TY  - BOOK
AU  - Konijnendijk,Roel
TI  - Between Miltiades and Moltke: Early German Studies in Greek Military History
T2  - Brill Research Perspectives in Humanities and Social Sciences
SN  - 9789004540026
AV  - PA6411.Z5 
U1  - 874/.01 23
PY  - 2023///
CY  - Leiden, Boston
PB  - Brill
KW  - Classical Studies
KW  - Ancient History
KW  - History
KW  - Modern History
KW  - History of Warfare
N1  - Preliminary Material; Roel Konijnendijk -- Copyright page; Roel Konijnendijk -- Between Miltiades and Moltke: Early German Studies in Greek Military History; Roel Konijnendijk
N2  - The authors of the first serious scholarly works on Greek warfare were not free to write their surveys as they wished. In the nineteenth-century German-speaking world, the supreme authority on all military history rested with the Great General Staff, the intellectual nerve centre of the Prussian army. Officers rejected the ability of historians to understand warfare and imposed their pragmatic perspective on any attempt to study past wars. How did classicists and historians respond to this challenge? This book explores how the scope and method of the first handbooks on Greek warfare were shaped by their environment; it questions the ancient wisdom that practical expertise is the best guide to writing military history
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/9789004514300
ER  -