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The roles of Greek mercenaries, their connection to local societies and polities, and their leadership remain topics of wide interest. This volume brings together international scholars to examine the presence and impact of Greek mercenaries across the Eastern Mediterranean from the Classical to the early Hellenistic period. Chapters explore recruitment, mobility, identity, social networks, political influence, and cross-cultural interaction in regions including the Aegean, Egypt, and Western and Central Asia. Combining new evidence with fresh approaches, the book offers a comprehensive synthesis of recent scholarship, providing an essential guide to a dynamic and incompletely understood phenomena of the ancient world.
Price: $173.00
Publisher: Brill
Imprint: Brill
Series: Brill's Companions to Classical Studies: Warfare in the Ancient Mediterranean World
Publication Date:
07 January 2027
ISBN: 9789004779051
Format: Hardcover
Takashi Fujii is Professor in Ancient History at Kyoto University. His research interests are centered on the political, social, and religious history of the Hellenistic World and the Roman East, Greek Epigraphy, and the city of Aphrodisias. He published his Ph.D. (2010) as Imperial Cult and Imperial Representation in Roman Cyprus (2013). He has also published widely in Japanese, and translated into Japanese Christopher Kelly’s The Roman Empire: A Very Short Introduction and Angelos Chaniotis’ Age of Conquests: The Greek World from Alexander to Hadrian.
Lee L. Brice is Distinguished University Professor of History, Emeritus, at Western Illinois University. His research interests include service conditions in ancient militaries and Corinthian coinage. His most recent publication is Women and the Army in the Roman Empire (2024 with Elizabeth M. Greene). He has also published on military history, the Roman army on film, Corinthian coinage, historiography, teaching history, and ancient technology.
Daniel Gómez Castro is a historian of the ancient Greek world specializing in Greek mercenaries, warfare, and Greek–Persian relations. He has participated in international research projects and conferences across Europe and Japan.
Matthew F. Trundle was Professor of Classics and Ancient History at the University of Auckland and a leading specialist on Greek mercenaries and warfare. In addition to mercenaries, his research explored military service, slavery, monetization, and society in the ancient Greek world. His books include Greek Mercenaries from the Archaic Age to Alexander (2004) and Brill’s Companion to Sieges in the Ancient Mediterranean (2018, with Jeremy Armstrong).
Contributors are: Lee L. Brice, Laura Conroy, Marc Domingo-Gygax, César Fornis; Takashi Fujii, Daniel Gómez Castro, Masayuki Ito, Kota Kishimoto, Christopher de Lisle, Toni Ñaco del Hoyo, José Pascual, Hannah L. Ringheim, Jeffrey Rop, Noboru Sato, Hinako Sugimoto, Yoshiyuki Suto, Matthew F. Trundle, Christopher J. Tuplin.
Lee L. Brice is Distinguished University Professor of History, Emeritus, at Western Illinois University. His research interests include service conditions in ancient militaries and Corinthian coinage. His most recent publication is Women and the Army in the Roman Empire (2024 with Elizabeth M. Greene). He has also published on military history, the Roman army on film, Corinthian coinage, historiography, teaching history, and ancient technology.
Daniel Gómez Castro is a historian of the ancient Greek world specializing in Greek mercenaries, warfare, and Greek–Persian relations. He has participated in international research projects and conferences across Europe and Japan.
Matthew F. Trundle was Professor of Classics and Ancient History at the University of Auckland and a leading specialist on Greek mercenaries and warfare. In addition to mercenaries, his research explored military service, slavery, monetization, and society in the ancient Greek world. His books include Greek Mercenaries from the Archaic Age to Alexander (2004) and Brill’s Companion to Sieges in the Ancient Mediterranean (2018, with Jeremy Armstrong).
Contributors are: Lee L. Brice, Laura Conroy, Marc Domingo-Gygax, César Fornis; Takashi Fujii, Daniel Gómez Castro, Masayuki Ito, Kota Kishimoto, Christopher de Lisle, Toni Ñaco del Hoyo, José Pascual, Hannah L. Ringheim, Jeffrey Rop, Noboru Sato, Hinako Sugimoto, Yoshiyuki Suto, Matthew F. Trundle, Christopher J. Tuplin.