This paper explores the reasons why employers hired mercenaries in the Classical Greek World of the fifth and fourth century BCE . lt discusses the rise of mercenary activity against the backdrop of socio-economic and political phenomena that created the conditions for a large number of men to find service overseas especially in the Persian Empire. Mercenary service in an ancient Greek context is complicated by traditions that valued heroic service of aristocrats and rulers abroad in the past, for example as extolled in the poems of Homer, and that 'mercenary' is perhaps notan accurate label for men serving others abroad. Ultimately, the paper affirms the demand driven nature of such service and the wars of the fourth century in which Greek...
Research on ancient mercenaries is fraught with problems, being the match between the scarce and par...
This dissertation presents a new portrait of mercenaries as they pertain to the island of Crete duri...
This paper wants to carry out an analytical description of the use of Greek mercenaries in the East,...
This paper explores the reasons why employers hired mercenaries in the Classical Greek World of the ...
From the end of the 5th century before J.-C. the mercenaries reappeared in the Western Mediterranean...
Este artículo pretende llevar a cabo una reflexión teórica del papel que el mercenariado griego tuvo...
The history of fourth-century Sicily is often associated with the issue of mercenary service which k...
Esparta fue el primer Estado griego en hacer un uso masivo de mercenarios extranjeros. Al mismo tiem...
The article analyses the phenomenon of mercenalism, it focuses on the historical background and the ...
Greek mercenaries were widespread in the Mediterranean in the Archaic and Classical periods. This th...
Este trabajo se propone explicar el papel que desempeñan los mercenarios en los conflictos internac...
Index de les obres ressenyades: M. TRUNDLE, Greek Mercenaries, from the Late Archaic Period to Alexa...
This paper wants to carry out an analytical description of the use of Greek mercenaries in the East,...
RESUMEN: La acepción del término mercenario tuvo en el estado Lacedemonio en el transcurso del siglo...
Sparta was the first Greek state to make massive use of foreign mercenaries. At the same time, domes...
Research on ancient mercenaries is fraught with problems, being the match between the scarce and par...
This dissertation presents a new portrait of mercenaries as they pertain to the island of Crete duri...
This paper wants to carry out an analytical description of the use of Greek mercenaries in the East,...
This paper explores the reasons why employers hired mercenaries in the Classical Greek World of the ...
From the end of the 5th century before J.-C. the mercenaries reappeared in the Western Mediterranean...
Este artículo pretende llevar a cabo una reflexión teórica del papel que el mercenariado griego tuvo...
The history of fourth-century Sicily is often associated with the issue of mercenary service which k...
Esparta fue el primer Estado griego en hacer un uso masivo de mercenarios extranjeros. Al mismo tiem...
The article analyses the phenomenon of mercenalism, it focuses on the historical background and the ...
Greek mercenaries were widespread in the Mediterranean in the Archaic and Classical periods. This th...
Este trabajo se propone explicar el papel que desempeñan los mercenarios en los conflictos internac...
Index de les obres ressenyades: M. TRUNDLE, Greek Mercenaries, from the Late Archaic Period to Alexa...
This paper wants to carry out an analytical description of the use of Greek mercenaries in the East,...
RESUMEN: La acepción del término mercenario tuvo en el estado Lacedemonio en el transcurso del siglo...
Sparta was the first Greek state to make massive use of foreign mercenaries. At the same time, domes...
Research on ancient mercenaries is fraught with problems, being the match between the scarce and par...
This dissertation presents a new portrait of mercenaries as they pertain to the island of Crete duri...
This paper wants to carry out an analytical description of the use of Greek mercenaries in the East,...