-Silentium... mandata captate; non vos turbatis; ordinem servate; bando sequute; memo demittat bandum et inimicos seque;
Parati!
-Adiuta...
-...DEUS!!!
Completed EB Campaigns on VH/M: ALL... now working for EBII!
Most, especially the well known works, have copyright free translations around the interwebs. They've been translated over and over again, many late 19th century and early 20th century translations hence roam the free domain.
Check out perseus for a good start: http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/...on:Greco-Roman
Edit: press the blue arrow buttons left to the authors name to reveal all relevant books/translations.
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"Numidia Delenda Est!"
Does anyone have any Greek Battle Books. Particularly in the Spartan-Athenian era.
A friend suggested one to me before and I was really enjoying it , but lost it when I got a new pc, unfortunately.
If you're looking for something current that should be a read for every EB fan, try "The Oxford Handbook of Warfare in the Classical World" (edited by Campbell and Tritle), Oxford University Press 2013. It features articles from almost 40 established academics, featuring issues such as leadership and command, the development of strategy, wound treatment, military intelligence, logistics and warfare's role in society. It also contains some intriguing case studies of specific battles. Also to serve as a prelude to EB, look for James Romm's "Ghost on the Throne: The Death of Alexander the Great and the Bloody Fight For His Empire" (2011), which details the events from 323 to 316, during which the Diadochi were established. Romm's book reads almost as Game of Thrones-esque and would make a great HBO show in its own right, while still being academic. I recommend both very highly, although Campbell & Tritle, while being very recent and up to date, is anything but affordable.
Can anyone recommend a good biography of Sulla, or any other of the players in the late Roman Republic?
There's the work of Keaveney on Sulla, but I wouldn't recommend it.
mcloughlin an australian author wrote whats for me the best historic novel it reads very easily and it´s trully immersive particulary the caesar one wich i read 4 times already but there are 4 more and one is on or around sulla
Finished this one some time ago. While it is an excellent read, in some ways, it's only drawback is not the small discussion of the Indo-Greeks. There are other drawbacks. For one, the author presumes that he must start the story at the battle of Gaugamela. More than two thirds of the book discuss Alexander's campaign from Gaugamela back to Babylon and the events that followed immediately after that. While the book includes all the sources that are available for Bactria (there are not that many after all) it fuses the stories of other authors from many many years ago. While I did not want to go through the books of Tarn and Narain (both of them considered towers of Bactrian studies) because I figured their information on the subject was outdated, it turns out that the best reason not to go through them is because most of it belongs to the sphere of imagination and is basically based on nothing. An idea, with less than an indication, was turned to a possibility to be decidedly accepted as fact. To be fair they did lead the way, they did raise interest and got the whole thing going on Bactria. But it's just not quite that scientific. Sidky's book does little more than reiterate and collect. Not to mention its poor editing.
I am now going through Holt's "The Lost world of the Golden King", but this one is heavily focused on numismatics, as are all Holt's books, which of course is the richest field for any kind of evidence about Hellenistic Bactria. If a book is to be written about Bactrian history it's bound to be heavily focused on numismatics, at least for the time being, since un-looted excavation sites and clear epigraphical evidence are very hard to come by in Afganistan and have been for the last couple of centuries at least. The problem is no brief review tells you that you'll be reading a book on the story of numismatists. Not so much a book on Bactria. The story about the huge golden eucratidion and how it found it's way to the west is interesting but in itself is not history. Still, far more accurate than most.
All in all, it makes me wonder how the EB team managed to create such a colorful and exotic faction as Bactria is in EB. A personal favorite. So much so that I am having trouble deciding whether I want to have a go at it from EB2 Beta or wait until things are a bit more polished.
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-Silentium... mandata captate; non vos turbatis; ordinem servate; bando sequute; memo demittat bandum et inimicos seque;
Parati!
-Adiuta...
-...DEUS!!!
Completed EB Campaigns on VH/M: ALL... now working for EBII!
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