- praetors545
- Price, S.543
- prisoners289–90
- possible medical treatment of310
- Roman taken by Sasanians609
- as sacrificial victims289
- Sasanians settled in agricultural regions611
- as source of intelligence488
- Pritchett, W. K.279, 529, 530
- burial of dead532
- Greek State at War, The527–28
- on Roman military discipline321
- on trophies530–31
- “Private Speeches” in Athens54
- proconsular armies, Roman32
- professionalization of armies
- profit, as justification for war536
- property and military obligations in Rome37
- provisioning. See also rations of soldiers See also supplies, Roman See also supplies of armies
- of Xerxes’s army352
- Prusias II of Bithynia450–51
- Prusias of Bithynia378
- Pseudo-Oppina496
- psiloi150
- psychology of war
- Caesar and75–76
- elephants as psychological weapon192
- Livy on83
- Philon of Byzantium on besieged452
- Tacitus on86–87
- Vegetius on80
- warhorses499–500
- Ptolemy of Mauretania, King247
- Ptolemy son of Lagus171
- Punica (Silius Italicus)689
- Punic War, First (264–241 B.C.)30
- losses in32–33
- necessity for Rome to build up fleet383
- revolt of Carthaginian mercenaries after339
- Punic War, Second (218–201 B.C.)33, 688–707
- lack of first-class general apart from Hannibal703
- Livy on339
- naval operations during383–84
- reconnaissance during477
- siege of Syracuse during444
- sources on688–89
- war decision after an ultimatum563
- punishment, military. See also discipline, military See also fustuarium (cudgeling to death)
- discipline and312–13
- in Imperial Roman army326
- influence of outside factors on315
- of mercenaries316
- monetary fines319
- 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, 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
- on tactics446–47
- Pythen632
- Pythia’s Prophecies, The (Plutarch)531–32
- quaestors36
- rams
- at siege of Jotapata253
- at siege of Plataea648
- at siege of Samos157
- use by Pericles650
- on warships377–78
- Raphia, Battle of (217 B.C.)24, 181
- Egyptian soldiers at346
- elephants in136
- Greek mercenaries of Ptolemy at337
- numbers at676
- Polybius on190
- recruitment, Roman33–34
- reenactments114–15
- Reilly, Charlie732
- relationships between states6
- religion. See also rituals of war, Greek See also rituals of war, Roman
- Cicero on Roman542
- Dionysius on543
- of Germans at beginning of first century A.D.592
- Hellenistic war and683–84
- Spartans529
- remedies for wounds303–4
- remuneration of soldiers
- Athenian15
- Greek202–3
- military versus civilian344
- Ptolemy II as good paymaster346
- in Sasanian army608
- of soldiers in the third century345
- subsistance versus wages346
- of the Ten Thousand333
- Republic (Plato)56
- retirement benefits for Roman veterans325
- Reveries (Maurice of Saxe)737
- Reynolds, David59
- Rhine-Danube Roman frontier589–600
- Rhodes, siege of (305/4 B.C.)440
- 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
- rituals of war, Greek527–41
- after combat
- battlefield trophy530–31
- booty531–32
- burial of the war dead532
- funeral speeches532
- sacrifice532–33
- stripping the dead531
- before combat
- festivals preventing expeditions529
- military vows528
- oracles528
- purification530
- sacrifice529
- initiating combat530
- marching paian530
- rituals of war, Roman542–68
- burning of enemy arms550–51
- on campaign547–51
- dedication of spolia opima557–59
- of departing commander545–47
- fetials and559–64
- proper days for initiating fighting548–49
- returning victor551–59
- ritual preparation in March543
- triumphs551–57
- vows of commanders during battles549
- Rodman, S.731
- Roisman, J.176
- 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
- growth of231
- impact of Second Punic War704–5
- maps ofxxxvii
- military training in285
- plagues in138
- provinces
- banditry in268
- 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
- arms and armor430–36
- challengers to emperors264
- defeat and retreat256–59
- Eastern cities presence of army in265
- generalship during470–72
- integration of soldiers and veterans in the provinces265–66
- long wars246–51
- material evidence of warfare from92
- relations between soldiers and civilians266–67
- siege warfare251–55
- Romanization, army and29
- Roman Republic
- armies during34
- arms and armor of421–30
- difficulties in tracing history of military formations and tactics during216
- generalship in466–70
- war and peace during543
- Roots of Strategy (Phillips)279
- Roth, J.354
- Rufus, Rutilius469
- “running out,” tactic of156
- Ruspina, Battle of (46 B.C.)234
- Rustius Barbarus272
- Sabin, P.114
- Sabinus468
- Sacred War, First10
- 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
- Samnite Wars222–23
- Samos, siege of157
- Samson137
- sanctuaries
- armies and211
- diplomatic efforts to protect211–12
- 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
- Sasanian Persia96–97, 108, 601–20. See also Roman-Persian warfare
- administrative reorganization613–14
- captives and economic development609
- Eran versus Aneran605–8
- grand strategy of608–12
- influence on Roman equipment120
- reforms by Kavad and Kusro I613
- rise of251
- toppling of the Arsacids603
- Saving Private Ryan (film)282–83
- Scaeva287
- Scapula, P. Ostorius241
- scientists, Greek, and siege warfare445–46
- 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
- Scullard on740
- study by Liddell Hart738–39
- tactics of233
- use of cohorts at Ilipa229
- use of non-Italians in army231
- use of Numidian cavalry by514
- at Uzita233
- Scipio, P. Cornelius Nasica Corculum225
- Scullard, H. H.740
- sculpture
- on lustration of Roman army547
- 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
- military settlements346–47
- use of elephants191
- use of peltasts190
- warships of375
- Seleucus IV214
- self-control, Hellenistic generals and465
- self-enrichment through booty5
- Selinus632
- Sennacherib372
- Sentinum, Battle of (295 B.C.)550
- Servilius Vatia, Publius549–50
- Servius Galba468
- Servius Tullius219
- Severus Alexander (Roman Emperor)717
- Sextus Pompeius Magnus385
- shame, dread of, as impetus of discipline315
- shields147–49
- found at Olympia396
- hoplon168
- of peltasts149–50
- thureos186
- shipbuilding and deforestation133
- shipyards379
- Sicels, hoplite equipment of147
- Sicyonians634
- Side, Battle of (190 B.C.)379
- side arms149
- sieges, descriptions as small dramas452
- siege warfare157, 193–94
- advances in446
- attacking during a festival448
- Caesar on importance and frequency of76–77
- camps108
- Delian League and10
- Hannibal and697
- Hellenistic445
- maintaining social harmony in besieged cities443
- during Peloponnesian War642–56
- population after210
- on Roman Empire’s eastern frontier714
- of Roman Imperial era251–55
- in Roman-Persian wars721–23
- Sasanians and603
- Vegetius on80
- signiferi226
- Silenus690
- Silures241
- 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
- size of armies
- in Battle of Ipsus676
- in Battle of Paraetacene674–75
- in Battle of Plataea212
- at Battle of Raphia676
- Xerxes’s expedition352
- skeuophoroi207
- Smyrneis (Mimnermus of Smyrna)51
- Snyder, Zack726
- social challenges of sieges441–43
- social cohesion, concept of538–39
- Soldier, The (Antiphanes)335–36
- soldiers, Roman
- as citizens vested with certain important rights322
- complaints of323
- distinguished from citizens321
- in society262
- Soldiers’ Tale, The (Hynes)732
- Solon of Athens50–51
- “Song of Hybrias the Cretan, The,”203
- Sophanes4
- Sophocles131
- Sosylus690
- Southern, P.489
- Southey, Robert290
- South Shields (England)434
- Spain
- horses from496
- impact of Second Punic War705
- incursions in263
- and Roman cavalry518
- Scipio Africanus in700
- use of cohorts in229
- Spaniards as Roman allies341
- spara149
- Sparta, siege of (272 B.C.)450
- Sparta and Spartans
- Acrotatus and defense of450
- after Athenian Sicilian Expedition640
- agent of mercenary recruitment343
- army
- arming of helots212–13
- citizen soldiers in458–59
- classical145
- combined arms warfare156
- hoplites in19
- phalanx formation21
- side arms149
- training284
- control of the flow of mercenaries from the Peloponnese342
- correlation of political class and military class36
- decline in citizen body212–13
- 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
- spies from488
- stance as liberators in Peloponnesian War585
- stand at Thermopylae580
- subjugation of Messenia9
- Spartolus, Battle of (429 B.C.)156
- spear rite, Roman561
- spears190. See also sarissa
- broken in battle286
- of the hypaspists168
- Latin vocabulary for434–35
- of Roman legion221
- of triarii223–24
- wounds created by298
- specialization in Greek warfare21–24
- Specimen Days (Whitman)65
- Speidel, M. P.489
- Spence, I.479
- Spiller, Roger538
- Spithridates209
- spoils
- dedications of531
- displayed in triumphs554
- monuments built from555
- in Persian horses from Plataea494
- standards, battlefield155
- state, war and Greek12–16
- stationarii269
- Statius431
- status, warfare and commanders’ personal682
- stones of psiloi150
- Strasbourg, Battle of (A.D. 357)504
- strata Diocletiana715
- stratagem, use of word462
- Strategikon (Demetrius of Phalerum)58–59
- strategoi460
- Strauss, B.352
- stripping the dead531
- Successors
- Argyraspids and165
- lack of investment in cavalry188
- new Greek cities in kingdoms of347
- and warfare180
- Sulpicius Gallus469
- Sun-Tzu279
- supplies, Roman42
- civilian transport of273
- into Germania364–65
- record keeping in Imperial era273
- storage and protection at army bases366–67
- system33
- surprise attacks157–58
- surveyors in Roman army237
- suturing303
- Swofford, Anthony735
- swords
- broken in battle286
- effect on depth of the maniple227
- Greek410–12
- of the hypaspists168
- Latin vocabulary for434
- Roman228
- of cavalry525–26
- of Imperial era433
- of infantry434
- of Roman legion221
- on Roman Republic423–25
- at time of Dura Europos siege436
- wounds created by298
- swordsmen190
- symmachoi330
- symmetrical warfare by Roman legions243–45
- Symposium (Plato)281
- Symposium (Xenophon)59–60
- Syracuse628, f
- after Athenian Sicilian Expedition640
- as ally of Carthage in Second Punic War701
- army of145
- battles in158
- Carthaginian siege of138
- cavalry of151
- civil wars in13
- naval struggle in Great Harbor (413 B.C.)377
- Roman siege of194
- war aims against Athens627
- Tabaristan developed by Sasanians611
- Tacitus75, 85. See also Agricola (Tacitus) See also Annals (Tacitus)
- on Civilis245
- 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
- invasions365
- remains of Varus’s army in Teutoburg forest291
- on mutinies326
- on mutinous riots against Germanicus256
- on numbness in the aftermath of battle257
- on Tiberius247
- on treatment of the wounded in Roman army307
- on value of fleet as strike force390
- on work in a mine271–72
- Tactica (Arrian)217
- tactics
- of Fabius Maximus Cunctator698
- of Hannibal43
- Hellenistic phalanxes and184
- of Huns597
- importance of discipline312
- innovations in infantry186
- Macedonian23
- Pyrrhus on446–47
- of Thebans at Delium664
- Tactics (Asclepiodotus)66–67
- Tactics against the Alans (Arrian). See Against the Alans (Arrian)
- Tagus, battle at the river (220 B.C.)697
- Tamynae, Battle of (349/8 B.C.)529
- Taochians145
- Tarichaeae, seige of254
- Tarrant, R. J.282
- tax collection, Roman soldiers and270
- tax grain, Roman soldiers supervising weighing of270
- tax in kind, Roman34
- taxis183–84
- 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
- tetrarchia184
- tetrarchs and discipline319
- Teutoburg forest
- Germanicus’ army at256
- Teutones589
- thalassocracy376
- Theangela, siege of442–43
- 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
- Theocritus346
- Theodotus379
- Theognis of Megara50
- Theophrastus
- on the character of the coward46–47
- on effect of armies marching over fields130
- on location of good timber133–34
- therapontes330
- Thespiae213
- Thomas Aquinas535
- Thrasydaios of Akragas143
- Thrasyllus150
- The Three Thousand162–78
- Thucydides60, 62–64, 133
- on arming soldiers396
- on Athenian Sicilian Expedition
- first battle with Syracuse629–30
- on Athenian triremes374
- on battle of Mantinea740
- on brutality of Peloponnesian War643–44
- on deos535
- 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 psiloi150
- on questions asked of Oracle at Delphi528
- relationship to Herodotus62
- on sacrifices529
- on shields with wicker399
- on sieges646
- as soldier appraising realities of war739
- on Spartan army organization146
- on Themistocles379
- on trials for cowardice after Battle of Mantinea316
- on tribal warriors145–46
- on trophies530
- on war and self-enrichment5
- on warships372
- thureos186
- Thurii691
- Tiberius (Roman Emperor)
- and Germanicus471
- revolt of Tacfarinas under263
- triumphs of556
- Velleius Paterculus on78
- Tigranocerta (Armenia)249
- Timander164
- timber
- armies’ use of135
- forests as target of conquests180
- needed for fleets381
- supply as factor in naval strategy133
- Tirifates249
- torsion artillery96
- towers, wheeled157
- trade
- between German communities592
- between Italy and the north589
- long distance trade of wine273–74
- presence of soldiers and272
- of Sasanian Persia712
- train208–9
- training, military
- for battle284–85
- of cavalry See cavalry: training
- of hoplites284
- of horse archers192–93
- Plato’s Republic on56
- Sasanian army713
- scientific465
- of specialists446
- Vegetius on80
- Trajan’s Column
- 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
- Romans and591–92
- shared values and practices of warrior elites among597
- triage after battles300
- tribunes, military322
- tribuni celerum217
- tribuni militum218
- tribute, power of15
- trierarchus389
- Trojan War. See also Iliad (Homer)
- Euripides on53
- Trojan Women (Euripides)53
- Truceless War339–40
- Tyre
- siege by Antigonus (314/313)675
- Tyrtaeus of Sparta18, 49
- on aspis shield398
- on infantry22
- on lower body wounds413
- on martial excellence4
- on military glory459
- on phalanx in battle20
- violence in288
- on war50
- Ulbert, Gunter433
- Ulpian266
- Uppåkra598
- Uzita, Battle of233
- Valens, M. Vettius489
- Valerian (Roman Emperor)717
- valetudinarium (army hospital)308–9
- Valkenburg, tegimentum found at435
- Van Driel-Murray, Carol113
- van Wees, Hans399
- Varro, M. Terentius
- definition of armor427
- on fetials enacting treaties560
- on Gallica armor431
- on horses500
- Livy on84
- on spolia opima557
- Varus, P. Quintilius
- Arminius and240
- defeat of239
- lack of military intelligence357
- march through Germany237–38
- supply problems364
- Vegetius74, 80, 472
- on camels192
- De Re Military217
- on Hunnish horse496–97
- on maintaining good conditions in camps309
- Veith, G.279
- Vercingetorix75
- Vergil. See Virgil
- Versnel, H. S.550
- Veseris, Battle of (340 B.C.)550
- Vespasian (Roman Emperor)
- closure of the shrine of Janus545
- second battle of Cremona244
- siege of Gamala254–55
- siege of Jotapata252–53
- vexillations516
- victors, grand gestures of681–82
- Vindolanda writing tablets273
- Virgil
- on acts of courage283
- armor description431–32
- on battlefield trauma279
- portrait of Aeneas the general470
- sensitivity to traumas of war282–83
- writing included in Men at War732
- Vitruvius193
- Vologeses, Parthian king249–50
- Volusenus480
- wages of soldiers. See remuneration of soldiers
- Waldgirmes590
- Wallsend108
- war, Roman votes for546
- War against Catiline (Sallust)75
- War against Jugurtha (Sallust)75
- War and the Poet (Eberhart and Rodman)731
- warfare. See also naval warfare
- importance for Sarmatians596
- lack of interest in technical aspects in Roman manuals217
- warfare, environmental130–31
- warfare, Hellenistic671–87
- as continued development to previous warfare684–85
- and creation of kings682–83
- scale and frequency of674
- warhorses493–511
- care of501–3
- feeding502–3
- health hazards503–4
- ideal497–99
- Moorish515–16
- Osrhoenian515–16
- psychology499–500
- sex of chargers500–501
- tack505–9
- War of Catiline, The (Sallust)81
- warrior ethos. See military ethos
- warships. See also Liburnians See also quinqueremes See also triremes
- development370–75
- hulls of379
- mounting of missile-firing machines on676–77
- weapons. See also arrows See also daggers See also javelins See also pilum (pila) See also sarissa See also spears See also swords
- deposits593–94
- German593–94
- of the hypaspists168
- of Iron Age Gauls590
- similarities between Germanic and Roman armies594–95
- used for both hunting and war129
- Weber, Max528
- weight
- of breastplate412
- carried by hoplites149
- carried by pack horse355
- of greaves408
- of hoplite shield398
- of pilum426
- of sarissa410
- of scutum423
- of spearheads410
- of swords412
- 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
- Woodhead, Arthur Geoffrey730
- Works and Days (Hesiod)50
- Xanthippus288
- Xanthus, siege of (42 B.C.)440
- xenoi330–31
- Xenophilus173
- Xenophon64–65
- on arms and armor
- Chalybian linen corselets407
- corselets of cavalry force407
- cuirass for horsemen405
- ideal helmet404
- on pelte shield400
- on shields413
- sword411
- on thigh guards for horsemen409
- on Athenian civil war of 403288–89
- on battlefield trauma279
- on Battle of Mantinea585
- on Chalybian heavy infantry149
- on discipline and good order316
- on diversion of the Euphrates135
- on Eastern ruler570
- leading the Ten Thousand333
- Liddell Hart compared to739
- on machaira412
- on military leadership462
- on Persian saddlery507
- on place of doctors in marching order of Spartan army305
- on sacrifice before battle529
- on Sciritae476
- on scythed chariots192
- on sieges646
- on Spartan army organization146
- speech to the army after Cunaxa317
- on spies487–88
- Symposium59–60
- on the Ten Thousand333
- on training of cavalry516
- on trophies530
- on use of Democrates son of Temnus as scout478
- on wagons208
- 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
- xiphos168
- xyston (lance)189
- xystophoroi. See cavalry: Macedonian
- Yazdgard II (Sasanian king)612
- Yazgard III (Sasanian king)616
- Yonge, Charlotte731
- Young, Neil734
- 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
- Zoilus446
- Zonaras194
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