Dan’s research and book list:
The Histories (Everyman’s Library)
Forgotten Empire: The World of Ancient Persia
The World of Achaemenid Persia: History, Art and Society in Iran and the Ancient Near East
A History of the Ancient Near East ca. 3000 – 323 BC, 2nd Edition
The Persian Empire
From Cyrus to Alexander: A History of the Persian Empire
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Hoplites
From Sumer to Rome: The Military Capabilities of Ancient Armies (Contributions in Military Studies)
Our Oriental Heritage Part 1
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Diodorus Siculus I: The Historical Library in Forty Books
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Armies of the Ancient Near East, 3,000 Bc to 539 Bc
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The Histories
The Landmark Herodotus: The Histories (Landmark Series)
A History of the Ancient World
The Persian Expedition (Penguin Classics)
The Western Way of War: Infantry Battle in Classical Greece
The Greco-Persian Wars
The Defence of Greece (Aris & Phillips Classical Texts)
The Ancient Historians
Persians (Greek Tragedy in New Translations)
Classical Bearings: Interpreting Ancient History and Culture
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History of the Persian Empire
Combat Trauma and the Ancient Greeks (The New Antiquity)
A Political History of the Achaemenid Empire (Ancient Near East)
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The Greek Wars: The Failure of Persia
Towards One World: Ancient Persia and the West (Asia in Europe and the Making of the West)
Warfare in Antiquity: History of the Art of War, Volume I
Greek Warfare: Myth and Realities
The Iliad (Signet Classics)
Warhorse: Cavalry in Ancient Warfare
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The Art of War in Western World
Soldiers and Ghosts: A History of Battle in Classical Antiquity
Alexander the Great and the Logistics of the Macedonian Army
Ctesias’ ‘History of Persia’: Tales of the Orient (Routledge Classical Translations)
Philip II of Macedonia: Greater Than Alexander
The Origins Of War: From The Stone Age To Alexander The Great, Revised Edition (History & Warfare (Paperback))
Alexander of Macedon, 356–323 B.C.: A Historical Biography
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The Madness of Alexander the Great: And the Myth of Military Genius
Generalship of Alexander the Great
