Matthew Trundle
Biographic Data
| ID | 2223714 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Matthew Trundle |
| GIVEN NAMES | Matthew |
| FAMILY NAME | Trundle |
| SIGNATURE | TRUNDLE M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Victoria University of Wellington |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-6352-6179 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 26 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 6 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 22 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 4 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1998 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
The Cambridge World History of Violence
Cambridge World History of Violence
Violence, Law and Community in Classical Athens
This chapter explores the role of violence in classical Athens and its relationship to Greek society and politics from the later archaic age to the classical period. It focuses closely on both Athenian democracy and Athenian law, especially in the literature and forensic speeches. It begins by analysing the changing relationship of the state to the individual alongside the declining place of violent retribution in solving what increasingly became…
People and Institutions in the Roman Empire: Essays in Memory of Garrett G. Fagan
In People and Institutions in the Roman Empire colleagues honor Garrett Fagan for his contributions to our understanding and appreciation of Roman history and culture. In addition to reviewing and contextualizing Fagan’s works and legacy, contributing authors pursue in their chapters topics and methodologies that interested Fagan - the experiences of individuals within Roman state and social institutions from the end of the Republic through the E…
Brill's Companion to Sieges in the Ancient Mediterranean
The Introduction of Siege Technology into Classical Greece
This chapter explores the introduction of siege technology into the Greek world in the fifth century BC. Three factors appear crucial in the development of the machinery required to prosecute aggressive siege warfare beyond time-consuming and often intensive circumvallation. The first was the influence of the peoples beyond the Greek world, like the Carthaginians and Persians, behind which lay the Assyrians. Second, was the role of money and the …
Spartan Responses to Defeat: From a Mythical Hysiae to a Very Real Sellasia
Were There Better Angels of a Classical Greek Nature
This article explores Steven Pinker’s thesis with regard to fifth-century BCE Athens. Pinker’s view that the political state became the arbiter of violence is important, but for ancient Greeks that meant that wars became more devastating. States coordinated military action more effectively than earlier tribal chiefs. With regard to violence within communities, the absence of civic values, human rights, or robust legal systems meant that violence …
Identity and Community Among Greek Mercenaries in the Classical World: 700-322 Bce
In this light the efforts of the Greeks of the sixth to fourth centuries BCE to remain distinct while overseas take on a very significant role in the pursuit of understanding Greek society. Many Greeks found military service with the Great King and other potentates of the ancient world. In antiquity outsiders were perceived as a threat to any community. Any stranger could have been a run-away slave, an exile, a criminal on the run or a spy. Full …
Coinage and the Economics of the Athenian Empire
Jason Crowley. The Psychology of the Athenian Hoplite: The Culture of Combat in Classical Athens
Journal Article Jason Crowley. The Psychology of the Athenian Hoplite: The Culture of Combat in Classical Athens. Get access Jason Crowley. The Psychology of the Athenian Hoplite: The Culture of Combat in Classical Athens. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2012. Pp. x, 240. $99.00. Matthew Trundle Matthew Trundle University of Auckland [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Americ…
The Business of War: Mercenaries
This chapter investigates the mercenaries in the Greek world. Mercenaries became stained with the brush of tyranny. The connection of tyrants and mercenaries continued into the Hellenistic age. Xenophon's Anabasis offers invaluable data on almost every aspect of Greek mercenary life, but it represents a landmark moment in Greek mercenary activity. Mercenaries were priceless in giving specialists to those in need and demonstrating the success of s…
Commemorating Victory in Classical Greece: Why Greek Tropaia
This chapter argues that battlefield trophies emerged as a result of the Persian Wars and, therefore, in the fifth century. As a result of such an argument we may note that the Persians planned to (as at Marathon) or did indeed (as at Thermopylae) erect the first attested battlefield trophies on the Greek mainland. No evidence, as we shall see, attests trophies in Greece prior to the Persian invasions. This chapter contends that the Greeks adopte…
New Perspectives on Ancient Warfare
Ten leading scholars of ancient warfare offer new insights on several aspects of military activity from the Later Bronze Age to the Roman Empire. They make significant contributions to understanding warfare on land and sea, to the social and economic aspects of war, and to battlefield experience. The studies illustrate the ways in which technology, innovation, cultural exchange and tactical developments transformed ancient warfare. Papers survey …
New perspectives on ancient warfare
New Perspectives on Ancient Warfare
Coinage And The Transformation Of Greek Warfare
Coinage had appeared in the Greek cities in the mid-sixth century BCE, an innovation imported from the east and attributed to the Lydians. Several Greek traditions associate early coinages with single rulers rather than communal city-states. Such traditions saw the reform of weights and measures and the establishment of prices in the careers of proto-tyrants like Pheidon of Argos or lawgivers like Solon of Athens. A common theme of tyranny from t…
All The King’s Horse: In Search Of Achaemenid Persian Cavalryby Christopher Tuplin
Reinstating the Hoplite: Arms, Armour and Phalanx Fighting in Archaic and Classical Greece (review)
Reviewed by: Reinstating the Hoplite: Arms, Armour and Phalanx Fighting in Archaic and Classical Greece Matthew Trundle Adam Schwartz . Reinstating the Hoplite: Arms, Armour and Phalanx Fighting in Archaic and Classical Greece. Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag, 2009. Pp. 337, 19 figures. €64; CDN $100.25. ISBN 9783515093309. Ancient Greek warfare has enjoyed something of a renaissance in the past decade. Scholars like Peter Krentz, Hans van Wees, …
A Companion to the Classical Greek World by Konrad H. Kinzi
BOOK REVIEWS/COMPTES RENDUS 171 she illustrates strikingly how in each case Hippocrates was made into "the image of his worshipper" (263). Armand DAngour concludes this collection of essays with a discussion of musical technology and the "New Music" of the later fifth century b.c (264-283). This paper offers valuable insights on the role technical innovations play in notions of revolution, but its discussion of ancient music is not always easy to…
The Gendered Language of Warfare in the Israelite–Assyrian Encounter by Cynthia R. Chapman
Money and the Great Man in the fourth century BC: Military power, aristocratic connections and mercenary service
Money and the Great Man in the fourth century BC: Military power, aristocratic connections and mercenary service
Great men thrived in Greece during the fourth century BC. Money, mercenaries, and aristocratic connections augmented and supported their power. The Athenian Empire had monetised the Aegean basin in the previous century due to naval warfare's dependence on coinage. The fall of the empire left a vacuum in the Aegean. Powerful individuals and their families from the wider Greek world, the Persian Empire, Sicily, and Macedonia, filled this vacuum. Mo…
Ancient Greek Mercenaries (664–250 BCE) 1
Greek mercenary service played a major role in the history of the Archaic and Classical ages (700–323 BCE) down to the early Hellenistic age (250 BCE). Mercenary service became more predominant in the Greek world in this period as the poleis (city‐states) coalesced into more stable communities and coinage became more prevalent in the eastern Mediterranean. Greeks proved they were effective warriors in the later Archaic age and so found themselves…
The Spartan Revolution: Hoplite Warfare in the Late Archaic Period
(2001). The Spartan Revolution: Hoplite Warfare in the Late Archaic Period. War & Society: Vol. 19, No. 2, pp. 1-17
Epikouroi, Xenoi and Misthophoroi in the Classical Greek World
(1998). Epikouroi, Xenoi and Misthophoroi in the Classical Greek World. War & Society: Vol. 16, No. 2, pp. 1-12
People and Institutions in the Roman Empire: Essays in Memory of Garrett G. Fagan
In People and Institutions in the Roman Empire colleagues honor Garrett Fagan for his contributions to our understanding and appreciation of Roman history and culture. In addition to reviewing and contextualizing Fagan’s works and legacy, contributing authors pursue in their chapters topics and methodologies that interested Fagan - the experiences of individuals within Roman state and social institutions from the end of the Republic through the E…
Reinstating the Hoplite: Arms, Armour and Phalanx Fighting in Archaic and Classical Greece (review)
Reviewed by: Reinstating the Hoplite: Arms, Armour and Phalanx Fighting in Archaic and Classical Greece Matthew Trundle Adam Schwartz . Reinstating the Hoplite: Arms, Armour and Phalanx Fighting in Archaic and Classical Greece. Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag, 2009. Pp. 337, 19 figures. €64; CDN $100.25. ISBN 9783515093309. Ancient Greek warfare has enjoyed something of a renaissance in the past decade. Scholars like Peter Krentz, Hans van Wees, …
Epikouroi, Xenoi and Misthophoroi in the Classical Greek World
(1998). Epikouroi, Xenoi and Misthophoroi in the Classical Greek World. War & Society: Vol. 16, No. 2, pp. 1-12
The Spartan Revolution: Hoplite Warfare in the Late Archaic Period
(2001). The Spartan Revolution: Hoplite Warfare in the Late Archaic Period. War & Society: Vol. 19, No. 2, pp. 1-17
Ancient Greek Mercenaries (664–250 BCE) 1
Greek mercenary service played a major role in the history of the Archaic and Classical ages (700–323 BCE) down to the early Hellenistic age (250 BCE). Mercenary service became more predominant in the Greek world in this period as the poleis (city‐states) coalesced into more stable communities and coinage became more prevalent in the eastern Mediterranean. Greeks proved they were effective warriors in the later Archaic age and so found themselves…
Money and the Great Man in the fourth century BC: Military power, aristocratic connections and mercenary service
Money and the Great Man in the fourth century BC: Military power, aristocratic connections and mercenary service
Great men thrived in Greece during the fourth century BC. Money, mercenaries, and aristocratic connections augmented and supported their power. The Athenian Empire had monetised the Aegean basin in the previous century due to naval warfare's dependence on coinage. The fall of the empire left a vacuum in the Aegean. Powerful individuals and their families from the wider Greek world, the Persian Empire, Sicily, and Macedonia, filled this vacuum. Mo…
The Gendered Language of Warfare in the Israelite–Assyrian Encounter by Cynthia R. Chapman
A Companion to the Classical Greek World by Konrad H. Kinzi
BOOK REVIEWS/COMPTES RENDUS 171 she illustrates strikingly how in each case Hippocrates was made into "the image of his worshipper" (263). Armand DAngour concludes this collection of essays with a discussion of musical technology and the "New Music" of the later fifth century b.c (264-283). This paper offers valuable insights on the role technical innovations play in notions of revolution, but its discussion of ancient music is not always easy to…
New Perspectives on Ancient Warfare
Ten leading scholars of ancient warfare offer new insights on several aspects of military activity from the Later Bronze Age to the Roman Empire. They make significant contributions to understanding warfare on land and sea, to the social and economic aspects of war, and to battlefield experience. The studies illustrate the ways in which technology, innovation, cultural exchange and tactical developments transformed ancient warfare. Papers survey …
New perspectives on ancient warfare
New Perspectives on Ancient Warfare
Coinage And The Transformation Of Greek Warfare
Coinage had appeared in the Greek cities in the mid-sixth century BCE, an innovation imported from the east and attributed to the Lydians. Several Greek traditions associate early coinages with single rulers rather than communal city-states. Such traditions saw the reform of weights and measures and the establishment of prices in the careers of proto-tyrants like Pheidon of Argos or lawgivers like Solon of Athens. A common theme of tyranny from t…
All The King’s Horse: In Search Of Achaemenid Persian Cavalryby Christopher Tuplin
Reinstating the Hoplite: Arms, Armour and Phalanx Fighting in Archaic and Classical Greece (review)
Reviewed by: Reinstating the Hoplite: Arms, Armour and Phalanx Fighting in Archaic and Classical Greece Matthew Trundle Adam Schwartz . Reinstating the Hoplite: Arms, Armour and Phalanx Fighting in Archaic and Classical Greece. Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag, 2009. Pp. 337, 19 figures. €64; CDN $100.25. ISBN 9783515093309. Ancient Greek warfare has enjoyed something of a renaissance in the past decade. Scholars like Peter Krentz, Hans van Wees, …
The Business of War: Mercenaries
This chapter investigates the mercenaries in the Greek world. Mercenaries became stained with the brush of tyranny. The connection of tyrants and mercenaries continued into the Hellenistic age. Xenophon's Anabasis offers invaluable data on almost every aspect of Greek mercenary life, but it represents a landmark moment in Greek mercenary activity. Mercenaries were priceless in giving specialists to those in need and demonstrating the success of s…
Commemorating Victory in Classical Greece: Why Greek Tropaia
This chapter argues that battlefield trophies emerged as a result of the Persian Wars and, therefore, in the fifth century. As a result of such an argument we may note that the Persians planned to (as at Marathon) or did indeed (as at Thermopylae) erect the first attested battlefield trophies on the Greek mainland. No evidence, as we shall see, attests trophies in Greece prior to the Persian invasions. This chapter contends that the Greeks adopte…
Jason Crowley. The Psychology of the Athenian Hoplite: The Culture of Combat in Classical Athens
Journal Article Jason Crowley. The Psychology of the Athenian Hoplite: The Culture of Combat in Classical Athens. Get access Jason Crowley. The Psychology of the Athenian Hoplite: The Culture of Combat in Classical Athens. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2012. Pp. x, 240. $99.00. Matthew Trundle Matthew Trundle University of Auckland [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Americ…
Coinage and the Economics of the Athenian Empire
Identity and Community Among Greek Mercenaries in the Classical World: 700-322 Bce
In this light the efforts of the Greeks of the sixth to fourth centuries BCE to remain distinct while overseas take on a very significant role in the pursuit of understanding Greek society. Many Greeks found military service with the Great King and other potentates of the ancient world. In antiquity outsiders were perceived as a threat to any community. Any stranger could have been a run-away slave, an exile, a criminal on the run or a spy. Full …
Spartan Responses to Defeat: From a Mythical Hysiae to a Very Real Sellasia
Were There Better Angels of a Classical Greek Nature
This article explores Steven Pinker’s thesis with regard to fifth-century BCE Athens. Pinker’s view that the political state became the arbiter of violence is important, but for ancient Greeks that meant that wars became more devastating. States coordinated military action more effectively than earlier tribal chiefs. With regard to violence within communities, the absence of civic values, human rights, or robust legal systems meant that violence …
Brill's Companion to Sieges in the Ancient Mediterranean
The Introduction of Siege Technology into Classical Greece
This chapter explores the introduction of siege technology into the Greek world in the fifth century BC. Three factors appear crucial in the development of the machinery required to prosecute aggressive siege warfare beyond time-consuming and often intensive circumvallation. The first was the influence of the peoples beyond the Greek world, like the Carthaginians and Persians, behind which lay the Assyrians. Second, was the role of money and the …
The Cambridge World History of Violence
Cambridge World History of Violence
Violence, Law and Community in Classical Athens
This chapter explores the role of violence in classical Athens and its relationship to Greek society and politics from the later archaic age to the classical period. It focuses closely on both Athenian democracy and Athenian law, especially in the literature and forensic speeches. It begins by analysing the changing relationship of the state to the individual alongside the declining place of violent retribution in solving what increasingly became…
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