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War in the Hellenistic World: A Social and Cultural History.(Book review)
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Canadian Journal of History
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December 22, 2007
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Copyright informationCOPYRIGHT 2007 Canadian Journal of History. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan. All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)
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War in the Hellenistic World: A Social and Cultural History, by Angelos Chaniotis. Ancient World at War series. Oxford, Massachusetts, Blackwell Publishing, 2005. xxiv, 308 pp. $73.95 US (cloth).
This is the second volume in Blackwell's "Ancient World at War" series. Angelos Chaniotis is one of the most distinguished experts in Hellenistic history and epigraphy, and it is clearly this twofold expertise that makes for a book that, while well in line with the series's defined goals, is highly innovative and individualistic at the time. The Hellenistic period (330-30 BC) has attracted military historians of all ages: the wars of kings and the continual conflicts between the ...
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