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AEAD

Parpola, S. (ed) (2007) Assyrian English-Assyrian Dictionary. Helsinki.

ARM

Archives royales de Mari.

BNJ

Brill’s New Jacoby Online. Online at https://scholarlyeditions.brill.com/bnjo/.

BRM

Clay, A.T. and Keiser, C.R. (eds) Babylonian Records in the Library of J. Pierpont Morgan. 4 vols. (1912–1923). Yale.

BBSt

King, L.W. (ed) (1955) Babylonian Boundary Stones and Memorial Tablets in the British Museum.

BCHP

Finkel, I.L., van der Spek, R.J., and Pirngruber, R. (eds) (2020) Babylonian Chronographic Texts from the Hellenistic Period.

CAD

The Chicago Assyrian Dictionary of the Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago (1956–2010). Chicago.

CAH

Cambridge Ancient History, 2nd edn. (1982–1991) Cambridge.

CHGRW

Sabin, P., Whitby, M., and van Wees, H. (eds) (2007) Cambridge History of Greek and Roman Warfare, vol. 1. Cambridge.

CT

Hornblower, S. (1991–2008) A Commentary on Thucydides. 3 Vols. Oxford.

DCCLT

Digital Cuneiform Corpus of Lexical Lists.

ePSD

electronic Pennsylvania Sumerian Dictionary.

ETCSL

Electronic Text Corpus of Sumerian Literature.

GSW

Pritchett, W.K. (1971–1991) The Greek State at War. 5 vols. Berkeley.

LAM

Heckel, W., Heinrichs, J., Müller, S., and Pownall, F. (eds) (2020) Lexicon of Argead Makedonika. Berlin.

LfgrE

Snell, B. (ed) Lexikon des frühgriechischen Epos. In Auftrag der Akademie der Wissenschaften in Göttingen vorbereitet und herausgegeben vom Thesaurus Linguae Graecae. 4 vols. (1979–2010). Göttingen.

NERE

Near Eastern Royal Epics. Online at https://build-oracc.museum.upenn.edu/nere/.

RINAP

The Royal Inscriptions of Neo-Assyrian Period. Online at https://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/rinap/corpus/.

RIMA

The Royal Inscriptions of Mesopotamia, Assyrian Rulers.

RIMB

The Royal Inscriptions of Mesopotamia, Babylonian Periods.

RIME

The Royal Inscriptions of Mesopotamia, Early Periods.

SAA

State Archives of Assyria 1–22 (1987–). Helsinki.

SVF

von Armin, H. (ed) Stoicorum Veterum Fragmenta (1903–1905). Leipzig.

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Brill's Companion to Courage and Cowardice in Ancient Warfare

Series:  Brill's Companions to Classical Studies, Volume: 12 and  Brill's Companions to Classical Studies: Warfare in the Ancient Mediterranean World, Volume: 12
Cover Brill's Companion to Courage and Cowardice in Ancient Warfare
E-Book ISBN:
9789004749290
Publisher:
Brill
Print Publication Date:
02 Dec 2025
  • Subjects
    • Classical Studies
      • Ancient History
      • Greek & Latin Literature
Front Matter
Preliminary Material
Copyright Page
Dedication
Preface
Figures and Tables
Abbreviations
Notes on Contributors
Introduction
Chapter 1 Courage and Cowardice in Ancient Mediterranean Warfare: a Continuum of Virtue?
Part 1 Courage and Cowardice: Setting the Groundwork
Chapter 2 lū awīlāt! (Be a Man!) The Vocabulary of Courage in Mesopotamian Royal Inscriptions
Chapter 3 Dancing for Ares: Courage and Concepts of Martial Excellence on the Homeric Battlefield
Chapter 4 “Standing Your Ground”: Discourses of Courage on the Battlefield in Greek and Roman Historiography
Chapter 5 “Deserted by His Men, He Fell” (Tacitus, Annals 3.20.2): Paradigms of Courage and Cowardice in Roman Historiography
Chapter 6 Courage and Cowardice in Ancient Naval Warfare
Part 2 Philosophy
Chapter 7 Courage and Cowardice in Greece and Rome: the Philosophical Debate
Chapter 8 Xenophon on Leadership and Courage
Chapter 9 Emperors and Courage in the Military Handbooks of the Roman Empire
Part 3 Courage and Its Limits
Chapter 10 May It Learn to Fear Me: Divine and Human Models of Courage and Cowardice in Sumerian Texts
Chapter 11 Beyond Heroes: an “Economy of Kleos” in Greek Myth
Chapter 12 Courage and Cowardice in Tacitus’ Histories
Chapter 13 Praising Courageous Enemies in the Ancient Near East as the Background to Hardening Pharaoh’s Heart
Chapter 14 Courage and Cowardice in Ancient Warfare: Alexander the Great between Fact and Fiction
Chapter 15 Concepts of Courage and Cowardice in the Formation of the Parthian State
Part 4 The Individual and the Collective
Chapter 16 Military Courage and the Ordinary Infantryman in the Roman Republic
Chapter 17 Fear and Collective Action in the Roman Military
Chapter 18 Heroes, Homer, and Historiography on the Late Antique Battlefield: Constructing Courage in Procopius’ Wars
Part 5 Fear and Flight, Punishment and Reward
Chapter 19 Courage and Cowardice in Egyptian Royal Narratives: Some Literary Aspects of Human Behavior
Chapter 20 The Courage of the Victor and the Cowardice of the Vanquished in First Millennium BCE Mesopotamia
Chapter 21 Rhipsaspia in Ancient Greek Literary Tradition
Chapter 22 Courage in Thucydides
Chapter 23 Flight from Battle and Constructions of Cowardice in Achaemenid Persia
Chapter 24 Imperial Courage
Epilogue
Chapter 25 Courage: an Ambivalent and Elusive Virtue
Back Matter
Index

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