Service and Supply in the Achaemenid Army
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2013-04-29
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At the end of the fifth century BCE, Cyrus the Younger, son of the Achaemenid king Darius II, decided to challenge his older brother for the throne. Several famous Greek writers described this revolt, and some aspects (such as the battle of Cunaxa) have been frequently studied by scholars. This study uses the revolt of Cyrus as a case study in how Persian armies were raised, organized, and supplied. Beginning with the historical background, it considers the resources which Cyrus had available, how Cyrus used those resources to raise an army, and what happened to this army as it marched east. It uses demographic history, prosopography, and comparative evidence to fill out the Greek and Latin sources. These different forms of evidence suggest that raising an army and marching it to Babylon was no simple process.
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History--Ancient, History--Middle Eastern, History--Military
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Manning, S. (2013). Service and Supply in the Achaemenid Army (Master's thesis, University of Calgary, Calgary, Canada). Retrieved from https://prism.ucalgary.ca. doi:10.11575/PRISM/27760