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By John W. I. Lee

ISBN-10: 0521870682

ISBN-13: 9780521870689

Professor Lee offers a social and cultural heritage of the Cyreans, the mercenaries of Xenophon's Anabasis. whereas they've got frequently been portrayed as a unmarried summary political group, this booklet unearths that lifestyles within the military was once in most cases formed by way of a suite of smaller social groups: the formal unit company of the lochos ('company'), and the casual comradeship of the suskenia ('mess group'). It contains complete therapy of the environmental stipulations of the march, ethnic and socio-economic relatives among the warriors, gear and shipping, marching and camp behaviour, consuming and consuming, sanitation and treatment, and plenty of different issues. It additionally accords special consciousness to the non-combatants accompanying the warriors. It makes use of historic literary and archaeological proof, historic and sleek comparative fabric, and views from army sociology and glossy struggle experiences. This e-book is vital examining for someone engaged on historical Greek war or on Xenophon's Anabasis.

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