Add to ORKGThe story of the mercenary armies of Carthage is one of incompetence and disaster, followed by clever innovation. It is a story not just of battles and betrayal, but also of the interactions between dissimilar peoples in a multiethnic army trying to coordinate, fight, and win, while commanded by a Punic officer corps which may or may not have been competent. Carthaginian mercenaries are one piece of a larger narrative about the struggle between Carthage and Rome for dominance in the Western Mediterranean, and their history illustrates the evolution of the mercenary system employed by the Carthaginian Empire to extend her power and ensure her survival
Abstract This dissertation is a comparative study of the great powers in the Mediterranean world dur...
Research has long abandoned the view that only states wage war. On the contrary, civil war research ...
Even to this day, the Roman army stands out as one of the most successful military forces in human h...
The place of mercenaries in pre-modern armies is not typically looked upon as a positive. Authors fr...
From the end of the 5th century before J.-C. the mercenaries reappeared in the Western Mediterranean...
Carthage was a powerful and influential state in the Central and Western Mediterranean from the nint...
Greek mercenaries were widespread in the Mediterranean in the Archaic and Classical periods. This th...
This paper proposes to show that the return of mercenaries is due largely to the shift of infantry w...
PhD ThesisXenophon. who marched so many perilous Persian parasangs as a soldier-of-fortune and survi...
This thesis seeks to investigate the short- and long-term socio-economic impact of the First Punic W...
The author offers an interpretation of a passage from the history of George Pachymeres involving the...
This paper explores the reasons why employers hired mercenaries in the Classical Greek World of the ...
This dissertation presents a new portrait of mercenaries as they pertain to the island of Crete duri...
In the middle olf the lll century B.C. mercenary soldiers are at the beginning of many military conf...
"The Relationship of Dependence between Carthaginians and Lybians, and the Rebellion of Mercenaries"...
Abstract This dissertation is a comparative study of the great powers in the Mediterranean world dur...
Research has long abandoned the view that only states wage war. On the contrary, civil war research ...
Even to this day, the Roman army stands out as one of the most successful military forces in human h...
The place of mercenaries in pre-modern armies is not typically looked upon as a positive. Authors fr...
From the end of the 5th century before J.-C. the mercenaries reappeared in the Western Mediterranean...
Carthage was a powerful and influential state in the Central and Western Mediterranean from the nint...
Greek mercenaries were widespread in the Mediterranean in the Archaic and Classical periods. This th...
This paper proposes to show that the return of mercenaries is due largely to the shift of infantry w...
PhD ThesisXenophon. who marched so many perilous Persian parasangs as a soldier-of-fortune and survi...
This thesis seeks to investigate the short- and long-term socio-economic impact of the First Punic W...
The author offers an interpretation of a passage from the history of George Pachymeres involving the...
This paper explores the reasons why employers hired mercenaries in the Classical Greek World of the ...
This dissertation presents a new portrait of mercenaries as they pertain to the island of Crete duri...
In the middle olf the lll century B.C. mercenary soldiers are at the beginning of many military conf...
"The Relationship of Dependence between Carthaginians and Lybians, and the Rebellion of Mercenaries"...
Abstract This dissertation is a comparative study of the great powers in the Mediterranean world dur...
Research has long abandoned the view that only states wage war. On the contrary, civil war research ...
Even to this day, the Roman army stands out as one of the most successful military forces in human h...