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Contents
Troops and commanders in the ancient world
Proceedings of the Conference Palermo, 16-17 novembre 2009
Rosalia Marino, Introduction 3
Giovanna Bruno Sunseri, The battle exhortations in ancient historiography.
Rhetorical invention or fact 5
Francesca Mattaliano, The battle exhortation in Greek historiography:
Allocution practice and composition ways 17
Carmela Raccuia, Troops and commanders in Greek Sicily: cases study 38
Marco Vinci, Recruitment of picked troops in Syracuse during the Classical Age 55
Roberto Sammartano, The making of Dionysiusʼ army: Between praxis, ideology and propaganda 67
Luisa Prandi, Soldiers of Alexander the Great. Some remarks about their debts and sons 79
Antonino Pinzone, The interaction milites-imperator during the Hispanic expedition
of Scipio Africanus 91
Jonathan R.W. Prag, Troops and commanders: auxilia externa under the Roman Republic 101
Daniela Motta, Honorary inscriptions of commanders:
the city of Ilion during the campaign against the pirates and the Mithridatic wars 114
Rosalia Marino, Policy and psycho-drama in military rhetoric in the triumviral age 128
Davide Salvo, Germanicus and Rhine mutiny 138
Giuseppe Zecchini, The military factor in Roman failure to conquer Germany 157
Antonella Mandruzzato, “Dalla parte degli infedeli”. Dacians, Decebalus and Trajan’s Column 164
Marina Usala, The relationship between Julian and the troops: cultural stereotypes and
new balances in Ammianus Marcellinus 175
Abstracts 189
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ὅρμος - Ricerche di Storia Antica n.s. 2-2010 ISSN 2036-587X