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Author:   Conor Whately (University of Winnipeg, Canada)
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Weight:   0.400kg
ISBN:  

9780367549183

ISBN 10:   0367549182
Pages:   196
Publication Date:   05 February 2026
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Tertiary & Higher Education
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Introduction: “The Bronze Gleamed around Him Like Flashing Fire”: Warfare in the Bronze and Iron Age Mediterranean, 1400-600 BCE; 1. “The Strong Do What They Can and the Weak Suffer the Most”: Warfare in Archaic and Classical Greece, 600-404 BCE; 2. “Very Well then, Alexander Comes First”: Fourth Century Greece to the Wars of the Diadochi, 404-275 BCE; 3. Carthage and the “Mutability of Human Affairs”: The Hellenistic Age and the Punic Wars 300-200 BCE; 4. “More Fortunate than Augustus, and Better than Trajan”: From Warlords to Emperors, 200 BCE – 117 CE; 5. “They Make a Desert and Call it Peace”, The Roman Empire, 117-284 CE; 6. “If You Want Peace, Prepare for War”: The End of Antiquity and the Birth of the Medieval World, 284-641 CE; Conclusion.

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Conor Whately is a professor of Classics at the University of Winnipeg. He has published a number of journal articles, book chapters, and books on topics ranging from the Roman frontiers and late antique historiography to Roman Arabia.

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