The Encyclopedia Of Ancient Battles

Focused on battle narratives of the classical world on land and at sea, this two-volume reference covers Archaic Greece in the eighth century BC to the rise of Islam in the seventh century AD.

• Two-volume reference on land and sea battles of the classical world from Archaic Greece in the eighth century BC to the rise of Islam in the seventh century AD
• Concentrates on narratives of specific battles, sieges, campaigns, and wars
• Contains the most complete and up-to-date scholarship on the subject
• Organized by individual wars, with chronological entries for each battle
• Brings together a distinguished, international group of experts on ancient military history

Michael Whitby is Pro-Vice-Chancellor and Head of the College of Arts and Law at the University of Birmingham, UK. He has also taught at the University of St Andrews and the University of Warwick. He has written extensively on the history and historiography of the eastern Roman Empire in the fifth to seventh centuries AD. Most recently, he is coauthor of How to Win on the Battlefield: The 25 Key Tactics of All Time (2010) and coeditor of The Cambridge History of Greek and Roman Warfare (2007).

Harry Sidebottom is Fellow and Director of Studies in Ancient History at St Benets Hall, Oxford, and Lecturer in Ancient History at Lincoln College, UK. Since 2003 he has been a regular reviewer of fiction, especially historical novels, in the Times Literary Supplement. He is the author of Ancient Warfare: A Very Short Introduction (2004), as well Iron and Rust (2014), The Amber Road (2013), and five other novels in the Warrior of Rome series, which is set in the Roman Empire during the so-called ‘Great Crisis of the Third Century AD.’?