Selected Writings on Chariots and other Early Vehicles, Riding and Harness

Selected Writings on Chariots and other Early Vehicles, Riding and Harness
Author: M.A. Littauer
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 767
Release: 2021-11-22
Genre: History
ISBN: 9004494162

This collection of papers is primarily concerned with transport by wheeled vehicle in antiquity. They shed much light on the construction of the vehicles, the ways their draught animals were harnessed and controlled, and the uses to which the equipages were put. The evidence discussed includes actual remains of vehicles and bridles, as well as figured and textual documents. Ridden animals and their gear also feature in this collection of papers. The Selected Writings of Mary B. Littauer and Joost H. Crouwel are important for all those interested in the cultures of the ancient Near East, Egypt and Cyprus and of Bronze Age Greece.

The End of the Bronze Age

The End of the Bronze Age
Author: Robert Drews
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Total Pages: 264
Release: 2020-03-31
Genre: History
ISBN: 0691209979

The Bronze Age came to a close early in the twelfth century b.c. with one of the worst calamities in history: over a period of several decades, destruction descended upon key cities throughout the Eastern Mediterranean, bringing to an end the Levantine, Hittite, Trojan, and Mycenaean kingdoms and plunging some lands into a dark age that would last more than four hundred years. In his attempt to account for this destruction, Robert Drews rejects the traditional explanations and proposes a military one instead.

Brill's Companion to Warfare in the Bronze Age Aegean

Brill's Companion to Warfare in the Bronze Age Aegean
Author:
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 531
Release: 2023-12-11
Genre: History
ISBN: 9004684069

Aegean prehistory was born out of the search for the Trojan War. Since the time of Heinrich Schliemann, new forms of evidence have come to light and innovative questions have arisen, including examinations of warfare as a concept. This volume interrogates the nature of warfare in the Bronze Age Aegean for scholars and teachers with knowledge of the ancient Mediterranean, who wish to access the state of the field when it comes to the ways that specialists approach warfare in the prehistoric Aegean. Authors review evidence, consider the social and cultural place of war, and revisit longstanding questions.

The Aegean Bronze Age

The Aegean Bronze Age
Author: Oliver Thomas Pilkington Kirwan Dickinson
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 368
Release: 1994-03-03
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780521456647

Oliver Dickinson has written a scholarly, accessible, and up-to-date introduction to the prehistoric civilizations of Greece. The Aegean Bronze Age, the long period from roughly 3000 to 1000 BC, saw the rise and fall of the Minoan and Mycenaean civilizations. The cultural history of the region emerges through a series of thematic chapters that treat settlement, economy, crafts, exchange and foreign contact (particularly with the civilizations of the Near East), and religion and burial customs. Students and teachers will welcome this book, but it will also provide the ideal companion for amateur archaeologists visiting the Aegean.

The End of the Bronze Age

The End of the Bronze Age
Author: Robert Drews
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Total Pages: 270
Release: 1993
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780691025919

This text attempts to account for the destruction of key cities in the Mediterranean at the end of the Bronze Age, circa the 12th century BC. The author proposes a military explanation for the destruction of four important kingdoms at this time.

Early Greek Warfare

Early Greek Warfare
Author: P. A. L. Greenhalgh
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 232
Release: 1973-05-24
Genre: History
ISBN: 0521200563

First published in 1973, this is a study of the literary and archaeological developments in the warfare of early Greece. Dr Greenhalgh considers in particular the military history of the chariot and mounted horse, both as they were represented in poetry and art and as they were used in reality from about 1100 to 500BC. He finds the picture superficially presented by the sources incoherent and often incredible, and attempts a reconstruction which does justice to both tactical and technical possibilities and to the social and economic facts of life in the period. He shoes how the Homeric poems, for example, can be systematically misleading - in part misconceiving the character of the Mycenaean age, and in part conflating with this misconception the conditions of their own time. This illustrated study will be of value to archaeologists, historians of warfare and Homeric specialists; its wider implications will interest social and political historians.

Cavalry Operations in the Ancient Greek World

Cavalry Operations in the Ancient Greek World
Author: Robert E. Gaebel
Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
Total Pages: 372
Release: 2002
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 9780806134444

In this comprehensive narrative, Robert E. Gaebel challenges conventional views of cavalry operations in the Greek world. Applying both military and historical perspectives, Gaebel shows that until the death of Alexander the Great in 323 B.C., cavalry played a larger role than is commonly recognized. Gaebel traces the operational use of cavalry in the ancient Greek world from circa 500 to 150 B.C., the end of Greek and Macedonian independence. Emphasizing the Greek and Hellenistic periods (359322 B.C.), he provides information about the military use of horses in the eastern Mediterranean, Greek stable management and horse care, and broad battlefield goals.

Mycenaean Greece and the Aegean World

Mycenaean Greece and the Aegean World
Author: Margaretha Kramer-Hajos
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 231
Release: 2016-08-15
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 131679072X

In this book, Kramer-Hajos examines the Euboean Gulf region in Central Greece to explain its flourishing during the post-palatial period. Providing a social and political history of the region in the Late Bronze Age, she focuses on the interactions between this 'provincial' coastal area and the core areas where the Mycenaean palaces were located. Drawing on network and agency theory, two current and highly effective methodologies in prehistoric Mediterranean archaeology, Kramer-Hajos argues that the Euboean Gulf region thrived when it was part of a decentralized coastal and maritime network, and declined when it was incorporated in a highly centralized mainland-looking network. Her research and analysis contributes new insights to our understanding of the mechanics and complexity of the Bronze Age Aegean collapse.

Warfare in Ancient Greece

Warfare in Ancient Greece
Author: Tim Everson
Publisher: The History Press
Total Pages: 190
Release: 2004-11-18
Genre: History
ISBN: 0752495062

Discussing the background, weapons and tactics of the ancient Greeks, this title describes the weapons, armour, chariots and other military equipment used from 1550 to 150 BC. It traces how and when various pieces of equipment came into use; where they were introduced from; the effectiveness of the equipment; and when and why things changed.