Brill’s Companion to Diet and Logistics in Greek and Roman Warfare

John Donahue, Lee L. Brice (Herausgeber)

Buch | Hardcover

456 Seiten

2023
Brill (Verlag)
978-90-04-68661-8 (ISBN)

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This volume treats diet and supply in the Greco-Roman military from Homer through the Roman Empire. These essays reassess “provisioning” and “supply” from multiple perspectives to add fresh focus to a critical, yet often overlooked, feature of ancient military activity.

The adage that an army “marches on its stomach” finds renewed emphasis in this collection of essays. Focusing on military diet and supply from Homer through the Roman Empire, Diet and Logistics in Greek and Roman Warfare explains regional dietary options and reassesses traditional notions of “provisioning” while exploring topics ranging from strategy and subterfuge to trade and terror. Through fresh insights drawn from current research and excavation spanning the Greco-Roman world, contributors confirm how providing food and drink for soldiers was critical to every army’s success and survival. This volume stimulates reevaluation of ancient militaries and encourages new research.

John F. Donahue is Professor of Classical Studies at the College of William & Mary. He has written numerous books, articles, chapters, and reviews on ancient food and drink, as well as health, diet and Latin epigraphy. Lee L. Brice is Distinguished University Professor of History at Western Illinois University. He has published multiple books including New Approaches to Greek and Roman Warfare (Wiley 2020), and articles and chapters on military history, Corinthian coinage, pedagogy, and film. Contributors are: Jeremy Armstrong, Bret Devereux, Fernando Echeverria, Paul Erdkamp, Eduardo Garcia-Molina, Marc Kleijwegt, Kelsey Koon, Sarah Murray, Nikolas Overtoom, Thomas Rose, Matthew Sears, Gregory Viggiano.

Preface

List of Maps

Abbreviations

List of Contributors

Part 1: Introduction

1 Diet and Logistics in Ancient Greek and Roman Warfare, a Consideration

John F. Donahue and Lee L. Brice

Part 2: Military Diet

2 Diet, Preparation, and Consumption in Homer

Sarah C. Murray

3 Nutrition and Diet: Archaic and Classical Greece

Fernando Echeverría

4 Nutrition and Diet: Hellenistic Greece

Eduardo García-Molina

5 Diet and Nutrition in the Roman Republican Army

Jeremy Armstrong

6 The Diet of Roman Soldiers in the Northwest Provinces of the Roman Empire

Paul Erdkamp

7 Dining in the Desert

The Roman Military Diet in Egypt and the East in the Imperial Period

Kelsey Koon

Part 3: Logistics of Food and Drink

8 Organization of the Military Food Supply: Greece

Matthew Sears

9 Provisioning and the Logistics of Occupation and Resistance in Early Hellenistic Greece

Thomas C. Rose

10 Logistics and Strategy in the Hellenistic World: Parthians and Seleucids

Nikolaus Leo Overtoom

11 Sieges, Deception and Bioterrorism: Logistics and Strategy of Food and Drink during the Republic

John F. Donahue

12 Organization of the Military Food Supply: Rome

Bret C. Devereaux

Part 4: Case Studies

13 Logistics and Strategy in the Greek Army: A Case Study of Diet and Logistics in Herodotus and Thucydides

Gregory Francis Viggiano

14 Equestrian Officers, Food Supply, and Military Campaigns in the Reigns of Trajan and Marcus Aurelius

Marc Kleijwegt

Part 5: In Closing

15 Assessing Military Logistics and Diet in Ancient Greece and Rome

Lee L. Brice

Index of Places

General Index

Erscheinungsdatum	12.12.2023
Reihe/Serie	Brill's Companions to Classical Studies / Brill's Companions to Classical Studies: Warfare in the Ancient Mediterranean World ; 8
Verlagsort	Leiden
Sprache	englisch
Maße	155 x 235 mm
Gewicht	900 g
Themenwelt	Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Vor- und Frühgeschichte
	Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Altertum / Antike
	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte
	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Militärgeschichte
	Sozialwissenschaften
ISBN-10	90-04-68661-4 / 9004686614
ISBN-13	978-90-04-68661-8 / 9789004686618
Zustand	Neuware