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)
08-04-2009, 18:06
Vasiliyi
Re: Good reads on history matters......
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.
08-04-2009, 18:26
satalexton
Re: Good reads on history matters......
hmm, i -can- obtain ample amounts of linen cloth from the field I work in.... wonder if I too can make myself one =]
08-04-2009, 19:38
I Am Herenow
Re: Good reads on history matters......
Hi there,
The EB bibliography thread is here; all relevant information should be amalgamated in the first post. That should be a good place to start.
I Am Herenow
08-05-2009, 05:14
Ibrahim
Re: Good reads on history matters......
Quote:
Originally Posted by satalexton
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.
08-05-2009, 05:23
satalexton
Re: Good reads on history matters......
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.
08-05-2009, 05:37
Vasiliyi
Re: Good reads on history matters......
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.
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.
08-06-2009, 06:41
AttilaDerHunn
Re: Good reads on history matters......
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:
08-09-2009, 03:49
Azathoth
Re: Good reads on history matters......
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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.
Quote:
Spoiler Alert, click show to read:
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
