ANCIENT WARFARE 103 - BATTLES OF THE BRONZE AGE

With the emergence of the first city states came the first cases of organized warfare and campaigns of conquest, as well as developments in arms and armour.

Theme: Bronze Age warfare

• Matthew Marsh, 'Bronze Age kingdoms and warfare - an introduction'.
• Murray Dahm, 'The Dendra Panoply - A warrior encased in bronze'.
• Murray Dahm, 'Bronze Age bloodshed - The battle of the Tollense Valley'.
• Murray Dahm, 'The Hittites hit back - The Battle of Ganuvara'.

Features:

• Joanne Ball, 'Life begins at forty - The tombstone of Gaius Valerius Victor'.
• Mattia Caprioli, 'There and back again - From gladius to spatha'.
• Sidney Dean, 'Bellum Neronis - Gaius Julius Vindex challenges Nero'.
• Svenja Fabian, 'Ancient edutainment - Gladiators in the legions'.
• Javier Garcia de Gabiola 'When the Spanish almost finished off Caesar - The battle of Munda, 45 BC'.
• Robert Holmes, 'Marvellous marching Macedonians - Psychological warfare on Pelion plain'.
• Mark McCaffery, 'With one word - Quirites'.
• Pavel Vaverka, 'Pick your arrow - The Assyrian war of war'.