Warfare in the Ancient World (Until the end of the Roman Empire)
Primary Sources
Excerpts from an account of the Battle of Kadesh between the Egyptians and the Hittites during the Time of Rameses II - added December 26, 2002
Xerxes' Plan to Invade Greece, the Bridging of the Hellespont and the Persian Order of Battle - added December 26, 2002
The Battle of Thermopylae according to Herodotus - added December 26, 2002
The Battle of Salamis according to Herodotus - added December 26, 2002
Arrian on Alexander the Great's Campaigns - added December 26, 2002
Polybius on the Roman Army - added December 26, 2002
The Histories, by Polybius - added September 3, 2003
Livy describes the Early Roman Army - added December 26, 2002
Alexander the Great Versus the Romans - added December 26, 2002
Phalanx Versus Legion - added December 26, 2002
The Lives of the Twelve Caesars, by Suetonius - added September 3, 2003
The Career of Marcus Crassus - added December 26, 2002
The Wars of the Jews and the Destruction of Jerusalem, by Flavius Josephus - contains several excerpts - added December 26, 2002
The Strategemata, by Sextus Julius Frontinus - added September 3, 2003
Roman History, by Cassius Dio - added September 3, 2003
Articles and Books
Amela Velverde, Luis, Efectivos del Ejército Pompeyano, from Revista de Historia Militar n.89 (2000)
Boesche, Robert, Kautilya's Arthasastra on War and Diplomacy in Ancient India, from Journal of Military History v.67.1 (2003)
Epplett, Christopher, The Capture of Animals by the Roman Military - from Greece & Rome v.48 n.2 (2001) - pdf file
Fronda, Michael P., The Italians in the Second Punic War: Local Conditions and the Failure of the Hannibalic Strategy in Italy (Ohio State University, PhD disseration, 2003)
Kallet-Marx, Lisa, Money, Expense, and Naval Power in Thucydides' History 1-5.24 (University of California Press, 1993)
Munn, Mark H. The Defense of Attica: The Dema Wall and the Boiotian War of 378-375 B.C. (University of California Press, 1993)
Rosenstein, Nathan S., Imperatores Victi: Military Defeat and Aristocractic Competition in the Middle and Late Republic (University of California Press, 1990) - added February 14, 2003
External Websites
The Society of Ancient Military Historians
Warfare in the Ancient World - bibliography, covering the period between the Mycenean World and the Byzantine Empire.
LacusCurtius: Into the Roman World - includes a large section of primary sources