Warfare and Agriculture in Classical Greece, Revised edition

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Victor Davis Hanson

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This text provides a systematic review of Greek agriculture and warfare, and describes the relationship between these two important aspects of life in ancient communities. The author gives particular attention to agronomic as well as military details. This study shows that attacks on agriculture rarely resulted in famines or permanent agrarian depression. Trees and vines are hard to destroy, and grainfields are only briefly vunerable to torching. In addition, ancient armies were rather inefficient systematic ravagers and instead used other tactics, such as occupying their enemies' farms to incite infantry battle. The author suggests that for all ancient societies, rural depression and desolation came about from more subtle phenomena - taxes, changes in political and social structure, and new cultural values - rather than from destructive warfare.

Author Biography:

Victor Davis Hanson is Professor of Classics at California State University, Fresno, and author of The Western Way of War: Infantry Battle in Classical Greece (1986), The Other Greeks: The Family Farm and the Agrarian Roots of Western Civilization (1995), and Fields Without Dreams: Defending the Agrarian Idea (1996).

Release date Australia

October 20th, 1998

Author

Victor Davis Hanson

Audience

Professional & Vocational

Illustrations

1 table

Pages

260

Dimensions

152x229x20

ISBN-13

9780520215962

Product ID

25016676

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