Brill’s Companion to Diet and Logistics in Greek and Roman Warfare

John F. Donahue is Professor of Classical Studies at the College of William & Mary. He has written numerous books, articles, chapters, and reviews on ancient food and drink, as well as health, diet and Latin epigraphy. Lee L. Brice is Distinguished University Professor of History at Western Illinois University. He has published multiple books including New Approaches to Greek and Roman Warfare (Wiley 2020), and articles and chapters on military history, Corinthian coinage, pedagogy, and film. Contributors are: Jeremy Armstrong, Bret Devereux, Fernando Echeverria, Paul Erdkamp, Eduardo Garcia-Molina, Marc Kleijwegt, Kelsey Koon, Sarah Murray, Nikolas Overtoom, Thomas Rose, Matthew Sears, Gregory Viggiano.

Preface

List of Maps

Abbreviations

List of Contributors



Part 1: Introduction

1 Diet and Logistics in Ancient Greek and Roman Warfare, a Consideration

 John F. Donahue and Lee L. Brice



Part 2: Military Diet

2 Diet, Preparation, and Consumption in Homer

 Sarah C. Murray



3 Nutrition and Diet: Archaic and Classical Greece

 Fernando Echeverría



4 Nutrition and Diet: Hellenistic Greece

 Eduardo García-Molina



5 Diet and Nutrition in the Roman Republican Army

 Jeremy Armstrong



6 The Diet of Roman Soldiers in the Northwest Provinces of the Roman Empire

 Paul Erdkamp



7 Dining in the Desert

 The Roman Military Diet in Egypt and the East in the Imperial Period

 Kelsey Koon



Part 3: Logistics of Food and Drink

8 Organization of the Military Food Supply: Greece

 Matthew Sears



9 Provisioning and the Logistics of Occupation and Resistance in Early Hellenistic Greece

 Thomas C. Rose



10 Logistics and Strategy in the Hellenistic World: Parthians and Seleucids

 Nikolaus Leo Overtoom



11 Sieges, Deception and Bioterrorism: Logistics and Strategy of Food and Drink during the Republic

 John F. Donahue



12 Organization of the Military Food Supply: Rome

 Bret C. Devereaux



Part 4: Case Studies

13 Logistics and Strategy in the Greek Army: A Case Study of Diet and Logistics in Herodotus and Thucydides

 Gregory Francis Viggiano



14 Equestrian Officers, Food Supply, and Military Campaigns in the Reigns of Trajan and Marcus Aurelius

 Marc Kleijwegt



Part 5: In Closing

15 Assessing Military Logistics and Diet in Ancient Greece and Rome

 Lee L. Brice



Index of Places

General Index