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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.

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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.

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Participants

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  3. Script error: No such module "user". Mostly roman stuff.
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Resources

Rome
  • 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. Template:ISBN
  • Gregory Daly, Cannae London and New York: Routledge, 2002. Template:ISBN
  • Nigel Bagnall, The Punic Wars London: Pimlico, 1990. Template:ISBN
Greece
Online Texts (readable/not downloadable)
  • The Perseus Project has a massive collection of texts, both Greek and Roman. Among the most useful:
  • 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