audiobook Free At Last!: The Impact of Freed Slaves on the Roman Empire by From Brand: Bloomsbury Academic in History

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The period from the 12th century onward saw vast changes in every aspect of life on both the Greek mainland and islands; as monarchies disappeared to be replaced by aristocratic rule and finally by the development of a new form of community: the city-state. Alongside these changes; a new style of warfare developed; which was to be the determining factor in land warfare in Greece; until the 338 BC defeat of the Greek city-state; by the might of Macedonia at Chaeronea. This mode of warfare was based on a group of heavily armed infantrymen organized in a phalanx formation--the classic hoplite formation--and remained the system throughout the classical Greek period. This new title details this pivotal time; and the transition from the Bronze Age warriors of Homer to the origins of the men who fought the Persian and Peloponnesian Wars.