Informationen zum Autor Nicolas Grguric is an Australian graduate archaeologist who wrote his Honours thesis on the Mycenaean army. He is writing a Doctorate thesis on civilian use of defensive architecture in frontier Australia. His other interests include wargaming, living history and collecting black powder firearms. He lives in South Australia. Angus McBride is one of the world's most respected historical illustrators, and has contributed to more than 90 Osprey titles in the past three decades. Born in 1931 of Highland parents but orphaned as a child, he was educated at Canterbury Cathedral Choir School. He worked in advertising agencies from 1947, and after national service, emigrated to South Africa. He now lives and works in Cape Town. Klappentext The timeless appeal of Homer's epic poem of the ancient Trojan War, The Iliad, has meant an enduring interest in the Mycenaean age. Modern scholarship and new archaeological evidence now allows us to reconstruct with reasonable confidence the appearance of this great warrior civilization, which dominated much of the eastern Mediterranean between the 16th and 12th centuries BC. We can also make deductions, from the few surviving pictorial sources, about the tactics of these armies. This absorbing text is illustrated with examples of the archaeological and pictorial evidence, and with striking colour reconstructions of light and heavy infantry and chariot warriors of the Mycenaean age. Zusammenfassung An absorbing text, illustrated with examples of the archaeological and pictorial evidence, and with striking colour reconstructions of light and heavy infantry and chariot warriors of the Mycenaean age. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction - Emergence of Mycenae - Mycenaean dominance - The evidence: Homer, and the archaeological record The Evolution of the Mycenaean Army Identifiable Troop Categories - Heavy infantry: shields - spears - helmets - tactical implications - swords - changes from c.1300 BC - Skirmishers and light infantry: archers - light infantry swordsmen - tactical implications - javelinmen - changes from c.1300 BC - Chariotry: the Aegean chariot - box chariots - dual chariots - quadrant chariots - rail chariots - armament and possible tactics - the chariot 'charge' - the Dendra armour - later chariotry - Cavalry Military Organization - Battlefield organization - Command structure - Unit sizes - Issues of equipment The Bibliography The Plates ...

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Nicolas Grguric is an Australian graduate archaeologist who wrote his Honours thesis on the Mycenaean army. He is writing a Doctorate thesis on civilian use of defensive architecture in frontier Australia. His other interests include wargaming, living history and collecting black powder firearms. He lives in South Australia.

Angus McBride is one of the world's most respected historical illustrators, and has contributed to more than 90 Osprey titles in the past three decades. Born in 1931 of Highland parents but orphaned as a child, he was educated at Canterbury Cathedral Choir School. He worked in advertising agencies from 1947, and after national service, emigrated to South Africa. He now lives and works in Cape Town.

Klappentext

The timeless appeal of Homer's epic poem of the ancient Trojan War, The Iliad, has meant an enduring interest in the Mycenaean age.

Modern scholarship and new archaeological evidence now allows us to reconstruct with reasonable confidence the appearance of this great warrior civilization, which dominated much of the eastern Mediterranean between the 16th and 12th centuries BC. We can also make deductions, from the few surviving pictorial sources, about the tactics of these armies.

This absorbing text is illustrated with examples of the archaeological and pictorial evidence, and with striking colour reconstructions of light and heavy infantry and chariot warriors of the Mycenaean age.

Zusammenfassung
An absorbing text, illustrated with examples of the archaeological and pictorial evidence, and with striking colour reconstructions of light and heavy infantry and chariot warriors of the Mycenaean age.

Inhalt

Introduction - Emergence of Mycenae - Mycenaean dominance - The evidence: Homer, and the archaeological record
The Evolution of the Mycenaean Army
Identifiable Troop Categories - Heavy infantry: shields - spears - helmets - tactical implications - swords - changes from c.1300 BC - Skirmishers and light infantry: archers - light infantry swordsmen - tactical implications - javelinmen - changes from c.1300 BC - Chariotry: the Aegean chariot - box chariots - dual chariots - quadrant chariots - rail chariots - armament and possible tactics - the chariot 'charge' - the Dendra armour - later chariotry - Cavalry
Military Organization - Battlefield organization - Command structure - Unit sizes

• Issues of equipment
  The Bibliography
  The Plates