Triumph in Defeat. Military Loss and the Roman Republic. - CLARK, J.H.,
Military Loss and the Roman Republic
KORTE INHOUD
'As the first monograph in twenty-five years on Roman military defeats, Jessica Clark?s Triumph in defeat: military loss in the Roman Republic is a most welcome contribution to the fields of Roman history and political culture. The book started out as a PhD thesis, and Clark should be credited for taking an unexplored path already at a doctoral stage. She is well aware that her book represents a novelty, and identifies the conspicuous lack of works on Roman military loss as an important reason for undertaking this study. Triumph in Defeat: Military Loss and the Roman Republic does not deal specifically with the military reasons for and consequences of battlefield setbacks. Nor does the book set out to investigate the long-term memorial implications of military loss. Instead, Clark targets the more immediate responses to defeat in Rome. She is particularly interested in challenging the definition of victory, and throughout her book, she discusses defeats in relation to military success. As she justly points ou...
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2014Uitgever: Oxford University Press272 paginasTaal: EngelsISBN-10: 0199336547ISBN-13: 9780199336548Koop dit boek tweedehands
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2014. XVIII,240p. 4 maps. Hardback with dust wrps. [New] [Auteur: CLARK, J.H.,] [Uitgever: Oxford University Press] [Jaar: 2014] [Titel: Triumph in Defeat. Military Loss and the Roman Republic.]
