TY - BOOK AU - Blome,David A. TI - Greek Warfare beyond the Polis: Defense, Strategy, and the Making of Ancient Federal States SN - 9781501747526 AV - DF89 .B65 2020 U1 - 355.40938 23 PY - 2020///] CY - Ithaca, NY : PB - Cornell University Press, KW - Federal government KW - Greece KW - History KW - To 1500 KW - Military art and science KW - Politics and war KW - War and society KW - Ancient History & Classical Studies KW - Military History KW - West European History KW - HISTORY / Ancient / Greece KW - bisacsh KW - Antiquity, Warfare, Greece, Federalism, Ancient Warfare N1 - Frontmatter --; Contents --; Preface: The Iliad in Iraq --; Introduction --; 1. The Phocian Chalk Raid of the Thessalian Camp Circa 490 --; 2. The Aetolian Rout of the Athenians in 426 --; 3. The Defense of Acarnania in 389 --; 4. The Defense of Arcadia in 370 --; Conclusion --; Notes --; References --; Index; restricted access N2 - Greek Warfare beyond the Polis assesses the nature and broader significance of warfare in the mountains of classical Greece. Based on detailed reconstructions of four unconventional military encounters, David A. Blome argues that the upland Greeks of the classical mainland developed defensive strategies to guard against external aggression. These strategies enabled wide-scale, sophisticated actions in response to invasions, but they did not require the direction of a central, federal government. Blome brings these strategies to the forefront by driving ancient Greek military history and ancient Greek scholarship "beyond the polis" into dialogue with each other. As he contends, beyond-the-polis scholarship has done much to expand and refine our understanding of the ancient Greek world, but it has overemphasized the importance of political institutions in emergent federal states and has yet to treat warfare involving upland Greeks systematically or in depth. In contrast, Greek Warfare beyond the Polis scrutinizes the socio-political roots of warfare from beyond the polis, which are often neglected in military histories of the Greek city-state. By focusing on the significance of warfare vis-à-vis the socio-political development of upland polities, Blome shows that although the more powerful states of the classical Greek world were dismissive or ignorant of the military capabilities of upland Greeks, the reverse was not the case. The Phocians, Aetolians, Acarnanians, and Arcadians ca.490–362 BCE were well aware of the arrogant attitudes of their aggressive neighbors, and as highly efficient political entities, they exploited these attitudes to great effect UR - https://doi.org/10.1515/9781501747625?locatt=mode:legacy UR - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781501747625 UR - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9781501747625/original ER -