The story of the Marathon campaign is an epic of the Ancient World. When the Ionian Greeks revolted against their Persian overlords in 499BC, the cities of Athens and Eretria came to their aid. The Persian King Darius swore vengeance and in 490BC a fleet of 600 ships packed with troops was sent to take revenge on the Athenians. At Marathon the Greeks met the Persians in battle and drove them in rout back to their ships. The moral effect of this victory was enormous - for the first time a Greek army had defeated the Persians and demonstrated the superiority of hoplite tactics.
The story of the Marathon campaign is an epic of the Ancient World. When the Ionian Greeks revolted against their Persian overlords in 499BC, the cities of Athens and Eretria came to their aid. The Persian King Darius swore vengeance and in 490BC a fleet of 600 ships packed with troops was sent to take revenge on the Athenians. At Marathon the Greeks met the Persians in battle and drove them in rout back to their ships. The moral effect of this victory was enormous - for the first time a Greek army had defeated the Persians and demonstrated the superiority of hoplite tactics. Nicolas Sekunda's book discusses one of the most famous battles of the ancient world, and sheds new light on this important point in the epic struggle between Persia and the Greek city-states.

Marathon 490 Bc: The First Persian Invasion of Greece (Praeger Illustrated Military History)

History

Sekunda, Nick

Ancient Civilizations

Praeger Pub Text

Cosmo Rodewald, who died in 2002, was Senior Lecturer in the History Department at Manchester University. This collection of essays is offered by former colleagues, pupils and admirers of Cosmo, as a 'garland to his memory'. Their writings range across the Greek and Roman worlds: Xenophon the Rhetor (Anthony Keen), The Rein and the Spur, Theopomus and Ephorus (David Whitehead), The Episode of Sphodrias as a source for Spartan Social History (Stephen Hodkinson), Plato's Anachronisms (John Graham), The Phokian Hierosylia at Delphi: Quantities and Consequences (John Davies), Q. Fabius Pictor: was he an annalist? (Simon Northwood), Polybius, Livy and the Disaster in the Macedonian House (John Briscoe), Sejanus: his fall (Anthony Birley), Observations on the inner faces of some auxiliary diplomas from the reign of Antoninus Pius (Paul Holder), Notes on Ammianus Marcellinus XVIII (Robin Seager), Arthur, Joshua and the Israelites: history and its purposes in early ninth-century Wales (Nick Higham); and biographical and tributary papers by Alastar Jackson, Nick Sekunda and Victor Sayer. Table of Contents Preface (Nicholas Sekunda); Cosmoe Rodewald 1915-2002: A brief biography (Alastar Jackson and Nicholas Sekunda); Cosmo Rodewald at Manchester University 1947-1976 (Alastar Jackson); Cosmo Rodewald’s philanthropy (Victor Sayer and Nicholas Sekunda); Xenophon the rhetor (Anthony Keen and Nicholas Sekunda); The rein and the spur (David Whitehead); The episode of Sphodrias as a source for Spartan social history (Stephen Hodkinson); Plato’s anachronisms (John Graham); The Phokian Hierosylia at Delphi: Quantities and consequences (John Davies); Q. Fabius Pictor: Was he an Annalist? (Simon Northwood); Polybius, Livy, and the disaster in the Macedonian royal house (John Briscoe); Sejanus: His fall (Anthony Birley); Observations on the inner faces of some auxiliary diplomas from the reign of Antoninus Pius (Paul Holder); Notes on Ammianus Marcellinus XVIII (Robin Seager); Arthur, Joshua and the Israelites: History and its purposes in early ninth century north Wales (Nick Higham).

Corolla Cosmo Rodewald

Biographies & Memoirs

Historical

Akanthina

Sekunda argues that in the 160s BC, the Ptolemaic and Seleucid infantry were reorganised to make them more successful and more competitive against the might of the Romans. This Romanisation of the military took the form of new tactics and changes in the organisation and in the equipment given to the soldier, with evidence coming from archaeological, literary, epigraphic and iconographic sources. Sekunda looks at the pre-Romanised organisation of the infantry providing the necessary background history to the later reforms.

Hellenistic Infantry Reform in the 160's BC (Studies On The History Of Ancient And Medieval Art of Warfare)

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