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Iliad Homer Bk. 11, Bk. 12-13. Bk. 17

Lots of one on ones duels, chariots used incorrectly, more fiction than history. Armor and the value of glory, very honor based culture

Archilochus and Tyrtaeus Poetry

War and combat poetry written by Spartan poets that focused on the importance and honor of combat. Especially, the spear and shield. Stand and fight, retreating is for cowards

Western Way of War, Hanson

The phalanx, why the phalanx?, who’s in the phalanx? The othismos/ the shove, what is it and why isn’t it. Why do Greeks fight the way they do.

The Othismos, Myths and Heresies: The Nature of Hoplite Battle, Goldsworthy

Nature of Hoplite Battle

Aka. Why Hanson is the biggest dumbest idiot, what the othismos/shove is really about.

Herodotus, Battle of Thermopylae, Battle of Salamis, Battle of Platea

Peloponesian War or the birth of tactics and strategy in Ancient Greece. Introduction of the bottleneck strategy. Divide and conquer in navel battle . The spartan stand and the importance of glory. The shift in war

Thucydides, Excerpts on Stratedgy

Athens vs Sparta and why one group think they’ll win over the other. Turning capital into war power for the first time

Xenophon Hellenica 4.5.1-19 (Battle of Lechaeum

Went to Persia and came back, why the Greeks beat the Persians so bad

Vidal Niqeut, Epaminondas the Pythagorean

Left is morally bad and the Greek think so to.

Aeneas Tacticus, On the Defense of Fortified Positions

Advent of siege strategy and a number of methods to deal with a siege. Most methods are just about avoiding betrayal from your own people

Xenophon, Cyropaedia 1.6.1-46 (Dialogue on Generalship)

A dialogue of a father and son talking about the psychology of war and how to be a good general.

Arrian, Anabasis Alexandri 1.13.16 (Granicus); 2.7-12 (Issus); 3.11.1-15.6

(Gaugamela); 5.9-18.3 (Hydaspes

A record of Alexanders battles and how they went, the wedge formation and effectiveness of the charge. Unit level tactics, actual generalship

Engels Alexander the Great and the Logistics of the Macedonian Army

The logistics of Alexander march past Persia and into the middle East, why it was so hard to do what Alexander did.

Polybius, Record of battle of Raphia

Ptolemy vs Antiochus. The phalanx is cool again and kings/generals are behind their soldiers now not with.

Asclepidous Tactics

Theory of war without engaging in it, people are theorizing about what to do during battle before having fought