The Greek State at War, Part IV - Hardcover

Pritchett, W. Kendrick

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0520053796 ISBN 13: 9780520053793

Publisher: California University Press, 1985

Synopsis

The volumes of The Greek State at War are an essential reference for the classical scholar. Professor Pritchett has systematically canvassed ancient texts and secondary literature for references to specific topics; each volume explores a unique aspect of Greek military practice.

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About the Author

W. Kendrick Pritchett is Professor of Greek, Emeritus, at the University of California, Berkeley. Among his many other works are six volumes of Studies in Ancient Greek Topography, also published by California.

From the Back Cover

"Professor Prichett is an acknowledged authority in more than a few techniques of investigation, and readers can immediately see that they are in safe hands. What can be known is clearly presented. What is not known is identified. Erroneous explanations throughout the history of classical scholarship are cited and disassembled. . . . He takes into account the special conditions that control interpretation of epigraphical texts. He includes matters of topography, numismatics, and vase-painting. He asks questions a reader might never have thought to ask, e.g., Where is booty from a battle sold? His questions and surveys lead naturally and inevitably to topics as large as the Athenian economy in the fourth century B.C."--A. L. Boegehold, Brown University "Pritchett's Greek State at War is one of the monuments of classical scholarship in our time. . . . A work that every student of Greek history will consult whenever he is concerned with war in the Greek world. No ancient historian can possibly do without it. . . . The implications of [the work] extend in many directions--into Greek psychology, religion, political thinking--and students will be kept busy for a long time in considering them in detail."--Sir Moses Finley

From the Inside Flap

"Professor Prichett is an acknowledged authority in more than a few techniques of investigation, and readers can immediately see that they are in safe hands. What can be known is clearly presented. What is not known is identified. Erroneous explanations throughout the history of classical scholarship are cited and disassembled. . . . He takes into account the special conditions that control interpretation of epigraphical texts. He includes matters of topography, numismatics, and vase-painting. He asks questions a reader might never have thought to ask, e.g., Where is booty from a battle sold? His questions and surveys lead naturally and inevitably to topics as large as the Athenian economy in the fourth century B.C."

--A. L. Boegehold, Brown University

 

"Pritchett's Greek State at War is one of the monuments of classical scholarship in our time. . . . A work that every student of Greek history will consult whenever he is concerned with war in the Greek world. No ancient historian can possibly do without it. . . . The implications of [the work] extend in many directions—into Greek psychology, religion, political thinking—and students will be kept busy for a long time in considering them in detail."

--Sir Moses Finley

 

Edition details

• Publisher: California University Press
• Publication date: 1985
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0520053796
• ISBN 13: 9780520053793
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 288