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SOLDIERS AND GHOSTS
SOLDIERS
& GHOSTS
A History of Battle in Classical Antiquity
J. E. LENDON
Yale University Press New Haven and London
Published with assistance from the e of
the Frederick John Kingsbury Memorial Fund
and from the Louis Stern Memorial Fund.
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Lendon, J. E.
Soldiers and ghosts : a history of battle in
classical antiquity / J. E. Lendon.
p. cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 0-300-10663-7 (alk. paper)
1. Military history, Ancient. 2. Military art and science—
History. I. Title.
2005
355′.00937—dc22
2004021273
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CONTENTS
List of Maps ix
List of Figures x
Prologue 1
Introduction 5
THE GREEKS 15
I. Fighting in the Iliad 20
II. The Last Hoplite 39
III. Two Stubborn Spartans in the Persian War 58
IV. The Guile of Delium 78
V. The Arts of War in the Early Fourth Century bc 91
VI. Alexander the Great at the Battle of Issus 115
VII. Hellenistic Warfare (323–31 bc) 140
The Greeks, Conclusion 156
THE ROMANS 163
VIII. Early Roman Warfare 172
IX. The Wrath of Pydna 193
X. Caesar’s Centurions and the L