Editorial: Brill
Colección: Brill Research Perspectives in Ancient History
Número de páginas: 124 págs.
Fecha de edición: 15-12-2022
EAN: 9789004540026
ISBN: 978-90-04-54002-6
Precio (sin IVA): 70,00 €
Precio (IVA incluído): 72,80 €
The authors of the first serious scholarly works on Greek warfare were not free to write their surveys as they wished. In the nineteenth-century German-speaking world, the supreme authority on all military history rested with the Great General Staff, the intellectual nerve centre of the Prussian army. Officers rejected the ability of historians to understand warfare and imposed their pragmatic perspective on any attempt to study past wars. How did classicists and historians respond to this challenge?