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- 1.Why Study Battles? What Is War?
- 2.The Problem of Warfare’s Origins
- 3.Sumer, Akkad, and Early Mesopotamian Warfare
- 4.Egyptian Warfare From the Old to New Kingdoms
- 5.The Battles of Megiddo and Kadesh
- 6.The Trojan War and Homeric Warfare
- 7.The Assyrian War Machine
- 8.The Sieges of Lachish and Jerusalem
- 9.A Peculiar Institution? Hoplite Warfare
- 10.The Battle of Marathon
- 11.The Battle of Thermopylae
- 12.Naval Warfare and the Battle of Salamis
- 13.The Athenian Expedition to Sicily
- 14.The March of the Ten Thousand
- 15.Macedonian Military Innovations
- 16.Alexander’s Conquest of Persia
- 17.The Legions of Rome
- 18.The Battles of Cannae and Zama
- 19.Legion Versus Phalanx — Six Pitched Battles
- 20.The Sieges of Alesia and Masada
- 21.Caesar’s World War
- 22.The Battle of the Teutoburg Forest
- 23.Catastrophe at Adrianople
- 24.Reflections on Warfare in the Ancient World