Hellenistic fortifications : from the Aegean to the Euphrates / A. W. McNicoll, with revisions and an additional chapter by N. P. Milner.

By: Contributor(s): Language: English Series: Oxford Monographs on Classical Archaeology | Oxford Monographs on Classical ArchaeologyPublication details: Oxford ; New York : Clarendon Press ; Oxford University Press, 1997.Description: xxv, 230 p. : ill., maps ; 29 cmISBN:
  • 019813228
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • DF89 M36 1997
Contents:
1. The Importance of Defences : Selection and Examination of Sites -- 2. The Hecatomnids of Caria -- 3. The Response to Macedonian Siege Warfare I : The Democratically Built Fortifications -- 4. The Response to Macedonian Siege Warfare II : The 'Great Circuits' of the Successors -- 5. Philip V at Iasus -- 6. The Attalids and Southern Asia Minor -- 7. The West Coast in the Second and First Centuries -- 8. Isolated Towers and Forts -- 9. Sites with Fortifications of more than One Period -- 10. Conclusions and Recent Developments / N. P. Milner.
Summary: The fortifications built around Greek cities for their defence and protection are among the most impressive of ancient remains. In breadth and detail Anthony McNicoll analysed and illustrated over a score of fortified sites on the basis of personal knowledge and inspection, ranging from Ephesus and Assos on the Aegean to Dura Europus on the Euphrates, and spanning the development from the fourth-century Mausolean great circuit of Halicarnassus to the first-century cross-wall at Miletus. The individual studies provide a valuable publication of some little known material and support not only a technical and architectural history, but an explanation of what was built in broader terms. Anthony McNicoll's Oxford doctoral thesis `Hellenistic Fortifications from Aegean to the Euphrates' was much acknowledged by A. W. Lawrence (the author of Greek Aims in Fortification, OUP 1979), and has been highly praised by a number of scholars who have consulted it. Revised here for publication, it has been updated in the light of recent scholarship in a final chapter by N. P. Milner.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

1. The Importance of Defences : Selection and Examination of Sites -- 2. The Hecatomnids of Caria -- 3. The Response to Macedonian Siege Warfare I : The Democratically Built Fortifications -- 4. The Response to Macedonian Siege Warfare II : The 'Great Circuits' of the Successors -- 5. Philip V at Iasus -- 6. The Attalids and Southern Asia Minor -- 7. The West Coast in the Second and First Centuries -- 8. Isolated Towers and Forts -- 9. Sites with Fortifications of more than One Period -- 10. Conclusions and Recent Developments / N. P. Milner.

The fortifications built around Greek cities for their defence and protection are among the most impressive of ancient remains. In breadth and detail Anthony McNicoll analysed and illustrated over a score of fortified sites on the basis of personal knowledge and inspection, ranging from Ephesus and Assos on the Aegean to Dura Europus on the Euphrates, and spanning the development from the fourth-century Mausolean great circuit of Halicarnassus to the first-century cross-wall at Miletus. The individual studies provide a valuable publication of some little known material and support not only a technical and architectural history, but an explanation of what was built in broader terms. Anthony McNicoll's Oxford doctoral thesis `Hellenistic Fortifications from Aegean to the Euphrates' was much acknowledged by A. W. Lawrence (the author of Greek Aims in Fortification, OUP 1979), and has been highly praised by a number of scholars who have consulted it. Revised here for publication, it has been updated in the light of recent scholarship in a final chapter by N. P. Milner.

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