Fighting by the Rules: The Invention of the Hoplite Agon

Krentz, Peter

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“…41 That is, he was 'playing the Cretan' with the genuine article and was well out of his depth. 42 For deception in Greek warfare see Wheeler (1988); Krentz (2000). On Cretan cunning, 124-27.…”

Section: The Cretan Way Of Warmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Regarding the former point: archaic elite society across Greece, as represented not just by Homer and Hesiod but by a wide array of lyric poetry, was in general highly acquisitive; if Cretan culture during the Classical and Hellenistic periods displayed strong continuities in values with the Archaic period, then obsession with material gain ought not to come as a 91 Krentz (2000) 172; cf. Haft (1984) 298; 109.…”

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The Cretan way of war: status, violence and values from the Classical period to the Roman conquest

Lewis

2023

J. Hell. Stud.

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The tactics of Cretan citizen armies differed markedly from those utilized in most regions of the Classical and Hellenistic Greek world: instead of fighting in phalanxes, Cretans fought in open order, specializing in archery, skirmishing, ambushes and night actions. These tactics (and the cultural attitudes that went with them) were disparaged by mainland Greeks such as Polybios and explained in terms of moral deviancy: a sign of the duplicitous nature of the Cretans. This article demonstrates that these descriptions of Cretan tactics and behaviours are factual, but argues against the idea that they derive from moral deviancy. Rather, they represent the outcome of a different line of historical development than that followed in mainland Greece. Cretan tactics and attitudes stand far closer to those described by archaic poets (especially Homer, Archilochos and Kallinos); in this regard, Cretan city states displayed strong continuities with archaic social practices and values, detectable in other areas of Cretan society and culture. The stability of Cretan sociopolitical organization from the late seventh century down to the Roman conquest fostered the endurance of such practices and attitudes, leading to cultural divergence from mainland Greece and, accordingly, a generally hostile representation of Cretans in our main historiographical sources.

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The Cretan way of war: status, violence and values from the Classical period to the Roman conquest

Lewis

2023

J. Hell. Stud.

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“…Violent conflict was endemic among the Greek city-states and fairly often ended in state-death. Although many interstate conflicts, especially before the mid-fifth century B.C., were more or less ritualized contests with little demographic impact (Connor 1988), some battles had extremely high casualties (Krentz 1985(Krentz , 2002, and the extermination or enslavement of entire state populations was a realistically possible outcome of interstate war. The relationship between democracy and warfare has been a feature of analytic work on democracy from the very beginning and is prominent in the work of both Herodotus and Thucydides.…”

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What the Ancient Greeks Can Tell Us About Democracy

Ober

2008

Annu. Rev. Polit. Sci.

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The question of what the ancient Greeks can tell us about democracy can be answered by reference to three fields that have traditionally been pursued with little reference to one another: ancient history, classical political theory, and political science. These fields have been coming into more fruitful contact over the past 20 years, as evidenced by a spate of interdisciplinary work. Historians, political theorists, and political scientists interested in classical Greek democracy are increasingly capable of leveraging results across disciplinary lines. As a result, the classical Greek experience has more to tell us about the origins and definition of democracy, and about the relationships between participatory democracy and formal institutions, rhetoric, civic identity, political values, political criticism, war, economy, culture, and religion.

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“…una revisión de la misma en Gabaldón, 1997;Gabaldón, 1999. En último lugar está el trabajo de M. Betalli (e. p.), y para su vinculación con la guerra agonal hoplita véase el sugerente trabajo de Peter Krentz (2002). CuPAUAM 28-29, 2002CuPAUAM 28-29, -2003 En la antigua Grecia existían dos tipos de trofeo.…”

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El Trofeo Y Los Rituales De Victoria Como Símbolos Del Poder en El Mundo Helenístico

Martínez¹

2003

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El trofeo y los rituales de victoria como símbolos del poder en el mundo helenístico*. María del Mar Gabaldón MartínezInstituto de Humanidades Ángel Ayala, Universidad San Pablo CEU. A Pedro Pablo in memoriam ResumenEn el mundo griego el lenguaje vinculado a la victoria militar se transformó en el siglo IV a. C. En la Grecia arcaica y clásica la victoria solía ser presentada mayoritariamente como algo transitorio e impersonal, ligado sobre todo a la figura del ciudadano guerrero y de la polis en general. En cambio, en el mundo helenístico su conmemoración se convirtió en algo más duradero, normalmente personalizado en la figura del dirigente vencedor, y en un importante instrumento de propaganda.La difusión entre la población de la victorias militares y su transformación en expresión de poder era llevada a cabo a través de una serie de mecanismos que incluían la construcción de monumentos conmemorativos, la celebración de rituales (consagración de las armas y de otras ofrendas en los santuarios, las procesiones triunfales, sacrificios a los dioses, etc.) y, por último, la creación de una ideología vinculada a la victoria a través de canales de propaganda como la literatura o las acuñaciones de monedas con la imagen del vencedor. Palabras clave: Mundo helenístico, victoria, trofeos, monumentos conmemorativos, procesiones triunfales. AbstractThere was a change along the Fourth Century B.C. in the way the vocabulary linked to military victory was used in the Greek world. In Archaic and Classical Greece victory was commonly presented as something transitory and not related to any individual. In fact, military victory was considered to be something about the polis and the citizen-warrior taken as general principles. However, in the Hellenistic world the commemoration of victories developed into something more permanent being identified with the figure of the triumphant ruler and so becoming a key political propaganda instrument.The diffusion of this propaganda about military victories and its transformation into an image of power was performed through a number of mechanisms that included the building of commemoration monuments, the celebration of rituals (consecration of arms and other offerings, sacrifices to gods…) and the development of an ideology of victory in literature and coinage.

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Fighting by the Rules: The Invention of the Hoplite Agon

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The Cretan way of war: status, violence and values from the Classical period to the Roman conquest

The Cretan way of war: status, violence and values from the Classical period to the Roman conquest

What the Ancient Greeks Can Tell Us About Democracy

El Trofeo Y Los Rituales De Victoria Como Símbolos Del Poder en El Mundo Helenístico

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