Although Sparta's early history is not clear, by the end of the 8th century most of the other cit...

The early Romans were only one of a number of peoples that inhabited Iron Age central Italy. From...

Osprey's study of the first Persian invasion of Greece in 490 BC. The story of the Marathon campa...

When Philip II ascended the throne in 359 BC, Macedonia was in danger of being engulfed by wild b...

The principal source of information on the Roman Republican Army is the sixth book of the Histori...

Pyrrhus was one of the most tireless and famous warriors of the Hellenistic Age that followed the...

The death of Alexander the Great in 323 BC threw the Macedonians into confusion; there was no cap...

The Greek hoplite, the archetypal spear-armed warrior, is perhaps the most prevalent figure in ou...

The Persian Empire grew in the vacuum left by Assyria's destruction of the Kingdom of Elam (648 B...

This fully illustrated study explores the formidable Athenian army, rivalled only by the Spartan ...

Twenty-one contributions, written by friends and colleagues, reflect the wide interests of Profes...