Odysseus’ Bow
Edward Luttwak: Ancient combat, 17 November 2005
Soldiers and Ghosts: A History of Battle in Classical Antiquity
by J.E. Lendon.
Yale, 468 pp., £18.95, June 2005,0 300 10663 7 Show More
by J.E. Lendon.
Yale, 468 pp., £18.95, June 2005,
“... of warfare for purely historical and literary reasons. They are the intended readers of J.E. Lendon’s Soldiers and Ghosts – and their degree of satisfaction with this book may well depend precisely on whether the focus of their interest is historical or literary. For while Lendon teaches history, his ... ”
