rsheldon
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- Col. Rose Mary Sheldon is a Professor of History at the Virginia Military Institute. She received her Ph.D. in ancient history from the University of Michigan. Her special field of study is ancient intelligence history. She has been on the Editorial boards of the International Journal of Intelligence and Counterintelligence and Small Wars and Insurgencies, and the Journal of Military History. She has written more than three dozen articles on aspects of ancient intelligence. Her books include Espionage in the Ancient World: An Annotated Bibliography (McFarland, 2003), Intelligence Activities in Ancient Rome: Trust in the Gods, But Verify, (Frank Cass, 2005), Spies in the Bible (Greenhill Books, 2007), Operation Messiah: St. Paul, Roman Intelligence and the Birth of Christianity, (Vallentine-Mitchell, 2008), Rome’s Wars in Parthia: Blood in the Sand (Vallentine-Mitchell, 2009), and Ambush! Surprise Attack in Ancient Greek Warfare (London: Frontline Books, 2012).
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February 4, 2018 at 9:33 am
This is not an exact parallel, but I’m reminded ofXenophon Anabasis 3.4.35 , where it is said that the Persians out on campaign are slow to get off the mark in the event of a night attack because they hobble their horses.
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February 4, 2018 at 9:28 am
See the index to the Loeb, where it is suggested that these Armenian Chaldaeans are a people more correctly known as the Haldi.
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February 4, 2018 at 9:18 am
I wonder if it’s a bit of a stretch to look for parallels with Sparta here, since elders had similar functions in a great many premodern societies.
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February 4, 2018 at 9:08 am
The tone of this interchange reminds me of the dialogue between Pericles and Alcibiades atXenophon Memorabilia 1.2.40-46 . And for a wise, even if not wisecracking, child, how about Gorgo at Herodotus 5.51 ?
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February 4, 2018 at 8:37 am
Surely just because it means ‘whatever makes your bread less dull’!
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February 4, 2018 at 8:31 am
Reza Zarghamee’s blog posts on this site argue very convincingly that, yes, there could have been an Iranian tradition that leapfrogged back past Cambyses’ reign and attributed the conquest of Egypt to Cyrus.
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August 16, 2016 at 4:56 pm
What’s going on with Median ἰσηγορία? Is this a little Xenophontic jibe directed toward Athens, which was famed for that “freedom/license/excessive of speech”?
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August 16, 2016 at 4:15 pm
On this see now Norman’s own Sandridge 2012.
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February 17, 2016 at 8:23 pm
Hale, J. R. 2013. “Not Patriots, Not Farmers, Not Amateurs: Greek Soldiers of Fortune and the Origins of Hoplite Warfare.” In Donald Kagan and Gregory F. Viggiano (eds.), Men of Bronze: Hoplite Warfare in Ancient Greece. (Princeton; Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2013): 176-193
Luraghi, N. 2006. “Traders, Pirates, Warriors: The Proto-History of Greek Mercenary Soldiers in the Eastern Mediterranean.” Phoenix 60.1/2: 21-47
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February 17, 2016 at 8:19 pm
On Greek soldiers in the service of foreign kings, see also Luraghi 2006 and Hale 2013. On the rhetorical, panhellenist context see especially the speeches of Isocrates.
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