This volume explores a broad range of perceptions, receptions and constructions of the soldierly body in the ancient world, putting the notion of embodiment at

This volume offers an overview of current directions in the study of siege warfare from around the ancient Mediterranean world.

In Brill's Companion to Military Defeat in Ancient Mediterranean Society, Jessica H. Clark and Brian Turner lead a re-examination of how Near Eastern, Greek, an

Taking at its centre Lucan's violent and subversive military epic on the Roman Civil War, this volume responds to an emergent interest in approaching ancient wa

There are many recoverable aspects and indications concerning medicine and healing in the ancient past – from the archaeological evidence of skeletal remains,