A Sensory History of Ancient Warfare
A Sensory History of Ancient Warfare How can we attempt to understand the experience of those involved in ancient battles, sieges and campaigns? How did it feel to be trapped in the press of bodies…
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A Sensory History of Ancient Warfare
How can we attempt to understand the experience of those involved in ancient battles, sieges and campaigns? How did it feel to be trapped in the press of bodies as phalanxes clashed shield to shield? What was the visual impact of seeing the massed ranks of the enemy approaching or the sky darkened with their arrows?
What of the rumble of approaching cavalry, the clash of iron weapons and the screams of the dying? What of the taste of dust on the march or the smell of split blood and entrails? The assault on all five senses which must have occurred is the subject of this innovative book.Sensory history is a new approach that attempts to understand the full spectrum of the experience of the participants in history.
Conor Whately is the first to apply the discipline in a dedicated study of warfare in the classical world. He draws on literary, archaeological, reconstructive and
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