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Religion and Classical Warfare: Archaic and Classical Greece (Hardcover)
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Religion and Classical Warfare: Archaic and Classical Greece (Hardcover)
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Religion was integral to the conduct of war in the ancient world
and the Greeks were certainly no exception. No campaign was
undertaken, no battle risked, without first making sacrifice to
propitiate the appropriate gods (such as Ares, god of War) or
consulting oracles and omens to divine their plans. Yet the link
between war and religion is an area that has been regularly
overlooked by modern scholars examining the conflicts of these
times. This volume addresses that omission by drawing together the
work of experts from across the globe. The chapters have been
carefully structured by the editors so that this wide array of
scholarship combines to give a coherent, comprehensive study of the
role of religion in the wars of the Archaic and Classical Greek
world. Aspects considered in depth will include: Greek writers on
religion and war; declarations of war; fate and predestination, the
sphagia and pre-battle sacrifices; omens, oracles and portents,
trophies and dedications to cult centres; militarized deities;
sacred truces and festivals; oaths and vows; religion & Greek
military medicine.
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