Books by J. E. Lendon and Complete Book Reviews

Song of Wrath: The Peloponnesian War Begins

J.E. Lendon, Basic, $35 (608p) ISBN 978-0-465-01506-1

In an exceptionally well-written account of the first 10 years of the Peloponnesian War (431–421 B.C.E.), University of Virginia historian Lendon (Soldiers and Ghosts) brings the Greek city-states to life. Crediting Thucydides with the humanizing of

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Soldiers and Ghosts: A History of Battle in Classical Antiquity

J. E. Lendon, Author Yale University Press $35 (480p) ISBN 978-0-300-10663-3

A classical scholar displays formidable scholarship and dense prose in this history of combat in the classical world from the Illiad to the fall of Rome. Because of the comparatively static technology-there was less change in weaponry, Lendon argues,

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