Battle Descriptions as Literary Texts

Battle descriptions as literary text: an introduction.- Year Names as Source for Military Campaigns in the Third Millennium BC.- Much Ado about Nothing? Battle Descriptions in Ugaritic Texts.- Victor without Victory? The Lack of Battle Descriptions in the Achaeamenid Empire.- Battle Descriptions in the Hebrew Bible: An Overview with Special Attention to the Book of Joshua.-Plataea, 479 BC.- ΓÇ₧Eine Schlacht wie keine andere" - alles nur Literatur, oder was? Agesilaos II., Xenophon und der ΓÇ₧Sieg" Spartas in der Schlacht bei Koroneia (14. August, 394 v. Chr.), der vielleicht eher doch eine Niederlage war!.- Parody as a Sign of Generic Consciousness: Battle Descriptions in the Pseudo-Homeric Batrachomyomachia.- The Battle of Gaugamela. A Case Study and Some General Methodological Considerations.- Die ΓÇ₧Thermopylenschlacht 2.0" am Persischen Tor (330 v. Chr.).- Battle Descriptions in Livy''s Ab Urbe Condita.- Conversus ad pacem ... (Flor. 2.34.65 = 4.12.65) - Battle Descriptions in Florus Reconsidered.- The Impact of Violence as Heroization Technique in Basini''s Hesperis, Naldi''s Volaterrais and Filelfo''s Sphortias.- A Battle of Emperors? Contemporary Poetic and Prose Descriptions of Austerlitz (1805).- The Impossibility of Deliberate Action in Tolstoy''s Descriptions of Battle in War and Peace.- Historical Distance and Literary Re-Presentation. Ancient Battles in German Classical Studies.