War, Warlords, and Interstate Relations in the Ancient Mediterranean.

Intro -- Contents -- List of Abbreviations -- List of Contributors -- Introduction: 'Multipolarity' and 'Warlords' prior to the Roman Empire -- Part 1 Achaemenid Persia, Fourth Century Greece, and Carthage -- Mercenaries and Warlords in the Achaemenid Empire -- State and Warlord in Classical Greece: From Bipolarity to Multipolarity -- A Spartan Warlord: Lysander and the Creation of a New Greek Empire -- The lochagoi of Iphicrates: Forming a Mercenary Army in the Fourth Century BC -- Commanders and Warlords in Fourth Century BC Central Greece -- The Network of Melqart: Tyre, Gadir, Carthage and the Founding God -- Warlords, Carthage and the Limits of Hegemony -- Part 2 The Hellenistic World and Rome -- Galatians in Macedonia (280-277 BC): Invasion or Invitation? -- Prolegomena to the Study of 'Warlordism in Later Hellenistic Anatolia' -- Rome, Empire, and the Hellenistic State-system -- Conquest, Liberation, Protectionism, or Enslavement? Mid-Republican Rome from a Greek Perspective -- Warlords and the Roman Republic -- Why No Warlords in Republican Rome? -- Italy and Sicily in the Second Punic War: Multipolarity, Minor Powers, and Local Military Entrepreneurialism -- Imperialism and Multipolarity in the Far West: Beyond the Lusitanians (237-146 BC) -- Sulla, the Army, the Officers and the poleis of Greece: A Reassessment of Warlordism in the First Phase of the Mithridatic Wars -- Q. Sertorius: A Warlord in Hispania? -- Warlordism and the Making of the Roman Imperial Army -- Part 3 A Necessary Epilogue -- Generalissimos and Warlords in the Late Roman West -- Contemporary Warlordism, Armed Conflicts and the International System: An International Relations Perspective -- Index of Personal Names -- Index of Place Names and Peoples -- Index of Subjects.

During the 4th-1st century BC, Mediterranean polities, stateless formations and stronger powers fought for hegemony. Edited by Toni Ñaco del Hoyo and Fernando López Sánchez, this volume addresses interstate relations and warlordism according to classical studies and social sciences.

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