Connolly\'s Greece and Rome at war new edition!

[Dan Diffendale]

This was discussed a while back in this thread.

A summary:

"It's a lot cheaper!"
"Aside from an extra preface by Goldsworthy (it doesn't replace Scullard's), the Samnites section has been revised and the Caudine Forks painting reworked. I don't think there is anything else new. The pagination remains the same but the Samnites section is substantially different."

"Greenhill claim that it's a "new revised edition", but the only substantial alteration appears to be the eight-page section on the Samnites. (btw The Caudine forks painting is the same one, but cropped more generously this time around. -- It is the same painting, but some of the equipment in the scene has been changed and the 'banners' have become tunics hung from the Samnites' spears as spoils. The changes are neatly done but it hardly justifies buying the new ed.

Strictly speaking, the 1998 version was just a reprint of the 1981 original (although, again, Greenhill claimed that it was "reprinted with revisions"). The only "revisions" that I could see were in the bibliography, which included some newer works (and omitted some works which were expected in 1981 but which never appeared).

I suspect Greenhill included the Goldsworthy introduction as a marketing device. But, quite frankly, a book of this quality doesn't need any sweeteners to ensure that it sells. Books on ancient warfare don't come much better than this one."

And despite all the apparent Samnite changes, I've yet to lay my hands on one of these babies...