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Welcome to the Classical warfare task force. If you have any questions about articles or are generally seeking advice, you're encouraged to ask at the main military history talk page, or you can directly approach one of the task force participants below. The coordinators of the Military history WikiProject can be contacted here. Scope This task force covers the military history of the Mediterranean civilizations of classical antiquity (c. 700 BC–c. 500 AD), in particular those of Ancient Greece and Rome. For later events, such as the military history of the Byzantine Empire, please refer to the Medieval warfare task force. Any article related to this task force should be marked by adding Classical-task-force=yes or Classical=y to the {{WPMILHIST}} project banner at the top of its talk page (see the project banner instructions for more details on the exact syntax). This will automatically place it into Category:Classical warfare task force articles.

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1. Captain panda (talk · contribs) (Weapons of Classical Warfare and Barbarians)
2. Codrinb (talk · contribs) (Warfare relating to Dacia, Moesia, Thrace, Roman Empire, Ancient Greece, Celts)
3. Izzat Kutebar (talk · contribs) (Ancient Greece & Persia at present)
4. Ktsquare (talk · contribs)
5. Kyriakos (talk · contribs) (Ancient Greek warfare)
6. Neddyseagoon (talk · contribs)
7. Nostalgia of Iran (talk · contribs) (Persian empire)
8. Yannismarou (talk · contribs) (Mostly ancient Greek military history)
9. Iazyges (talk · contribs) Mostly roman stuff.
10. SpartaN (talk · contribs) Greek and Roman people, usually generals
11. CrypticIndividual1000 (talk · contribs) Ancient warfare in general

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Military history of ancient Greece • Psiloi • First Battle of Lamia • Second Battle of Lamia • Publius Licinius Crassus • Battle of Corbione • Stauricius • First Battle of Tapae • Second Battle of Tapae • Second Battle of Adamclisi • Licinius II • Fortifications of Mycenae

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Resources

Rome

• Boatwright, Mary T., Gargola, Daniel J., Talbert, Richard J. A. The Romans: From Village to Empire (2004)
• Beesley, A.H., The Gracchi Marius and Sulla (Epochs of Ancient History) (1921). Useful topics: The Roman Army, Saturninus And Drusus, The Social War, Sulpicius, Marius And Cinna, The First Mithridatic War, Sulla In Greece And Asia, Sulla In Italy.
• Gibbon, Edward, 1737-1794
  • History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire — Volume 1 (English)
  • History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire — Volume 2 (English)
  • History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire — Volume 3 (English)
  • History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire — Volume 4 (English)
  • History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire — Volume 5 (English)
  • History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire — Volume 6 (English)
• Livius, Titus
  • The History of Rome, Books 09 to 26
  • The History of Rome, Books 27 to 36
  • Roman History, Books I-III Roman History, Books I-III
• Mommsen, Theodor, 1817-1903
  • "The History of Rome, Books I-V", 1903
  • "The History of Rome, Book I: The Period Anterior to the Abolition of the Monarchy", 1903
  • "The History of Rome, Book II: From the Abolition of the Monarchy in Rome to the Union of Italy ", 1903
  • "The History of Rome, Book III: From the Union of Italy to the Subjugation of Carthage and the Greek States", 1903
  • "The History of Rome, Book IV: The Revolution ", 1903
  • "The History of Rome, Book V: The Establishment of the Military Monarchy", 1903
• Morey, William C., Ph.D., D.C.L., "Outlines of Roman History", New York, Cincinnati, Chicago: American Book Company (1901).
• Pennell, Robert Franklin, "Ancient Rome : from the earliest times down to 476 A. D"
• Renatus, Flavius Vegetius, "The Military Institutions of the Romans". Translations by Lieutenant John Clarke.
• Taylor, William C., "History of Rome". Philadelphia:Thomas, Cowperthwait & Co. (1851).

• All of Plutarch's lives can be found at classics.mit.edu (could be expanded to reference individual volumes).

Samnite Wars

• E.T. Salmon, Samnium and the Samnites London and New York: Cambridge U.P, 1967.

Punic Wars

• Dexter Hoyos, Hannibal's dynasty London and New York: Routledge, 2003. ISBN 0-415-35958-9
• Gregory Daly, Cannae London and New York: Routledge, 2002. ISBN 0-415-32743-1
• Nigel Bagnall, The Punic Wars London: Pimlico, 1990. ISBN 0-712-66608-7

Greece

• Lytton, Edward Bulwer, Athens: Its Rise and Fall, Complete.
• Herodotus
  • The history of Herodotus — Volume 1
  • The history of Herodotus — Volume 2
• Smith, William, "A Smaller history of Greece from the earliest times to the Roman conquest".
• Thucydides, "History of the Peloponnesian War" (translated by Richard Crawley).

Online Texts (readable/not downloadable)

• The Perseus Project has a massive collection of texts, both Greek and Roman. Among the most useful:
  • Diodorus Siculus, Library
  • Thucydides, The Peloponnesian War
  • Xenophon, Hellenica
• Attalus: Not a reference by itself, but a list of events in Greek, Roman, and Mediterranean history, year-by-year in rough chronological order within that year, with those events massively referenced themselves. It is sort of a "meta-index" of event-specific references, with many of the references linked directly to online versions of the text. An invaluable online historical research tool!

Armenia

• Vahan Kurkjian (1958) A History of Armenia, Armenian General Benevolent Union of America, New York, OCLC 889896040.
• Armenian Historical Sources