| | TABLE OF CONTENTS: List of Contributors vii
Introduction: Makers of Ancient Strategy 1
From the Persian Wars to the Fall of Rome
by Victor Davis Hanson
Chapter 1: From Persia with Love 11
Propaganda and Imperial Overreach in the Greco-Persian Wars
by Tom Holland
Chapter 2: Pericles, Thucydides, and the Defense of Empire 31
by Donald Kagan
Chapter 3: Why Fortifications Endure 58
A Case Study of the Walls of Athens during the Classical Period
by David L. Berkey
Chapter 4: Epaminondas the Theban and the Doctrine of Preemptive War 93
by Victor Davis Hanson
Chapter 5: Alexander the Great, Nation Building, and the Creation and Maintenance of Empire 118
by Ian Worthington
Chapter 6: Urban Warfare in the Classical Greek World 138
by John W. I. Lee
Chapter 7: Counterinsurgency and the Enemies of Rome 163
by Susan Mattern
Chapter 8: Slave Wars of Greece and Rome 185
by Barry Strauss
Chapter 9: Julius Caesar and the General as State 206
by Adrian Goldsworthy
10. Holding the Line 227
Frontier Defense and the Later Roman Empire
by Peter J. Heather
Acknowledgments 247
Index 249
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