A Greek Army on the March: Soldiers and Survival in Xenophon’s Anabasis

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Professor Lee provides a social and cultural history of the Cyreans, the mercenaries of Xenophon’s Anabasis. At the same time as they’ve regularly been portrayed as a single abstract political community, this book reveals that life within the army was once mostly shaped by a set of smaller social communities: the formal unit organisation of the lochos (‘company’), and the informal comradeship of the suskenia (‘mess group’). It includes full remedy of the environmental conditions of the march, ethnic and socio-economic relations amongst the soldiers, equipment and transport, marching and camp behaviour, eating and drinking, sanitation and medical care, and lots of other topics. It also accords detailed attention to the non-combatants accompanying the soldiers. It uses ancient literary and archaeological evidence, ancient and up to date comparative material, and perspectives from military sociology and up to date war studies. This book is very important reading for someone working on ancient Greek warfare or on Xenophon’s Anabasis.

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