Good reads on history matters......

[AttilaDerHunn]

Hi , as most of us here are ardent historical nutjobs.i am opted to ask if anyone can give me any urls or books that include classical antiquity in western and middle eastern premises , or anything on the east,south-east lucrative trade points and empires or anything that we geeks , who hath never felt the warmth of women , give any interesting account in world history.It is to my most sincere request if anyone ever answer this thread lest this be swept and locked(give me bananas first)

[Vasiliyi]

I find that whenever I get interested in a certain topic, I immediatly go to my best internet friend, "google". For example, I've recently taken an interest in Linothorax, and am considering making my own, so I go to Google and type in "How do you make Linothorax". Suddenly I'm reading 4 pages at once to find if they are bogus or not. I found a few sites in a matter of about a minute. As for books, try adrian Godsworthy. Also, try the EB bibliography page.

Also, if you interested in Spartans, there is a thread here that gives 4 good links to all things on Sparta.

Hope that helps.

[satalexton]

hmm, i -can- obtain ample amounts of linen cloth from the field I work in.... wonder if I too can make myself one =]

[I Am Herenow]

Hi there,

The EB bibliography thread is here (https://forums.totalwar.org/vb/showthread.php?t=70698); all relevant information should be amalgamated in the first post. That should be a good place to start.

I Am Herenow

[Ibrahim]

hmm, i -can- obtain ample amounts of linen cloth from the field I work in.... wonder if I too can make myself one =]

can you get wool as well?

EDIT: seriously-I can't for the life of me find it. If you know a source for it, can you give me contacts?

as for the linothorax: did you try www.larp.com? one of the sections deals with a hoplite reenactment by Mr.Amt-he talks about the Linothorax.

[satalexton]

ye I would need a book or something so to know more about the making of linothorax....

@Ibrahim: Any cloth actually =P I work in the textiles industry.

[Vasiliyi]

Dont want to post anything off topic, but since were talking about good reads, and making Linothorax, (some of us) here are a few websites that talk a bit about it. Still lots of controversy on how to make it.


http://www.uwgb.edu/aldreteg/Linothorax.html

http://www.larp.com/hoplite/linothor.html

http://www.hetairoi.de/Lino_eng.php

[Geticus]

Hi , as most of us here are ardent historical nutjobs.i am opted to ask if anyone can give me any urls or books that include classical antiquity in western and middle eastern premises , or anything on the east,south-east lucrative trade points and empires or anything that we geeks , who hath never felt the warmth of women , give any interesting account in world history.It is to my most sincere request if anyone ever answer this thread lest this be swept and locked(give me bananas first)

Herodotus is preeminent on the Persian Wars, then read Xenophon's Anabasis and Kyropaedeia (education of Kuros the Great), Arrian on Alexander's wars, and late antiquity excellent reads on early Sassanid Persian military vs East Romans look into Ammianus Marcellinus, and for later Sassanids then read Procopius' histories of the wars. Ammianus and Procopios both have excellent extensive accounts of siege warfare, if you want to read something really ferocious read some of Ammianus Marcellinus' siege accounts between Romans and early Sassanids in the middle east/Syria-Palestine region. Tacitus also gives a fair amount of content on warfare between the Iulio-Claudian Roman imperial military vs. middle era Parthians.

[AttilaDerHunn]

thank you for replying to my thread as i and some of my colleagues may be starting either a western regional mod/submod based in classical antiquity or an east,south-east,south asian mod starting from 1300 to 1600.Strayed off-topic there but as my OP suggests we should stick to discussing good reads on history matters......

Everyone has been a great help

Baloons for everyone:balloon2::balloon2::balloon2::balloon2:

[Azathoth]

As for books, try adrian Godsworthy.

Freudian slip? :clown:

Anyway, here's a list of books to read about the EB period that I've compiled from random places and the bibliographies of other books. A couple I've read might be missing, and I have yet to assimilate most of the EB Bibliography as of now, but it's pretty long.


Adams - Alexander the Great: Legacy of a Conqueror

Adams, Borza - Phillip II, Alexander the Great, and the Macedonian Heritage

Adcock - THe Greek and Macedonian Art of Warfare

Africa- Phylarchos and the SPartan Revolution

Ahlberg - Fighting on Land and Sea in Greek Geometric Art

Allen - The Attalid Kingdom: A constitutional History

Algra et al - The Cambridge History of Hellenistic Philosophy

Amit - Athens and the Sea

Anderson - Military Theory and Practice in the Age of Xenophon
Ancient Greek Horsemanship

Andreski - Military Organization and Society

Andrewes - The Greek Tyrants

Anglim - Fighting Techniques of the Ancient World

Anson - Eumenes of Cardia

Archibald et al - Hellenistic Economies

Arrian - Anabasis Alexandri |
Events After Alexander |
Indica |
Array Against the Alans |

Austin - The Hellenistic World From Alexander to the Roman Conquest

Badian - From Plataea to Potidaea
Foreign Clientele
Ancient Society and Institutions

Bar-Kochava - The Seleucid Army
Judas Maccabaeus

Baynham - Alexander the Great: The Unique History of Quintus Curtius

Beebe, DeBakey - Battle Casualties

Beevor - Stalingrad

Bellinger - Essays on the Coinage of Alexander the great

Berthold - Rhodes in the Hellenistic Age

Best - Thracian Peltasts and their Influence on Greek Warfare

Bevan - THe House of Seleucus
The House of Ptolemy

Billows- Antigonus the One-Eyed and the Creation of the Hellenistic State

Blyth - The Effectiveness of Greek Armor against Arrows in the Persian War

Borza - Makedonika
In the Shadow of Olympus

Bosworth - Conquest and Empire
From Arrian to Alexander
Alexander and the East
The Legacy of Alexander

Bosworth, Baynham - Alexander the Great in Fact and Fiction

Bowman - Egypt after the Pharoahs

Briant - From Cyrus to Alexander

Brown - Fallen in Battle

Brunaux - The Celtic Gaul

Buck - A History of Boiotia
Boiotia and the Boiotian League

Buckler - Aegean Greece in the 4th Century
The Theban Hegemony

Bugh - the Horsemen of Athens
The Cambridge Companion to the Hellenistic World

Burkert - Homo Necans
Structure and History in Greek Mythology and Ritual

Burn - Alexander the great and the Hellenistic World

Burstein - The Hellenistic Period in World History

Caesar - De Bello Gallico |
De Bello Civili |

Campbell - Greek Lyric Poetry

Carney - Women and monarchy in Ancient Macedonia

Cartledge - Agesilaos and the Crisis of Sparta
The Spartans
Alexander the Great
Sparta and Lakonia: A regional History

Cartledge, Spawforth - Hellenistic and Roman Sparta

Casson - Ships and Seafaring in Ancient Times

Cawkwell - Thucydides and the Peloponnesian War
Philip of Macedon

Chase - The Shield Devices of the Greeks

Chamoux - Hellenistic Civilization

Chaniotis - War in the Hellenistic World

Chaveau - Egypt in the Age of Cleopatra

Chrimes - Ancient Sparta

Cohen, Drabkin - A Source Book in Greek Science

Connolly - Greece and Rome at War

Coulton - The Ancient Greek Architects at Work

Curtis, Stewart - The age of the Parthians

Davies - Athenian Propertied Families

Dawson - The Origins of Western Warfare

Delbruck - Warfare in Antiquity

Demand - Thebes in the 5th Century
Urban Relocation in Archaic and Classical Greece

De Souza - Piracy in the Graeco-Roman World

Dickie - Magic and Magicians in the Greco-Roman World

Dilke- Greek and Roman Maps

Diodorus - Bibliotecha Hellenica |

Dodds - The Greeks and the Irrational

Drews - The End of the Bronze Age

Ducrey - Warfare in Ancient Greece

Eddy - The King is Dead

Ellis - Alcibiades
Ptolemy of Egypt
Philip II and Macedonian Imperialism

Engles - Alexander the Great and the Logistics of the macedonian Army

Erskine - A Companion to the Hellenistic World

-- Hellenica Oxyrhynchia
War and Violence in Ancient Greece
Warfare and Society in the Greek World
Hesperia
Osprey books
Montvert books
Camridge Stuff - Cambridge Ancient History
Proceedings of the 10th international Congress of Classical Archaeology
The Cuisuine of Sacrifice Among the Greeks

Farnell - Cults of the Greek City States

Farrokh - Shadows in the Desert

Ferguson - hellenistic Athens
The Heritage of Hellenism
The Anthropology of War

Ferrill - The Origins of War

Fortina - Epominonda

Fontenrose - The Delphivbd

Fossey - Topography and Population of Ancient Boeotia

Fraser - Ptolemaic Alexandria
Cities of Alexander the Great
Rhodian Funerary Monuments

Frye - The History of Ancient Iran

Fuller - The Generalship of Alexander the Great
War in the Ancient World
Armament and History

Gabbert - Antigonus II Gonatas

Gabriel, Metz - From Sumer to Rome

Gabrielsen - Financing the Athenian Fleet
The Naval Aristocracy of Hellenistic Rhodes

Gaebel - Cavalry Operations in the Ancient Greek World

Gager - Curse Tablets and Binding Spells in the Ancient World

Garlan - War in the Ancient World
Slavery in Ancient Greece

Garnsey - Famine and Food Supply in the GRaeco- Roman World

Ghirshman - Iran: Parthians and Sassanians

Goldsworthy - fall of carthage

Gomme - Thucydides Commentary

Grainger - Hellenistic Phoenicia
Seleukos Nikator

Grant, Kitzinger - Civilizations of the Ancient Mediterranean

Green - Armada From Athens
The Hellenistic Age ||
Alexander of macedon
Alexander to Actium
Argonautika

Greenhalgh - Early Greek Warfare

Griffith - The Mercenaries of the Hellenistic World
Ancient Macedonian Studies in Honor of Charles F. Edson

Grote - A history of Greece

Gruen - The Hellenistic World and the Coming of Rome

Grundy - Thucydides and the History of his Age

Habicht - Athens from Alexander to Antony

Hackett - Warfare in the Ancient World
A History of War in the Ancient World

Hartwell - The Mechanisms of Healing in Human Wounds

Hamel - Athenian Generals

Hamilton - Agesilaus and the Failure of Spartan Hegemony

Hammond - Alexander the Great
Philip of Macedon
The Macedonian State
History of Macedonia

Hansen - The Attalids of Pergamon

Hanson - War like no other ||
Western Way of War ||
Soul of Battle ||
Wars of the Ancient Greeks ||
Ripples of battle |
Carnage and Culture |
The Other Greeks |
Hoplites ||
Warfare and Agriculture in Classical greece

Harris - War and Imperialism in Republican Rome

Harrison - Prolegomena to the Study of Greek Religion

Heckel - The Marshals of Alexander's Empire
Who's Who in the Sge of Alexander the Great

Heckel, Sullivan - Ancient Coins of the Graeco-Roman World

Herodotos - Histories | (several versions)

Henderson - The Great War Between Athens and Sparta

herman - the idea of decline in Western History

Hignett - Xerxes' Invasion of Greece
A History of the Athenian Constitution

Hodges - Technology in the Ancient World

Hoffman - Early Cretan Armorers

Holbl - A history of the Ptolemaic Empire

Holt - Alexander the Great and Bactria
Into the Land of Bones
Thundering Zeus
Alexander the Great and the Mystery of the Elephant Medallions

Howgego - Ancient History from Coins

Hoyos - Hannibal's Dynasty
unplanned wars

Humble - Warfare in the Ancient World

Hunt - Slaves, Warfare, and Ideology in the Greek Historians

Irbie-Massie, Keyser - Greek Science of the Hellenistic Era

Isaac - The Invention of Racism in Classical Antiquity

jarva - Archaiologica on Archaic Greek Body Armour

Jamieson - or Attack andy wy=

Jones - Rural Athens under the democracy
The Greek City from Alexander to Justinian
The Later Roman Empire

Jordan - the Athenian Navy in the Classical Period

Kadletz - Animal Sacrifice in Greek and Roman Religion

Kagan - the outbreak of the Pelopponessian War
The Archidamian War
The Peace of Nicias and the Sicilian Expedition
The Fall of the Athenian Empire
On the Origins of War and the preservation of Peace
The peloponnesian War
New History of the peloponnesian War

Kallet - Money and the Corrosion of Power in Thucydides
Money, Expense, and Naval Power in Thucydides History (?)

Karavites - Capitulations and Greek Interstate Relations

Jeffery - Local Scripts of Archaic Greece

Kebric - In the Shadow of Macedon

Keegan - A history of Warfare
The Face of Battle

Kellet - Combat Motivation

Kern - Ancient Siege Warfare

King - Achilles

Kistler - War Elephants

Kleiner - Cleopatra and Rome

Kraay - Greek Coins

Larsen - Greek Federal States

Lawrence - Greek Aims in Fortification

Lazenby - the Spartan Army
The peloponnesian War: a military History

Lee - General Lee

Lengauer - Greek Commanders in the 5th and 4th Centuries B.C.

Lewis - Greeks in Ptolemaic Egypt

Lintott - Violence, Civil Strife, and Revolution in the Classical City

Lloyd - Battle in Antiquity
Greek Science After Aristotle

Loraux - The Invention of Athens

Lorimer - Homer and the Monuments

Long - Hellenistic Philosophy

Lund- Lysimachus

MacDowell - Athenian Homicide Law

Magie - ROman rule in Asia Minor

Majno - The Healing Hand

Marrou - A History of Education in Antiquity

Marsden - Greek and Roman Artillery

Marshall - Men Against Fire

Martin - Hellenistic Religions

Maxfield - The military Decorations of the Roman Army

Mayor - Greek Fire, Poison Arrows, and Scorpion Bombs

McCann, Strauss - War and Democracy (Korean/Peloponnesian War)

McKetchnie - Outsiders in the Greek Cities in the 4th Century B.C.

McLean - An Introduction to Greek Epigraphy...

Meiggs - The Athenian Empire

Meiggs, Lewis - A Selection of Greek Historical Inscriptions to the End of the 5th Century BC

Meijer, van Nijf - Trade, Transport and Society in the Ancient World

Mikalson - Religion in Hellenistic Athens
Ancient Greek Religion

Minns - Scythians and Greeks

Momigliano - Alien Wisdom

Montagu - Battles of the Greek and Roman Worlds

Montross - War Through the Ages

Morkholm - Early hellenistic Coinage

Morris - Classical greece

Morrison - Greek and Roman Oared Ships
The Athenian Trireme

Mosse - Athens in Decline
Alexander: Destiny and Myth

Munn - The Defense of Attica

Nutton - Ancient Medicine

Ober - Fortress Attica

O'Brien - Alexander the Great

Ogden - Polygamy, Prostitutes and Death
The Hellenistic World

Oikonomides - The Coinage of Alexander the Great

Ormerod - Piracy in the Ancient World

Osborne - Greece in the Making

Parke - Greek Mercenary Soldiers
Festivals of the Athenians

Parker - Athenian Religion

Pausanias - description of greece |

Pearson - The Lost Histories of Alexander the Great

Pindar - Odes |

Piper - Spartan Twilight

Plutarch - lives |
Moralia |

Poliakoff - Combat Sports in the Ancient World

Polybius - Histories |

Pomeroy - Women in Hellenistic Egypt...

Powell - Athens and Sparta

Price - COins of the Macedonians
The Coinage in the Name of Alexander the Great...

Pritchett - The Greek State at War
Studies in Ancient Greek Topography

Raubitschek - Kreate

Redgate - The Armenians

Rice - The Grand Procession of Ptolemy Philadelphos

Rich, Shipley - War and Society in the Greek world

Rihll - Greek Science

Roberts - The Ancient Boeotians
Accountability in Athenian Government

Robinson - The Armour of Imperial Rome

Rodgers - Greek and Roman Naval Warfare

Roebuck - A History of Messenian from 369 to 146 BC

Roisman - The General Demosthenes and his use of military surprise

Romm - The Edges of the Earth in Ancient Thought

Rostovtzeff - The Social and Economic History of the Hellenistic World

Rous - Greek Votive Offerings

Rowlandson - Women and Society in Greek and ROman Egypt

Ryder - Koine Eirene

Sage - Warfare in Ancient Greece

Sagen - The Lust to Annihilate

Sallares - The Ecology of the Ancient Greek World n5

Scholten - The Politics of Plunder

Scott-Kilvert - Polybius

Scranton - Greek Walls

Scullard - The Elephant in the Greek and Roman World

Sekunda - The Ancient Greeks

Sekunda, Hook - The Spartan Army

Sherwin-White, Kurt - From Samarkand to Sardis

Shimron - Late Sparta

Shipley - The Greek World after Alexander

Skinner - Sexuality in Greek and Roman Culture

Smith - Hellenistic Royal Portraits
Babylonian Historical Texts
Imagining Religion

Snodgrass - Arms and Armour of the Greeks
Early Greek Armour and Weapons Before 600 BC
An Archaeology of Greece
Archaic Greece

Spence - The Cavalry of Classical Greece

Ste. Croix - The Origins of the Peloponnesian War

Stewart - Faces of Power

Stoneman - The Greek Alexander Romance
Alexander the Great

Strabo - Geographia | (2 versions)

Spence - the Cavalry of Classical Greece

Strauss - Athens after the Peloponnesian War

Tarn - Hellenistic Military and Naval Developments
Alexander the Great
Antigonus Gonatas

Tarn, Griffith - Hellenistic Civilization

Thompson - Memphis Under the Ptolemies
The Early Germans

Thucydides - peloponnesian war |

Toor - Ancient Ships

Toynbee - Death and Burial in the Roman world
Some Problems in greek History

Travlos - Pictorial Dictionary of aAncient batt

Tritle - Phocion the Good
The Greek World in the 4th Century

Trypanis - Callimachus

Turney-High - THe Military
Primitive Warfare

Vagts - A History of Militarism

van Creveld - Technology and War
Command in War

Van Wees - War and Violence in Ancient Greece
Greek Warfare:Myths and Realities
Status Warriors

Vasunia - THe Gift of the Nile

Vermeule - Aspects of Death in Early Greek Art and Poetry

Volkmann - Cleopatra

von Staden - Herophilus

Vos - Scythian Archers in Attic Vase Painting

Walbank - Aratus of Sicyon
Philip V of Macedon
Polybius
The Hellenistic World

Walker, Higgs- Cleopatra of Egypt

Wallinga - Ships and Seapower before the Great persian War

Warrey - Warfare in the Ancient World
Warfare in the Classical World

Webster - Potter and Painter in Classical Athens
The Roman Imperial Army

Wilcken - Alexander the Great

Wilson - Aelian: Historical Miscellany

Wheeler - Stratagem and the Vocabulary of Military Trickery

Whipple - The Story of Wound healing and Wound Repair

Whitehead - Aeneas the Tactician

Whittaker - Trade and Famine in Classical Antiquity

Wiesehoefer - Ancient Persia : from 550 BC to 650 AD

Winter - Greek Fortifications

Wood - In the Footsteps of Alexander the Great
Peasant-Citizen and Slave

Woodhead - The Study of Ancient Greek Inscriptions

Woodhouse - The Campaign of Mantinea in 418 BC
King Agis of Sparta

Worley - Hippeis

Worthington - Alexander the Great: Man and God

Wycherley - How the Greeks Built Cities
The Stones of Athens

Xenophon - lots of stuff |

Yarshater - Cambridge history of Iran

Zimmern - the Greek Commonwealth