Sunday, March 28, 2021

The Army of Ptolemaic Egypt 323-204 BC – An Institutional and Operational History, Paul Johstono

Looks at the organisation and performance of the army of the first four Ptolemies, members of the longest lived of the successor kingdoms founded after the death of Alexander the Great. Takes advantage of the impressive array of surviving documents (mainly papyri) to study the structure of the army in great detail and then compare those results to what we know about the army’s performance, and what ancient historians reported about the army

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