
“Not many bows”?
Confronted archers on a hydria from Lefkandi-Skoubris
From the eleventh to the ninth centuries BC there is very little pictorial pottery in the Aegean. So why does a hydria from a grave at Lefkandi show a pair of confronted archers?

Follow the leader?
Mustering armies in the Homeric world
In the story of the Trojan War, battles are fought between huge armies. But how were these armies organized? How were they assembled?

Henchmen of Ares
Revisiting the 2013-book on Greek warfare
Nearly five years ago, my first book was published. Here’s a look back at the commercial edition of my PhD thesis and the lessons learned.

Early Tarentine warfare
The horse or the hoplite?
It is often assumed that the ancient Greeks practised one type of warfare. This is problematic, as can be illustrated by a quick look at the early history of Tarentum, Southern Italy.

A bronze panoply from Porano
Recovered from the painted Etruscan tombs at Porano, near Orvieto, is a bronze panoply of the third quarter of the fourth century BC.

The Lelantine War
A conflict lost in time
The Lelantine War is the first major military conflict that pitted two alliances of Greek cities against each other. But did it really happen?

Archilochus
A poet and a mercenary?
Poetic fragments attributed to Archilochus of Paros show him to have been a warrior. But was he also, as is often suggested, a mercenary?

Fighting for a fallen comrade
A stand from the Antikensammlung in Munich
A Greek, presumably Attic, stand dated to ca. 710 BC and currently in Munich depicts a common theme: two warriors fighting over a corpse.

The grave stele of Demetrius
A closer look at a stele from the fourth century BC, currently in Munich, that marked the grave of Demetrius, who probably died in battle.

Battle of Polytopia
This turn-based strategy game for mobile devices offers a fun and streamlined way to build a little empire from scratch.