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29 - Armed Forces

from Part V - Politics

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  10 March 2021

By
David M. Pritchard
Edited by
Jenifer Neils  and
Dylan K. Rogers
Jenifer Neils
Affiliation:
American School of Classical Studies, Athens
Dylan K. Rogers
Affiliation:
University of Virginia
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Summary

This chapter studies the four branches of the Athenian armed forces. For each branch, it discusses the legal and social positions of branch members, the means by which they were recruited and called up, and the history and the organization of their branch.

Keywords

military historyhopliteshorsemenarcherssailors
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The Cambridge Companion to Ancient Athens , pp. 405 - 418
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2021

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Further Reading

This chapter summarizes Pritchard 2019, 28–137, where many of the specific sources from the playwrights and the orators can be found. For more on the hoplites, see Christ 2001 and Crowley 2012. On the horsemen, see Bugh 1988, Spence 1993, and Pritchard 2018b. For the archers, see Trundle 2010, 145–152, and Pritchard 2018a. On naval personnel, see Gabrielsen 1994 and Pritchard 2018c. For depictions of warfare on Athenian vases, see Oakley 2020, 167–188.

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