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By John W. I. Lee

Professor Lee offers a social and cultural heritage of the Cyreans, the mercenaries of Xenophon's Anabasis. whereas they've got usually been portrayed as a unmarried summary political neighborhood, this e-book unearths that existence within the military used to be regularly formed through a collection of smaller social groups: the formal unit agency of the lochos ('company'), and the casual comradeship of the suskenia ('mess group'). It contains complete remedy of the environmental stipulations of the march, ethnic and socio-economic family among the warriors, gear and shipping, marching and camp behaviour, consuming and ingesting, sanitation and treatment, and plenty of different themes. It additionally accords specific awareness to the non-combatants accompanying the warriors. It makes use of old literary and archaeological proof, historical and glossy comparative fabric, and views from army sociology and sleek warfare stories. This publication is vital interpreting for an individual engaged on old Greek conflict or on Xenophon's Anabasis.

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