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WARFARE
VOL III, ISSUE 5
A N C I E N T
The Imperial Nemesis:
Rome vs. Parthia
With:
• Armed diplomacy
• The battle of Nisibis
Also:
• Athens’ land empire
• The spear versus the arrow
And more
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A N C I E N T
CONTENTS
Oct/Nov 2009
4
6
NEWS
PARTHIAN WARS
29
LAST BATTLE OF THE
The battle of Nisibis, AD 217
THEME
The Imperial nemesis
INTRODUCTION
36
10
Trajan’s Parthian war
THE SOURCE
Legionary equipment during the
Parthian campaigns of AD 197-199
ROMANS OR
PARTHIANS
13
SEEKING THE
A history of asymmetric warfare
KNOCK-OUT BLOW
42
THE GENERAL
Flair for the unexpected
48
BE A GENERAL
Arrow versus the Spear
20
THE WEAPON
The Parthian bow
52
REVIEWS
Books and games
22
ARMED DIPLOMACY
Rome and Parthia in the first
century AD
58
ON THE COVER
Ancient
Warfare
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NEWS
Letters to the editor
Although we eliminated the readers’ letters section
from the paper magazine, readers are still very
much invited to post their ideas and reactions to an
issue online at the Ancient Warfare forum (www.
ancient-warfare.com/forum). To encourage debate
on that forum, and considering the response to the
previous issue, we’ll try to kick-off some discus-
sions in the near future about sources and source
bias. So please do come and check in!
Back issue availability
All back issues are now in stock again.
To encourage you to complete your
collection in one go, we have made
Volume I (4 issues - 2007) and II (6
issues – 2008) available with a 15% dis-
count in our store. Note that we have
a limited stock
of some issues,
so to guarantee
availability
of
these collections,
we have made only a limited number
available. You can find binders, prints and
back issues in our store at www.ancient-
warfare.com.
AW on Facebook
From the very beginning we have always
sought to reach out to and exchange
with our readership through a news-
letter, a forum, the editor’s blog and
the podcast. To this arsenal of technical
tools, we have now added a Facebook
page. If you have a Facebook account,
you can easily find us by executing a
search for ‘Ancient Warfare’. From the
first response, it seems to be an ideal
way to float ideas and perhaps for us to
easily provide some extra content.
News items
Additions for this section – both
news and letters to the editor
are very welcome through the
following address:
Ancient Warfare magazine
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6501 BN Nijmegen
The Netherlands
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Future
themes
• III.6 Tactics, standards and
military music
• IV.1 Before Rome ruled:
warfare in Italy before 300 BC
• IV.2 Siege Warfare in the
Ancient World
When this issue went to press,
the result of the readership
vote about the ‘open’ themes of
2010 was not yet known. To keep
abreast of the latest develop-
ments, make sure to check the
editor’s blog and the editorial
plan, both of which can be found
at www.ancient-warfare.com.
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