Hans van Wees

Author of several dozen chapters and papers on aspects of ancient Greek social, economic, political and military history. Editor of War and Violence in Ancient Greece (2000) and co-editor of Archaic Greece: new approaches and new evidence (1998), Brills’ Companion to Herodotus (2002), The Cambridge History of Greek and Roman Warfare (two vols. 2007), A Companion to Archaic Greece (2009), and Competition in the Ancient World (2011). The latter includes a wide-ranging paper entitled Rivalry in history: an introduction

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