TY - BOOK AU - Cartledge,Paul AU - Davis Hanson,Victor AU - Foxhall,Lin AU - Hale,John R. AU - Kagan,Donald AU - Krentz,Peter AU - Raaflaub,Kurt A. AU - Schwartz,Adam AU - Snodgrass,Anthony AU - Viggiano,Gregory F. AU - Wees,Hans van TI - Men of Bronze: Hoplite Warfare in Ancient Greece SN - 9780691143019 AV - U33 .M46 2017 U1 - 355.4738 23 PY - 2013///] CY - Princeton, NJ : PB - Princeton University Press, KW - Armor, Ancient KW - Greece KW - Congresses KW - Military art and science KW - History KW - To 1500 KW - Soldiers KW - Weapons, Ancient KW - HISTORY / Ancient / Greece KW - bisacsh KW - Aristotle KW - Assyrian army KW - Etruscan Bomarzo shield KW - Greek culture KW - Greek history KW - Greek hoplites KW - Greek infantry KW - Greek mercenaries KW - Greek military history KW - Greek social status KW - Greek soldiers KW - Greek state KW - Greek values KW - Greek warfare KW - Homeric epics KW - Homeric warfare KW - Oriental influence KW - Persian army KW - Politics KW - The Other Greeks KW - The Western Way of War KW - agrarianism KW - ancient Greece KW - ancient Greek warfare KW - archaeology KW - archaic Greek arms KW - archaic Greeks KW - chronological framework KW - citizen-soldier KW - citizen-soldiers KW - double-grip shield KW - early Greek hoplite warfare KW - early Greek infantry KW - economic change KW - elite landowners KW - gentlemen farmers KW - gradualism KW - grand hoplite narrative KW - hoplite armor KW - hoplite arms KW - hoplite battle KW - hoplite class KW - hoplite debate KW - hoplite equipment KW - hoplite fighting KW - hoplite formations KW - hoplite iconography KW - hoplite ideology KW - hoplite orthodoxy KW - hoplite panoply KW - hoplite reform KW - hoplite shield KW - hoplite warfare KW - hoplite weapons KW - hoplites KW - leisure class KW - literary sources KW - lyric poetry KW - mass collision KW - material culture KW - mercenary service KW - middling farmers KW - modern historians KW - phalanx KW - poetry KW - polis KW - political development KW - revisionism KW - site survey KW - small-scale farmers KW - social change KW - sociopolitical issues KW - spear KW - survey archaeology KW - survey data KW - survey projects KW - yeomen farmers N1 - Frontmatter --; CONTENTS --; LIST OF FIGURES --; PREFACE --; INTRODUCTION --; CHAPTER 1. The Hoplite Debate --; CHAPTER 2. The Arms, Armor, and Iconography of Early Greek Hoplite Warfare --; CHAPTER 3. Hoplitai/Politai: Refighting Ancient Battles --; CHAPTER 4. Setting the Frame Chronologically --; CHAPTER 5. Early Greek Infantry Fighting in a Mediterranean Context --; CHAPTER 6. The Hoplite Revolution and the Rise of the Polis --; CHAPTER 7. Hoplite Hell: How Hoplites Fought --; CHAPTER 8. Large Weapons, Small Greeks: The Practical Limitations of Hoplite Weapons and Equipment --; CHAPTER 9. Not Patriots, Not Farmers, Not Amateurs: Greek Soldiers of Fortune and the Origins of Hoplite Warfare --; CHAPTER 10. Can We See the "Hoplite Revolution" on the Ground? Archaeological Landscapes, Material Culture, and Social Status in Early Greece --; CHAPTER 11. Farmers and Hoplites: Models of Historical Development --; CHAPTER 12. The Hoplite Narrative --; CONTRIBUTORS --; INDEX; restricted access; Issued also in print N2 - Men of Bronze takes up one of the most important and fiercely debated subjects in ancient history and classics: how did archaic Greek hoplites fight, and what role, if any, did hoplite warfare play in shaping the Greek polis? In the nineteenth century, George Grote argued that the phalanx battle formation of the hoplite farmer citizen-soldier was the driving force behind a revolution in Greek social, political, and cultural institutions. Throughout the twentieth century scholars developed and refined this grand hoplite narrative with the help of archaeology. But over the past thirty years scholars have criticized nearly every major tenet of this orthodoxy. Indeed, the revisionists have persuaded many specialists that the evidence demands a new interpretation of the hoplite narrative and a rewriting of early Greek history. Men of Bronze gathers leading scholars to advance the current debate and bring it to a broader audience of ancient historians, classicists, archaeologists, and general readers. After explaining the historical context and significance of the hoplite question, the book assesses and pushes forward the debate over the traditional hoplite narrative and demonstrates why it is at a crucial turning point. Instead of reaching a consensus, the contributors have sharpened their differences, providing new evidence, explanations, and theories about the origin, nature, strategy, and tactics of the hoplite phalanx and its effect on Greek culture and the rise of the polis. The contributors include Paul Cartledge, Lin Foxhall, John Hale, Victor Davis Hanson, Donald Kagan, Peter Krentz, Kurt Raaflaub, Adam Schwartz, Anthony Snodgrass, Hans van Wees, and Gregory Viggiano UR - https://doi.org/10.1515/9781400846306?locatt=mode:legacy UR - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781400846306 UR - https://www.degruyter.com/cover/covers/9781400846306.jpg ER -